Photographers

A photographer: (the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who takes photographs.

The definitions of amateur and professional, in the context of photography, are not entirely categorical. A professional photographer is likely to take photographs to make money, through the display, sale or use of those photographs, while an amateur photographer may take photographs for pleasure and to record an event, emotion, place, as a person without a monetary motivation.

A professional photographer may be an employee, for example of a newspaper, or may contract to cover a particular planned event such as a wedding or graduation, or to illustrate an advertisement. Others, including paparazzi and fine art photographers, are freelancers, first making a picture and then offering it for sale or display. Some workers, such as crime scene detectives, estate agents, journalists and scientists, make photographs as part of other work. Photographers who produce moving rather than still pictures are often called cinematographers, videographers or camera operators, depending on the commercial context.

An amateur may make considerable sums entering work in contests for prize money or through occasional inclusion of their work in magazines or the archive of an agency. The term professional may also imply preparation, for example, by academic study, by the photographer in pursuit of photographic skills.

Photographers are also categorized based on the subjects they photograph. Some photographers explore subjects typical of paintings such as landscape, still life, and portraiture.

Types of photography:

• Aviation
• Commercial
• Digital
• Documentary
• Fashion
• Food
• Photojournalism
• Pictorialism
• Street
• Underwater
• Wedding
• War

This is the place to bring your ancestor who was a photographer; unless he or she fits in to one of the following:

Sub-Projects

• "Early Photographers - 19th Century"
• "Notable photographers"
• "Jewish American Photographers"
• "World Press Photographers ◘ since 1955"
• "Cinematographers

Please consider starting other sub-projects if the occasion arises :-)

Links:

• "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
• "Photographers & Photographic Studios in Derbyshire, England"
• "Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland 1840-1940"
• "Modern Times: Photography in the 20th Century"