Required Reading about photography’s future you can’t afford to miss
1.12.09
By Miki Johnson
Leave it to Fred Ritchin to put his finger right on the crux of this issue on his After Photography blog. He starts off by calling out Jonathan Worth, a photographer I’ve been following closely as he blogs about his endeavor to make money off of his photography by giving away the photograph itself (in this case a portrait of science fiction writer Cory Doctorow).
Fred then moves on to the innovative approach the VII photo agency is taking to photo distribution, and wraps up with this little gem: “In a Boston Consulting Group poll published last week people in nine countries were surveyed asking if they would pay for online news: from 48 to 60 percent said they would, ranging from US$3 per month (Americans and Australians) to US$7 (Italians). Maybe we should take them at their word?”
Contact Jonathan Worth
Jonathan works from London and New York as a freelance commercial photographer. His work has appeared in numerous publications and exhibitions, most recently on permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery.
All current exhibition work and his extensive archive of commissioned portraits are available upon request. Most are available as Limited Edition Prints.
His work developing new and sustainable working practices has won acclaim from a wide audience, as have his lectures; both on his work, and on levering the social web.
It was in recognition of this work that in 2009 Jonathan was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Please contact him directly:
+44 (0)7900 801 430
mail@jonathanworth.com
Blog
Jonathan blogs at New Photographics:
newphotographics.org/
Buy
Limited edition prints available at:
jDubbyah.etsy.com
Links
FOTO8
Pixel Press
The NPG
The RSA
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