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During "Leading the Revolution in Smartphone Photography," panelists discussed the various ways smartphone photography is affecting visual communication and the photography industry. The panel featured TIME magazine's director of photography and visual enterprise, Kira Pollack; photographer Benjamin Lowy; visual communication strategist Stephen Mayes; and Andrew Delaney, head of content for Getty Images. The consultant and educator Patrick Donehue moderated the talk.
Pollack prefaced her portion of the talk by saying that as communication platforms, smartphones are as important for consuming images as they are for making them. She uses Instagram to keep track of where photographers are traveling, because they often post images that alert their followers to where they are, making Instagram a tool for editors to find photographers if an assignment comes up.
She also said TIME had recently begun working...