r/photography
Founded January 2008 · Public — anyone can post
/r/photography is a place to politely discuss the tools, technique, art and culture of photography and to post topics that would be of interest to other photographers.
Members
5,650,105
5.7M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
+0.0%
+2K members · ≈6d
Growth · 30d
+0.2%
+10K members · ≈30d
Published rules
11
2 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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Distinct posters
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Tracking since Aug 1 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What r/photography's rules say about promotion
2 of 11 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No Spam or Self-Promotion
rule 4 of 11
We do not allow any blogspam, ads, shortlinks, seeking votes for contests, referral links, crowdsourced funding, circlejerking, karmawhoring, surveys and/or market research, or DAE/ITAP posts. Any self-promotion must be no more than 10% of your submissions to the sub or Reddit, per Reddit's guidelines. No direct for-profit advertising or self-promotion of any kind is permitted outside of the relevant weekly community threads.
Removal reason shown to posters: Post is self-promotion
No Classified Ads or Job Offers
rule 5 of 11
If you want to sell a photography item to redditors or want to buy a photography item from a redditor, please use /r/photomarket. If you just want to share some great photography-related deals, please use /r/PhotographyDeals/. If you are looking for a photographer or retoucher to do a job for you, head over to r/PhotographyJobs.
Removal reason shown to posters: Post is a Classified Ad or Job Offer
The other 9
- Photo Sharing in Community Threads
- Post is a gear-related, troubleshooting pricing or post-processing/style/emulation question
- Stand-alone questions must contain a minimum amount of context and not be common duplicate questions
- No Personal Attacks
- No Rants
- Flair is for Portfolios
- Lost & Found
- No AI-generated text
- No Preset Talk
Read from r/photography’s published rules on Mar 12. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/photography — frequently asked
How many members does r/photography have?
r/photography has 5,650,105 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 8. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/photography growing?
Over the last ≈30 days r/photography changed by +0.2% — a gain of 10K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/photography?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/photography yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/photography created?
r/photography was founded in January 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/photography?
r/photography publishes 11 rules and 2 of them address promotion. The first, “No Spam or Self-Promotion”, says: We do not allow any blogspam, ads, shortlinks, seeking votes for contests, referral links, crowdsourced funding, circlejerking, karmawhoring, surveys and/or market research, or DAE/ITAP posts. Any self-promotion must be… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/photography for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/photography into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/photography's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/photography's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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