RTÉ Fair City photographer criticises FG senator over ‘ignorant’ suggestion job could be done on smartphone

At the committee hearing, Fine Gael Senator Micheál Carrigy expressed shock at the size of the fee and said that his assistant was able to take pictures on his phone for nothing.

“I was very disturbed by your remarks questioning the legitimacy of this work in last week’s Oireachtas committee,” she said. “The job of the contracted stills photographer on Fair City is to take photographs of the scenes and actors for publicity purposes, as is industry standard for all soaps including UK soaps.”She said promotion press packs form an important part of the show and are “going out every week to all printed, online and TV platforms in Ireland and the UK.

She said the “utter disregard that the photography profession received in the press in the past week, compounded by your derogatory remarks feeds into the damaging stereotype that art and creative professions don’t deserve the same respect and financial benefits as any other profession.”

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