Newspaper Recognition-Photo/Photographer

[Darin Boville]

I guess you missed the point I made above. There used to be incentive to do great things as a PJ, but there really is not anymore and that is reflected in what you are seeing now, not pre-digital / internet / 2008 economic crash...get the picture?

And the point I was making, boiled down to its harsh essence, is that if PJs hadn't by and large been coasting along and doing such shitty work for so many years then amateur snapshot photos wouldn't have replaced their work so easily. I'm talking about all the ho-hum in work the pre-digital period that left the field weak. Get the picture?

--Darin

[Kirk Gittings]

I'm not so sure. I know some of the shooters at THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL and their workload for decades is that most assignments only allow for something d&d before digital and after. The primo assignments (from a photographers POV) were always taken by the senior shooter. He got both the time to do it right and the inspirational assignments.