Crowdfunding platform Emphas.is goes insolvent amid internal conflicts

Link: Crowdfunding platform Emphas.is goes insolvent amid internal conflicts – British Journal of Photography

A bold experiment to bring new capital in photojournalism has ended in failure and legal imbroglio when Emphas.is, a crowdfunding platform launched in 2011, went insolvent this summer after having accumulated more than €300,000 in debts. Olivier Laurent finds out what went wrong