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A national newspaper has reacted to claims by a former boss at Magnum Photos that the printed media no longer commissions photographers to shoot genuine photo-reportage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neil Burgess, the director of UK agency NB Pictures, claims that news organisations no longer support visual photojournalism.<\/p>\n

Rather, he asserts, they assign photographers to provide ?illustration and decorative visual work?, while news wire services increasingly rely on ?citizen journalists? instead of professional photographers.<\/p>\n

He claims that photographers cover events arranged by ?someone else?, citing ?spin-doctors, PR agents, press secretaries, advertising and marketing executives?.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the lobbying group Editorial Photographers United Kingdom & Ireland, Burgess wrote<\/a>: ?There are some things which look like photojournalism, but scratch the surface and you?ll find they were produced with the aid of a grant, were commissioned by an NGO [Non-Governmental Organisation], or that they were a self-financed project, a book extract or a preview of an exhibition.?<\/p>\n

He added: ?We should stop talking about photojournalists altogether. Apart from a few old dinosaurs whose contracts are so long and retirement so close that it?s cheaper to keep them on, there is no journalism organisation funding photographers to act as reporters.<\/p>\n

?A few are kept on to help provide ?illustration? and decorative visual work, but there is simply no visual journalism or reportage being supported by so-called news organisations.?<\/p>\n

Burgess, a former head of Magnum Photos? offices in New York and London, continued: ?Magazines and newspapers are no longer putting any money into photojournalism. They will commission a portrait or two. They might send a photographer off with a writer to illustrate the writer?s story, but they no longer fund photojournalism.?<\/p>\n

In a blog for the Guardian website<\/a>, media commentator Roy Greenslade responded to Burgess?s claims.<\/p>\n

Greenslade wrote: ?Though it doesn?t negate Burgess?s argument, I ought to mention one superb example of photojournalism<\/a> featured on this site last week.<\/p>\n

?It illustrated the activities of US troops in Afghanistan, and was the work of The Guardian?s inimitable Sean Smith??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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