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To survive the creative, economic and emotional chaos of a life in photography your career must be designed for longevity. To achieve longevity, you must reconcile the conflict between what you shoot for money and what you love to shoot. Ideally, you get paid to shoot exactly what you love to shoot, every day. Reaching this nirvana requires making tough choices, a careful business strategy and attention to basic business practices. (Or be super talented/lucky, born wealthy or marry a brilliant business manager.

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I have posted before about similarities between the work of artists and photographers, such as idris khan v jason salavon and  birds of a feather, roni horn and audrey corregan.

It now seems that there is a phrase for it : subject echo. You heard it here first

This is not to be confused with the outright plagiarism of ideas or leeching as i call it, a common trait of  some of the less scrupulous photographers out there.

According to this Guardian Article 10,000 hours of hard work is all you need to become the next Bill Gates, John Lennon or maybe Andreas Gursky ?.

Photography in Japan, essay by Mariko Takeuchi, guest curator of “Spotlight on Japan” for Paris Photo 2008