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The Phoblographer Turns Five Years Old Today, Here’s What’s Coming in Our Future

Chris Gampat
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12/31/2014
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Last Updated on 12/31/2014 by Chris Gampat

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It was five years ago today that I sat in my pajamas in the room that I spent most of my life growing up in getting the Phoblographer its start, and it was around three years ago that I also left my day job to run the site full time. With nothing but frustration for the economic situation and hiring freezes at the time, I resolved many years ago to create something that would take care of me and also take care of others. And today, the Phoblographer is one of the most popular photo blogs on the web.

Founding and running this site has been a crazy and hectic ride that I don’t regret and never have despite some dark times that we’ve been through as a company. But someone once told me that you can’t find a way out of the dark, you can only learn to fight in it. Those words helped me to persevere and ensure that the team here is always moving along smoothly.

A giant thank you needs to be given to Managing Editor Julius Motal, who has been a big influence on how the site has been shaped, its improvement, and how it functions. And today is News Writer Kevin Lee’s last day with us as he embarks on a new gig that I wrote a heck of a recommendation for. You should also know that we’re hiring.

More than anyone else though, we want to thank you: the readers. Your traffic everyday helps us to keep the site alive, our writers paid, our server bills paid, and our progression going.

But with all of this said, I’d like to draw your attention towards the future of the Phoblographer LLC.

The site is going through some major changes. We’ve worked on a redesign that was scrapped and that will be slowly implemented over the next couple of months to test the waters. But as far as content goes, we’re working on publishing a single magazine style/quality article each week in addition to the daily coverage and content that we deliver. It’s part of how we’re trying to improve the site and it’s already started. Trust us when we say that you’ll know the articles when you see them. Additionally, we’ve worked on improving spelling errors and other grammatical issues.

But that’s not all.

Within the next two months, we’re going to be introducing a weekly podcast (both video and audio) doing interviews with some of the web’s most influential photographers as well as two videos a month for either reviews or tutorials. Trust us when we say that it’s going to be awesome.

We’re also working on the creation of a second website: something a bit different than what the web has seen. But know that it will be your single hub for everything cool and trending in the photo world. We’ve brought on some incredible talent to run it and you’ll want to be amongst the first to know about it.

In no way, shape or form am I expecting 2015 to be an easy year. But it will be one that the Phoblographer will continue to evolve with.

Again, I want to thank you for letting us into your lives every day.

Sincerely,

Chris Gampat

Editor in Chief

Founder, The Phoblographer LLC

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.