‘Top 5 Reasons I Quit My Job’ by Corey Pein, Editor in Chief of Demotix Photo Agency

Corey Pein, former Editor in Chief of Demotix has quit, and he’s not gone quietly. He’s written a post on his blog about the damage he feels Corbis are doing to Demotix since they bought out the company. Pein only has good words to say about his former colleagues at Demotix. It takes a lot of balls to call out a company like Corbis in this way. For that we should be grateful. Full post here.

News organizations will still pay for the bang-bang, they just don’t pay enough anymore to cover the true cost of obtaining hard-to-get pictures. As a predictable result the trend in war correspondence is toward young freelancers hoping to make their name (and anonymous local stringers). Many don’t realize quite how cheap their lives are to the industry or that, in today’s conflicts, a press card is a big red target as much as it is a badge of protection.

I also wanted to know who, going forward, would express condolences if and when a contributor is killed while taking pictures? Would anyone from Corbis call the family?

I never got a response.