Deep in an undisclosed location below the streets of Paris, the Underbelly Project lives again. Since Brooklyn’s temporarily secret guerrilla art gallery saw 100 graffiti and street artists, the French edition’s crew has been downsized to ten (FUTURA, SABER, more) plus a small flock of photographers and organizers. Read more »
If you put your mind to it, you too could takes pictures like this. Photo journalist Brian Ach briefly goes through some of the highs and mostly lows of becoming a wire service photographer. As you might have expected, it’s not that glamorous of a job and usually entails lots of waiting around, strange hours, and not promptly getting paid. Writes Ach, “It typically takes at least 3-6 months after you start stringing to see any money at all from the agency. Being a newbie among veteran staffers and stringers means typically you will not be getting the A- list gigs. You might not even make the C-list, which means your pictures will not be in demand. That means even less money.” But the rigors of the job also include isolation and taunts from older hacks, after all you’re just a “stringer”:
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