I need advice about where to start my photography career?

Dubai – very warm and has amazing architecture.

Go where you want to go. Does not matter.

Find a job. Then perfect your craft.

Quality of life and photo assisting is a very rare combination.

in my experience photography is such a widely enjoyed pleasure these days and so readily accessible with the digital era etc. that most importantly you need an edge and a USP and that is half the battle… for the the rest of the advice that you need I’ll have to leave up to someone else… Can you show us some of your photography?...and…loving the username btw

Photo assisting will get you much closer to an independent self employed career in photography. Photo school will get you much closer to working for a photography company, agency.

If self employment is what you want, then assist others and learn their ways. Business and Marketing school is more important to the self employed photographer than Photo school.

Move to York

Thank you all for the wonderful advice!

That’s what we’re here for!

I think Miami is the place for you, not sure if you are interested in print/fashion photography but it pays the bills. Maybe LA or San Diego would be Ideal also, depending on which coast you prefer.