JPG Magazine is said to be closed till today

I  have a trial today with this post. I have a blog called MediaWared, it’s kinda  “media” stuff would-be project. But somehow it does not want to function. Sure I did not posted there for a long time, I’m off… that’s it. I partnered up with Daniel Demian a 14 ! year old succesful blogger from Romania, he is a tech guy! So he will work with me. How  young he is it’s almost not seen in his works and in his professionalism. Anyway, so I posted about the same story on that blog, I liked it on mixx, digg, reddit etc etc. I hate it really. Social Cardigan or how they say it makes me mad. People go meet online rather than in real. Craze. I tell you it’s madness. Human madness. So The thing is that JPG Magazine sent me an email that they close on Jan 5th. But people it’s January 5th!!! and the site is still running as nothing would happen. No banner or such saying: “we are closing, please take down your photos” or whatever.. Nothing! Absolutely nothing.  Is there anybody out there who get this company? They really still run the site and contest and say the deadline of the contest. What is this madness? Another marketing maleour?  It really does not matter in which timezone I am because  even if it was still 4th Jan for them why they have there still the open contests and the sayings come and contest! No banner and the rest I  said already. If it is a new marketing strategy then they were  successful because I wrote 2 articles about it (incl this so +1) and numerous people . I just saw it when I submitted the link to I don’t know even which Socialism site. So do you like or not here is the email, it’s not fun, read it it was sent from

support@jpgmag.com – I check it the second time.

Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media.

We’ve spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we’ve reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but we just weren’t able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.

The one thing we’ve been the most proud of: your amazing talent. We feel honored and humbled to have been able to share jpgmag.com with such a dynamic, warm, and wonderful community of nearly 200,000 photographers. The photography on the website and in the magazine was adored by many, leaving no doubt that this community created work of the highest caliber. The kindness, generosity, and support shared among members made it a community in the truest sense of the word, and one that we have loved being a part of for these past two years.

We wish we could have found a way to leave the site running for the benefit of the amazing folks who have made JPG what it is, and we have spent sleepless nights trying to figure something out, all to no avail. Some things you may want to do before the site closes:

- Download the PDFs of back issues, outtakes, and photo challenge selections. We’ll always have the memories!  www.jpgmag.com/downloads/archives.html
- Make note of your favorite photographers. You may want to flip through your favorites list and jot down names and URLs of some of the people you’d like to stay in touch with. You may even want to cut and paste your contacts page into a personal record.
- Catch up with your fellow members. Our roots are in this humble flickr forum and we recommend going back to find fellow members, discuss the situation, or participate in another great photo community. www.flickr.com/groups/jpgmag/
- Keep in touch. This has always been much more than just a job to each of us, and we’ll miss you guys! We’ll be checking the account jpgletters@gmail.com in our free time going forward. We can’t promise to reply to every email (since we’ll be busy tuning up our resumes) but we’d love to hear from you.
- Stay posted. Although the magazine is ceasing publication, we’ll be updating you on what’s happening with your subscription early next week.

We’re soggy-eyed messes, but it is what it is. At that, JPGers, we bid you goodbye, and good luck in 2009 and the future.

Laura Brunow Miner
Editor in Chief

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