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Useful Photojournalism

Efficient, practical and more often than not, boring.

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Kenneth Jarecke
Aug 04, 2024
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This is not an image from the Paris Games, but there’s something I don’t know what a, Je ne sais pas quoi, that somehow speaks to French sensibilities. ©2024 Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images

If you’d like a career in photojournalism today, do two things: sign the contracts and always deliver a useful image. Perhaps “career” is too optimistic; let’s just say, if you’d like to occasionally work as a photojournalist today.

Either that, or pay your own way.

Those are your choices, and the pay-your-own-way route smacks of trust funders and the gainfully employed dentist who shoots sports on the weekends for credentials, shits, and a few grins.

Sorry. This is going to be one of those posts.

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