Style matters With its huge audience, high pay checks and glamorous international lifestyle, fashion photography may seem like one of the world’s most sought-after professions. However, for every fashion photographer who makes it through the door of a top magazine, a thousand others find their niche in fashion advertising, in art photography, in celebrity portraiture or in paparazzi work to make a living. • Fashion.net
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Fashion pho tographers must be go tography d od in two ph isciplines: ad ove rtising and tography. Th portrait pho ey must be able to cre the adverti ate images sement m fo r a rket. And able to sho they must ot great po be rtraits. Su ion photog ccessful fa raphers wil sh l combine th plines. e two disc i32 • Communication: Journalism Education Today
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