Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The allied professions of journalism and photojournalism took a major wrong turn when our colleagues agreed to go onto battlefields contractually "embedded" with invading forces. At that moment, we began to surrender our rights as independent witnesses to history. I now encounter lots of resistance to working as an unallied shooter at events. Organizer/sponsors - call them what you will - now expect to have total control of media coverage, paid by them and delivered exclusively to their specifications It's going to be very difficult to get back to the way things once were, at least as a professional. The greatest freedom now is the privilege of the amateur picture snapper with P&S digital or cell phone camera. Emanuel