![]() ![]() ![]() “At SmugMug + Flickr, we believe that photography is an incredibly important visual record of our history,” says SmugMug + Flickr COO Ben MacAskill. The Flickr Foundation is a new US 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to keeping billions of historic and culturally significant photographs safe, sound, and accessible for future generations. MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - SmugMug + Flickr-two of the Web’s most popular platforms for photographers-today announced a dramatic expansion of their efforts to promote and preserve photography online. The better we understand our history, and the more we work together to preserve it, the brighter our future becomes.”įeatured image credit: Dorothea Lange/ Flickr/ National Science and Media Museum. The more people who see these photos from the world’s most important institutions, the better we understand our history. “Sharing is in our nature, and it has compounding benefits for everyone involved. “At the heart of the Foundation is the belief that sharing is vitally important to our communities and our society,” Ryan Merkley, former CEO at Creative Commons, Chief of Staff at Wikimedia Foundation and who is in The Flickr Foundation’s Board of Directors said. Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California’ photo is one of many historic and culturally significant photos in its collection. The Foundation’s aim is to keep its archive of historic and culturally significant photographs on Flickr safe and accessible in the public domain for future generations to come.įirst launched by then-Flickr designer George Oates in collaboration with the United States Library of Congress in 2008 as The Commons, it now includes images from contributors like the Smithsonian, The British Library, NASA, The Library of Congress and academic institutions around the world. Two of the most popular online platforms for photographers, SmugMug + Flickr, have announced that they will be establishing a nonprofit organisation called The Flickr Foundation. ![]()
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