I subscribed to JPG magazine for a year. It always was relegated to the magazine rack next to the toilet and always migrated to the bottom of the stack. The photos just couldn’t hold my interest and the whole concept seemed based on a popularity contest. I found it very boring. Remember the flickr posts asking to vote for photos?
Laura Brunow Miner, the former editor of JPG now has a web magazine called “Pictory”. A topic is provided each week. Readers submit photos along with a descriptive caption. Most of the captions are in the form of a short essay explaining why the photo is important to the photographer. The caption adds another dimension to the photo and I find that the tight edit and quality of the photos holds my interest much better than JPG every did. This makes Pictory a site that I’ll be going back to.
If you’re interested in participating check it out.
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