Australian Photography

TURNING PRO

Becoming a professional photographer has so many variables today that I can not even begin to cover them all here. But I will say that what was once a very specified career with a well-defined apprenticeship model in most photographic genres changed about 20 years ago with the explosion in digital technology.

Today, a 15-year-old, or

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