Everyone seems to be a photographer these days, but as someone depending on paychecks for shoots you can’t just lower prices again and again to compete with newcomers. Well many lower prices because for professional photographers, advancements in technology pose a big dilemma. Cameras make assignments easier, they take better photos and batch processing can […]
Interesting piece by PDN Photo District News: Who Pays Photographers?, a new site on Tumblr set up by an anonymous editorial photographer, seeks to provide a platform where photographers can share information about what clients in all fields, from editorial to advertising to non-profits, pay photographers. It’s always a bit of a gamble dealing with […]
By RENZO GOSTOLI I covered Rio de Janeiro carnival for over 20 years. It is true that after two or three years you feel a bit saturated, you get the feeling that everything is repeated more or less mechanically, but as you get to understand little details and varieties, then you find there are lots […]
Topic photojournalism and competition again. But this is about more than just the beauty and also the ugly truth of digital cameras allowing everyone to become a paparazzi. Although the masses undermine the work of “professionals,” aren’t we made aware of many more stories and issues today than back in the days when only a […]
You all know the reality. Once it was relatively easy to make good money with stock photography. Then everyone got a good camera. The days of companies like Westlight (now Corbis), Tony Stone and The Image Bank (now both Getty Images), companies that actually made money for themselves and photographers, are irrevocably gone. The last […]
By DIEGO GIUDICE For freelance photographers who have historically been the vast majority of photojournalists, the last few years haven been very tough. Their traditional customers, newspapers and magazines around the world, are still immersed in a huge and endless crisis, steadily losing sales and readers at the hands of the Internet. Staff reductions, downsizing […]
Photographer Gian Paul Lozza, based in London, is the archetype of the photographer who found his vocation by accident. He was a snowboarder who always loved photography and was at the right place at the right time. This was in the early days of the sport. Fellow snowboarders wanted their pictures taken. There was no […]
Sure there are many other newswire photography blogs out there, just to mention the Denver Post’s Photo Stories, Boston Globe’s The Big Picture, The Atlantic’s In Focus or the Los Angeles Times’ Framework. But even closer to the craft of the working lensmen and lenswomen are the dedicated photographers blogs by Magnum and Reuters. Great […]
By JONATHAN COE “You need to do more yoga dude!”, Ryan shouted up. My left hip had completely siezed up on me. I was traversed out about 15′ to the left, and 15′ above the 2nd belay station on the four pitch route “Twilight Zone” in the Bow Valley, Canadian Rockies. Roughly 250 vertical feet […]
Talk about the arrogance of power — or of a genius? You may know Vogue and Vanity Fair fashion photographer Norman Jean Roy (click his name for the most minimalist website you’ve ever seen!). Well lensman Roy, whose also socially conscious work is highly engaging, is none too happy about technology’s influence and effects on […]
Entrepreneur.com has an interesting entry on innovative photographers. Over the past decade, many photographers have witnessed a blurring of the line between amateur and professional. A digital SLR camera and some editing software are often all people need to break into the photography business. Some professional photographers saw the changes coming early on and successfully […]
By STEVEN MCCONNELL Let’s say you’re working full-time in a job you don’t particularly like. And you dream of becoming a full-time professional photographer. How long will this transition take — a few months? A year? A few years? What’s a realistic expectation? It’s a very important question to answer because once you enter the […]
By STEVEN MCCONNELL Have you forgotten to call a client recently to find out how their photoshoot was? Do you often have customers calling you to find out what’s going on? Do you find yourself often muttering, “I’m sorry I’m late…” or, “Sorry, things are just so frantic around here…” Is running behind deadlines the […]
By SARAH OXLEY If you’re a photographer, whether an up and coming photographer looking for a way in the industry, a professional photographer with an impressive portfolio or an amateur photographing for fun, self-publishing your photos is an important prospect to consider. The benefits of self-publishing are different for each person, and I’d like to […]
By CARLO CARLETTI John was fixing his tie and staring in the mirror, I could tell his mind was elsewhere. “What’s on your mind John,” I asked as I shot a sequence of photos capturing an expression of joyful emotion. He said, “It was just another Friday evening, I was invited to a housewarming party, […]
Dream job, right. You can be the most gifted photographer and still fail. It takes so much more than good photography to be a photographer who makes money. Many of those who succeed in the industry aren’t necessarily the best photographers. But they are determined, have entrepreneurial skills and the right strategy. You’re already halfway […]
“It comes with the territory, it’s part of the job. Nobody feels sorry for themselves.” Words by James Nachtwey, photojournalist and war photographer who has put his life on the line countless times and seen much more than a fair share of misery, pain and death. His words are from a remarkable film compilation edited […]
Time to submit the very cream of your work to The Magnum Expression Award. Did so already with that one image that… well, over to you! You can submit your work now for the 2012 competition. Read the submission guidelines carefully. They’re simple, but you also have to submit a short bio and tell about […]
By CHRISTOPH ZIEGENHARDT I was sitting in a small local café in Addis which my friend and translator took me to. “This is the best place for coffee, and you know the world’s best coffee is Ethiopian.” Of course many countries make the claim for the world’s best coffee and I have heard it Indonesia, […]
By MANFRED RIST, PARIS CORRESPONDENT NZZ France Soir fades away. The publication, a French media icon of the past, announced last December that it will stop printing and instead focus on an online version. Even that, it seems, was wishful thinking. By the end of the summer, we expect the title will be gone altogether. […]
His name is Anderson, Garrett Anderson, an ex-marine turned filmmaker whose unit carried pocket digital cameras into some of the worst fighting in Iraq. Anderson is using that footage and post-war interviews to open viewers’ eyes about combat. And to help himself deal with the lasting emotional impact of the terror and pain of war. […]
Me knows, not the best featured image below, tasteless choice, but got your attention — or do you know a rich photographer? How to monetize one’s photography, that’s the big question. It goes without saying, if you have a really good portfolio try submitting it to one of the real rights managed stock houses that […]
