College has taught me that I hate photography, and now I want out.

I’ve been doing photography for 5 years and have been in a Cinematography major for the past year.The farther I get in, the more I realize that almost anybody can do exactly what I do with a camera, if not better, in less than a month if taught correctly. The only real limiting factor I’ve noticed for a lot of the people around me including myself is what equipment you can afford to use, and unless that price difference is massive or the client is a savant, nobody will ever notice or care about the quality.I feel like all I’ve learned is that photography is not an artistic pursuit, nor does it have an artistic community. It’s a culture of cynical tech touting snobs who all take the same identical looking photos, and it’s made me hate the photography industry and the community built around it.I’ve always joked that “I’m not an artist, I’m a photographer”, but now I actually believe it. I don’t feel like photography allows me to create anything meaningful or original, just another angle of something everyone’s already seen and understands. I feel like my camera is a toy, and I’m a child playing pretend as an artist. I feel like I need to find a way to reapply my skills into a different medium or pursuit, because I’m sick of operating an expensive piece of plastic that does 95% of my job for me and taking pictures of things I don’t care about, and if I had to do that for the rest of my life I’d actually shoot myself. via /r/photography https://ift.tt/2I5m6NX