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We are better than this.

What’s going on? We are all photojournalists.
Let’s stop in this honorable community to be corporate driven. my wife was a successful corporate layer. she taught me that life can be better than this. what’s left of us here fellers? What are we? Who’re we? ( nothing wrong with taking all sorts of jobs but let’s still be ourselves )

I heard one voice in the mist of this terrible time that has driven us into darkness: “We need to seek quality at all costs. Work towards excellence cause that’s the only asset we’ve got”.

The person who told me this sits on the board of among the most successful corporations in the world. And he is right. He listened to a few colleagues of ours not knowing anything about our industry and came to these conclusions.

let’s not settle for mediocracy. We represent people who live by their own believes, who jump in a crisis not because they foresee the financial benefits of it but because they think it might serve a purpose of sorts. whatever that means. we are part of a small industry that was born out of a few who believed that life was something bigger than themselves .

by Guy Calaf at Mon May 11 22:51:43 UTC 2009 (ed. May 11 2009) Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Bookmark | | Report spam→

This in response to something in particular?

by Andy Levin | 11 May 2009 23:05 | | Report spam→
Mask.

In the morning
I put on a capitalistic frock
and sell my self
to the highest bidder
just like the prostitute
at the square

by Kristjan Logason | 12 May 2009 18:05 | Reykjavik, Iceland | | Report spam→
f*ckin aye Guy…

by Conor Ashleigh | 12 May 2009 23:05 | Sydney, Australia | | Report spam→
So who’s going to pay you while you are striving for quality or buy the result at a reasonable price once you’re finished doing it? No one. This photo-journalism thing is dying. Industries only survive if there are clients for the finished product. You can’t make a viable profession selling skills and products nobody wants to buy.

by DPC | 13 May 2009 09:05 (ed. May 13 2009) | Paris, France | | Report spam→
prāta jukums?!!!!!

by Imants | 13 May 2009 09:05 (ed. May 13 2009) | "The Boneyard 017º", Australia | | Report spam→
nobody needs quality, nobody needs real good photography.
this ongoing trend of captions that has nothing to do with the pictures i think ruins the photography..

by JuliaKomissaroff | 13 May 2009 10:05 | Jerusalem, Israel | | Report spam→

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Participants

Guy Calaf, Photojournalist Guy Calaf
Photojournalist
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Andy Levin, Photographer Andy Levin
Photographer
[undisclosed location].
Kristjan Logason, Photographer Kristjan Logason
Photographer
Reykjavik, Iceland
Conor Ashleigh, Photojournalist Conor Ashleigh
Photojournalist
(photographer)
Sydney, Australia
En route to Dili (ETA: Jul 6 2009).
DPC, Photographer DPC
Photographer
Paris, France
Imants, Imants
(gecko hunter)
"The Boneyard 017º", Australia
JuliaKomissaroff, photographer JuliaKomissaroff
photographer
Jerusalem, Israel


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