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From The Vault: Do Photographers Turn Down Clients They Find Unattractive?

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Do photographers turn down clients they find unattractive? We got the real scoop!




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0:00.0

The Bert Show. Are we about to expose a dirty little secret about one industry?

0:08.0

If you are a professional photographer, professional, you get paid for this.

0:14.2

1-855 Bert Show, and I want to put you on the voice disguiser.

0:18.8

And I'm asking for total and complete honesty from you guys. Professional photographer 1-855-Bert show. This is the DM I get the other day, okay? Hey, Bert. I've been listening to your show since high school. I can't believe I'm messaging you. You guys don't need to like that first line there. You guys don't need to tell me that. I don't listen to. I don't need to know about it. This makes me feel, though. I always kind of like that. I'm like, oh, my God, I've been listening since I was five, and I'm 62 now. Anyway, I have a career as a nurse, but the past couple of years, I picked up photography. I now have a nice little side

0:56.5

job that's becoming a moneymaker, but I'm still new at it. And I have to confess something to you

1:02.6

because I think you said on your stories, you're dating a professional photographer. Yeah,

1:07.0

my Instagram stories. I have mentioned that. Maybe this is a question for all photographers.

1:12.8

Do photographers ever pass up jobs because they know they won't be able to take good pictures of those they are shooting?

1:21.3

She says, I'm trying to avoid saying it, but since you guys don't know me, do photographers ever pass up jobs because the people are

1:29.6

aesthetically unpleasing, as you say? I have no other photographer friends to ask and can't find

1:36.5

anybody online talking about it. So am I the only superficial photographer? I know I sound like a

1:42.7

jerk, but wondering if this is just an unsaid secret in photography,

1:47.3

1-855 Virchow.

1:48.8

So what she's asking is, maybe she'll get a lead online or whatever, and then she'll go

1:54.4

to their Facebook page and realize that they're not pretty people, and she's like,

1:58.2

I can't do anything with that.

1:59.5

And then turns down the job. Do photographers do one eight five five bircham i mean it's so subjective though like beauty is so subjective sometimes fugly is fugly save that um so that's not me the truest that you ever said yeah sometimes you can't hide f Yeah, sometimes you can't hide, fuggles. Listen, man.

2:18.1

Sometimes you can.

2:19.2

Sometimes it's the universe.

2:22.3

Sometimes you can't Photoshop Fugly.

2:25.4

Listen, so it is subjective, but a really good photographer wouldn't turn it down because it's about the aesthetic of the photo.

2:32.6

And they can make anyone look good.

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