2. Publish photobooks
After graduating in economics, German photographer Radomir Jakubowski decided to turn his love of wildlife photography into his profession. "I asked myself, what were the possibilities to earn money from this," he says. "Wildlife photography is very popular, but you need a product that is more than just photography."
More than 10 years on, he has won scores of wildlife photography awards across Europe. He says, "I have lots of different ways I make money and photography is one piece of that."
While Radomir runs a diverse and innovative business, publishing remains a core pillar of that business, including regular articles and photobooks. "I usually write about one longer magazine article per month," he continues. "It's six to 12 pages about nature photography, conservation or photographic techniques, alongside my photos." He has published two nature photography books, with a third due to be published in 2020. In every case, editors approached him with a proposal.
Traditional publishing across magazines and photobooks is a mainstay of Marina's income, too. She has published four books – Cabárceno; Drama & Intimimacy; Inspiración + Naturaleza; and Wild Soul – two of which sold out, and she's working on a fifth.
"There are different ways to approach book publishing," she says. "The first book, about the park, I took to the director, who loved it and so they printed it. Sometimes people came to me and sometimes I did them by myself." Her second was self-published and she was approached by editors to publish her third and fourth.