12 Things Photo Students Need To Know/Study Before Graduation

Jim Domke posted a link to this over on the Tiffen Forums; I thought it bears repeating over here:
12 Things Photo Students Need To Know/Study Before Graduation is an interview with the new chair of the BFA Photojournalism program at RIT.

Is #1 to switch majors?

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I keed, I keed. But he basically says the same - you need to diversify!

Classic, first he tells people they need to be learning video.
Closes with pointing toward the magazine industry, which is rapidly dying out, and the vast majority of the photos they use came from stock or for free.

Agree with MikeKelly, number 1 should be switching majors. If you think making money is hard in photography now give it a couple more years.
There will always be some guys who are amazing and are the very best technically and with great marketing skills that are going to make good money, but that group is dwindling.

I have seen huge changes in just the last two years, the market is changing at warp speed.

The real money is made teaching other photographers how the money is made.

nicksan wrote in post #11266472
The real money is made teaching other photographers how the money is made.

lol so true

Nothing new for me.
And I'm a student a RIT. 8)