This essential reference for photography students explains how to become part of the professional community. By defining professional photography today, and exploring what is expected of professional photographers, the book demystifies this often-misunderstood and misjudged career track. The easily accessible text provides readers with valuable information, inspiration, and education on topics including developing your photographic voice, finding your area of specialization, exploring the moving image, building a website, and understanding self-presentation, promotion, legal aspects, and marketing. It also features inspirational projects for students to embark on their education in photography.

A tour of the personal living spaces of influential contemporary designers offers insight into each designer's philosophies about personal space, work methods, and visions for the future, in a lavishly photographed volume that includes coverage of Harry Allen's converted mortuary in Manhattan and the Bouroullec brothers' Parisian carpenter's workshop.