Comments on: Save photography http://blog.melchersystem.com/2008/08/28/save-photography/ Another Photo Industry blog Tue, 22 May 2012 00:35:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Thorben http://blog.melchersystem.com/2008/08/28/save-photography/#comment-2045 Thorben Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:14:51 +0000 http://blog.melchersystem.com/2008/08/28/save-photography/#comment-2045 Talk to anyone with a creative job be it filmmakers, musicians or writers and you will find out that they all share very similar problems. I don't think we have a crisis in photography but in creative production altogether. Old business models shrink or even collapse and new web-based ones don't provide enough income for paying the rent. The 64$ question is: Are we just in a transitional stage restricting the view on a bright future? Or is it time to understand that the market does no longer need the majority of todays creative pros? If you have the answer please let me know. Talk to anyone with a creative job be it filmmakers, musicians or writers and you will find out that they all share very similar problems. I don’t think we have a crisis in photography but in creative production altogether.

Old business models shrink or even collapse and new web-based ones don’t provide enough income for paying the rent.

The 64$ question is: Are we just in a transitional stage restricting the view on a bright future? Or is it time to understand that the market does no longer need the majority of todays creative pros?

If you have the answer please let me know.

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