Editorial Work in Boston
I shot a "fashion" set for the Boston Phoenix about a month ago. I was asked by a former model who now works for the Phoenix as some sort of coordinator to fill in at last minute since the photographer she had booked was MIA. It struck me out of character for the Phoenix to do this but I had the day off, was frankly bored out of my mind and even the sketchy details or the prospect of me not getting paid for this at all weren't going to stop me. I would have shot white socks on white seamless that day I was that bored.In general I'm fairly skeptical of the editorial work in Boston -- I didn't have good experiences working for the Weekly Dig or Performer Magazine but the Boston Phoenix has always had very good photographers. Mark Ostow and Kelly Davidson are two of my favorites.
So this had me thinking. There are some fine photojournalists in this town (Essdras Suarez , Dominic Chavez , Stanley J Foreman and many others I am forgetting right now). Boston has always been a two newspaper town and that's something the photojournalist are used to. For non-PJ photographers there seems to be a lot of outlets for work in Boston: The Boston Phoenix, The Weekly Dig, Stuff@Night, Improper Bostonian, Boston Magazine, Boston Common, Performer Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, etc. Unfortunately the majority of them are not photography-focused not even on the periphery. This situation will likely not improve with circulations and ad revenue plummeting across the board and Boston embracing it's branch office town future. But it is what it is.
posted by Ricardo De Lima @ Saturday, November 25, 2006,
