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PRINTING United Expo shows trends in silver-halide replacement and more Events Feature News 

PRINTING United Expo shows trends in silver-halide replacement and more

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The fall trade show season highlights include the annual PRINTING United Expo 2026, produced annually by PRINTING United Alliance, held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, from Sept. 23-25. The event attracted more than 27,000a registered attendees from 100 countries, who visited 850-plus exhibitors covering one-million-square feet of show floor space.With a show as massive and as widespread  as PRINTING United... Read More
GelatoConnect and the customer-led future of print Feature 

GelatoConnect and the customer-led future of print

Gary Pageau
For Henrik Müller-Hansen, the future of printing starts with a deceptively simple question: Who is the business built around, the machine or the customer? In an interview with The Dead Pixels Society, the GelatoConnect founder and CEO described a market moving away from production organized around specific equipment and toward a software-driven model of production on demand. “I think that... Read More
Building a system-driven business Feature News 

Building a system-driven business

Gary Pageau
Most owners start with a skill and accidentally build a job around it. That pattern shows up everywhere, from photographers and print labs to restaurants, cleaning companies, and “boring businesses” like gutters and commercial cleaning. Author and founder of ActionCOACH, Brad Sugars was a guest recently on The Dead Pixels Society Podcast, where he argued business success is idea-driven and... Read More
Building an audience with top podcaster Gary Arndt, former travel photographer Feature 

Building an audience with top podcaster Gary Arndt, former travel photographer

Gary Pageau
Travel photography has always been part art, part logistics, and part business, but the business side has flipped in a single generation. On The Dead Pixel Society Podcast talked with award-winning travel photographer and “Everything Everywhere Daily” host Gary Arndt about how he began: Buying a high-end DSLR, taking “very bad photos,” then improving through pure repetition and deliberate practice.... Read More
Glossy Finish built Templified to streamline sports photography production, and now you can use it, too Feature New Products 

Glossy Finish built Templified to streamline sports photography production, and now you can use it, too

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For Matt Winer and the team at renowned sports photography company Glossy Finish, the motivation for developing its new Templified service was straightforward: They had a high-volume sports photography workflow that worked, but they knew it could work much better. The result is a cloud-based graphics production platform designed to automate the process of turning athlete photographs into individual portraits, team... Read More
Future proof wedding storytelling with Jonathan Schuessler Feature 

Future proof wedding storytelling with Jonathan Schuessler

Gary Pageau
Wedding photography and wedding videography are colliding fast, and hybrid coverage is becoming a real advantage for creators who want to be booked for luxury weddings and destination weddings. Jonathan Schuessler, a Heidelberg-based photographer, filmmaker, and marketing strategist, built his career by treating weddings like story driven productions while still delivering strong stills. He started early with a DIY photo... Read More
Sisters develop ClassPhoto class composite service Feature New Products News 

Sisters develop ClassPhoto class composite service

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Sisters and business partners Amy Gray and Melanie Monroe of Patriot Photo Collective near San Diego, Calif., saw a problem: Creating class composites for their school photo clients was time-consuming and difficult. The sisters’ school photography business serves about 4,000 students and they have embraced modern volume-photography tools such as GotPhoto and its tagging workflow. But one stubborn piece of the... Read More
Mixbook at 20: Making the photo book about the story, not just the photos Feature 

Mixbook at 20: Making the photo book about the story, not just the photos

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As Mixbook marks its 20th anniversary, co-founder and CEO Andrew Laffoon is pushing the photo book beyond its traditional role as a collection of images. His larger ambition is to make it a storytelling medium — one capable of preserving the experiences, personalities and inside jokes that eventually become a family’s legacy. That philosophy dates to Mixbook’s beginnings. Laffoon met... Read More
How Mixbook uses AI to tell real stories, with Andrew Laffoon Feature Podcasts 

How Mixbook uses AI to tell real stories, with Andrew Laffoon

Gary Pageau
Your camera roll isn’t a memory system, it’s a backlog, and the bigger it gets, the harder it is to turn real moments into something you can actually revisit. Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Mixbook CEO and co-founder Andrew Laffoon as Mixbook hits its 20th anniversary. We dig into a question that matters to anyone who cares about photography, printing, or... Read More
Build business processes with Brad Sugars Feature News 

Build business processes with Brad Sugars

Gary Pageau ,
Most owners start with a skill and accidentally build a job around it. That pattern shows up everywhere, from photographers and print labs to restaurants, cleaning companies, and “boring businesses” like gutters and commercial cleaning. Author Brad Sugars argues business success is idea-driven and system-driven, not age-driven. The real unlock is separating what you’re great at from the business engine... Read More
How things change: 50 years ago, an industry celebrated a nation’s birthday Events Feature Marketing Opinion 

How things change: 50 years ago, an industry celebrated a nation’s birthday

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On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the comparison between how the photo industry – and the nation as a whole – is commemorating the event now, compared to the Bicentennial in 1976, is striking. By any measure, the general consumer interest in the FIFA World Cup has eclipsed America250. As the LA Times pointed... Read More
Sad: Eastman Kodak is subject of ill-conceived AI slop Feature Opinion 

Sad: Eastman Kodak is subject of ill-conceived AI slop

Gary Pageau ,
In an age of AI slop, few things are as sloppy as engagement farming using trite business cases. High-profile failures, like Eastman Kodak Co.’s 2012 bankruptcy, have become fodder for self-embellishment. In recent weeks, LinkedIn and YouTube have been swarmed with AI-enhanced “think pieces” from attention-seeking consultants and MBA students who think they could have managed Kodak’s digital transition without... Read More
Popsa research reveals most smartphone photos are never revisited Feature Market research News 

Popsa research reveals most smartphone photos are never revisited

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Photo curation app Popsa recently conducted a survey among 8,000 consumers, revealing almost three-quarters of photos on smartphones are never seen again, due to overload and emotional complexity. Almost half actively avoid photos from certain periods of their lives – with past relationships and grief the biggest triggers. Almost half of the respondents feel more emotionally connected to memories after... Read More
Building a niche fine-art photography business Feature News 

Building a niche fine-art photography business

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James Katsipis’ path is a blueprint for how a niche photographer can build a sustainable fine art photography business without chasing every genre. He starts as a Montauk surf photographer, shooting pro surfing in brutal winter conditions across New York and other cold-water spots, then slowly realizes the “story around the surf” sells just as well. The landscapes, beaches, and... Read More
From Surf Photography To Fine Art Prints, with James Katsipis Feature Podcasts 

From Surf Photography To Fine Art Prints, with James Katsipis

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Surf photography in New York sounds like a punchline until you see the winter swells and the work they produce. Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Montauk-based professional photographer James Katsipis, who built his career by specializing, first as a surf shooter, then by turning the landscapes and “in-between” moments into collectible fine art photography that... Read More