Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media.

We've spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we've reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but just weren't able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.

If you don't believe your eyes, so can't I. Just received and e-mail from Laura Brunow Miner, Editor in Chief of the immensely popular jpgmag.com and with nearly 20,000 photographers contributing to it. While its a very shocking news to most of us, it seems that they left no stone unturned before being nailed down in this "extraordinary economic times"

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