He’s probably trying to make a living exclusively from taking photos and reaching how to. Quite meh.

My friend, understand that photography has approached true art more than most art forms. By that I mean, it’s so ubiquitous that many people would not be willing to pay fair prices and there’s enough people hungry to learn willing to take those «jobs» for practice, and more over most people who pick up a camera do so as a past-time. If you’d like to make money from this, I see that the most successful ones either embark in these greater than life projects (Salgado, Iturbide, …) or have a patreon-like model of funding. Also, I’m a strict amateur and a novice so there’s 90% I don’t know what I’m talking about, just general impressions.