JPG Begins
Just a thought from 18 September 2004 about
JPG Magazine.
They're called "photobloggers" - a sloppy term for sloppy times. They're people who, armed with cameras ranging from cheap to expensive, film to digital, wander the streets documenting their world and posting the results to the web.
In another time they would have been called artists. Personal documentarians. But we have a simpler word for them: Photographers.
JPG Magazine is for photographers like us who fall somewhere in between the strict definitions of "amateur" and "professional." People who, enabled by new technology that makes imagemaking and self-publishing easier than ever, have fallen in love with photography and sought out others with the same passion.
Wha?
This section is called Just a Thought. It's a blog where I post little pieces of what I'm thinking about at the moment. This page is an individual entry called “JPG Begins” that I wrote on 18 September 2004.
Before this, I wrote a little something called “High Five” on 12 September 2004. After this, I wrote “Reinfected” on 21 September 2004.
BEFORE
High Five
Five things I would tell my teenage self if I could go back in time (with apologies to Merlin's 5ives):...
12 September 2004
AFTER
Reinfected
Freelancing is like a virus. Once it enters your bloodstream, it never really goes away. It just goes dormant now...
21 September 2004
Working the web since 1995, Derek Powazek is the creator of many award-winning websites, a couple of which still exist. Derek is the cofounder of JPG Magazine and the CCO of 8020 Publishing. Derek lives in San Francisco with his wife, two nutty Chihuahuas, a grumpy cat, and a house full of plants named Fred. More »
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