Journalist Works For Free, Produces Great Work, Asks To Be Paid… - A Photo Editor

Must be that time of the year/decade, because I can smell the schadenfreude in the air. Mayhill Fowler is a Huffington Post blogger who claims to have written the “one big story out of the last presidential election to live on.” She understands that the b

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I walked into a bar with my camera.  I had my iPhone.  Not a Holga.  That would have been the trifecta.  To save face, I did walk in there with a sizable posse of other photojournalists, visual artists, and editors during this past weekend’s Geekfest in St. Petersburg.  For those that don’t know, Geekfest is a weekend of photo juiciness and inspiration put on by aphototday.org founder, Melissa Lyttle (above).