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How You Can Help The Phoblographer

Chris Gampat
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Last updated on 02/27/2013
02/27/2013
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Last Updated on 02/27/2013 by Chris Gampat

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Fujifilm 14mm f2.8 review photos (4 of 8)ISO 64001-13 sec at f - 5.6

Dearest Readers,

In the past couple of months we’ve made lots of changes to ensure that you stay up to date with the latest news in the photo industry, are in the know about the hottest products, and stay inspired by absorbing the work of other creatives. And as a result, we’ve seen our traffic soar to some jaw-dropping numbers at nearly 1.5 Million uniques a month.

Thank you, we wouldn’t be what we are today without you.

Yet at the same time, we are currently experiencing growing pains. The Phoblographer runs on Cloud Servers–which ensure that we absolutely never have down time due to traffic surges and that browsing through our site is a seamless experience. But it’s expensive, and this month we’ve incurred our largest server bill to date.

Now we don’t usually do this, but we ask that if you can at all to please use the, “Donate to The Phoblographer” button on the sidebar of the website to help with these charges. Anything at all helps to ensure that we can keep churning out content to you: the reason why we’re here.

Thank you so much for reading and welcoming us into your hearts.

 

Sincerely,

Chris Gampat

Editor in Chief

PS: I received a concerned email from a reader. For clarification, we’re not going anywhere and we’re not going to die. We’re just experiencing growing pains and would like some support.

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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.
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