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By researching the biographies of many great photographers I have discovered that most of them were from privileged backgrounds. You can pursue this art form as a hobby but It is hopeless for anyone who wants to go above it but is a wagecuck and from a working class. Writers, painter, digital artists, poets etc. can at least write in their free hours after job. But photography totally depends on lurking around endlessly and working with light. After a day of wagecucking for 8 hours your mind and body are so exhausted and you end up making shit work than usual.
The most disgusting thing that has happened to photography is the recent institutionalization in terms of expensive fine arts degrees. It's almost impossible for "outsider" young people in our time to "make it" in the art world when when almost every so called emerging photographer have a BFA or MFA degree on their CV. There is also the issue of identity bullshit and hierarchy of victimisation if someone is from a so called marginalised(this doesn't include economic or class marginalization because who gives a shit about that?) background they will be preferred over you. The galleries and photobook publishers look down on the photographers who don't have degrees from these expensive school aimed at upper-middle class kids.
