Contact - for photographers...any good?

[danieljamesphoto]

Just picked up two massive books called Contact 15 and Contact 16 PHOTOGRAPHERS from a 2nd hand book shop for £4 each, a bargain considering the contact information of lots of photographers to see other peoples work etc

To join 'Contact' is £117.50 (£100 + VAT) per year, anyone here part of it or know anything about it and could recommend/ward off me from joining?

http://www.contactacreative.com/

thanks

Dan

 

[desantnik]

Doesn't Google rather defeat these tired old "industry directories"???

 

[danieljamesphoto]

Doesn't Google rather defeat these tired old "industry directories"???

clearly not if they are still printing big thick books with people in :/

 

[desantnik]

Yes but there are lots of out of date printed journals that are teetering on the brink of destruction, only held there by an ever diminishing bunch of "old timers" who refuse to use the internet or remembering to cancel their direct debits...

Does it really contain anything that Google can't tell you for free?

 

[andrewc]

I agree - once upon a time these directories made sense, but really have now been superseded by electronic directories such as google.