Part A- 'Liberation' The importance of Photography in newsprint

"In their place: a series of empty frames that create a form of silence; an uncomfortable one," Ollier continues. "It's noticeable, information is missing, as if we had become a mute newspaper. [A newspaper] without sound, without this little internal music that accompanies sight."

On the 14th November 2013 the French newspaper Liberation released an issue with absolutely no pictures making a statement for photojournalists everywhere! With the acsess of photography being acsessable to almost everybody currently the need for photojournalists is being cut in many media productions and some published photographers are just be accredited rather than being paid. Especially in news papers street phone photography is being used more and more because it was taken as the event was taking place rather than when the hired photographer could get there.
This edition of the newspaper was in reaction to the news that  the "Chicago sun-times" laid off its entire photography staff and instead they have just trained the reporters to take pictures on there iPhones. This is so sad and as a photographer I feel things like this really devalue the art form . What Liberation have done re-enforces the importance of photographs in media .