Opinion Archives - PhotoShelter Blog

October 12, 2021

A Student Plagiarized an African Artist. Then His Work Was Exhibited at the Milan Photo Festival.

In 2014, curator Simon Njami engaged Ethiopian artist photographer Aïda Muluneh to interpret Dante’s Inferno for an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African…

August 11, 2021

Bad Idea: The New Yorker’s Nuclear Option

On August 6, 1945, the U.S. detonated the world's first wartime nuclear bomb over Hiroshima. An estimated 70,000 people died that day with another 70,000…

December 29, 2020

What If Apple Bought Nikon?

It’s a transaction that makes zero financial sense for Apple, but the possibilities of this thought experiment would be dreamy. After years of revenue decline…

October 20, 2020

Warping Reality: Adobe’s Neural Filters are Ripe for Mayhem

Face tuning apps have thrived for years in the mobile phone ecosystem, allowing users to make subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) changes to their…

October 13, 2020

Podcast: Has Adobe Gone Too Far?

Adobe Photoshop Element's Face Tilt feature allows you to repositions faces in your photos to direct their gaze back towards the camera (or anywhere else…

June 10, 2020

On Ethics, The First Amendment, and Photographing Protestors’ Faces

During the short-lived daily White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings held by President Trump, a number of news organizations debated and ultimately decided to stop…

April 15, 2020

Instagram’s Moral Imperative

The past few years have made it abundantly clear that platforms hold disproportionate power in the online sphere – from Uber to Grubhub to Amazon.…

March 3, 2020

What the Hell are These Juergen Teller Photos?

Fashion is an expression of personality whether one is clad in a Carhartt jacket or a Saint Laurent suit. Fashion can be utilitarian, but there…

March 2, 2020

Twitter Beefs: The Photo Industry Fights Over Photo Contests

Late Winter and early Spring bring another cycle of photo contest season – that time of year when many major prizes are announced (especially in…