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Photos Courtesy of Timothy Briner

Photos Courtesy of Timothy Briner

Photographer Tired of Working for "Exposure" Boycotts Family Photos

Today's so-called "sharing economy" can be brutal on professional photographers. Exposure for no pay, and Instagram's democratizing of photography for the masses has made your uncle's family backyard BBQ cliché comments like "but what do you do for a living?" more real than ever before. Photographer Timothy Briner, known for his series Boonville and Sandy, is getting fed up. Over the past decade he's occasionally shot jobs pro-bono, with an eye for invaluable exposure, but recently, this work-for free mindset, recently pushed him one click of the shutter too far...

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PostedApril 1, 2016
AuthorJon Feinstein
CategoriesArtists
TagsExposure, spec work, photographers' rights, legal advice for photographers
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