I was asked a question.
Q.
Photographers tend to be based in media-heavy cities. While staff
positions do exist, particularly in the publishing industry, slightly
more than half all photographers were self-employed in 2002. What is
really involved in making a career in photography?
A.
Photography as a career is 99% about everything, and 1% about taking a picture.
Anyone who desires only to take a picture, will never be a professional. Photography, like most things in life, is a journey, and it’s one that anyone walking must know can move in many different ways; at anytime. It’s about keeping an open mind, rather than an open eye, about learning how to talk with a person, not just capturing some lucky moment. Photography has evolved beyond the point of a technical medium into something higher. It is a language, a communication, that speaks to film, and design, to documentation, social constructs, expression, art and more. it is shared by all, but mastered and understood by few. Today, photography is not a profession as much as a layer of understanding to apply to one’s endeavors.
