Sports Illustrated Lays Off Staff Photographers: What We All Lose | The New Republic

Sports Illustrated Fired All of Its Photographers

Does it matter?

via The New Republic: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120839/sports-illustrated-lays-staff-photographers-what-we-all-lose

The magazine will still arrive in mailboxes each week, and its pages will still be stuffed with images; to most readers, the loss will be vague at best, symbolic at worst. Sports photographers nearly have always been less famous than their subjects