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# How Do Photographers Spend Their Time? Fact vs Fiction
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/how-do-photographers-spend-their-time-fact-vs-fiction/
- Published: 2012-01-09T14:58:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:46:20.000Z
- Description: The romance of photography means that our perception of what photographers actually do is distorted. These pie charts may help correct some popular misconceptions.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Photography, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/01/photographers-their-time-600.jpg "photographers-their-time-600")](http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/12/29/how-photographers-actually-spend-their-time/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

The romance of photography means that our perception of what photographers actually do is distorted. These pie charts by [A Photo Editor](http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/12/29/how-photographers-actually-spend-their-time/?ref=hyperallergic.com) may help correct some popular misconceptions.

The big chunk of time that editing and other administrative tasks take up is something I can relate to.

I wonder what pie charts for other people in the arts, like myself, would look like? *Hmmm … let’s see …*

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/01/mylife-600.jpg "mylife-600")

*h/t* [*swissmiss*](http://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/12/how-photographers-actually-spend-their-time.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)