Do people still get gigs/their photos featured on publications through Flickr?
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I used to be really active on Flickr from like 2012 to 2016. Some of my photos somehow got used by a lot of websites including Vice News and even a local publication in my city ended up hiring me as a freelance photographer. Later on a local corporate company also found me through flickr and also ended up hiring me. Someone also contacted me to use one of my photos in their book. I also saw a food truck using one of my photos for their business without any compensation to me of course. I even got a lot of my work stolen by musicians I followed and would every now and then end up on my instagram feed despite me getting no credit for said photos.... Even worse, a lot of the times the content farms that would steal my photos would get the credit for the photos instead of me... actually, that was kinda the reason I rage quit photography cause I was tired of my work getting stolen and me being blocked by content farm accounts whenever I asked for credit. I tried a website called I think it was pixys? they would look through the internet and supposed to help me get credit for photos or photos taken down but that never happened despite hundreds of matches... Any who, story for another day I guess.
I stopped doing photography around 2017 except for a couple gigs from friends and family. I've since bought a new mirrorless camera 2 years ago and a film camera a year ago which made me fall in love with photography again.
I've realized that nothing has come from me not posting my work or rarely posting my work online. I guess having your work stolen just comes with the job... but on the positive side, at least people like my work enough for them to steal it. On top of that I feel my work has improved a lot compared of how I used to shoot 10 years ago.
Now, we know instagram is pretty much dead for photography (kinda always has been for me) and I see people kinda showing interest on Flickr again which is cool in itself BUT I was wondering if people still get hit up by publications, magazines, books, brands, websites and what not for their work on Flickr?
I don't know if direct messages are still a thing on flickr but I would also get inquiries through the email I had on there so I am wondering if anyone on here has gotten their work discovered through Flickr?
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