by Andrew Brown @ The Guardian
Half a dozen lurid and splodgy pictures in the local paper brought home to me the death of an honourable profession this week. I took them. I am in my small way responsible for impoverishing an old friend, because he, not me, is a professional photographer, and his living has been more or less abolished by the changing world. Just as film has been replaced by digital, professionals are being replaced by amateurs. The changes are partly technological and partly economic, but the final blow to his profession has come from Flickr and similar Web 2.0 sites.
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Monday, May 07, 2007
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Here's the exhibition that shows it all: http://www.allphotographersnow.ch/
Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out JS. I will keep an eye on it.
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