The Business of Photography. Introduction.

Hey everybody,

Today we’re starting our photography-business blog 🙂

We(Nancy,Anstacia and Bozhena) hope to see here comments, replies from all of you who are interested or who are already busy in that business. During next months of our blogging  we will try to provide you with a research on what actually is photography? A non-profitable hobby or a business with its own price list, ratings and hierarchy? And if the answer is number 2, then we’re going to find out what structure, laws and needs has business of photography.

Before I started blogging, I have created a short survey (http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=npen4e3cu11a1qc988355) for people who are everyday (or at least couple of times per week) busy with making a world a bit happier and more colorful J-people who are making photos( more or less professionally but at least with some previous skills on professional shooting) . I asked some pretty simple questions that I was interested in, like for instance: “Is it really possible for everybody, who are considering themselves as a talented photographers, become a high-paid, world-famous photographers or just really few of them can go through hard selection and make photography their main job? And that’s what I’ve got:

1. For all the people photography is not the only job, they need to work somewhere else to ensure a payment of all their living costs.
2. Only 12% of all asked people earn 400 Euros or more for their work as photographer. Another 19% from 200-400 Euros per month and the rest (69%) from 0 to 200 Euros per month.
3. 35% of asked people have already had an exhibition and 65% of them not yet.
4. From those 35% of people that have already had an exhibition, 12% have earned nothing, 23% have earned from 11-50% of all tickets sale, and left 65% have earned from 1 to 10 %.
5. Almost everybody (78%) had costs due to that exhibition,17% of them from 11 to 50% of all the money received(profited) and 61% only from 1 to 10% of costs. The other have got no costs at all.
6. And the last thing I’ve asked was :” Are you printing your photos out or just keeping them online or on your computer?”. And most of them-60% are printing photos out.

That last data was a little bit shocking for me because I thought that in our IT century almost everything is kept digitally and even exhibitions are more often seen on the web rather than in museums. But all that information that I found out will help me to develop a better strategy for those who are committed to photography and want to make it meaning of their lives and their main successful profitable job at the same time.

In the next blog post we’ll try to find some good examples of what could be done to reach this goal-to become a great famous photographer. So, if you don’t want to miss some strategies then visit our page next Tuesday. You’ll find a lot of interesting stuff.