Briefly, Ryan Pfluger

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Bejamin Lowy—Reportage by Getty Images for TIME

“Photography is my passion, my calling, and my means of livelihood. It is how I provide for my family and send my children to school. Now Instagram and Facebook want to take my hard earned imagery — imagery that at times, I and others have risked life and limb for — and use it to generate income for themselves.

What they have done is signal the end and failure of what could have been a revolutionary social media platform for visual communication. Now, I must take a step back and reassess my place on Instagram.”

—Benjamin Lowy

UNFILTERED: Photographers react to Instagram’s new terms of service.

Will you be staying on Instagram?

TIME asked me and 15 other photographers for their immediate reaction to Instagrams’s new TOS. Great to hear from so many professionals on the subject.