Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Agree totally with BD's distinguishing between a PJ and someone paid by a specific group to cover a particular side of an event. Will add a bit from my experiences as a PJ (newspaper), corporate photographer and independent. As a newspaper photographer with proper credentials, etc. I was generally treated pretty well in most situations by participants, public officials and such. As a corporate photographer, I was sometimes a privileged character with access to events, occurrences and people outsiders were not; even accredited PJs. As an independent, I've been subject to the vagaries of my affiliation of the moment; folks consider me a representative of whoever pays me to be on the scene. Have taken flak from old friends whose sides I'd been on (have also benefitted at times from those relationships) and, on occasion, faced restrictions from public officials that I did not encounter as a PJ from a recognized/accredited media outlet. When paid by a specific group/business/institution/individual, that's who you represent. That's a fact of business life, not an ethical or ideological issue. Greg Rubenstein gcr910@msn.com _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html