This was created for freelance photojournalists to be able to link to on their "About" profiles without having to use a page with a default icon and no description. Since freelance photojournalism is a time-consuming and serious career, it is the hope that this page will help reflect that. This page, started and run by freelance photojournalist Gina Begin (http://facebook.com/gina.begin) will have
tips and further reading to help hone your craft. Feel free to add to the discussion and support your community! Wikipedia describes our field of work as:
"A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are sometimes represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and labor contributed by its regular employees. Others are completely independent. "Independent contractor" would be the term used in a higher register of English." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer, 2013)
Combined with:
"Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (e.g., documentary photography, social documentary photography, street photography or celebrity photography) by complying with a rigid ethical framework which demands that the work is both honest and impartial whilst telling the story in strictly journalistic terms. Photojournalists create pictures that contribute to the news media. Timeliness — the images have meaning in the context of a recently published record of events. Objectivity — the situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of the events they depict in both content and tone. Narrative — the images combine with other news elements to make facts relatable to the viewer or reader on a cultural level. Like a writer, a photojournalist is a reporter but he or she must often make decisions instantly and carry photographic equipment, often while exposed to significant obstacles (e.g., physical danger, weather, crowds)." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photojournalism, 2013)