I got that notice about my pictures that violate the new terms of use under our corporate overlords. They were art and part of the project, or very mundane nudes. Not pornography. But this is part of a bigger problem. I hate living in a place that is so obsessed with censorship that a glimpse of nipple is a huge deal, but people die from police shootings on a regular basis. They want to turn the internet into another sanitized consumer wasteland, a digital Times Square. Sucking every bit of edge from the world doesn’t make it better. It just makes it mediocre. In the US, we have a country with nasty rich people, dirt poor people, too many guns and lots of drugs. Trying to stick everyone in a padded Disneyland Starbucks playpen won’t change that. Fuck your censorship. I make art, not advertising. If it’s challenging, good!
In a related topic, years ago when lensblr first started, I was one of the first on board. Then it changed hands and continued to get more and more boring. I don’t know if that voting process is still going, but art isn’t a city statute, it needs people to love it and hate it, not elect it to the council. You think you can define what tasteful and appropriate photography is. What you are actually doing is making derivative drivel. Pablum for postcards and wall calendars. Diane Arbus, Larry Clark and Nan Goldin are photographic art. Another reflective skyscraper photo, no matter how many pixels or what beautiful Zeiss glass you use, adds very little to the world. Get some breadth to your work or fuck off.