JPG Magazine
I can’t spend too long on this because I have a study schedule to stick to, but if you’ve been living under a rock… or if you just don’t spend your life on Flickr (same diff, no?!), then there was a huge upset in the photographic world yesterday. JPG Magazine, which is a print magazine comprised of themed submissions from “regular” photographers, was created by Heather Champ and Derek Powazek. Used to be (2 days ago) that when you went to JPG Magazine’s “About” page, you got this. That link tells of how Heather and Derek (a married couple) founded the magazine. Well now the site contains no mention of either of them and no longer contains the contents of the first 6 issues on the site. Flickr people are pissed, and we’re all deleting our JPG Magazine accounts.
Like I said, I don’t have time to write it all out, but here are some more detailed descriptions of what has happened:
And then there’s this whole thing.
Good grief!
Comment by Tom
May 16, 2007 @ 5:58 pm
Good links about the JPG situation. But, keep in mind that Thomas Hawk works for Zooomr, which is a direct Flickr competitor (or rip-off, depending on your point of view).
I’m not defending the actions of Flickr in this case, but I think we should keep a little perspective on the whole thing.