How NOT To Be A Starving Photographer

Only a few photographers ever become world-famous. While some manage to make a full-time living from it without fame, most photographers have to support their love for this art.

While a common interpretation is that these differences are due to gradients in talent, the issue is far more complicated. Since photographic art is often subjective, what is good is always open to debate. Sometimes it has to do with being at the right place at the right time. Sometimes it has to do with riding the wave of a popular trend. And sometimes it has to do with how the art is marketed or where it’s exhibited.

However, if you’re not where you would like to be as a photographer, then the worst thing you can do is quit. If you decide to make a living from something else and then come back to your art, you will have lost your creative edge. Time and entropy will have diminished your skills and you’ll be out of the art work long enough to have lost touch with it. Even if you do manage to reestablish yourself as a reputable photographer, it may be difficult to recapture your momentum again. You won’t be able to charge as much as if you had stayed at it and you won’t have the same clout with magazines and collectors.

Here are 6 ways to persevere through the difficult times when you’re not inspired or you’re facing difficult life circumstances:(...)
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