41 images Created 11 Dec 2015
Dead Magazines
I’ve done some of my best work when employed by magazine and websites that sadly died- Some were spectacular failures. Pictures shown here from my time at Connoisseur, Talk magazine, peoplenews.com, , Park Avenue, German Vanity Fair and The First Post.- I learnt a lot and enjoyed working for them but they were all ventures that sadly had the backers or owners close them down.
Once a photographer finds a niche they tend to cling on like limpets. (- Finding paid work as a photographer has always been statistically impossible ). When I began experimenting with digital stitched pictures my regular magazine employers weren't interested. - But I was obsessed with doing the pictures and had to move on. Recklessly going from safe well-funded publications to riskier but more exciting start-ups. ( Unfortunately the more established publications decided to take this as a form of disloyalty. )
But now even the really big names of media publishing are being threatened. It looks like these once sucessful publications may not be around much longer.. - Individual, eccentric and edgier publications that have never had much money behind them have more chance of surviving. Perhaps because they have always been efforts of love?
Once a photographer finds a niche they tend to cling on like limpets. (- Finding paid work as a photographer has always been statistically impossible ). When I began experimenting with digital stitched pictures my regular magazine employers weren't interested. - But I was obsessed with doing the pictures and had to move on. Recklessly going from safe well-funded publications to riskier but more exciting start-ups. ( Unfortunately the more established publications decided to take this as a form of disloyalty. )
But now even the really big names of media publishing are being threatened. It looks like these once sucessful publications may not be around much longer.. - Individual, eccentric and edgier publications that have never had much money behind them have more chance of surviving. Perhaps because they have always been efforts of love?
