Photo Careers

• While this sounds like the most logical method to geMng the professional training you need to succeed as a photographer, it also has a very high failure rate. • Photography is an art and a trade. Where it is an art, most colleges who have art classes will offer a degree in “photography.” So, when you get a bachelors degree in photography, you are geMng a four-year general educaIon degree in art wherein you will only take a couple of art photo classes instead of drawing or painIng. • If you want to be an arIst, this is great, but if you want to work as a professional photographer, you will NOT learn the necessary skills to work in the trade. • Fine art photography is a lot of fun, but sadly is not very lucraIve. It is the most difficult genre in photography to make a living. Bachelors Degree