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There are more cameras around today than ever before, pretty much all phones even have them built in, not to mention webcams on computers.
Flickr and its culture has allowed people to take and share their photos like never before.
I would argue that anyone with a camera is a photographer. I don't buy the argument that only shots taken on and slr or medium format are real photos. and iphone or even a gameboy camera are just as valid as image making tools.
I have no time for photography nerds who are obsessed with the technical side (all those fricking long exposures of rivers etc). Look at the quality of some 'professional' photgraphers, and it's no better than a lot of the stuff on flickr.Then go to getty images and look at the bulk of those shot all taken by 'professionals' most are terrible, and then go back to flickr and tell me that there aren't a hell of a lot of great shots on there taken by rank amateurs.
Of course there are some great professionals out there, masters. But there are also some really really dull pros out there too.
I'm all for the democratisation of photography. The more people that take photos the better chance we have of some great photography existing (yes and lots of crap too).
I'd say photography is more alive than ever before.