Today I met with 40 of Manchester's newest photographers, all year one Degree students. We talked about "the business."
Statistically only 0.5% will continue long term into a professional career, only 1 in 200 is a low success rate, so being honest with what's in front of them was order of the day.
My advise was to be a business from day one, don't get to year three and start looking for work, be active and put in a lot of hours both in study and in the business.
Being a photographer now is not what is was 30, 20 or even ten years ago. Joe McNally told me when he started his job title was photographer but more recently he is a freelance image provider, now with video being more linked to our task list image technician is a title being banded about.
The students we all keen and I hope our conversation will help them be very driven between now and year three... hopefully they can buck the trend and make their dream a reality.
Joe McNally website http://www.joemcnally.com
Good luck to all of them.
Statistically only 0.5% will continue long term into a professional career, only 1 in 200 is a low success rate, so being honest with what's in front of them was order of the day.
My advise was to be a business from day one, don't get to year three and start looking for work, be active and put in a lot of hours both in study and in the business.
Being a photographer now is not what is was 30, 20 or even ten years ago. Joe McNally told me when he started his job title was photographer but more recently he is a freelance image provider, now with video being more linked to our task list image technician is a title being banded about.
The students we all keen and I hope our conversation will help them be very driven between now and year three... hopefully they can buck the trend and make their dream a reality.
Joe McNally website http://www.joemcnally.com
Good luck to all of them.
Thank you so much for your talk today and sharing your knowledge. Really do appreciate you taking time from your busy schedule, your words were really inspiring and will stay with me.
ReplyDeletecherry Harrison
1st yr student Salford
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