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10月14日 Money, money the cause of so many problems I think it was always going to be hard for Scoopt to compete, with so many blogs, moblogs and alike combine this with the poor quality of images from mobiles it is a slow starter
Citizen photography agency: many members, no buyers Scoopt, the first citizen photography agency that launched in July (see previous posting), has now members in 35 countries. As Press Gazette reports, the agency attracted 1,200 amateur mobile phone photographers within one week. Scoopt founder Kyle MacRae said on Press Gazette: "It's incredibly exciting when you are just sitting there in front of the computers and someone from one of 35 countries sends in something that they think is newsworthy. You just wonder what it is." The agency, that is currently run by three business partners, has plans to expand. However, Press Gazette also states that "so far the agency has yet to sell any pictures, although it has already had 600 sent to it". Sources: Press Gazette, Crisis of photojournalism: New Media, New competitionCrisis of photojournalism: new media, new competition This also has to be combined with the upsurge in new forms of news outlets and citizen journalists, weblogs, moblogs, photblogs, and videoblogs and open publishing are also having a major impact on the mainstream media and causes problems for those who chase news to make a living, I personally think that money in photojournalism has done much damage to what gets covered by the mainstream media, pictures of homeless conditions just don’t sell and the resent earthquake that has hit Pakistan has the ringing of pound signs to many photojournalists, cover the issues and see what story or stills you can sell after, like Magnum used too. Being free to publish what you want has many advantages, it allows us to get back to capturing visual variety, cover issues in depth as well as those projects that may take years to cover (try finding an editor to allow you to cover one of those and get paid for it!) which leaves one problem to many and that is payment, again I reiterate, money is the problem in photojournalism, which is why citizen journalism, open publishing and weblogs are doing so well, they do it for love. This often means they are passionate about what they cover, they are connected with the issues they cover and are often thereat the news scene when it happens, unlike most scribes that just phone someone up for a second hand version of the events. An added benefit of do it yourself news casting is that it also means that your pictures, video, audio or text gets published and even on open publishing there may be editorial guidelines on what is not acceptable (racism, hate, etc.) it leaves a massive array at what can be covered websites can serve as a photojournalist’s portfolio and gallery/exhibition and sites like the Digital Journalist covers journalits work sources: Seeking ways out
Crisis of photojournalism: Seeking ways out Does the future of photojournalism lie in galleries and museums? Professional photographers discussed this question last week in a debate at the International Photojournalism Festival Visa pour l'image in Perpignan, France, reports Swiss newspaper 24heures (in French). Starting point for the debate: Luc Delahaye successfully exhibited a series of photos he took in Afghanistan, selling them in New York for US $15,000. He thinks of himself more as an artist than a photojournalist. But the artistic side of photojournalism also raises moral questions. Photographer Stanley Greene is worried about seeing people drinking champagne while watching photos of dead bodies in a gallery. Alain Frilet, editorial director of photo agency Magnum, said that the principal task of photojournalism - to witness and to inform - is disappearing. On the contrary, photographer Jonas Bendiksen thinks of the gallery as a new place to show works of photography that do not receive much exposure. Evidently not every photojournalist can switch and become a successful artist. The discussion about such alternative sources of revenue is, however, an indicator of the crisis photojournalism is facing. The Festival Visa pour l'image awards six prizes for photography. The Visa d'Or for news went to Philip Blenkinsop for his work on the tsunami. Information about the award winner should soon be on the festival's home page. Sources: 24heures (in French), Visa pour l'image
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