Photo Stories

This September, 500px Licensing photographers have the opportunity to win big! Licensing Rush is a race for photographers to add fresh and stunning content to their commercial Portfolios, as they compete to be the contributor with the most newly submitted and accepted Licensing photos. We’ll be looking at all photos submitted and accepted to Licensing

Last month, the 500px team hosted our second Licensing webinar in our In Focus series. In Focus dives deep into various Licensing and commercial themes to break down topics and concepts aimed to help photographers develop their portfolios with content types image buyers are looking for. Our latest webinar, In Focus: Capturing realness in commercial

Every year, the website Your Perfect Wedding Photographer runs an industry survey to gather data directly from photographers. According to their most recent survey, wedding photographers spend about ten hours capturing pictures on the day of the event, two hours culling those photos, and a whopping fourteen hours on editing. Business and administrative duties eat

500px strives to capture authentic representation within the global experience. As part of the 500px Commercial Grants program, we provide photographers with opportunities that encourage inclusivity within commercial photography. 500px is awarding five $1,000 US Commercial Grants to photographers who best capture diverse, real-life moments through their photos. A Day in the Life 500px photographers

“I will never forget this interaction with a humpback whale and her calf in Tonga,” the nature photographer Chun Chau tells me. “While the mother rested at a deeper depth, all of a sudden, the baby calf swam up from the bottom at full speed and breached—a few feet in front of me—to play.” For

Are you passionate about photography and yearning for an adventure that will take you beyond borders? Get ready to embark on an unforgettable journey as 500px, Alex Strohl, Canon, and Moment bring you the “Beyond Borders: Capturing Global Landscapes” photography competition! This is your chance to win an exclusive photography retreat in the tranquil countryside

At 500px amazing photography is at our core, but these photos would not be possible without the talented people behind the lens. The 500px Spotlight series highlights the global and diverse photographers that are part of the 500px Community. This week we are excited to introduce you to Licensing Contributor Ashvini Sihra. Ashvini Sihra is

12 Days, 12 Quests, 12 Prizes, and over 126,000 submissions! With 12 Quest Themes that covered all the bases from Minimalism to Portraiture, Wildlife to Editorial…. There was something for everyone and amazing prizes to be claimed. It was a difficult decision as our community delivered their Questms spirit (yet again!) but our editors and

More than one in four (26%) adults in the United States have some type of disability. That’s an estimated 61 million people. But research from Nielsen, released in 2021, reveals that only 1% of primetime ads include representations of disability-related visuals, themes, or topics. What’s more, just 3% of advertising spend in primetime went to

In 1961s, Fred Herzog photographed a woman on the street, with just her green skirt and red stockings visible in the frame. In 1972, Helen Levitt photographed kids in New York City, dressed in various shades of yellow and purple. In the 1980s, Martin Parr photographed an ice cream shop in an English beach suburb,

Right now, you can buy an NFT of your favorite photograph, buy land in a metaverse like Decentraland or Cryptovoxels, and build a virtual gallery exhibition from scratch. In 2021, metaverse real estate sales hit $500 million. Experts say that number could double this year. The way we interact online is changing, and it’s happening

With the back-to-school season on the horizon, and the fall and winter holidays arriving shortly thereafter, we’re entering a busy time for retail and marketing. What’s more, research from McKinsey indicates that more consumers in the US are trying new brands than they did in 2020 and 2021, meaning that companies and advertisers will have

“How do I get a photo pass for concerts?” This is the question I get asked most often, and it was a question I myself asked a just few years ago. Once I had the answer, I had a front row seat to just about any concert I wanted to see. Here is the key…

Last year, the parenting products company Frida released its first TV commercial during the Golden Globes. Featuring moms in real life, the ad highlighted the moments we rarely see in commercial media: the clogged ducts, the cabbage compresses, and other lactation hurdles. Within a few days, the original version of the ad had racked up

In 2005, Dave Roth, an amateur photographer, snapped a picture of Zoë Roth, his four-year-old daughter, during a controlled fire in their neighborhood. In the background, a house was in flames; in the foreground was Zoë, a mischievous smile on her face. Dave entered the photo in a competition, and it won, but it would

According to some estimates, the number of insects has declined by 75% in the past half-century. Insects account for the majority of known species on our planet; they serve essential roles in our lives, from pollinating our food to recycling organic materials. Insects are mysterious too, with experts estimating that four million remain undiscovered. They

At 500px amazing photography is at our core, but these photos would not be possible without the talented people behind the lens. The 500px Spotlight series highlights the global and diverse photographers that are part of the 500px Community. This week we are excited to introduce you to portrait photographer, Michal Zahornacky. Hi Michal, please

André Kertész worked at the stock exchange in Budapest. Edward Weston once worked at the Marshall Field department store in Chicago. Walker Evans took a night job on Wall Street. Perhaps most famously, Vivian Maier worked for decades as a children’s attendant and au pair. For decades, some of the world’s greatest photographers have relied

In trendy engagement portraits, edgy street photography, and artsy double exposures, silhouettes abound. Today, classic silhouette photographs like Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1932) continue to inspire modern photographers to create timeless images. A few years ago, for instance, the art director Nicolas Bouvier, aka Sparth, made headlines for his dreamy and evocative

At 500px amazing photography is at our core, but these photos would not be possible without the talented people behind the lens. The 500px Spotlight series highlights the global and diverse photographers that are part of the 500px Community. This week we are excited to introduce you to portrait photographer, Edward Grant. Hi Edward, please