Short photographer bio samples
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A Photographer’s Biography Ali Sami Aközer
Beylerbeyi, Kuzguncuk, 1905, Ali Sami (Aközer), Glass negative, 112 x 90 mm
Ali Sami is born in Rusçuk in 1866, and moves to İstanbul. Because his family is registered in the Beylerbeyi quarter of Üsküdar, Ali Sami is also called Üsküdarlı Ali Sami. He graduates from the Mühendishane-i Berri-i Hümayun in 1866 and becomes a teacher of painting and photography at the school. He is employed in the Ottoman army, and he is also a teacher of phography at the palace and for many years gives lessons to Prince Burhaneddin Efendi. In 1889 he becomes an aide to Abdülhamid II. As a military photographer, he is assigned by Abdülhamid II to accompany German Emperor Wilhelm II during his visit to the Ottoman Empire when he travels from İstanbul to Jerusalem in 1898, and presents an album of this journey to the sultan. After the constitutional monarchy is proclaimed, he becomes a painting teacher at Trabzon High School, and passes away in 1936 in İstanbul.
-- It's common for photographers to have a certain ambivalence for writing. After all, photographers are visual people. However, having a professional bio is paramount for a website. When your work is accepted in calls for entries, galleries, or any other formal photography presentations, you will need a bio. Additionally, your clients want to know about you, why they should hire you, and what experience you bring to the table. Generally, a bio gives your audience an idea of who you are, your education, experience, and your inspiration and/or motivation for being a photographer. A bio should describe your specialties and an overall aesthetic of your work while including a list of current and previous clients. However, a bio should not be an artist statement that goes into depth about the meaning of your work and the technical details involved in your creative process. Most formal bios are written in the third person – as if someone else is writing about you. For e This Ansel Adams biography was published by Oxford University Press for its American National Biography. Ansel Adams in front of his most famous image, “Moonrise, Hernandez” Adams, Ansel (Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. The grandson of a wealthy timber baron, Adams grew up in a house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. When Adams was only four, an aftershock of the great earthquake and fire of 1906 threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose, distinctly marking him for life. A year later the family fortune collapsed in the financial panic of 1907, and Adams’s father spent the rest of his life doggedly but fruitlessly attempting to recoup. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. His relatively elderly parents, affluent family history, and the live-in presence of his mother’s maiden
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By William Turnage, Reprinted courtesy of the author and Oxford University Press
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