Photographer Promo Videos

I’ve been working on a redesign for my personal photography site over the past couple of weeks and one thing I keep dreading is redoing my “about” page. Listing out clients, awards, and contact info is no problem but the “bio” always gets me. How much should I tell people? Do people really care where I was born or if I like to rock climb? Does it have to be funny? Clever? Should I just get the facts down and be done with it? Does anyone even read these things anyway!?

Well I just came across a brilliant alternative to writing one of these bios that will most likely only be read by my Mom anyway. Make a video!

Over the past month Redux Pictures has started uploading two or three minute promo videos for each of the photographers they represent. They have over twenty of these well-produce videos up on their Vimeo page now and after spending at least half an hour browsing through them I can say that it’s definitely a good idea. You quickly get a feel for the photographers’ work, the people they work with and most importantly…their personality. I didn’t watch all of the videos but below is one I really liked about photographer Kevin Cooley.

Kevin Cooley – Photographer from redux pictures on Vimeo.