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I don’t know if this is an appropriate place to talk about this, since the people involved are part of this community, but whatever. I want to rant a bit, and I might as well do it here.
The thing that really gets to me is the way in which I was fired. Not that it was a job with compensation or anything, its just that if I am asked to be a photographer it implies a certain type of professional relationship, and regardless of how that relationship was operating in terms of arguments and so forth, I think that there is a certain responsibility on the part of either person not to sack and replace the other one without any sort of consultation or discussion. To then say that he wasn’t even going to tell me about it for a few days so he could calm down, yet making the (I assume) mistake of sending out to the list serve a call-out to a new photo shoot for me to find when I get home shows a total lack of professional respect or curtsey
Now, there had been a lot of discussion before this, a lot of it around creative control and input, and admittedly I don’t think either of us properly explained our positions to the other, but given that there was a great deal of discussion and by-play around the topic and style, it seemed to me that once we had settled on an image idea and theme, it would go over, naturally, to the photographer. Clearly this was a miscommunication. I don’t care about the personal aspects of this. It is a slap in the face to my abilities as a photographer to be asked to do a shoot, and then told, AFTER getting sacked, that oops!, what he really meant was photo-tech, someone to just shoot exactly what he wanted with nothing more than my technical input.
But the way in which I was sacked is just nothing more than an expression of disregard for my abilities. Maybe I am three-a-penny when it comes to my photography, but I would think that since I was approached initially to do the cover, my skills and eye must be worth something.
The thing that really gets to me is the way in which I was fired. Not that it was a job with compensation or anything, its just that if I am asked to be a photographer it implies a certain type of professional relationship, and regardless of how that relationship was operating in terms of arguments and so forth, I think that there is a certain responsibility on the part of either person not to sack and replace the other one without any sort of consultation or discussion. To then say that he wasn’t even going to tell me about it for a few days so he could calm down, yet making the (I assume) mistake of sending out to the list serve a call-out to a new photo shoot for me to find when I get home shows a total lack of professional respect or curtsey
Now, there had been a lot of discussion before this, a lot of it around creative control and input, and admittedly I don’t think either of us properly explained our positions to the other, but given that there was a great deal of discussion and by-play around the topic and style, it seemed to me that once we had settled on an image idea and theme, it would go over, naturally, to the photographer. Clearly this was a miscommunication. I don’t care about the personal aspects of this. It is a slap in the face to my abilities as a photographer to be asked to do a shoot, and then told, AFTER getting sacked, that oops!, what he really meant was photo-tech, someone to just shoot exactly what he wanted with nothing more than my technical input.
But the way in which I was sacked is just nothing more than an expression of disregard for my abilities. Maybe I am three-a-penny when it comes to my photography, but I would think that since I was approached initially to do the cover, my skills and eye must be worth something.