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Originally Posted by fotze
My wife has a friend who works in manhattan, his job is pretty much an agent for photographers, sort of like Don Meehan, who woulda thunk that job existed. Not me.
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Oh yeah, there's tons of them. The problem with creative people is they often lack business skills and are poor at marketing themselves on a business level. They might take the nicest photos in the world, but don't know how to go about getting a job. For a lot of people, an agent can be pretty important.
The only problem is that an agent takes about 30-40% of your income! It's a pretty sweet gig actually. Through agencies is how a lot of photographers get their advertising gigs.....and those tend to pay in the tens of thousands per day, so to a lot of people the high agent fee is worth it.