Austria was recently graced with a small photography exhibition going by the rather funny name of PhotoAdventure. While I usually don’t care too much about these small events, Olympus’s new E30 looked promising. As I had some free time on hand, I ventured out with Doris in tow…oh boy, adventures we had indeed.
Usually, journalists passing by are admitted if they are members of a journalist’s club which is of good standing. The process goes along the lines of show ID, shake hands, go in. Afterwards, reports go on-line or to the press. This process has all over the world for the last years…
Unfortunately, the organizers of PhotoAdventure (Bolch & Wiltner OEG) think different. As they had a few journalists who didn’t report (enough) about them, their chauvinist egos were hurt…which led to them refusing admission to people who didn’t register weeks in advance.
So: yours truly had issues and didn’t get in at first. Nobody was at range who was willing to help out…we eventually stumbled across the B&W boys sitting at the local coffeehouse trying to fatten up.
None of them felt like doing their job in a proper fashion: for them, journalists apparently are annoying critters who hinder their fattening process. OK – yours truly might be skinny…but definitely wasn’t there to steal their food.
Anyways: as we were not willing to put up with a bunch of lazy and haughty madmen who need to be prodded to do anything, we decided to call it for a day. No reports for you, and no reports for Olympus and the other exhibitors.
I came here with the honest intention to gather info on the E30 for you…but it was not possible. I hope for your understanding…
Cutting a long story short: it’s the exhibitors who get to foot the bill. Imbecilic press accreditation leads to less/no free column space – unfortunately, this system is not understood by many.
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