Hard Times for Press Photographers
They found on arriving at work. Twelve press photographers, working for CNN, found a small pink paper on their desks, telling them to take the door. Their boss, Jack Womack, no longer needed. That’s what he said in a statement : “We spent a lot of time analyzing how we use and we deploy our photojournalists in the country. The consumer technologies are simpler and more affordable. In Small cameras are now of high quality. This technology is in the hands of more people. After this analysis, CNN decided that some photojournalists have to leave the company ” , he writes.
In other words, citizens and amateur photographers doing the same job. They do this especially for free. CNN was at the initiative of iReport , a platform for citizen journalism. It has been proven, the website said Petapixel.com , but it is also questionable, since few people were paid for their photos or their reports, although they were widely circulated, he engages.
The grist for Neil Burgess, former boss of the Magnum agency, which believes that photojournalism is just dead. “When photographers create brilliant stories and even if the editors of magazines really want to publish them, they can not pay a decent price for their work ” , asserts it in a forum in 2010.
In France, the situation is far better, writes Andrew Rusty, historian of photography, in his article ” Twilight of photojournalism ” . But it is not hopeless, says the case of France Culture, entitled “Photojournalism is beyond the scope”. Photography with smartphones (high fashion!) Is not a panacea, we read on the site of the magazine Photo Six Months .
Nevertheless, there is a U.S. site – Big Picture – which acknowledges the work of photojournalists. Simply be broadcast to as many people. The question is whether photographers, often from agencies, is better off.
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