Vincent Musi
A guy I recently met, who shoots for a big metro daily, asked me if I missed being out on the street. Quite aside from the question of whether I might be good enough to compete. Then I ran into this quote from Vincent Musi on Raw Take. It pretty much sums things up.
It will be just a short time before the freelance model of magazines hits newspapers. Day rates haven’t significantly gone up since I’ve been working as a photographer. Cameras are now $8,000 each and you need to buy a new one about every 18- 24 months to be competitive. … Energy wise I can’t think of a better time to be a photographer. The internet is a free distribution and publishing vehicle. You can reach more people on YouTube than you do in the New York Times in a day. It’s empowering, exciting and we haven’t even scratched the surface of the possibilities.
Hopefully the possibilities include money.
[...] Vincent Musi… is excited about the self-publishing possibilities made available to photojournalists by the ‘net. Hart van Dusen writes: “Hopefully the possibilities include money.” [...]