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🌁 Sony Photo Awards: Winners Announced

The World Photography Organization unveiled the winners of the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards, with France’s Juliette Pavy taking Photographer of the Year for her project on the involuntary birth control of Greenlandic women in the 1960s and 70s.

Liam Man of the UK won Open Photographer of the Year for his stunning drone-lit shot of the Old Man of Storr rock formation in Scotland.

Pavy’s work will be featured at Somerset House in London through May 6 alongside a retrospective of the legendary Sebastião Salgado.

PRODUCTION MASTERY
The commercial aspects of creativity.

📸 Photography's Big Gender Pay Gap

Male photographers are earning about $25 more per hour, on average, than female photographers, according to a new study by Ondeck.

But here's the twist: in certain niches like product photography, women actually out-earn men by $22/hour. So what's the snapshot on this? Could it be that women are dominating in the more technical fields?

Female photographers charge more than male ones for product and video shoots, but they earn a lot less for local gigs on average, according to a new study. Analysts at Ondeck blamed the trend on women being a smaller presence in product and video work, where they have to prove themselves more to win gigs.

Overall, male photographers make about 26% more than their female counterparts when every type of photo work is considered.

Those figures are based on freelancers setting their own rates. The study didn’t offer reasons for the gender-based pay gap. Either way, it’s a flash of insight into the intricate world of freelance photography. No filter required.

CREATOR ECONOMY
Navigating the digital creative world.

🌍 1’000 Agencies Dump Oil Ads

Clean Creatives, an anti-fossil fuel campaign group, has garnered pledges from 1,000 global advertising agencies to reject work from oil, gas and coal companies. That marks a doubling of the figure from last April.

To celebrate the milestone, the group released a video featuring a Rube Goldberg machine, imploring creatives to “be the Good Guys” in the climate fight and to seek solutions from renewables clients instead.

The campaign started three years ago to expose the fossil fuel industry’s attempts at shaping public opinion and greenwashing partnerships with major ad and PR firms.

The news comes about a month before the group’s satirical “F-List Awards,” hosted by Nicole Conlan, where creatives and climate leaders will come together to highlight the most egregious examples of “green image laundering” in the industry. Let’s hope they name names.

🔥 Press Worthy

📽️ VISUAL CREATORS

Photographers fight back: Software like ImageRights and Pixsy help track stolen pics, but a real lawyer can land a bigger payday.

Depositphotos launches AI-generated photography tool, offering unique visuals with a safe-for-business twist. Here we go again...

📈 PRODUCTION MASTERY

Adobe’s generative AI integrations in Premiere Pro redefine video editing by allowing OpenAI and other models to generate B-roll in-app.

Primal Screen, the Atlanta studio behind Cartoon Network's iconic 90s promos, is shutting down after 26 years.

🎭 CREATOR ECONOMY

iPhone camera to play catch-up in 2025: The upcoming iPhone 17 Pro is rumored to feature 48 MP sensors for each of its three cameras.

Studio A24 faces backlash for using AI-generated images to promote film "Civil War", sparking debate on the need to label AI-created media.

📚 Learn & Grow

📽️ VISUAL CREATORS

• 5 AI Tools Every Editor Can’t Live Without

• Cloud companies may lease your images for AI learning; what can you do about it?

📈 PRODUCTION MASTERY

• How to Master Perspective in Cinema

• What is Auteur Theory? Meaning and Examples

🎭 CREATOR ECONOMY

• The ethical pros and cons of Meta’s new Llama 3 open-source AI model

• Nikon and Sony win twice as many trophies as Canon at the TIPA 2024 Awards