Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/19

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Subject: [Leica] Crazy idea? Getting a photography degree
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Sat Mar 19 03:47:50 2005
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At 2:47 AM -0800 05.3.19, Richard wrote:
>This is pretty crazy. I am almost 43, married for 21 years, have 2 
>kidz, silicon valley mortgage, runs a small business, and... I am 
>thinking about getting a photography degree...

Taking photo class and maybe even getting a degree are great! That's 
not crazy at all.

What's crazy is thinking that you can actually make enough to support 
a family and a large mortgage. Unless you have considerable savings 
-- or enough free time to just do this part time --  you're 
absolutely nuts. There's almost no money in photography anymore, not 
that there ever was, but there's even less now.

And if you want to make a business of it, it might be better to go to 
business school than photography school.  Of all my friends who got 
an MFA, very few have jobs in the photography industry -- unless you 
count working at the Walmart film department a job in the photo 
industry.


Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/


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