What do you think of the democratization of photography and the rapid growth of Flickr?
That’s a tricky question. There is no doubt it helped photography by making it very common, and nowadays most people own digital cameras and upload their photos on-line. However, most of that photography is personal and not artistic. Photography as an art form was damaged. I mean, if everybody can be a photographer, it becomes so common that galleries prefer not to present it. Photoshop also made photography “unreal” to many, and also damaged its credibility as an art form. That’s the reason I prefer art communities and not image storage sites. Flickr is good to show an album of the trip you made, and share your family album; if you want your work to be treated as art, by viewers that seek to see art photography, you need an art community. What made you decide to start your “Weekly Spotlight” on DeviantArt? When I started submitting my work to DeviantART it was very hard getting noticed in a website based on a huge community of users; everyone wants to get noticed. Quality photographer
