May 26, 2021

Photography Blog

Photography once upon a time had depth and purpose exposing the hell people lived in all over this world. These photographers risked their lives to photograph history and to try and change the corruption of governments including ours that tentacles all over the world.   

There are still photographer working at news agencies that try and give the people the truth but now most people get their news from talking heads and web sites that promote violence under the mask of freedom for the people but the people they are referring to are not colored but white and their propaganda is a lethal weapon spurring violence and death around the world.

Everything in its place, nature and man intertwined in the beauty of existence. If you think you can create the perfect photograph think again. Perfection is an illusion of your ego.

The challenge today in photography is fighting conformity, the redundant image seen thousands of times over and over again, a cliche of our shallow existence as social media dulls the inspired brain and seeks conformity of thought.

Photography is undermined by the ease in which anyone can take a photo and upload it for free to the stock agencies.

What use to be a good living creating images now is just chump change as the stock agencies get more wealthy off the backs of the newbies of photography.

A photographers independence, his shooting style is not scene in the news media, the public eye but now seen only in a family album.

What we have in today’s manipulated society is an attempt to exploit subjects without connecting on a deeper level with the person or scene in front of you.

If you had a dream of becoming a professional photographer better think again.

The saturation of images being produced has reduced prices and the ability of photographers to succeed in this crazy world of stock photography.

With their scam of greedy motivation for power and money the corporations make sure that the image creators can’t make a living doing something they love for there is no viable way one can survive when images are sold for pennies.

Could you ever believe that the photo stock agencies would be reduced to a handful of monopolies undermining the photographers ability to make a decent wage for their efforts by reducing his income, lowering the split of sales now at 80% for the agencies and 20% for the photographers and surely that will also go down as more and more people seek a means to stimulate their egos not realizing they are being scammed by the agencies to do their work for them and allow them to keep all or most of the profits from your hard earned efforts.

It seems we are back once again in the days of criminal wealth that converted into a legitimate business but still seeks a pay scale that gives them the power and the image creator a wage below a sustainable income.

The impact of cell phone cameras and the ease of programing your camera to do the work for you creates a massive amount of images that undermine the artists ability to make a decent wage for his/her family.

Photography is moving toward a technological break through whereby the corporations won’t need us photographers much anymore because all images in future publications will be digitally created, looking as real as any other photograph now being created.

Now that would undermine any possibility of making a decent living in photography especially for studio photographers. Lets face it, our reality is breaking apart and we are being replaced with tech savvy people that can create people on a computer.

Technology is convenience, you don’t have to think but have someone else do the thinking for you.

It used to be a way of life for a photographer. A means to express oneself and being paid well for doing it.

Photography is more of a hobby now and your financial return on the images you create by uploading them to the goliaths of stock photography won’t buy you a home or feed your family. You will have to work at two maybe three jobs to make a living in this world! But it certainly won’t be in the artistic realm of image creations.

There is no way you can make a living by submitting your images to photo agencies now in this overloaded spectacle of the old run and gun approach to taking photos. There are billions of images taken daily and very few have a depth of character that creates a meaningful purpose allowing people to see and feel the underlining reality that is hidden from us by the criminal elites that spew nonsense and contorted truths to sidetrack people in believing life is good and all can make a name for themselves. Yes, on the unemployment line.

But if you are one of the few super stars of stock imagery, producing model released photos of the current fads in marketing then you could make a comfortable living. But you have to remember you can easily be replaced by photographers with a good visual sense that could make the same quality images on the cheap just to get exposure.

And don’t forget your time as a photographer is wearing down to a crawl and finally a stillness in the air as one still makes images not for the agencies but only for themselves.
 
Photography is an addiction where you have no choice but to make your individual life a series of unique images that express who you are.

What a wasteland of talent being pushed aside by corporations unwilling to pay these talented photographers what they are worth.

The take over of photography by corporations is a means of media control, if you look closely at what getty wants for their clients it is poser rock, happy faces and people eating, people sitting together, eating together, hugging, laughing living the good life and where is this good life they speak of I guess because of the corporate profits they make off the backs of photographers doing the dirty work as they vacation on the islands they own but they are moving away from islands and buying land that is safer than having to board a noah’s ark to escape the big floods.

This is a media scam, a conditioning of the population in believing that life is good and we are all happy and feeling good instead of the truth that this world is deteriorating into a man made free for all that pits the elites of criminal behavior and wealth over peoples rights to be free and not mind controlled by the manipulators of ads, making people believe they too can live the high life, bullshit there true purpose is to placate the people making them think that they are living the good life when they live in a massive climate change and vicious storms all created by the polluted air we breath by the corporate criminals, their profits destroying this planet.

I will always keep making images no matter how old I get and I will select my favorite images to give to my daughters and put them in a book so they can see my efforts of image creation before I pass on.