[...]Stuart Freedman on Ethics & Photojournalism | London Photographers' Branch[...]…

My only diversion would be that I dont think the independent photography opportunities you seek can be found in the current photo media distibution infrastructure as it stands. The current infrastructure is either collapsing, or centralising even more, or both.

It’s no coincidence that some prominent photojournalists have self consciously and publicly turned their back on the magazine and newspaper distribution model.

Admittedly their ‘solution’ is to move towards an even smaller and elitist gallery audience, so the answer isn’t there either (and arguably makes the problem worse). But it is a symptom of ‘something’ trying to tell us ‘something’.

And that is in order to survive we must create an independent infrastructure and garner an independent audience, free of middlemen.

Lewis
NUJ student member