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Founded by photo editor Tina Ahrens and photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa, Emphas.is is a new and innovative platform for photojournalism. It gives photojournalists and their audience a greater...
According to Emphas.is COO, "crowd funding a project allows the photographer complete creative freedom and control over his project, which most don’t have when working for media...
Emphas.is lets photojournalists ‘pitch’ projects, budget estimate included, after which a committee consisting of photography and journalism experts reviews the proposal. If approved, individuals...
Emphas.is runs kind of like a cross between Kickstarter and Spot.us, where a publisher can get exclusive first rights to a story by kicking in enough cash. Plenty of projects have been funded...
Quite a few of the projects listed on Emphas.is have already been fully funded, but The Next Web wanted to highlight a few of the unique projects that have been shared on the site, and are still...
Emphas.is is good because: 1. It is a platform that looks to the crowd to fund photographers’ work in dangerous places around the world. 2. It is not a distribution tool meant to reach media...
Emphas.is claims to have reached an agreement with Reporters Without Borders and Escapade Insurances in Canada to offer insurance plans to participating photojournalists.
Citizen X is a crowdfunding project on Emphas.is which takes the viewer to Sao Paulo, by way of Brazilian photographer Julio Bittencourt’s lens. Julio Bittencourt has been documenting housing...
If the advantage of receiving smaller grants first is to show dedication and interest, a funded Emphas.is project might do that even more than a grant. As Emphas.is photographers such as Tomas...
what makes a person decide to support a specific project? To help answer this, several backers of Tomas van Houtryve’s project graciously agreed to answer a few questions. They were asked:...
Emphas.is has been running for eight months now and we have been approached to take part in the research for a thesis on crowdfunding for photojournalism at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. They...
Emphas.is Publishing brings the concept of crowdfunding to photobook publishing - but with a twist, said Tjantelé. Funders will be able to purchase a limited-edition copy of the book at $100 to...
In this sixth installment of Crowdsourcing.org's From the Crowd podcast, senior editor Eric Blattberg speaks with Emphas.is cofounder Fanuel Dewever about the intersection of crowdfunding and visual journalism. Topics covered include the Emphas.is community, the site's recent problems with PayPal, and the economics of photojournalism, among others.
Emphas.is is looking at a collaborative project by photographers Agnes Dherbeys, Ying Ang, Sarah Elliott and Benedict Kurzen, who plan to document "the large-scale persecution, damage and...
Emphas.is, an online platform where photojournalists can submit projects for crowdfunding by the public and Kickstarter, the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world, these...
Hosted by OPEN-i, this webinar features KosteKarim Ben Khelifa, CEO of Emphas.is and Tomas Van Houtryve, VII Network photographer. They discuss about Emphas.is and how they see it helping fund...
Van Houtryve is currently using Emphas.is again in hopes of raising enough money to turn his recent work on North Korea into a book and exhibition. With 10 days left before the fundraising...
French photographer Pierre Terdjman has chosen Emphas.is to help fund the continuation of his work on "the other Israel." According to Terdjman, he chose Emphas.is because despite...
Internet spawned ventures like Flickr and iStockphoto providing stock photography at a fraction of the price of professional stock photography changed the paradigm as photo stock became available and affordable to the masses. So fundamental was the change that rather than be cannibalized, Getty Images, “the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content”, cannibalized the cannibal, acquiring iStockphoto in February 2006.
Experts in a number of sectors that are experiencing financial crisis are not waiting to see the general public forget them. As such, many are taking action to get involved with crowdfunding...
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