Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/22
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Tina made a good point; but Eric may be going a bit too far---that is,
for an NGO to say it "can't afford to pay for the photography" may not
at all be "denigrating what we do as less than worthy of compensation"
but only stating an economic fact of life for that NGO (just as for me
to say I'd like to own, but cannot afford to pay for, a Noctilux would
not be denigrating Leica but only stating an economic fact of life for
me). And if, as Eric suggested, the NGO also "can't afford not to pay
for it," then one can sympathize with the NGO facing that dilemma, no?
Art Peterson
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:36:59 -0500
Author: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at Internet
Date: 2/22/99 12:01 AM
At 10:58 PM 2/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
> If everyone else volunteers their time and energy, I'm
>happy to pitch in and help. If the staff is receiving a salary, then the
>photographer should, too.
Tina,
Good for you. This attitude is the only hope for people being able to make
a living with photography in the future. In essence, when they say "we
can't afford to pay for the photography," they are denigrating what we do
as less than worthy of compensation. That devalues our work and
photographers who agree to that only hurt our profession. So stick to your
guns and keep telling them if their work is worth the money so is yours,
and they can't afford not to pay for it.
Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
"People are inexterminable - like flies & bed-bugs. There will always be
some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us." -
Robert Frost