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Photographers article in the NY Times

Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
It's really worth reading!

John Angulat said:
Saw this today in the Times. Short piece primarily speaking to media's shift from assignment-specific photographers to the use of stock images.
I thought you might find it interesting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/media/30photogs.html?hp
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"Then there is D. Sharon Pruitt, a 40-year-old mother of six who lives on Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Ms. Pruitt’s husband is in the military, and their frequent moves meant a full-time job was not practical. But after a vacation to Hawaii in 2006, Ms. Pruitt uploaded some photos — taken with a $99 Kodak digital camera — to the site Flickr.

Since then, through her Flickr photos, she has received a contract with the stock-photography company Getty Images that gives her a monthly income when publishers or advertisers license the images. The checks are sometimes enough to take the family out to dinner, sometimes almost enough for a mortgage payment. “At the moment, it’s just great to have extra money,” she said."
from John's citation above.​

This is the dilemma for would be news or story photographers. Maybe one has to be a little nuts to use photography to earn a living!

Asher
 
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John Angulat

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Asher Kelman said:

"Then there is D. Sharon Pruitt, a 40-year-old mother of six who lives on Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Ms. Pruitt’s husband is in the military, and their frequent moves meant a full-time job was not practical. But after a vacation to Hawaii in 2006, Ms. Pruitt uploaded some photos — taken with a $99 Kodak digital camera — to the site Flickr.
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Since then, through her Flickr photos, she has received a contract with the stock-photography company Getty Images that gives her a monthly income when publishers or advertisers license the images. The checks are sometimes enough to take the family out to dinner, sometimes almost enough for a mortgage payment. “At the moment, it’s just great to have extra money,” she said."
from John's citation above.
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This is the dilemma for would be news or story photographers. Maybe one has to be a little nuts to use photography to earn a living!

Asher
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Certainly seems so!
I was particularly startled to see the relationship between Magnum and Flickr.
Unexpected? Probably not, more inevitable than anything else.
 
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