Why working photographers should move their originals, galleries and sales to Files.fm

For almost twenty years, Flickr was the place a photographer put their work online. You uploaded, joined a few groups, collected faves and pointed clients to your photostream. For many of us it was a first portfolio.

Photography as a job has changed since then, and so has Flickr. A working photographer now shoots RAW, delivers hundreds of images per job, asks clients to choose favorites, sends private galleries that should expire, and wants to get paid for downloads. The questions have changed too. Can I keep the original NEF or CR3 file? Can I send this wedding gallery with a password? Can a client buy a high-resolution file straight from my page? Do I decide who downloads my work, or does the platform?

This article compares Files.fm and Flickr.com feature by feature on exactly those questions. Every Flickr fact comes from Flickr's own help center, blog or terms.…