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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...
The app, called Tackable, enables people to share photographs tagged with their location and gives editors a way to solicit photos in connection with news events and assignments.
Emphas.is claims to have reached an agreement with Reporters Without Borders and Escapade Insurances in Canada to offer insurance plans to participating photojournalists.
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...
Currently Emphas.is has around 10 to 12 projects in the pipeline and three are ready for launch and includes Peter Dench's renowned collection UK Uncensored. Dench is one of the UK's...
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...
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...
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.
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.
Leo Technosoft created this unique social communication platform to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding sector of photojournalism. With the launch of the portal, photo journalists across the...
A video on the lecture by Tina Ahrens, director of the photography crowdfunding website emphas.is (http://www.emphas.is/), looks at how photographers can best brand themselves and monetize direct...
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...
We have been working with creating books and exhibitions based on citizen photo journalism in different regions, letting young photographers tell stories about their everyday lives. Our aim has...
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:...
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...
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Whether or not Instagram, Hipstamatic and other apps of their ilk continue to be as popular in the years to come remains to be seen. One thing is for certain though: there will be countless numbers...
As for the problem of many photographers losing their jobs to "citizen journalists" as in the CNN case, Sean D. Elliot, president of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA)...
Ross Dawson shares some of the crucial ideas that have come out of interactive discussions on crowdsourcing from recent conferences in Europe.
The photographer has spent two years crossing paths with "Franck, an Aboriginal healer, Mike, an Australian-Maori boxer, Sarah, a 24 years old pilot, Henry, an 11 years old boy driving a...
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