11 Reasons Every Photographer Needs a Website or Blog

Have you ever wondered why you should have your own photography website or blog? Here are 11 great reasons that every photographer should have a website.

For anyone who doesn’t know much about web design, the thought of creating or commissioning a website can be daunting. But before you even begin to think about how, the important question to answer is why. It’s so easy for just about anybody to have an account on a photo sharing site like Flickr that you may be wondering exactly why a photographer would need their own website or blog.

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Zoriah is a photojournalist who works in some of the world’s most dangerous places.

War in Iraq

Thirty-four photojournalists (plus 152 journalists and media support workers) have died so far in Iraq since the American invasion of March 2003, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

What then, would drive a man to risk his life photographing the war in Iraq? This is exactly what I was wondering when I read about the termination of photojournalist Zoriah’s military embed in Iraq earlier this year. His work and story are important, and I decided to ask him some questions about his career and his time in Iraq.

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