Ready for our June recap? We’ve got some exciting announcements from our awesome MODE Festival lineup to celebrating creatures (and oceans) big and small with our features on Pollinator Week and World Ocean Day. We’ve covered a lot of territory and we have even more fun on the way, like our official Black Women Photographers grant kick off. So tune in to this month’s recap and get up to speed on everything coming our way. Summer is in full effect!

Meet Your MODE Festival Lineup!

The MODE Festival music lineup has landed, and it’s arriving alongside a whirlwind of photographic talent you’ll be bragging about seeing for years. Let’s start with the headliners: Vince Staples, Tycho, and Minnesota’s own Cory Wong will headline consecutive nights of the festival at Loring Park, backed up by openers Infinity Song and Washed Out with BALTHVS playing our Creator’s Stage right in the center of the MODE: HUB. So are you in? This is a lineup up of talent you don’t want to miss. Get your passes today!

Spend Pollinator Week with your macro lens at the ready!

It’s Pollinator Week and we’ve joined the global celebration by featuring photography showing some of the planet’s hardest workers. Bees, butterflies, bats, hummingbirds and more, these creatures do far more than many people realize. From keeping food systems running to improving carbon storage, Pollinators deserve their moment in the spotlight. Visit the Flickr blog to learn more about the pollinators we are celebrating this week and how to get involved. 

World Ocean Day with Flickr Social

In honor of World Ocean Day we celebrated the oceans that cover 71% of our planet by featuring stunning member photos that capture their scale, beauty, and power. This year’s theme was Strong Marine Protected Areas for Our Blue Planet, a call to action, and the images from our Flickr Social group did a great job at inspiring both reflection and engagement. Check out the blog and also enjoy this curated gallery of ocean photography if you want to keep exploring.

Black Women Photographers’ Grant coming soon!

Since 2022, our partnership with Black Women Photographers has grown every year, bigger grants, more photographers getting visibility, more community. And this year will bring the biggest one yet! Read about our partnership and history with this amazing community of photographers and find out what we have planned for this years grant program, kicking off very soon!

That’s a wrap. See you next month!

Photographer Julia O’Farrow is a Brooklyn-based visual storyteller working across film and photography. With a cinematic eye shaped by years of collecting and studying images, she brings intention and energy to everything she turns her lens toward — from street portraits to cultural moments alive with community. We’re thrilled to feature her in this edition of the Flickr x Black Women Photographers Spotlight.

This edition of 16 Questions About 1 Photo features Pete Rowbottom, an award-winning landscape photographer based in Wigan, North West England. Dive into his story and the thinking behind the shot.