Crowd Funding for Photography Gets Off to Shaky Start

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Crowd Funding for Photography Gets Off to Shaky Start

A month after the launch of the new crowd funding platform for photojournalism, Emphas.is, one of its users reports from the road. Belgian photographer and Emphas.is fundraiser Tomas van Houtryve tells us about the good, the bad and the future of this wor

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/03/crowd-funding-for-photography-gets-off-to-shaky-start/

“Emphas.is isn’t a magic bullet that will solve every problem plaguing visual journalism, but I think it is turning out to be a good model for long-term documentary projects,” says van Houtryve. “I have a crowd of very supportive people behind me, and it is clear that they have a stake in the project’s success. It’s very inspiring.”