Where have all the Photojournalists gone?
Citizen journalism has been about for quite a while now.
The BBC app on my wife's phone allows you to directly upload images!!!!
Longer slow burn stories shouldn't be affected. Good journos will always be putting themselves in or around stuff happening. Citizens don't make a good job of interviewing people and making some strategic sense of things.
Tales from the Arab spring on R4 from Jeremy Bowen ( OK not photo journalism ) were very interesting and compared with phone interview from citizen journalists on R5L it was encyclopaedic.
There is a place for photojournalism but I think it needs to be a bit more Jeremy Bowen and have a deep immersion to provide value rather than turn up and compete with everybody for a 1000px wide shot in almost real time. Think more, body of work, not decisive moment.
I know some photographers who have been paid by their agency via cheque and the cheque bounce. The industry is in this race to the bottom to control the market but unfortunately they are treating. Pro photographers so bad most are now having to get second jobs to survive.
I can understand why CNN would get rid of all its photographers the problem is in 5 years time when the out license gets bored of giving away images for free then we end with nothing.
Concert photography
Currently on a Pentax hiatus until an FF Pentax is released
You never see photos with Nikon or Canon logos...... methinks
it's just an Apple fanbuoy beeing silly as usual
What next the BBC will only be transmitting to iPhones
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Algi
The Apple logo is the Photo ... Jeff...
So it is ..... Even sadder!.... If your writing an article about the
iPhone doing journalism I would have thought a photo with
journalistic content would be more appropriate
Do they work in low light which is where Leica achieved it's
domination until the Nikon 50mm f/1.4's came along
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Algi
to Flickr from iPhones........ possibly getting the stats
confused with the number of photos of iPhones uploaded to
Flickr taken on better cameras by sad people.....
there's millions of em!
http://www.flickriver.com/search/iphone/
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Algi
Take a look at the article at the bottom of the page, very poignant.
Diary - by Tim Hetherington
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" (John Lennon)
Edit- obviously I'm very sorry if the situation is affecting your work Gary... I'm just talking as a news consumer really.
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Algi
Alan,
Take a look at the article at the bottom of the page, very poignant.
Diary - by Tim Hetherington
I was really shocked, and saddened when Tim Hetherington died. I wasn't really following his photos, but I found myself to be drawn by them, and how he would push himself to be in those situations.
Thank you for the link!
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Some quotes:
"If the game is to be in the right place at the right time, I can't win at that game, because there's only one of me," says Rob Bennett, a Wall Street Journal contract photographer.
And an interesting one:
Michael Christopher Brown, a photographer who flew to Libya to cover the uprising in February, shot an entire series using his iPhone's Hipstamatic app after dropping and breaking his SLR camera. He was still shooting on his phone in April when an explosion sent shrapnel into his chest and killed two of his nearby colleagues, Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington. "At this point I hesitate using a 'real' camera," Brown told Time magazine a few weeks after his injury.
My thoughts on the matter:
Technology, has made Photojournalism evolve into a completely different beast today. Back then you needed to travel to locations to catch the events as it unfolded, and to a certain extent, you still do.
Thanks to the internet, specifically social media sites like Twitter, users have a more demanding expectation of getting the news NOW, not in a few hours, and certainly not tomorrow.
What are your thoughts on this?
Twitter | Someone said time-lapse?