A concerned photographer writing to an agency
I sent some weeks ago a letter to one of the agencies I am collaborating with. I think is good to share it here. Although I face uncomfortable issues to reveal publicly, especially in these dark times.
Good afternoon *******. As I have anticipated, I want to share with you my thought.
I have a problem: today's journalism responds to a single narrative, convenient to the globalist system. And I don't want to do that. I don't want to be a part of this system that I'm playing against. Dealing with issues such as the new normal and global heat are on the side of the big lie and manipulation to observe an agenda. I'm not this kind of photographer, I'm not this kind of person.
In your newsletter you are always asking for these issues because clients ask for that and I am honestly not compliant. This is not the place to discuss global warming. But if you have critical thinking on this topic (which is supported by various scientists who are good, not bought by the system) you are labelled as a fool. However, I feel that exactly all of these themes are preparatory to the establishment of an increasingly dark and heavy future. I hope that with a few lines and without getting into topics where everyone has their own beliefs, you understand why this is my fallacy according to the dominant narrative.
On the other hand, every day I am doing a job more focused on the street. The only reality that really exists is not the one they know until the one they live, in the first person. Through my observation I can see how I am getting into many of the many things about society, the human being and what you are going through. However, I feel that I am more and more interested in art. So I'm left with a bit of journalism that now identifies it as a globalist narrative that must be respected with its dynamics. I am documenting every day, and of course there is material for your agency, but there is also a doubt.
I am a photographer that when a client offers me a job at a low cost from 3,000 to 15,000 dollars (from the most private point of view) and I also have clients who are art collectors and I work for them on private editions of books and prints. . I have a market and then there are the agencies: you with your agency, then Polaris Images, no sales and I started working with them exactly when I started with you. There is Getty Images: I'm a contributor for them. I submitted few photos and no sales.
I am aware and grateful of how positive support was given to the family when you sent them money. But other than that, I'm not very motivated to propose photos that don't sell. Why are they not sold? Why journalism no longer pays? Why do you have to submit 1 million photos to see results? But this fact conflicts with my goals.
Honestly, I would like an agency that offers me commissions, working directly with me, that there is a true proactive collaboration to generate results. Am I asking too much or...am I not so wrong?
To clarify, again: I am perfectly in the way of things with the agencies, with the prices in the arm for photojournalism, now they are going to be worse all the time, entering the horror of AI. All of this is going to be good for the globalist system, for which it believes that a cocaine addicted is a hero, when...your agency is in Switzerland but if you allow me... Latin America is fucked up by the US. And they, through NATO, reached the border with Russia, naturally causing a reaction. Are we going to tell all this or not, is it convenient for an agency? Do customers and sales mark freedom of expression? Critical thinking, which is usually one of the first things a journalist arms himself with, the arm to investigate and show the reality that is not what the big media propose. Where does this come from? In a prison together with Julian Assange?
I don't blame you: it's a whole system like that. I just ask to myself. As a CONCERNED PHOTOGRAPHER to use a happy expression created by Mario Dondero, I question myself a lot. What am I doing? What are we doing?
I would like to receive an answer from you. I'd like to to be useful to your agency in some way , but I wanted to know if this is just about submitting photos that will never sell.
To conclude I share a link to my page:
The first photo: they are police officers, female police officers. They operate during women's demonstrations. They are also women, but if they become victims of women other than the ladies taking the march, paid by George Soros and in the Open Society, they have to clean up all the written pairs. This is also a journalism only that it is a journalism that is not published, that is not bought, that is not sold. Maybe because...
Thank you for your time.
A hug.
Notes
The agency didn’t reply to me directly. They made it through the newsletter.
