Let’s face it, iconic images bother us. They stand as an immovable beacon of our time, outside of it, impelling us at every sight, forcing us to admit their status as greater than any other. Because they are a statement about our world, about us, about who we are as a society, good or bad. … Read More →
Really Simple Licensing (RSL) emerged in 2024 as a technical response to AI companies training on web content without permission. Modeled after robots.txt, RSL allows website owners to declare machine-readable licensing terms for AI crawlers, specifying whether content may be used for training, whether compensation is required, and which AI agents are permitted. The promise … Read More →
Every photojournalist carries two cameras: one that records light, one that records their growing certainty that they alone understand what the light means. The first camera is mechanical. Photons hit a sensor. A moment is captured. A fragment of reality, however subjective its framing, remains tethered to what occurred. The second camera is psychological. It … Read More →
The 2025-2026 trend cycle has produced a curious consensus: blur is the new watermark. Grain is proof of life. Bad framing means a human was here. Stocksy‘s just-released Visual Insights 2026 report doubles down on this thesis harder than any competitor. Under the banner “Signs of Life,” they position photography as an “antidote to digital … Read More →
There are, perhaps, three stages in one’s relationship with photography: ignorance, interest, and enthusiasm. Eric Colmet Daage lived in a fourth, an unrestrained passion. And unlike most of us, whose love for images tends to orbit one genre, Eric’s passion embraced them all: photojournalism, sports, fashion, fine art, historical archives, and documentary. If a photograph … Read More →
Photography is unusual among technologies: it has no single birthday. Was it 1727, when Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered light-sensitive salts? 1826, when Nicéphore Niépce fixed his “View from the Window”? 1839, when Daguerre unveiled the daguerreotype? Or 1841, when Talbot introduced the negative-positive calotype? Each date is valid. Each is incomplete. That ambiguity is telling. … Read More →
There was a time, not too long ago, when brands bought attention by investing in images. Choosing the right photographer was not an afterthought; it was the strategy. A powerful image could define a campaign, carry a message, shape perception, and spark engagement. The audience was drawn in by the image itself, the photo came … Read More →
Left: Released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office. Right: Distributed by TASS, the Russian state news agency. One was published globally without question. The other sparked outrage when it won a prize. Both serve a narrative. Both come from official sources. But only one is called propaganda. If we’re serious about image credibility, we … Read More →
Right about 10 years ago, I wrote an article that went viral and sparked a lot of debate. At the time, AI was just starting to show the tip of its beak, and image manipulation was already in full force thanks to a variety of very potent software like Adobe’s Photoshop. The origin of the … Read More →
A popular saying tells us that a photo is worth a thousand words. But what’s the value of those words if they’re meaningless? We’ve all read articles or books that say very little. Words, even in great numbers, can be deceptively useless. The same is true of images. Yes, photos often describe faster and more … Read More →