Bios in Third Person

We all know that having a website is vital to staying afloat as a photographer. It’s also very important to have a bio page on your website, just to give your potential clients a little taste of what kind of photographer they’re hiring. The greatest thing about the bio page is that even though we so carefully craft that page (and search through a thesaurus for hours for adjectives that can replace “awesome” and “bonerific”) they still exactly express our personalities and what kind of photographer we are.  

Now, I’m not saying this is always a good thing. Some of us are douche bags. Without question, the funniest “about me” pages are the ones in third person. “So-and-so is a freelance photographer based in Doucheville who is passionate about his craft. All his life, he has found beauty in shapes and light, and has attempted to document what he sees for the rest of the world to view it with him.”
 
Alongside the fluffy text that would make the photographer’s own mother say, “Eeeh, pushing it,” is of course some horrifically dramatic photo of the photographer staring deeply into the camera that he set up by himself on a Saturday night. If you can’t have fun with your own bio page, you’re doing something wrong. 

That being said, check out our new “about us” page! It’s in third person and everything! 

Note: If your bio page is in third person and talks about how you viewed the world as a child, no offense was meant. But we’ll still giggle at it when we see it.