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Festival organisers blow millions on Instagram posts and marketing leaving no budget for the festival itself

May 4, 2017 by John Aldred 2 Comments
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When you’re organising a festival, or any kind of event, really, you need to advertise. But one month before the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas was due to happen, organise realised they’d spent almost all their funds. They reportedly spent millions of dollars on celebrity guests, private planes and yachts to promote this luxury event. And a big chunk of it went on Instagram, including $250,000 for a single post on Kendal Jenner’s stream.

Organisers Ja Rule (yup, that one) and Billy McFarland seem to be in quite some hot water as a result. And we’re not talking about the warm water of the Bahamas. The lack of proper planning and budgeting has meant that one of two festivals planned has been cancelled. They’ve been hit with not one, but two class action lawsuits in as many days.

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Kendall Jenner Is “Stealing Jobs” From Professional Photographers

Jul 21, 2016 by Udi Tirosh 18 Comments
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Here is an interesting story. And I do wonder what the industry thinks about this.

I guess there is a trend of celebrities taking on any job they want,simply becasue they are celebrities. It is not uncommon to have celebrities turning chefs, fashion designers, actors, singers and many (MANY) other jobs. Now, Kendall Jenner (wink, wink) has turned into a professional,  already hired photographer.

According to Yahoo news, a recent episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, featured Jenner asking Tyga and friends to pose for her, snapping their photos, not on a smartphone, but on a Nikon camera. She even goes to saying “It doesn’t just take like that, you have to, like, wait for me to focus“… Well, someone saw that she can command a camera and hired Jenner to shoot Kaia Gerber – Cindy Crawford’s model daughter – for an ‘American Beauties’ piece for LOVE.

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Kirby Jenner Got Cropped Out Of Too Many Celebrity Photos: An Interview

Feb 22, 2016 by Stefan Kohler 4 Comments
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In late summer 2015,  Kirby Jenner emerged in Instagram. By his own testimony, he is the twin brother of Kendall Jenner, their sister model and celebrity star Kim Kardashian. The pictures on the account of the mustached twin brother left no doubt about the authenticity of his story. We have an  exclusive interview with Kirby Jenner which shows some insights on his life as a a brother, which has long been in the shadow of his sister. But not anymore!

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Instagram’s 5 most popular photos ever

Oct 7, 2015 by Liron Samuels 2 Comments
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In recognition of Instagram’s 5th birthday, TIME has compiled a list of the 5 most-liked photos on the photo-sharing app, as well as a list of the 5 most popular photos for each of the five years.

With over 40 billion photos shared by its 400 million users, now averaging 80 million new photos and 3.5 billion “likes” per day, the competition should be fierce.

I say should because with so many users and photo you’d expect varied results, especially with more than 75% of users living outside of the USA, but that’s far from being the case.

Current events, news, politics? Not even close. “America’s First Family” are the big winners, and I’m not referring to the one living in the White House.

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Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe

Dave Williams is an accomplished travel photographer, writer, and best-selling author from the UK. He is also a photography educator and published Aurora expert. Dave has traveled extensively in recent years, capturing stunning images from around the world in a modified van. His work has been featured in various publications and he has worked with notable brands such as Skoda, EE, Boeing, Huawei, Microsoft, BMW, Conde Nast, Electronic Arts, Discovery, BBC, The Guardian, ESPN, NBC, and many others.

John Aldred is a photographer with over 20 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter - and occasional beta tester - of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.

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