World Press Award winning photo shot on a Leica w Tri-x

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I don't know if this has already been posted but I cam across an interesting article in Editor and Publisher:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003941514

"Suau shot his World Press Photo of the Year on March 26, near the end of his two-day ride-along with a sheriff's officer. He used a Leica film camera loaded with Kodak TRI-X black-and-white film."

This to see that film isn't dead, even when it comes to editorial work...
 
Well, film may not be dead but editorial photography apparently is...the title of the article is "World Press Photo, Pulitzer-Winning Photographer Struggles to Find Work"
 
Read the story and you'll see it's not just film that's almost dead, it's photojournalism. The guy is a master photographer and he can barely earn a living. I was a moment late at the send button, once again great minds think alike. ;-)
 
Suau says he was busy with assignment work last year and saw his archive sales go up in the fall as magazines turned to stock as a less-expensive alternative to assignments. Then business dried up.
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Its a catch 22. As revenue dries up, the magazines use stock and therefore produce less compelling material. Therefore they sell less. Therefore their revenue goes down further... All in all the current situation with newspapers & magazines is extremely bad for not on photographers, but for the general public. Internet news links almost entirely to traditionally produced news, which is heading downhill fast. What happens when they die?
 
There is still (although for how much longer I don't know) a market for photographers editorially. But...to be competitive in that market place you have to bring a whole package of skills to the table - still photography, video photography, writing, editing, web skills. A guy with a Leica and some Tri-X shooting nothing but stills may win awards, but he's pretty much history in the editorial game.
 
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