Three mothers transform a photographer’s prejudices

“My perception of ballerinas, as a feminist, was that they were starving themselves for their job, that they were doing what they did for a man that was telling them what to do, that they didn’t want to grow up,” says Lucy Gray. “But,” she adds, “as a photographer, your job is to hunt down your prejudices and get rid of them.”

Finding faces in unexpected places

“It’s not easy finding faces,” Jody Smith says. “They normally find you first!” Jody is the creator of the Flickr group Faces in Places, a quirky and creative collection of photos capturing human like faces in everyday objects that we want to show you in our latest episode of The Weekly Flickr.

Photographer Spotlight: Morey Spellman

20-year-old fine art photographer PtoIemy sets out to interview conceptual artists from Flickr this summer. His upcoming book “The Fine Art of Photography” will feature their work and share their stories alongside the diary of his own adventure touring through the US and Canada to meet and collaborate those exceptional photographers.