Amateur image boards

Photography news by Amateur Photographer, featuring, photo news, camera news, photography events and much more. Five years since the invasion of Iraq, photographs portraying the war have been unveiled for an exhibition to pay tribute to the journalists reported to have died in the conflict. Imaging software giant Adobe has updated Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop Camera Raw to provide raw file support for nine more digital cameras. A landscape photographer last night captured a picture of gales striking the Cornish coast during the worst storms to hit Britain this winter. Picture credit: David Clapp.

The Politics of Amateurism in Online Pornography. Instead it seems that online pornography presents questions of communicative circulation, moving from the frenzy of the visible to something more like the frenzy of the communicative. This transition also sheds light on emerging issues around digital photography in general: a discussion that has shifted from issues around virtual fakery to issues of the visceral and of velocity, of affect and instant communication. Tumblr allows users to post their own images and re-post images found on other sites. This structure provides both an image-roll where a user collates pages of posted material and a network of links to other tumblr sites — including the history of where an image has been previously posted and what other tumblr sites he or she is following. Whilst tumblr has become a hugely popular site among teenagers and social networkers there has also been an explosion of sites dedicated to pornographic imagery. In these sites consumers of the pornographic image circulate images they have found on professional porn sites alongside re-posted images, videos and gifs from other tumblr sites they follow, images that have been solicited some sites invite their readers to send in images of themselves and images of themselves sometimes tagged as GPOY; gratuitous picture of yourself — the realcore amateur image par excellence.

I wrote a short post for Urlesque today on the image chat website dump. The teaser below. Here users post animated gifs, manipulated and found images and webcam shots as a means of conversing. The site has more than 2, registered users and the pace of exchange is frighteningly quick.

Oscar Gonzalez is Texas native who covers video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. A rash of postings that may be related to mass shootings has put a spotlight on loosely moderated forums known as chan boards or image boards. While many people who visit these sites simply share memes or discuss video games, the sites have also become a gathering place for white supremacists and right-wing nationalists who take advantage of the freewheeling and anonymous nature of the boards. The anything-goes attitude has led chan boards to become swamps of hateful commentary.