Flickr launches 20under20 award to recognize and support young photographers
Flickr, one of the first Web-based social networks dedicated to photography, today launched a new program recognizing emerging young photographers. Flickr 20under20 focuses on Flickr’s photographers age 20 and younger and rewards the top 20. The new program, as outlined in Yahoo’s Tumblr blog, is designed to support and promote what Flickr sees as the up-and-coming photography community of the future. It’s also a recognition that photographers are getting younger and that digital photography has effectively removed the barriers to visual experimentation. “Some 15 to 20 years ago, to explore photography you had to be older, you had to have money to experiment,…
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