10 Days
10 Topics

The conditions of the global picture market, which is organised according to capitalist principles, presents great challenges for journalistic photography. What this means in practice will be discussed by Felix Koltermann in a live video talk with photojournalism professor Lars Bauernschmitt, photographer Lena Mucha and Sabine Pallaske, chair of the Mittelstandsgemeinschaft Foto-Marketing (MFM) organisation. The conversation will examine whether, and under which economic parameters, photojournalistic work is still possible today, and to what extent the new framework conditions are changing visualisation strategies in journalism.

The Live Talk in German language.

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From a student assistant to managing director of a picture agency, from the chairman of the board of the Federal Association of Picture Suppliers (BVPA) to a professor of visual journalism: Lars Bauernschmitt has been working with journalistic photography for thirty years. In this time, he has experienced the boom years as well as the financial decline that came in the wake of structural change. In an interview with Jan Nasemann, Bauernschmitt describes the development of the German picture market over the past thirty years. Moreover, he relates from personal experience how digitisation has changed the picture market beyond recognition and how technical developments have changed people’s life stories.