Sean Philips.
I am not a real estate photographer who picked up a video camera. I am an artist who spent ten years learning how a house tells its story. I carve vessels out of salvaged Manitoba trees. I have won awards for poetry, I write essays, I compose music and play more instruments than I should, and lately, with a great deal of help, I have become a software developer. Every one of those is the same job wearing different clothes: take something ordinary and make a stranger stop and feel it. A listing is exactly that problem. Your seller’s home is the most ordinary thing in the world to the thousands of people scrolling past it, and the most important thing in the world to them. My whole job is to close that gap, in a film, in a photograph, on a page built to be handed across a kitchen table. I built a new way to market houses because none of the old ways used everything I know. When you hire me, you are not renting a camera. You are hiring the person who thinks about attention for a living.