In this months issue of The Digital Journalist Mark Loundy writes about a very serious issue in our industry; the lack of decent paying gigs for photographers. The media companies are laughing at us. Our craft seems to have been reduced to a commodity. Unfortunately we’re only making their job easier.

Photographers who accept jobs for little or no pay, sign Work For Hire contracts and fail to abide by shrewd business practices are sleeping with the enemy. The belief that the slave wage paid to them now will expand into a career later is ludicrous.

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