Free Photos. How many here are guilty?

[don_narayan]

but publishing houses will come to expect free images all the time.

Also, if you have a great photo and it is never published, it is still a great photo. Since when is publication vindication of good work?

[guillaumejm]

Sorry if I don't understand what the problem is here. We may be guilty to give picture for free?. Did some body already give for free food to someone else : by doing this will you say you take the food out of the mouth of food store manager or worker.
This does'nt make sense to me.
Have always professional photograph sell them work?. Even when starting?. For me this sort of debate doen't make really sense. Sorry.
Regards
JMarc

[kikvel]

may have chances to still feed their babies even thought there might be some giving photos for free...

many millions of babies from the third world might not have the chance to survive, let us get worried about them!

My country is poor poor poor, and there are others even poorer than mine, that is something to be worried about,

K.

[don_narayan]

but rich with culture!

[guillaumejm]

OK Then,
from a quite simple question we are now talking of poor countries and attitude of rich country. Sharing the resources of our planet is a very important debat, but so far from giving one picture for free...and why not talking about wars over the world and about the country involved in most of them?. This is far from TE purpose I think.
Regards
JMarc

[don_narayan]

where does this come from? how does giving free images to publishers become political? How can someone make such a connection?

[kikvel]

without the willing to enter a bizantine discussion, I can not feel as guilty for giving for free a picture as intensely as I should feel doing nothing helping people who is starving at the other side of the world,

the difference is SIMPLY HUGE!

and in many ocasions, the free pictures are for magazines that do not have the funds to pay any photographer, so they are not missing those jobs anyway,

the magazines that do work with photographers will still pay for the babies food, so they will be well

K.

[guillaumejm]

It comes from some prevoious answer or when don't understand things the same way.
I guess, better to give up.
JM

[don_narayan]

There is a reason why I do not reply to threads that are only written in French; because my knowledge of the French language is elementary. Perhaps you should consider this when replying to threads in English.

[guillaumejm]

So it's fine guy!. You're right, better not to participate in these conditions. And here is an occasion to improve your french reading "don".
Moi aussi je préfère en rester là, car je n'ai pas l'impression que le discours soit particulièrement aimable et je préfère rester courtois.
JMarc