EYEEM GALLERY CITY LIGHTS EyeEm is a social network of photographers working both to improve the skills of their craft and harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to market the images produced by its members. Here is a selection of their most thought-provoking photographs WORDS C H R I S S T O K E L - W A L K E R BY VITAL WILSH The smartphone has revolutionised how we document our world: Near professional quality camera technology is now carried by millions of people in their pockets changing the way we interact with society, allowing us to preserve the beauty and the drama of everyday life – moments which otherwise would have gone unnoticed or at best under-appreciated. Helping lead this democratisation of photography is EyeEm, a social network of amateur and professional photographers with an app that is both photographic teaching aid and marketing instrument in one, cleverly using artificial intelligence to source the best images to license to companies. Digi-tech lifestyle magazine WIRED described EyeEm as one of the hottest startups in 2015, after it won a bunch of other awards from technology publications and tastemakers. Encouraging users to re-evaluate their 46
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