Is it easy to find a job for photography majors? What can I do when I am a photographer?

First of all, take the undergraduate course of photography as an example to introduce to you:

There are still many misunderstandings and misunderstandings about many graduates majoring in photography. Everyone thinks that graduates majoring in photography should go to photo studios or advertising companies, which is actually very one-sided. For an undergraduate who has studied photography in university for four years, there are still many directions for his future work. The training objectives of each photography major college in China are different, and the training direction of photography major also has its own characteristics and emphasis. Here are some jobs that may be involved in the current photography major.

1, news media photographer. Although the market of paper media has become smaller and smaller in recent years, traditional newspapers and periodicals still have a demand for photographers, but the demand may be news photographers with better professional standards.

2. Portraits and commercial photographers. This includes business magazines, business websites, traditional magazines, commercial photography agencies, advertising companies, portrait photography agencies and photo studios of all sizes. These industries may be the places that portrait and fashion photographers and product photographers need most.

3. Public relations and activities and film and television photographers. This includes the recorder of large-scale commercial activities and conferences, and the photographer of film and television stills, etc. These occupations need the contact, establishment and release of public relations companies, and domestic professional public relations and commercial activity photography companies such as PRPHOTO need a large number of professional photographers.

4. Photographers of professional websites and photo agencies. At present, with the development of network and information technology, online media has become the main position of media, and photographers of traditional media have also transformed into emerging online media. Therefore, photographers who serve portals, network institutions, photo libraries and photo agencies also have great market demand. For example, Tencent, Sohu, Netease and many other websites need certain image collectors in their visual and photo centers.

5. Propaganda workers of scientific research, institutions and audio-visual education institutions in schools. Every institution needs a photographer engaged in propaganda, and the audio-visual education department of the school needs workers to collect and edit videos and images.

6. Professional video artist. This profession is not necessary, but requires personal ability, talent and persistent artistic pursuit. Today, the boundaries between pictures and videos are increasingly blurred, and many cross-border artists are not limited to the fields of still photos or dynamic videos. Specializing in artistic creation, exhibition and sales in various galleries and institutions is also the working channel of many video artists.

7. Professional photography teacher. Many master students and doctoral students majoring in photography can engage in photography education in colleges and universities, and undergraduates can also engage in photography education in some higher vocational, technical secondary schools and training institutions.

8. Sign freelance photographers from media image creators and photo libraries. At present, major online media platforms provide a broad development space for self-media image creators, and may become a development direction of many freelance video professions in the future. Getting rid of the shackles of traditional media, free distribution and content-oriented self-media will make photography have a brand-new development in the future.

9. People who know how to edit photos and videos and related tests, anchors, product promotion, etc. At present, many media need a lot of post-editing of pictures and videos, which is a great market demand in recent years. At the same time, some science and technology industries related to mobile phone photography and optics also need people who know about photography development and technical testing, and some new media fields also need anchors and outbound journalists who know about photography.

To sum up, of course, there are many professional fields that need full-time photography, such as underwater photography, scientific photography, medical photography, museums, documentary photography, aerial photography and so on. In today's image media era, any industry can't do without images, so as long as a photographer tries to master his professional skills, he will certainly find a suitable future development space.

Of course, people who have been trained or taught photography by themselves will have broad development space in the above industries as long as they find something suitable for them. I wish you all a good harvest in the growth of photography!

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