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> You'd be very surprised. Photography as a profession is near ly dead We have data on this, the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides it: https://www.bls.gov/oo

> You'd be very surprised. Photography as a profession is near ly dead We have data on this, the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides it: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Media-and-Communication/Photographers.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Media-and-Communication/Photographer... Number of jobs, 2021: 125,600 Job outlook 2021-2031: 9% growth (faster than average) > The vast majority of professional news photographers, whole teams, have been fired from all major and minor newspapers that used to have them That's because no one reads newspapers any more, not because of automation. The internet + social media killed the newspaper, but it didn't decrease overall demand for professional photography.

coldtea 4y ago
Number of jobs doesn't tell the whole story. First, those are much depreciated jobs. It's as if programmers became minimum wage "AI prompt checkers" and instead of 1 million programmers we got 2 million of them (some covering what Excel jockies do now). There are more of them, but hardly what it was before. Second, the growth must be compared with overall industry growth. "Both the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014) and IBIS World (2013) report that the photography industry is in decline. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014) expects to see the number employed in the photography industry increase by 4% between 2012 and 2022, this is well below the average of 11% increase across all industries. IBIS World (2013) reports a decline in the UK between 2009 and 2014 of 4.1% but also comments that this is a long term decline. Clifford (2013) and Photo Counter (2012) both support the view that the photography industry has been declining for some time. Clifford (2013) suggests that photographers have no clearly defined career paths anymore and that more photographers entering the market find themselves doing a wide variety of photography assignments to make a living. The two metrics used to measure the growth and decline of an industry are generally the changes in revenue and the changes in the number of people employed in that industry. Yang (2010) explains that the distinction between amateur photographers and professional photographers is blurring and to an extent becomes irrelevant since many amateur photographers / hobbyist photographers are selling their work on micro stock photography websites. Amateur photographers selling their images on micro stock websites are not likely to be included in the metrics used for measuring the growth / decline of the photography industry". https://pure.solent.ac.uk/ws/files/24372581/Are_professional_photographers_declining.pdf https://pure.solent.ac.uk/ws/files/24372581/Are_professional...

coldtea 4y ago

Number of jobs doesn't tell the whole story. First, those are much depreciated jobs. It's as if programmers became minimum wage "AI prompt checkers" and instead of 1 million programmers we got 2 million of them (some covering what Excel jockies do now). There are more of them, but hardly what it was before. Second, the growth must be compared with overall industry growth. "Both the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014) and IBIS World (2013) report that the photography industry is in decline. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014) expects to see the number employed in the photography industry increase by 4% between 2012 and 2022, this is well below the average of 11% increase across all industries. IBIS World (2013) reports a decline in the UK between 2009 and 2014 of 4.1% but also comments that this is a long term decline. Clifford (2013) and Photo Counter (2012) both support the view that the photography industry has been declining for some time. Clifford (2013) suggests that photographers have no clearly defined career paths anymore and that more photographers entering the market find themselves doing a wide variety of photography assignments to make a living. The two metrics used to measure the growth and decline of an industry are generally the changes in revenue and the changes in the number of people employed in that industry. Yang (2010) explains that the distinction between amateur photographers and professional photographers is blurring and to an extent becomes irrelevant since many amateur photographers / hobbyist photographers are selling their work on micro stock photography websites. Amateur photographers selling their images on micro stock websites are not likely to be included in the metrics used for measuring the growth / decline of the photography industry". https://pure.solent.ac.uk/ws/files/24372581/Are_professional_photographers_declining.pdf https://pure.solent.ac.uk/ws/files/24372581/Are_professional...