Crowdfunding platform IndieGoGo is shifting its business model from one that is open to all where anyone can raise money for pretty much anything to one that is closed and will have every campaign reviewed manually before they can be published.
Earlier today, Instagram announced that it would be testing a new "personal fundraiser" feature that will let users raise money for a personal cause directly through the photo sharing app. That includes things like raising money for "personal emergencies," like having your gear stolen, or even raising money to fund your "hobbies."
Several big name photographers are using their art to support a critical part of our creative community: their assistants. By selling limited edition prints, photographers like Tim Tadder and Erik Almas have raised tens of thousands of dollars to help get their crews through this difficult time.
We first spotted the Chronos 1.4 homebrew high-speed camera back in September. Now, we get our first real look at this powerful labor of engineering love, which is being hailed as a game-changer for slow motion videography.
While shooting only her second wedding, Boston-based photographer Alyssa Stone experienced every photographer's nightmare. Someone had stolen her gear out of a church pew, and she found herself camera-less just as the couple was about to tie the knot.
Raising 2.5 million dollars in a few months is a goal that would scare most people into submission. But it’s amazing what you can do when you have conviction and the power of a dedicated community behind you.
That’s what photographer Benjamin Von Wong had to offer when he was asked to help a dying 4-year-old girl: conviction, and the support of a photo community that time and again proves itself to be not just compassionate, but powerful when moved to action.
Can you imagine photography saving a life? Or forget life, lives? Hundreds, thousands of lives saved... and the catalyst for it all a photo community dedicated to proving they can make a difference.
Over the next couple of weeks, the photographic community has the chance to work a bonafide miracle. A little girl in South Carolina is dying of a degenerative disease, and it’s in all of our power to help cure her. Together with Benjamin Von Wong, we’re going to embark on a journey to tell this little girl’s story to the world, and write in the happy ending ourselves...
Is it okay for a professional photographer to try and crowdfund a new camera? It seems like the answer to that is No, if you go by the response to pro wedding photographer Stephen Yanni's recent GoFundMe campaign. A campaign that raised no money, but a whole lot of outrage, before being ultimately pulled.