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Subject: [Leica] On The Uncertain Future of Photojournalism
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 10:58:07 -0500
References: <CAJ4y7gyMuh=BcuZQRRsejNcGde8PCRVo73xqT=JqPgqH5ARjWA@mail.gmail.com>

He is exactly right.  It's impossible to make a living as a photojournalist
today.  Anybody going into photojournalism or even stock photography today
has to be willing to shoot weddings and events to make ends meet.  I would
not encourage anybody to consider photography as a profession.

Tina

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/the-uncertain-
> future-of-photojournalism/
>
> Probably / possibly behind a paywall for some of you but worth reading if
> you can.
>
> Of particular interest to me since I started college in 1961 as an aspiring
> photojournalist......I wanted to be like Gene Smith.....and then I drifted
> (and so, I understand, did he).....
>
> --Bob
>
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Tina Manley
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