Are You Thinking about Street Photography as a Business?

Street photography as a career isn’t the best option. Mainly because street photography is a very personal thing.

Sean P. Durham
6 min readJul 19, 2022

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Personal ideas are the stuff of good business.

On the other hand, any type of photography as a career move, seems to be tough to get into to.

There are various opinions about why photography is difficult to set up as a career choice.

One of them is that cameras and the photography business has changed, dramatically, over the last 15 years or so.

The digital camera has evolved from a fairly basic piece of equipment that in 2000 could digitalize an image, and show the results on a small screen. The pixelation were rough and garish mixtures of colours back then.

I still preferred to use my film camera right through the 2000s until the 2010s.

One day, everybody realised that digital cameras had evolved into something great — so, lots and lots of non-photographers invested in camera…

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Sean P. Durham
Sean P. Durham

Written by Sean P. Durham

Berlin Notes — Creative Writing about art, Life & cats. https://seandurham.eu

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