Money in Photography

These sentiments are common, but I’ve never seen them stated with so much bite and humour.

“As the mass money dries up, there is a trend to aspire to be closer to the Versailles salon of the Sun King. From riding on the back of a Pentagon war machine subsidy, picking up grants from uber-hedge fund mega-predators or corporate lobby foundation fronts, becoming the in-house photographer for ’1 Percent Monthly’ magazine, to simply engaging in a seemingly endless ponzi scheme-esque money-go-round: I grant you, you bursary him, he awards her, she judging panels him, he workshops them…and round we go again. Until it ends up on the wall of a disused church, viewed by a hermetically sealed bubble of like-minded peers, in a southern French city where the unemployment rate is 30 percent.”

From: Death or Birth (just a comment I read on Facebook)

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