As a photographer who left, came back, restarted and considers himself a lucky human being, I would never suggest to anyone to study modern journalism. Study the past and create your own personal vision and tell the world if you can about it.

I am alive and working because I am priviliged enough to know I don’t need an editor, a curator or a publication to take pictures and express what intrigues and disturbs me.

On a more serious note, photographers, my self included are not the most united in a common enterprise to protect our goals and interests. We are so too often dogs with or without a leash searching for a bone to either avoid hunger or feed the impending fly on the wall.

Someday I hope to relieve myself of this hunger and realize I am have always been alive and have so many options to publish today and no matter how they are or where they are, there will always be a judging crowd. Some more powerful than others in raising awareness of the human condition and others in raising carreers, not necessarily journalists.

Hi Bree, what was your number again?