Originally Posted by
MarkChap
I see a lot of people/posts, both here and on Ken's FB post saying that "APPA" doesn't reward the "photographer"
That may be true for SOME categories, but as I listed above there are multiple categories with in "APPA" that do not allow, or rather only allow for minimal, manipulation.
I think it is very wrong to generalise and to suggest that the whole thing is broken.
I do personally think that all categories should be more representative of the work that is actually presented to clients on a daily basis rather than a highly worked composite image, the like of which is never shown/presented to clients.
But in saying that, the entries in those categories are more representative of the real world final use of the original image, so why should that not also be rewarded.
And for the record,
yes, I am a very proud member of the AIPP, and yes I did enter APPA this year, and yes I did enter into one of the documentary categories.