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Welcome, @Octombria .
I’ve edited your title to make clearer the sort of advice you’re seeking. I hope you don’t mind.
While you’re waiting for someone who knows what s/he’s talking about, you might like to use the search facility here. This is the sort of topic I’ve seen previous threads on.
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Well I’m a professional photographer, although I am still based in the UK rather than France… however I know a couple of colleagues who successfully made the move from UK to France as freelance (wedding) photographers, one before Brexit and the other during Covid!
Fortunately photography is not one of those professions where any French qualifications are required - as an EU citizen you can set up as self-employed and offer your services. As you mentioned it would take some time to find clients and build the business, but that will apply to any self-employed activity.
One of my friends (who lives near Bèziers) continued to shoot weddings in the UK while building up her French business, thanks to Ryanair (!) so that might be an option if you have photo clients in the UK! (The other friend had already planned to move to France before Brexit arose so had been shooting destination weddings in France as his main business for a number of years, travelling from the UK).
Teaching I believe does need recognised qualifications but others can advise you on that.
What kind of photography do you do? I think shooting destination weddings for UK/US clients would be quite possible in the South of France, if that’s of interest. My friend also does some property photography I think.
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To become a teacher in a public school is hard. And a lot of competition. Equally to be a proper translator recognised by a court is hard.
To teach something in a private school is easier and has far fewer requirements.
As for photography it is pretty straightforward to set up a business as an auto-entrepreneur. The difficulty is making money! You really need to delve into costs, taxes, social contributions very carefully and work at a realistic business plan. Many fail because they don’t control costs, or charge realistic amounts.
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If you do wedding photography visit Chateaux that are wedding venues, take your portfolio and talk to them.
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Thank you, much appreciated.
Thank you for such a detailed and helpful answer. I do mostly editorial work - portraiture - for various types of clients - and I’m thinking on launching more of a niche service in France - in order to gain clients in the area. It is all just in conception stage. Haven’t even thought of actually working between UK and France - an incredibly great idea. Thanks again, much appreciated.
Thank you. Indeed, I was thinking about private schools interested in teachers of English (or photography, or both 
) - and/or adult learning or similar. Thank you for the link, very much appreciated.
This sounds brilliant, thanks! I’m not focused on wedding photography at the moment - but your suggestion gave me other ideas and inspiration, thank you, much appreciated.
I spent forty years in fine art teaching in art schools and universities in several countries and would suggest that teaching opportunities will be slim, unless you have a strong CV of exhibitions or extensive commercial experience in an internationally respected context.
However if you have an attractive location and a decent website, private international residential photography courses in French and English might work well. Invite Americans in particular to learn French while improving their photography in an inviting setting might be an option to supplement the weddings and chateaux stuff.
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