Problem solved, I have one of my household member submit a magazine cover and then deleted that sim.
@eeee77 It sounds like a bug. There are a couple of bug reports related to the fashion photographer career, some fixed but resurfacing. If you want it fixed you could make a new bug report, given that you have removed your mods and CC, and then give that bug report some attention by posting about it a lot.
How to fix your current game: you could read in the bug forum and look for possible workarounds, or you could do a couple of resets to see if that will work: reload the game completely, switch to another household, then back, clear the inventory of items for example by saving the sim to library and then place them in a new save (you will loose all relations outside of the household) etc. Hopefully others have tips as well.
Here is a resurfaced one not quite the same but similar, perhaps there are workarounds there:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Freelance-Photographer-Career-Broken/m-p/10295734/highlight/true#M182495
