Thomas is a professional fine art photographer and writer specialising in photography related instructional books as well as travel writing and street photography.
All in Industry
So Instagram has been rolling but a new update, and it’s pretty atrocious. If you don’t have it yet, consider yourself lucky. The new design is clearly aimed at competing more directly with TikTok, and while it might be ok for video, it’s really bad for photography and photographic content.
Over the past few years, or even the last decade, journalism has taken a real hit from the general public. Between prognostications that smartphones and social media would kill off the need for photojournalists, to attacks on journalism in general from political bloviators. But the awful events in Ukraine over the past week show that Journalism and PhotoJournalism are as effective and as important as ever.
If you’ve ever been involved in creating content for a consuming audience, and you’ve been doing it for some time, you’ve probably come up against the following conundrum:
“My content is getting stale, but I’m afraid that if I shake it up too much I will lose my audience”.
You see, there’s kind of a paradox when it comes to creating regular content….
I love reading about the photography industry, whether it’s about the market, new gear or so on, it’s as much an interest for me as taking photos itself. In the industry, there is a lot of well-known pundits, whether they are from magazines, blogs or YouTube. As with everything, there are those I like and respect, and those that I don’t have much time for. But even taking that into account, over the past few months especially, I’ve noticed some real credibility issues for industry observers. Why? Let me explain...
