Just breaking my ‘blogger’s block’ to announces that one of my all time favourite photography sites, JPGmag is going down the drain. Apparently it seems, the economic downterm in the U.S has started to bite the world wide web hard. Today around 1:10 pm I received an email, a particularly grim one, from Laura Brunow Miner, the editor in chief of JPGmag. In the text that followed was the sad tale of a publishing company who tried to make a difference in the photography community by making this art form something that even commoners like myself can take a muck at and receive humble words at the end of the day. But with the whole economy in shambles, it was not long before they started realizing he inexplicable truth that they to let their venture go.
JPG is offering a chunk of their old archives for download. You can visit the archive here and relive some of the memories. There’s also an old, unofficial Flickr group for the JPGers that you can take an account of.
* Update: Official announcement and goodbys are on the blog
* Update 2: Hey, there might be hope for JPGmag after all. They're currently considering a few acquisition offers. If the deal seals off, we can hopefully see a few more issues of JPG.
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