Search Programs
What is a Photographer?
A photographer is a trained professional who records images using a camera, special lights, and other tools to enhance their subject. Photographers tend to fall into one of four categories: commercial, fashion, journalistic, and fine art. Commercial photographers work for businesses and often take photographs of products for use in catalogs, on websites, or other purposes. They might also have businesses that focus on, or feature, portraiture, including wedding photographs.
Fashion photographers are much like commercial photographers in that they capture images for the sole purpose of product promotion. However, their primary focus is fashionable clothing. They often work with human models with the goal of creating a glamorous image.
Journalistic photographers work for newspapers or magazines and capture images that pertain to news stories. Some travel the world and photograph war scenes, while others take photographs for hometown daily newspapers in relative safety. Some also specialize in sports photography, or even hunt celebrities as paparazzi.
Fine art photographers are often off-duty commercial, fashion, or journalistic photographers who capture images that are intended to evoke emotion or tell a story that has a wider social application than commerce. They still offer their work for sale, but in fine art galleries. That is, they are not commissioned to photograph a product, but their work is valued based on its compositional and artistic merit alone.
Search Photography ProgramsGet information on programs by entering your zip code and requesting enrollment information.