JPG photography mag, online and in print, folds

8020 Media has announced that the JPG magazine is being shut down on Monday, January 5. The 6-times-a-year print and web publication based in San Francisco had a business model based on readers uploading their photographs which were then selected for publication by fellow photographers, had been named one of the top 5 notable magazine launches of 2007 by Samir Husni.

The owners "extraordinary economic times" meant they were not able to raise the money to keep JPG alive.

We feel honored and humbled to have been able to share jpgmag.com with such a dynamic, warm, and wonderful community of nearly 200,000 photographers [said Laura Brunow Miner, editor in chief]. The images on the website and in the magazine were adored by many, leaving no doubt that this community created work of the highest caliber....We're soggy-eyed messes, but it is what it is.

It should be noted that a similar Canadian reader-generated photography magazine called Photosho is published out of Ottawa.

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