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    MAKE WORKING AS A PHOTOGRAPHER, WORK FOR YOU

    Dec 15, 2021 4 minutes
    BY DREW HOPPER

    For many people thinking of becoming a professional photographer, the unconventional nature of the work is probably one of the biggest turnoffs they face in making it a career. After all, we’re told constantly that photography is undervalued, overly competitive, a glorified hobby and perhaps (often unfairly) nothing more than a vanity project. The idea of becoming a photographer can cause tremendous anxiety and disapproval from loved ones and those on the outside, and yet every year thousands of people find ways to make shooting for a living work. Surely if they can do it, you can too.

    I’ve been a professional photographer since 2016, and interestingly, photography was never a career path I had ever considered growing up. To be honest, I was

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