More info about the Survey Form
Just a note to introduce myself, I am John Cosgrove, an award winning newspaper and magazine photographer with more than 30 years in the trade and I am currently studying for a Masters of Fine Arts degree at Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin. I am undertaking this comprehensive and confidential survey to help me build up a clear and concise picture about the state of New Zealand newspaper and magazine photojournalism today. From my own extensive industry experience and the data accumulated from this survey I will be able to complete several important aspects of my degree dissertation. I pledge to you that none of the personal information offered by you will ever be passed onto your employers or parent media companies, only the mathematical, analytical and case study data will ever be published in my dissertation and a future guide to New Zealand Photojournalism that I am compiling. All completed forms will be destroyed following their submission.
Please fill out the questionnaire as honestly as possible and you have the option of not filling in any personal details where requested (such as your name, email address and your career to date etc.). If you want to contact me to further express your opinions or you need to talk to me in confidence about specific issues and ideas please do so via email. The survey document is in either a Adobe .PDF or a Microsoft Office 2003-2007 .doc format, so all you have to do is open it up and check the boxes or double click on the text spaces to type in your answers. It shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes of your time. Feel free to print it out and when finished please mail it to my address.
I am also compiling a concise history of New Zealand newspaper photography and would like to know if you have any information regarding the history of your photo department or are you in contact with any of the retired photographers from your newspaper.
I am looking at all New Zealand newspapers from the period of 1945 onwards and would like to contact any retired press photographers.
Again many thanks for your help,
John Cosgrove
