Smartphones cut photographers’ incomes in Bangui
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Lengosongo
In Bangui, professional photographers are seeing their incomes fall as smartphones and digital tools make it possible to produce and edit images at lower cost. Some say they now earn no more than 10,000 CFA francs a day, compared with 80,000 previously during favourable periods, according to Radio Lengo Songo.
In Bangui, the rise of smartphones is reducing opportunities and income for professional photographers. Phones accessible to a large part of the population now allow people to take, edit and print images without using studios, according to Lengosongo.
Photography businesses in the Central African capital are therefore seeing fewer customers. This digital shift is disrupting habits around the consumption of photography services, reports Lengosongo.
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