Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/20

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Subject: [Leica] Who'd be a PJ in these Troubled Times
From: "Gregory Rubenstein" <gcr910@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 06:03:07 +0000

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


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