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Flickr BlogCultureThe Admin Resource Hub: Growing and Engaging Members Great groups grow one conversation at a time. Explore practical ways to attract the right members and keep your pool active.

10.27

Flickr BlogCulturePhotographer Spotlight with Mikko Luntiala Light, shadow, shape, and space: Mikko Luntiala shares how he found his minimalist black-and-white style in Helsinki.

10.26

Flickr BlogCultureFlickr Returns as Exclusive Sponsor of the 2026 1% for the Planet Auction The nicest place on the internet is showing up for the planet. Again. The planet gives us a lot to photograph. Wild coastlines. Tiny backyard

10.25

Flickr BlogCulture16 Questions about Instant Film Fall ‘RoidWeek is here, and we asked four of its longtime admins what keeps them coming back to instant film after 20 years.

10.19

Flickr BlogCultureICYMI: News and Updates October 2026 October is in full swing, which means it’s time for another quick recap of what’s happening at Flickr. This month, we’re looking forward to seeing

10.14

Flickr BlogCultureIn Frame with Flickr – Autumn in the City Check out our newest installment of In Frame with Flickr, a street photography series where we celebrate the art of capturing life as it happens.

10.14

Flickr BlogCultureFlickr Admin Field Notes – Issue 01 Welcome to Admin Field Notes, a new newsletter for the people who keep Flickr groups thriving. In Issue 01: group setup tips, building your team, and a Flickr Pro giveaway.

10.06

Flickr BlogCultureCelebrating the 2026 Flickr x Black Women Photographers Grant Recipient and Finalists We are delighted to announce the recipient and runners-up of the 2026 Flickr x Black Women Photographers grant!

09.28

Flickr BlogCultureICYMI: News and Updates September 2026 Welcome back for September’s Flickr Release Notes recap. We kicked off a new series for our fabulous Flickr Group Admins, contest winners were announced for

09.23

Flickr BlogCultureThe Admin Resource Hub: Building Your Team In this installment of The Admin Resource Hub, we discuss building a team of moderators and co-admins for your Flickr group.

09.14

Flickr BlogCultureIn Frame with Flickr: Rush Hour Check out our newest installment of In Frame with Flickr, a street photography series where we celebrate the art of capturing life as it happens.

09.09

Flickr BlogCultureCongrats to Our World Photography Day 2026 Contest Winners Join us in celebrating all of the participants and winners of the World Photography Day 2026 contest.

08.26

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo