Flickr is celebrating its 20th anniversary. From the early days of the internet through to today, the photo-sharing site that is now home to everyone from amateur photographers through NASA has certainly come a long way. [Read More ..read more

Founded back in 2004, Flickr has changed owners several times through the years as the social media and photo-sharing landscape evolved. Here are 10 reasons why I believe Flickr is still the best site on the Web for photographers. [Read More ..read more

In a win for photo accessibility, Flickr will expand its partnership with Wikimedia Commons to upgrade its Flirckr2Commons tool and make uploading Creative Commons-licensed images easier. [Read More ..read more

Flickr is a popular resource for photos captured by people worldwide. While platforms like Instagram may have usurped Flickr as a social media hub, Flickr remains a go-to destination for enthusiasts and professional photographers to share their work. [Read More ..read more

Flickr has updated its community guidelines to combat "copyleft trolling." As described by Cory Doctorow on Pluralistic, this is excellent news for people that use Creative Commons (CC) images from Flickr, even if they make accidental attribution errors. [Read More ..read more

Flickr is planning to let photographers sell prints through a new Print Shop and is currently testing the feature with a small list of approved sellers. [Read More ..read more

Last week, Twitter announced that they were adding view counts to tweets on Twitter. I thought I’d use the announcement to very unscientifically compare the number of views one of my photos received on Twitter vs. Flickr. [Read More ..read more

We exist in a constantly churning sea of content: there were 1.4 trillion photos taken in 2021 and an estimated 1.6 trillion shutter buttons will be pressed this year. With so many taken, where is the best place to share photos? [Read More ..read more

The photo above is of a woman named Shizuko Ina, but for nearly 80 years she remained unidentified until the staff at the Library of Congress were able to connect with her daughter and grandson. The Library of Congress and Flickr are asking the public to help do the same for other photos of Japanese Americans who were sent to concentration camps in the United States during World War II as part of an effort to learn more about their unjust incarceration. While noted in schools, it is not uncommon for the details of the United State’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans to be overlooked or avoid ..read more

In early August, a new photography-based subscription-only social media app hit the iOS App Store. Called Glass, it touts itself as a new, distraction-free home for photographers that is focused on one thing: your photos. Glass was first conceived in 2013 by Tom Watson who, as an amateur photographer, loved communities like Flickr in the mid and late 2000s. But, as Watson notes, every platform originally conceived to be a place for photographers eventually pivoted away from that: Flickr was lost to mismanagement and Instagram to acquisition. So it became clear to Watson that venture-backed co ..read more