Small Magazines and 'Submissions'

Although im not active within the 'alt model' scene thing anymore, it came to my attention during the week that magazines that generally embrace work by the alternative/arty/and underground folk are charging $$ to submit your work to be put in the magazine. And can i just warn all you newbies out there that it is not the way things should be done. And even to some extent you shouldn't even deal with magazines that run on 'submissions'. here's my first hand dealing with an amazing run magazine called Fiend,

Everything was run and organized by the editor, that includes purposefully going out and shooting the editorial for that quarters issue ie; find photographer, designers etc etc. I revived a message from the photographer on behalf of the editor asking to be involved with the editorial. All the models and make up artists met on the day at Wildilocks hair salon, then off to the studio. The photographer had all the image isea's concepts planned out page to page with what each person would be wearing etc etc.

This is how a magazine shoot should run, but from what ive seen,it happens so very very rarely. the other two times ive been in a magazine was a) the photographer entered a photography comp and they won so the image was used as the cover image

b) the hair stylist submitted our shoot to a magazine, which ended up just being a magazine full of images and no articles.

i truely wish that small magazines would go back to the old way of running things. let photographers, models, designers submit their folios for consideration and organize your shoots in house. Give the armatures a taste of how the bigger national magazines work. And you should never have to pay a magazine for them to use your images, they sell advertising space not editorial space.