Photographers From Around The World Are Competing

Passion, patience and hustle

If you take a passion and run with it, can you be successful without the formality of the classroom? Can drive, thick skin, and persistence be all you need to get skills, money and connections? For some, yes.Take Chris Ozer—in 2010, he quit his 9-5 job to pursue a career in photography. Seven years later, the self-taught photographer has an Instagram following of over six hundred thousand and some pretty impressive clients, including Apple, Target, and The New York Times.