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Anonymous12/30/25, 20:34No.4491265Where to discover good photos?
What are the best socials or search engines nowadays to discover relatively good photography?
I've found Pinterest (without the adds) to have the best recommendations by far until now.
What the hell happened to Instagram? Something that was born to be focused on photography in the 2010s became some sort of life people's blogs. Not even that, the recommendations are absolutely horrible, worst than things like Youtube. Sadly, it's one of the only ways for some kind of online social presence, and if you opt out of it, you regress to anonymity.
I remember there were some online Russian sites who used to archive good stuff, like gallery.ru
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Anon12/30/25, 20:54No.4491272
NOT AROUND HERE!
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Anon12/30/25, 20:57No.4491274
Behance still has decent stuff
500px has good stuff but tons of garbage now
Sometimes niche / specific flickr pools have good inspo
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Anon12/30/25, 21:35No.4491287
Go to archive.org and peruse through some of the photography books.
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Anon12/31/25, 11:12No.4491438
>What the hell happened to Instagram?
enshittification
i mostly look at tumblr now
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Anon01/01/26, 04:44No.4491537
For me, it's PBase
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Anon01/01/26, 17:58No.4491580
Mark zuckerberg decided that videos were more psychologically addictive AND enabled more profitable forms of user data extraction, plus gave meta inc more sophisticated AI training data (meta legally owns everything users upload to IG) so his indian slaves forcibly deprioritized photography on instagram while pushing video hard.The first person to say “photos are dead, do videos if you want to be relevant, get with the times unc” rather than noting this forced change and pushing back made him chuckle
>heh, we call them goyim (cattle) for a reason alright
And when everyone concurred he started laughing his ass off while getting a few billion dollars richer, and his closely related friends kept on doing photography with their leicas regardless
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Anon01/02/26, 21:39No.4491701
You just search in IG 'night' or whatever. Someone posted a zillion instagrams of good photographers here once, it was quite scary thinking there are so many great photographers all doing interesting things who are further along than you, we're talking millions of people here
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Anon01/02/26, 23:00No.4491713
Yes, but the problem is the whole algorithm of recommendations. Instagram used to have hashtags or labels to make it better, but now it seems to place heavy emphasis on the network of followers, which is not a good predictor. I don't know how this SEO and discoverability works honestly. Maybe it is better for Travel and Fashion photography and that's it.
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Anon01/03/26, 02:42No.4491753
Nowadays I use nothing but flickr film groups.
I have come to realize i actually like photography not digital slop/digital art/photoshop creations.I just like seeing the actual real world as it is. Zero editing or staged fakeness. Even just more everyday scenes have a certain beauty if you dont stage or overedit and just capture it as it is.Maybe digital could do that, but 99.999999999999999999999999999999% of the population cant help but stick their grubby mits on a slider somewhere and start trying to make it "look better"For me good photography is just a person making a genuine effort to capture the world around them realistically on film cameras, and having a good eye for light, composition, color etc but always, always keeping things real.
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Anon01/03/26, 06:25No.4491781
browse the PDF outputs of FIAP salons. endless fun seeing the best of the best boomer photography
here's a list. just look at the previous years winners and stuff. endless hours of entertainment.https://www.myfiap.net/patronages?field_fiap_patronage_number_value_2=&title=&title_1=&name=&field_profile_org_name_value=&custom_category=All&custom_section=All&field_cntst_sched_closing_date_value_op=%3D&field_cntst_sched_closing_date_value%5Bvalue%5D=&field_cntst_sched_closing_date_value%5Bmin%5D=&field_cntst_sched_closing_date_value%5Bmax%5D=&field_cntst_sched_exhibit_date_value_op=%3D&field_cntst_sched_exhibit_date_value%5Bvalue%5D=&field_cntst_sched_exhibit_date_value%5Bmin%5D=&field_cntst_sched_exhibit_date_value%5Bmax%5D=&has_salon_catalog=All&has_salon_file=All&items_per_page=50&order=field_cntst_sched_closing_date&sort=desc&page=1