What major in College for a Photograbpy business?

[KJ Smith]

Originally Posted by Mask

"What major in College for a Photograbpy business? - 08-16-2010, 05:35 PM"

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Simple economics state with so many photographers in the world ...
you would be well to conduct a 20 - 40 year market study before such assuming.
FYI - the increase in Pro to Semi Pro photographers has increased
well over a hundred fold since the saturated 70's.
Recent US Small Business Admin puts creative photographers failure rate at over 90%
over the first 5 years and is now the leading rate of small business failures.
Modeling might be at the same level - LOL.
It used to be resturants with 60% over first 5 years.
Be advised most photographers of the 20th century had another source of main income.
This includes names like Adams, Leibovitz, and many others.
Any business degree will not help the over supply and under demand of this economy.
But a sound education will allow you to consider the current and future market better.

You need to consider the current and future economy before you pick a field.
There is still demand in technical and engineering photography.
It pays 6 figures plus.
But the biggest things these days are nursing, medical, info technology, engineering.

PM me if you want a paper I give to photo students on career advice.

Hmmmmmm.

[venchka]

With business & marketing courses you might find a real job that will subsidize the photography job as you build clientele.