We write and lecture an awful lot about the importance of negotiating. We suggest or critique, various techniques, strategies, approaches and tactics. All of our efforts are made with good reason. While negotiating is an important survival tool for any person, it is an indispensable skill for the people known as “creatives”. (See our upcoming [...]
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Check Please!
Aug 23
If you are a professional photographer who does editorial work the odds are very high that you spend most days doing something other than “being on assignment”.
If you are, or more likely were a professional photojournalist and for some reason still believe you can support yourself try this: click on CNN.com. There you will see [...]
Finally, a mainstream media outlet has decided to cover the industry plight or blight, if you prefer. The L.A. Times ran a fine piece on January 22, 2010. It can be found at http://tinyurl.com/ycn7te8. Nice piece, nice job by the writer. The issue of photojournalists and their demise is not addressed. In fairness to the [...]
The other day we posted the following:
“Going the Times one worse, running every day on page 2 of the The New York Daily News is a plea which reads:
”GOT A PHOTO? Did you capture that perfect New York moment? We want it! Send your picture to: desk@dailynewspix.com”
At the request of some clients who were [...]
One of the current topics we’ve been talking about is the sad state of PhotoJournalists. Their days if not numbered are definitely being greatly diminished. It’s not a case of changing technology as many point at, but rather a field that is changing in ways that make jobs for real, full time photographers as scarce [...]
