SmugMug is a paid photo and video hosting platform that helps photographers showcase, share, protect, and sell their work. Founded in 2002 by father-and-son team Chris and Don MacAskill and bootstrapped without venture capital, it built a subscription business around customizable portfolio sites, password-protected client galleries, unlimited storage, and built-in print and digital sales. In 2018 SmugMug acquired Flickr, adding tens of millions of community photographers, and in 2022 the two brands launched the nonprofit Flickr Foundation to keep historically significant photos accessible for the next 100 years.
Warren Stearns is a multi-hyphenate creative working at the seam where film, music, and photography meet. He has logged screen credits in independent features including Wim Wenders' Land of Plenty (2004), A Peace of History (2005), and The Absence (2010), and even spent an episode playing a corpse on HBO's Six Feet Under. Off camera he shoots fine-art, event, and session photography, publishing his work through a SmugMug portfolio, and he heads Comfortera Enterprises, Inc. Based in Frazier Park, California, he describes himself plainly as an independent contractor - actor, musician, and CEO.