I had several digitech jobs in this year which paid me more than $1000 per job but that’s it. They no longer hire me at all instead of lowballing just like other photographers. I have at least more than 5 years of experiences in photography industry but getting works is too limited so far. I’m sick and tire of getting works from photographers who only wish to pay $100~200 per day! They even threat me that they already have assistants to replace me which left me no choice so I planned to find photographers and agencies to contact for possible opportunities since a month ago.
But finding potential clients to provide both photo assistant and digitech is quite challenging in NYC. I gathered more than 500 photographers and 200 photo agencies from Wonderful Machine, Models.com, Photoassist.com, ASMP, APA, agency list, parties, and more to send emails but all I got was 40 photographers and 4 agencies responded to my emails and yet, all of them already have a team for both PA and digitech position which makes me gloomy. It feels like it’s impossible to break the barrier between me and the market. Major studios like milk, Pier 59, or Dune? They didn’t even respond or not interested.
I have experiences and skills but I feel that I’m being mistreated so far. I tried my best to promote myself to photo industry but I’m out of options. Word of mouth did not and can not work as I dont have any connections or networks. Since I found photographers from many sources, I have no idea where to find more photographers.
Any suggestions what to do next?