Just read some interesting views from Jean-Francois Leroy, founder of Visa pour l’Image. He is talking about how agencies have helped kill photojournalism. He has some interesting points, it’s worth a read.
I was also struck by this line: “The festival will also host multimedia projects for the first time. ‘We’re not doing it because it’s fashionable, but because it’s about photographers’ survival”
That is a telling line. This man knows his onions, believe me. If you want to boost your chances of survival sign yourself up to duckrabbit’s training at the Trinity centre…It’s no good pretending you’re going to make a living using only your leaky Holga, your battered summicron and your ‘eye’…
YOU SAY:
Mike Holley
The growing trend of news websites to use readers images, all of which are submitted royalty-free, can’t help this situation. The BBC even has a “guide” (less than 200 words) on its website to shooting a photo essay. With a mobile phone or compact digital camera everyone becomes a photojournalist. Ok I’m a reader rather than a photojournalist, but I’m noticing a gradual drop in quality in some areas of photojournalism on these sites as a result.
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The growing trend of news websites to use readers images, all of which are submitted royalty-free, can’t help this situation. The BBC even has a “guide” (less than 200 words) on its website to shooting a photo essay. With a mobile phone or compact digital camera everyone becomes a photojournalist. Ok I’m a reader rather than a photojournalist, but I’m noticing a gradual drop in quality in some areas of photojournalism on these sites as a result.