Indholdsfortegnelse for November - December 2017 i Capture

Welcome to The Annual 2017 – my favourite, and most challenging edition of the year. An opportunity to take a hard, long look back at the year that’s been in the advertising, editorial, and wedding and portrait industry, it’s also a platform to show off some of the strongest work shot over the last 12 months, submitted by photographers during our call for submissions. The one frustrating aspect of the November/December issue is that it is not bigger, and the process of having to select only a small subset from the impressive volume of images submitted is indeed a challenge. I really wish it was possible to show off more work. So, a very big thanks to all who made submissions. And to all those who made submissions after the…

Sometime around mid-July, a number of the world’s most noteworthy photographers, seemingly in chorus, took to social media in praise of a story in The New York Times – a story told in Australia by an Australian photographer. Photographers like Peter van Agtmael, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, and a plethora of others were celebrating Adam Ferguson’s personal pilgrimage and photo-documentation of a several thousand kilometre drive to the heart of his home country. Breaking a number of readership records for the Times, the series takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of those parts of our country so often at the extreme periphery of both the world and Australians alike. And for those who saw the resulting images, the series seemed to provide a breath of fresh air in an industry presently…

The size of the portrait and wedding industry is growing. Fast. As more and more clients come to appreciate the true value of good photography, the demand for services increases. But that does not mean that there is now an abundance of work to go around for everybody. Instead, in many instances, the complete opposite appears to be true as pressure to provide lower-cost services plagues a fair proportion of the market, with no shortage of choice for clients. Much of this is driven by the fact that the barriers to enter the market are now practically non-existent. And Los Angeles-based wedding photographer, Brian Callaway of Callaway Gable has noted that there are too many photographers and not enough jobs around. “All you have to do is buy a camera,…