Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Troy Price asks What advice would you give someone who wanted to start working in travel photography today?

My honest advice would be to not try to go into it as a business. Travel photography is not a great business. Many travel publications have gone out of business. Many of those who survive no longer pay for photos.

Almost everyone I know who is still working as a travel photographer is making a living by teaching people photography or running photography tours.

There are a few people who are doing well, but there are very few of them, and they have only been able to do it after years and sometimes decades.

I always considered myself a traveler first and a photographer second. If you want to make a living as a photographer, there is a lot more money to be made photographing weddings.