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22 June 2013, Manhattan, New York. The railroad of the forthcoming book ‘Le Paradis a photographer’ in the studio of Jean-Pierre Laffont.
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“How much is a photo showing the demolition of the Berlin Wall? “Asked the beginning of Jean-François Leroy. “Just € 0.88. “
Converted into dollars that’s about $ 1.20. The result of this question is to ask whether historical photos cost less than a cup of coffee.
Leroy and concludes: “If 25 years of archives do not report more than 200 € per month, a photographer, the profession has a bleak future. ”
Jean-François Leroy is the CEO’s oldest annual festival of photojournalism in the world: Visa pour l’Image . It will take place in early September 2014 in Perpignan. He wrote earlier this year for an editorial defending the rights and earnings of photographers.
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It is true that in the world today, it is difficult to find a method to make and keep records – Why? Because there is simply no more time. It takes both ends meet and find stories that are worth to photograph and get involved.
Leroy asks: “If we fail to produce photographic evidence today, what are the archives of the future? ”
Jean-François Leroy is a longtime friend Eliane and Jean-Pierre Laffont. And it will be during the festival Visa pour l’Image that will be presented their book a photographer’s paradise, Tumultuous America 1960 – 1990 , published by Glitterati. Inc . will be screened as a video book during one of the evenings of the festival in front of thousands of fans, professional photographers and photojournalists.
This book Heaven a photographer , Glitterati. Inc., was made through the photographic archives of Jean-Pierre Laffont. Without archives would have been impossible to gather all the photos showing the last three decades American twenty-first century. [/ One_half_last]