If photojournalism evokes war photography and reporting from conflict zones, it isn't limited to that. Documenting society and producing information on a wide range of subjects for the regional press or for companies allows many photographers today to make a living from their craft and to fund more personal projects — provided they manage to reach commissioning editors and build their stories.

Training, producing and distributing your work

Under the title: Being a photojournalist today: Training, producing and distributing your work, author Fabiène Gay Jacob Vial takes stock of current practices in the profession: where and how to train, how to identify and reach distributors, how to finance and pitch a project… The many interviews also help to better understand the issues faced by those in the field — whether photojournalists, trainers or distributors — and to find paths forward in the discipline.

A new book by Fabiène Gay Jacob Vial, who after or offers us a fresh overview of a profession that fires the imagination yet remains tough.

War, conflicts, current events, major social and humanitarian causes, the environment, climate, politics, protests, news, sport, culture, and so on — all are subjects for photojournalism. What's yours?

"Being a photojournalist today" in practice

€20 in paperback, €13.99 in ebook — 7 January 2016