Photography Industry under Digitization: A Glimpse of How Digital Images Influenced Professional Photographers and the Public

Abstract

Photography is not only about scientific proof and art anymore. Social photography is gradually emerging and changing our perspective on photographs both in the eyes of the public and professional photographers. The phenomenon of social photography is reducing job opportunities for professional photographers, but at the same time social photography may give people a feeling of digital belonging and digital diasporic intimacy through image sharing on Instagram. Therefore, online image-based communities can be formed. An online image-based community is a mediated medium for conversations about collective and individual memories.