https://fstoppers.com/business/guess-which-study-photographers-ranked-1-worst-610720
Yes, of course it is photographers. Hardly a surprise really as photographer=artist=starving artist of the 21st century. Painters must be doing better than photographers now.
Here’s something I don’t really understand. Why study photography at university? As stated previously photography is art and I guess I have never understood art classes at university either. You either have an eye or you become an accountant or a lawyer! Not that I have anything against accountants or lawyers… oh who am I trying to kid!
There are some basics of photography, how a lens works, structure of a sensor, effect of ISO (or as I sometimes and fondly refer to it, ASA!). You can learn that through YouTube these days. You learn photography by doing it. Take thousands of pictures, review, compare yours to professionals you admire. Rinse and repeat.
It takes years…
I also can’t help think that the only people who make money out of photography degrees are for-profit universities though the failure of the Santa Barbara based Brooks Institute in 2016, the most prestigious photography school in America, might show that even they can’t make money out of photography.
My advice to anyone thinking of taking a degree in photography is to go out and buy the camera you’re most comfortable with, and can afford, and take 100,000 pictures over the next 3 years. To fill in the time between taking pictures you should take a business or marketing degree. When you’re done you should have a better chance at surviving as a photographer!
