{"id":324469,"date":"2025-12-19T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324469\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:40:15","slug":"trends-of-2025-the-year-in-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324469\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends of 2025: The year in photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI continues to impact the photographic world but the industry reached a turning point in 2025, says Gem Fletcher, offering an opportunity to look to the future rather than the past<\/p>\n<p>Post-pandemic, the photo industry has been turbulent, to say the least. The last four years have been full of false starts, enforced career breaks, and imagemakers doing everything they can to survive, while brands, agencies and publications have slashed budgets and cut employees. By the end of 2024, the na\u00efve hope that the industry would return to the abundance of the 2010s was all but gone. And if I\u2019m honest, that reality check was exactly what we needed.<\/p>\n<p>As a community of people invested in images, we had to stop looking back and deal with what was in front of us. Technology, economics and information dynamics are all continuing to change, reimagining every aspect of photography from image construction to distribution. Thankfully, 2025 offered a long-overdue turning point \u2013 the moment we picked ourselves up and began to process where we stand and what might be next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think much of what is happening in photography right now is an attempt to process our relationship to technology,\u201d says commissioner and cultural critic Emily Keegin. \u201cPhotographers and brands are trying to understand if the hype of AI is real and how to engage with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-261586 lazyload\" alt=\"Craft is our Language by Bottega Veneta, shot by Jack Davison\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1256\" data-img-id=\"261586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1.-BV_IC25_Adv_sRGB_DPS_full_A09-copy.jpg\"  data-\/>Top: Ukraine by Aria Shahrokhshahi; Above: Craft is our Language by Bottega Veneta, shot by Jack Davison<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t \tSign in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI continues to impact the photographic world but the industry reached a turning point in 2025, says Gem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-324469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}