Does Turning Photography Into a Career Kill the Love for It?

Every working photographer has been asked: do you still enjoy it? The honest answer is complicated. Choucino's take is worth reading because he's not selling the dream or torching it. He's lived the middle ground, where craft becomes commerce and the frame you loved shooting for fun is now someone else's brief. The useful question here isn't whether passion survives going pro. It's whether you've built enough separation between the work that pays and the work that feeds you. If you haven't thought about that distinction before your next slow season hits, this is the conversation to have now.