>>4375319Well this is more of a modern age field scale problem than anything else - too many people, every special skills value is ''normalized'' and everyone thinks they can do it better themselves, so there's drastic, declining interest and respect for that comes as the main part of the problem - and also, it's an issue in almost any field that survives off selling arts, crafts or services to others, it's not just photography... And it's even prevalent outside of arts, crafts and service related fields - one of the most important examples outside of that, would be science related fields, even science related fields nowadays have the same exact problem; There was I believe more than a dozen of absolutely huge, very, very important scientific breakthroughs that happened over the past 10 years alone, so important that they are on the scale of Penicilin discovery for antibiotic use... And yet... When was the last time you have heard of anything huge, science related news like that on the news or on the internet? Chances are, you didn't, neither did 90% of other people... Nowadays, every bit of creativity, every bit of incredible skill and craftsmanship and just everything in general, is ''normalized'' just... Heavily devalued by loss of interest, respect and importance in the eyes of other people... It's a huge issue...
Anyhow, people, in general, just don't have interest in and don't appreciate or respect amazing art - or art in general - nowadays - especially with cameras being available on everyones phone and entry level cameras being so good and so cheap to the point everyone has a huge ego now and thinks ''I could become a photographer if I tried'' or maybe ''I can do it better than him/her if I tried'' so with that, the value, respect and general interest in arts dropped even further...
There are still people who need and/or appreciate good photography but the market shrunk a billion times over, compared to how big it was in early 2000's up to early 2010's.
