No Filter: Inside Hipstamatic’s Lost Year Searching For The Next Killer Social App From rooftop bashes and acquisition talks to staff clashes and layoffs, Hipstamatic’s founders and ex-employees describe the startup’s losing struggle to keep pace with Instagram, Facebook, and others in the white-hot photo-sharing space. In the first of three installments, Twitter comes calling, but Hipstamatic decides to go social on its own.
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No Filter: Inside Hipstamatic’s Lost Year Searching For The Next Killer Social App

From rooftop bashes and acquisition talks to staff clashes and layoffs, Hipstamatic’s founders and ex-employees describe the startup’s losing struggle to keep pace with Instagram, Facebook, and others in the white-hot photo-sharing space. In the first of three installments, Twitter comes calling, but Hipstamatic decides to go social on its own.

An iPhone in the DRC: Photos by Michael Christopher Brown Like many photojournalists, I’ve been shooting with my iPhone for a while. Using a mobile phone allows me to be somewhat invisible as a professional photographer; people see me as just another person in the crowd. Invisibility is particularly useful in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a potpourri of armed groups and governments have used conflict minerals as the latest way to help fund the warfare, atrocities and repression that have afflicted the area for more than a century.
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An iPhone in the DRC: Photos by Michael Christopher Brown

Like many photojournalists, I’ve been shooting with my iPhone for a while. Using a mobile phone allows me to be somewhat invisible as a professional photographer; people see me as just another person in the crowd. Invisibility is particularly useful in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a potpourri of armed groups and governments have used conflict minerals as the latest way to help fund the warfare, atrocities and repression that have afflicted the area for more than a century.

Chance as a photographer’s tool: ‘Shooting from the hip’ in Chicago Chicago Tribune staff photographer Scott Strazzante’s “Shooting from the Hip” blog features street-photography from the neighborhoods of Chicago with unpredictable compositions that offer a genuinely candid look at the people and their lifestyles.
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Chance as a photographer’s tool: ‘Shooting from the hip’ in Chicago

Chicago Tribune staff photographer Scott Strazzante’s “Shooting from the Hip” blog features street-photography from the neighborhoods of Chicago with unpredictable compositions that offer a genuinely candid look at the people and their lifestyles.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Joined Instagram Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran since 1989, may or may not have some interest in nuclear technology, but he is not especially known as an early adopter when it comes to social media tech. And yet the unelected septuagenarian, after successfully launching his Twitter account (almost 3,000 tweets, over 4,000 followers, and not following a soul), has taken to Instagram. Instagram!
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Joined Instagram

Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran since 1989, may or may not have some interest in nuclear technology, but he is not especially known as an early adopter when it comes to social media tech. And yet the unelected septuagenarian, after successfully launching his Twitter account (almost 3,000 tweets, over 4,000 followers, and not following a soul), has taken to Instagram. Instagram!

What will the Hipstamatic Foundation for Photojournalism do for the industry? For Stephen Mayes, director of VII Photo, the smartphone could revolutionise journalism. “It’s fascinating to see how people are adapting to this new tool and, I think, the smartphone camera will develop its own life.”
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What will the Hipstamatic Foundation for Photojournalism do for the industry?

For Stephen Mayes, director of VII Photo, the smartphone could revolutionise journalism. “It’s fascinating to see how people are adapting to this new tool and, I think, the smartphone camera will develop its own life.”

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