Take the pineapple by the spikey bits

If there is one thing photojournalists are good at it’s telling stories. They’re great story-tellers and often you will find a small group of them sitting around sharing tales tall and short about their exploits and adventures in far away and sometimes less than salubrious locations.

Among the stories I have heard photojournalists tell there is one traditional tale that tends to be repeated in chorus in every photographic department I have visited. It’s a tale of woe and despair about the state of photojournalism in Australia and it’s lack of representation in Australian media.

 
Photojournalists love this story and we all sit in agreement with one another that it is indeed easier to grow money on trees than sell photo essays for publication in the Australian press.

 
Not content to resign ourselves to this tragic tale, a small group of  nerdy and slightly overeducated photojournalists have banded together to fight back and take the proverbial bull by the horns by establishing an association that seeks to rewrite the tale of Australian photojournalism, one story at a time.

 
About ten weeks ago we began discussing our new project and today it stands in existance as The Pineapple Press Club, an organisation destined to squirt juice in the eye of the naysayers.

 
With our squinty eyes fixed on coordinating exhibitions, professional development opportunities, competitions and workshops, The Pineapple Press Club is set to become the pointy end of the pineapple when it comes to arguments as to the future of photojournalism in Oz.

 
Keep in touch with developments through our blog at www.pineapplepressclub.wordpress.com and leave a comment. We love a good argument story.