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At Icon Publications Ltd we have relaunched the Minolta Image magazine which we have produced (originally not under our company name) since 1981 – it is now KONICA MINOLTA PHOTOWORLD, reverting to its original 1970s name plus the new company. This was relaunched with a Spring/Summer edition in May.
In late June, we publish the first ‘f2’ magazine – the subhead for the title is ‘Freelance+Digital’ which replaces our magazine of the last five years, Freelance Photographer, bringing in the content of the recent ‘Master Digital Photographer’ magazine. The association we produced this for felt it had become too commercial, and was being aimed too much at non-member subscribers. ‘f2’ will manage something we first tried to do in 1996 – alienating far too many readers who were not ready – and cover the world of digital and conventional photography for print, exhibition, direct sale, stock agency, competitions and other typical solo, am/pro shared interests.
Icon have been an Adobe customer since before Adobe existed – we won the 1987 DTP Awards in Britain, were a beta site for PageMaker and produced the first ever commercial magazine to be created using PM and an imagesetter. Photoshop has been a staple production tool since v.1 (before that we had ImageStudio and ColorStudio).
Both magazines are a market (not incredibly well-paid, but paid nevertheless) for technical articles; a possible showcase for portfolio work (generally not paid for f2, paid for Photoworld); and will have websites shortly with forum facilities.
Please note that we don’t cover graphics, only photo-graphics, so images which deviate a long way from camerawork are not relevant.
The mags are not available through newsagents, and we maintain the position we have since the mid-1990s of near zero print wastage (compared to 30 per cent of all UK printed magazine consigned to landfill currently, due to the sale or return news sale system). They remain subscription only and the circulations are relatively small. We are the only specialist photo magazine publisher in Scotland.
The website for them at the moment remains:
http://www.freelancephotographer.co.uk/
This has brief details, a Paypal subscription system with UK, Europe and World options, and an archive of downloadable pdf files of articles from the predecessor titles.
David Kilpatrick FBIPP AMPA
Publisher
Kelso, Scotland
In late June, we publish the first ‘f2’ magazine – the subhead for the title is ‘Freelance+Digital’ which replaces our magazine of the last five years, Freelance Photographer, bringing in the content of the recent ‘Master Digital Photographer’ magazine. The association we produced this for felt it had become too commercial, and was being aimed too much at non-member subscribers. ‘f2’ will manage something we first tried to do in 1996 – alienating far too many readers who were not ready – and cover the world of digital and conventional photography for print, exhibition, direct sale, stock agency, competitions and other typical solo, am/pro shared interests.
Icon have been an Adobe customer since before Adobe existed – we won the 1987 DTP Awards in Britain, were a beta site for PageMaker and produced the first ever commercial magazine to be created using PM and an imagesetter. Photoshop has been a staple production tool since v.1 (before that we had ImageStudio and ColorStudio).
Both magazines are a market (not incredibly well-paid, but paid nevertheless) for technical articles; a possible showcase for portfolio work (generally not paid for f2, paid for Photoworld); and will have websites shortly with forum facilities.
Please note that we don’t cover graphics, only photo-graphics, so images which deviate a long way from camerawork are not relevant.
The mags are not available through newsagents, and we maintain the position we have since the mid-1990s of near zero print wastage (compared to 30 per cent of all UK printed magazine consigned to landfill currently, due to the sale or return news sale system). They remain subscription only and the circulations are relatively small. We are the only specialist photo magazine publisher in Scotland.
The website for them at the moment remains:
http://www.freelancephotographer.co.uk/
This has brief details, a Paypal subscription system with UK, Europe and World options, and an archive of downloadable pdf files of articles from the predecessor titles.
David Kilpatrick FBIPP AMPA
Publisher
Kelso, Scotland
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