Small towns across Galicia are left deserted as their inhabitants make their way to the cities where jobs are more plentiful.
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From the monthly archives:
April 2010
Every Thursday you will find women with white scarves tied around their heads marching around the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. The white scarves symbolize baby blankets, in memory of the lost children of the Dirty War. During this war, people mysteriously “disappeared,” and were often tortured and then killed. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo met in an effort to find their missing sons and daughters. The mothers have since turned into grandmothers, and while the motives have changed over the years, you can be certain to see women marching on Thursday.
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It has always been a desire of mine to start an online publication. As far back as middle school, I met with some other leotard wearing, grade schoolers and we planned the possibility of starting a zine (the first inclinations of a nerdy future). Zines are small scale print publications usually with an eccentric and unique edge, reflected directly from its contributors and editors. Blogs are similar to zines because most are self-published, personal, and done on a small scale with limited readership (I’m not talking about the Huffington Posts of the web).
Online media has grown dramatically the past couple of years and I have toyed around with starting an online project for some time now. The past couple of weeks I finally put together my project, Fotografia Magazine, an online magazine/ zine/ project that features the work of photographers, giving them a chance to promote themselves and their photography.
Seeing as Gringa Española is focused on travel, photography, and new media, I figured some readers with similar interests would be interested in submitting some of their compelling, travel photography. It is a great way to promote your website and your work. On Fotografia there is always a link back to the photographer’s portfolio or website, driving traffic back to you. Fotografia is a new site, but I hope it will grow quickly!
Anyone who would like to submit their photography are more than welcome to do so. In your submission you must include the following:
- Title of work
- Place of capture (if applicable)
- Link to your website or online portfolio
- Year picture was taken
One of the reasons I wanted to start an online magazine is because of the opportunity you get to discover new artists and photographers. One of these photographers is Stephanie Mackenzie whose work you can see at Deka Photography.
Image via: Deka Photography
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Have you canceled your magazine subscriptions? Are magazines starting to send you their glossy pages for free? I smell anxiety, but this is no surprise to many people in the publishing world. I seem to rattle on about the subject quite a bit, but as a writer I can’t help but obsess about every article that comes out on the subject.
Yesterday The New York Times featured an article on its front page about The Rising Stars of Gossip Blogs. When people hear gossip writing, many raise their noses in the air, like they once did, or still do, about blogging. But these same haughty nosed people may beg, steal, or borrow to have the type of success some of these gossip bloggers have had. The article’s author Alex Williams comments on the tipping point when bloggers went from people airing their dirty laundry on the web, to people pursuing a real writing career.
The lines between “reporter” and “blogger,” “gossip” and “news” have blurred almost beyond distinction. No longer is blogging something that marginalized editorial wannabes do from home, in a bathrobe, because they haven’t found a “real” job. Blogging now is a career path in its own right, offering visibility, influence and an actual paycheck.
The elusive paycheck, however isn’t what drives many a blogger, especially in this new and shiny blogland where a lot of online magazines and blogs don’t have the money to pay writers for their work. On the other hand, the online landscape is opening up lots of other doors for people to be innovative and create opportunities for themselves. Like a lot of other careers it takes a mix of talent and luck, with the scales tipping to one side more than the other depending on the person.
Although the article focuses on gossip blogs, the same can be said about all types of blogs. Bloggers and blogging sites have changed publishing in ways that makes even The New York Times suffer. Remember when The Times decided that it will start to charge it’s readers? Now they feature on their online frontpage, an article about the very people who have severely cramped traditional media’s style. Isn’t it ironic, in the Alanis Morissette sense of the word, that many of these nontraditional writers/bloggers rise to success without so much as stepping in a newsroom?
Image via: cuttlefish
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