I went to Hastings the other night, perusing the magazine section and decided to see what they had in the photography department. I looked, and photography dominated an entire shelf, all to itself. However, all the magazines were technical, professional magazines. Lame. I don't want to hear about Cannon's newest camera model with 1/10,000th of a second shutter speed, or the new product line of studio lights from Look-At-Me-Flashy-TOOEXPENSIVE-Studio-Lights Company. I want to see photography, damnit. All of these magazines lost me just by looking at their covers. They had too many freaking WORDS on them!!! I WANT TO SEE PHOTOGRAPHY. When I grow up (even though my current plan for college and life afterwards does not cater to this new plan), I want to make a magazine that has just photography. No words on the cover other than the title and one headliner. The rest of the magazine will have one page of advertisements, a couple pages of articles for inspiration, and another page asking for ANY AND ALL photographs from the public, and explaining how to submit online, and the rest are straight pictures. Good Lord, the magazine will be dominated by a MAJORITY of photography. From anybody. Professionals, teenagers, enthusiasts, anybody. I want to put pictures in there that are provoking, appealing to a vast amount of people, and that show the workings of everyday life. Absolutely NO stuck-up-professional-photographer crap.
*sigh* I had to vent. Because photo magazines really do suck.