500px nixes Creative Commons option and replaces Marketplace with Getty and Visual China Group partnerships

Photographers who use 500px to distribute their work are now adjusting to two big changes. First, the platform is removing the option to upload or download photos with a Creative Commons license. On Saturday, it also shut down its stock photo platform 500px Marketplace, and replaced it with distribution partnerships with Visual China Group, which […]

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Unsplash raises $7.25M to bring cryptocurrency to its free, curated photo platform

OST Unsplash Unsplash is rethinking the way photography gets distributed and monetized, and today it’s announcing a $7.25 million Series A to fund those efforts. The site actually started as a side project for freelance marketplace Crew, but eventually the founders decided to focus on Unsplash and sold Crew to Dribbble. While the Unsplash photo library contains only 400,000 photos (compared to the… Read More

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There’s a problem with the way bipolar disorder is represented in stock images

A Twitter user living with bipolar disorder has pointed out a major problem with stock imagery depicting the condition. 
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There’s a problem with the way bipolar disorder is represented in stock images

A Twitter user living with bipolar disorder has pointed out a major problem with stock imagery depicting the condition. 
SEE ALSO: Before and after: Women finally get their due in STEM stock photos
In a tweet thread, @Chrystran posted a series o…

View More There’s a problem with the way bipolar disorder is represented in stock images