{"id":9619,"date":"2010-03-30T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/for-photographers-the-image-of-a-shrinking-path\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:14:11","slug":"for-photographers-the-image-of-a-shrinking-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/for-photographers-the-image-of-a-shrinking-path\/","title":{"rendered":"For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/30\/business\/media\/30photogs.html?hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1269947058-LrPRJJsVC5T9Mb03H0+ffQ'>For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote><p>Amateur [photographers], happy to accept small checks for snapshots of children and sunsets, have increasing opportunities to make money on photos but are underpricing professional photographers and leaving them with limited career options. Professionals are also being hurt because magazines and newspapers are cutting pages or shutting altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are very few professional photographers who, right now, are not hurting,\u201d said Holly Stuart Hughes, editor of the magazine <em>Photo District News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That has left professional photographers with a bit of an identity crisis. Nine years ago, when Livia Corona was fresh out of art school, she got assignments from magazines like <em>Travel and Leisure<\/em> and <em>Time<\/em>. Then, she said, \u201cthree forces coincided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They were the advertising downturn, the popularity and accessibility of digital photography, and changes in the stock-photo market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path Amateur [photographers], happy to accept small checks for snapshots of children and sunsets, have increasing opportunities to make money on photos but are underpricing professional photographers and leaving them with limited career options. Professionals are also being hurt because magazines and newspapers are cutting pages or shutting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/for-photographers-the-image-of-a-shrinking-path\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}