This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
In recent years, photographers — and particularly photojournalists — have had to compete more and more aggressively with the everyday Joe and his smartphone who happens to be at the right place at the right time. And with technologies like CrowdOptic in the works that will help sift through the plethora of photographs taken every second, news agencies may soon be able to find that Joe in record time.
But according to an article by Jenna Wortham of The New York Times, one branch of photography is already taking a significant hit: the paparazzi are being replaced by Instagrammers. Using a recent photo of Beyoncé and her daughter as an example, Wortham shows how the paparazzi are already losing their battler with those same amateurs.
The photo in question was taken by Instagram user Raquel Sabz in Brooklyn. And after it made the necessary social networking rounds, it was purchased from Sabz by Splash News and sold to several outlets including People, PopSugar, New York Daily News and The Huffington Post.
This particular photo, however, is just one of many that are acquired the same way every day. As Senior Editor at PopSugar Molly Goodson put it:The average person has eyes …
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