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Want to be Inspired for a Year?

Chris Gampat
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05/11/2016
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Last Updated on 05/11/2016 by Chris Gampat

Hey folks, I’ve been talking about this over and over again on the site and also showcasing lots of cool new content that many of you have been loving, but I want to further explain why you should support our Kickstarter for La Noir Image: now proposed to be on both iOS and Android devices.

I promise, it’ll only take a couple of minutes.

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The web is going through a very interesting time now. Advertising isn’t really paying what many publications need and so they’re trying to find ways to make it very in your face at your expense. For the most part though, the Phoblographer tries not to do this (don’t get me started on the tablet edition of our site, I feel you on that.)

And this is why publications are asking readers to help out. Let’s think of it this way:

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  • You, as a photographer, want to be paid for your work.
  • On a similar train of thought, journalists want to be paid for their work.

Shouldn’t an EIC who works 80 hour weeks be paid accordingly?

Shouldn’t the designer that did a fantastic job with La Noir Image be paid accordingly?

What about the freelance journalists?

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And that’s the thing: I want to paid contributors fairly and I want to cover the company’s expenses for the first year. $35,000 isn’t a whole lot to ask for this. I’ll be putting ads into the magazine, but they won’t be annoying and they’ll be very separate from the content that you see. My intention is to not interrupt your experience.

On top of this, I’m going to be doing much more than a standard PDF. We’re building an app that updates once a month or more often if you choose that specific pricing tier on our Kickstarter.

The point: I want you to curl up with our magazine and at the end of it I want you to grab your camera, go out there and start shooting. It will include shooting challenges, interviews, some tech, photo essays, photographer features, and features/awesome stories on the black and white photography world. You can check out the site to see more of this type of content.

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I want to inspire you all; this isn’t going to be all about news and playing that game. It’s about genuine, organic inspiration. We’re going to spend hours and days each month going through emails, the internet, and working with other organizations to find ways to keep you inspired for what’s pretty much less than $1 a month.

This brings me to the bigger thing in the photography world. Why should you pay for content when there is so much free content out there already? Here are the reasons:

  • No one is really doing a stellar job of doing this with black and white photography
  • The content that La Noir Image puts out isn’t put out anywhere else. Go ahead, look around. See if any of it is featured in many other places.
  • To that end, it’s truly exclusive and ahead of the curve.
  • You’re getting loads of inspiration a month
  • You’re getting new tutorials per month
  • You’re being introduced to new talent each month
  • You’re finding a way to keep supporting, at least in some ways, the analogue world since black and white is still a big part of it.
  • You’ll get new ideas for projects to do for yourself by hearing from these photographers personally.

So who is this for? Every photographer that wants to be better at what they do. Let me convince you that black and white photography isn’t a crutch; and instead it’s its own thing.

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To get this done though, we need donations.

As probably the youngest publisher in the independent photography blog world, I’d like to ask you to help me continue doing what I’ve been doing: inspiring others and being honest with people about photography. I’m not going to sit here and play a smoke and mirrors game or find a way to sell out. I just want to do a damned good job that you’ll eventually see is very worth it.

At the moment of publishing this piece, we’re a bit above $5,000. We need $35,000 to get this done.

So again, please help us. Loads and loads of $10 donations can help; but so too will more donations at higher levels.

If you’ve got questions, fire them away in the comments.

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Chris Gampat

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.
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