Introducing Pulp, the Pineapple Press Club’s first e-magazine effort.

The Pineapples are a loose and dangerous bunch of photojournalists with vague ties to Queensland, Australia (for the purpose of transparency, I am a Pineapple.). The practice of photojournalism (I’ll make Skinner mad here and lump photojournalism, documentary photography and social documentary photography in the same category), is not exclusive to those internationally celebrated practitioners from Sydney (oooh) and Melbourne (aaah), though they’d lead you to believe so. Not so long ago, in those big, smokey metropolises, the photojournalists had to start their own collectives to be seen, to be exhibited, and to be known.
Not to be outdone, the photojournalists of Queensland (the sunshine state), have banded together, loosely, to form the Pineapple Press Club. The PPC’s agenda is less about world domination (though that could be coming), and more about seeking to encourage the general public to engage with photojournalism via grass roots methods – hosted slide nights and exhibitions in community venues. And, of course, e-publishing:

To find out how you can get involved with the Pineapple Press Club, click here.
(Shameless self-promotion here, but I figure, what the heck. It’s my blog. Deal with it.)