>>4369569this is near impossible nowadays... for 2 main reasons;
1 - with the accessibility of decent cameras on everyone smartphone nowadays, has also come the fact that everyone and their grandmonther now thinks they can be their own photographer and think that ''they can do a better job if they just tried'' and so also with that, the general interest (and respect) for arts and creative fields in general, not just photography, has almost died entirely, it has come to the point where you now have only a few main photographers in major agencies, companies or even solo photographers who are doing well....and even if you do manage to get lucky and get famous and be one of them, even then its pretty hard to find clients/people who want your service...
2 - on top of the aforementioned, you also have like 4-5 wedding/automotive/fashion/whatever photographers in xyz country, that hold complete monopoly over that xyz field or multiple fields in that particular country or wider.... and its so bad that its come to the point where its not even worth it to try and make money off those particular fields to any new or existing photographers in those countries.
im a pretty good photographer creatively, been taking pictures as a hobby since i was a kid and throughout the years i had my pictures publishes in a number of nature magazines and museums and so on (nothing serious, just me sending in pics for fun)... so back in 2017 i got tired of working 8 hours a day and i wanted to try to become a photographer, but i didnt know how bad things were and i made a huge mistake of not doing my own research (business wise not photography wise) so i ended up spending exactly $21,570 on photography gear, lenses, studio equipment... i even bought a separate laptop and a pc that would be used as my work computers, only to find out that my entire country is fucked with photographers holding monopoly in each field... in 5 years from 2017 to 2023, i had only 6 clients, 3 of who i did for free
