Photographers Research

Yanidel

Yanidel is a photographer I have been following since starting my own street photography and someone that I get a lot of inspiration from. After looking into yanidels photography it opened up a new style of shooting and making me look at colours and how they affect my photography.

Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier is one of my favourite photographers due to the way her work is now famous. Living an ordinary life living as a nanny photographing her daily life till she passed away. Her film was found and then processed and printed when it was found out that her work was incredible.

Vivian shot on 6x6 format on 120mm film using an old rollieflex 2.8 camera she shot self portraits street photographs. Using both colour and black and white film she doesn’t limit herself to just black and white she also shoots in a lot of different styles giving me a lot of inspiration into the way I shoot subjects and my daily life.

She also thought outside of the box at one point taking self-portraits in any reflective surface from water, windows, mirrors to metals she also shot the inside of bins which created very simple but interesting images.

Trent Parke

Trent Parke is the Magnum photographer behind my favourite street photograph the image of the man with the umbrella standing waiting to cross the street in the rain.

This image has given me a lot of inspiration including wanting to shoot and not being afraid of shooting in the rain as this can give you a lot to play with when creating your photograph. This includes the rain you ca photograph people with umbrellas and also shooting through condensation on windows in the style of Saul Lieter.

Trent parke has inspired me a lot with his photography and his career from the framing of his photography to the way he photographs his subject in interesting and very original.

Tom wood

I have had the pleasure to meet Tom Wood which has let me be able to find out the true meaning of his work as well as having the chance to see photographs that are hard to come by.

Tom wood is such a big inspiration to me due to his best known work being on the areas that I have grown up around which let me shoot in the style of tom wood in the area tom wood photographed. His work on buses and public transport is the work that draws me in more and that I have researched the most on.

I also feel a very strong connection between my earlier work and tom woods earlier work as both were based upon public transport and our local areas.

Thomas leuthard

Thomas leuthard is a photographer that I have looked at mainly for one style of shooting that he does that is for his silhouette work. His silhouette work is my favourite of his due to the beauty but simplicity of shooting in this style.

Leuthard is also great at framing his photography with all of his images well framed and thought about before the shutter was pressed. This is a skill that I really want and need to progress on and also is a skill I developed upon while mainly shooting with a film camera.

I will try to develop upon this skill while shooting digital this will also be a skill that I progress upon when shooting film again.

Sim Chi Yin

Sim Chi Yin is a photographer that I have only just recently found she is a street photographer and documentary photographer and her work has been increasingly interesting to me due the framing of her shots and the use of colour in her work.

Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter is a photographer that is very big to me and has given me a lot of inspiration into my own street photographer work and also into my book ‘Don’t Talk To Strangers’ that I have since completed. His best known work is his colour street photography as he was one of the firs professionals to shoot colour film seriously.

His colour work is especially inspirational to me as looking at his use of lines and shapes and also the weather like condensation and snow is extremely inspirational due to the beauty of his images and also the way he uses colour in his work.

Robert Capa

Robert Capa is known as the first modern style war photographer in his career he photographed 5 wars the Spanish civil war, the second Sino-Japanese war, World War II, The 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the first Indochina War.

His more well known work in World War II was documented in London, North Africa, Italy, The Battle of Normandy on Omaha beach and the also the liberation of Paris.

In 1947 Capa co found Magnum Photos in Paris with fellow photographer Henri Catier-Bresson, George Rodger, William vandivert and David Seymour the organisation was the first cooperative agency made for the worldwide collection of freelance photographers set up by some of the greatest names at the time.

Robert Capa in my eyes can not only be judged on his amazing photography but also on what he was part of and also what he stood for. Capa has left a lot for the present day freelance photographer not only with the inspiration from his own work but also for Magnum Photos.

Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse is a photographer that is extremely inspirational to me and there a only a few that I really love and Richard Mosse is one of them. He is best known for his work in the Eastern Congo conflict he is known as a conceptual documentary photographer meaning he uses new ways to document his photography. His work in Eastern Congo sore him use Infrared film giving a new look on the war and also a beautiful documentary.

Playton

Playton is a photographer that has been inspirational to me for a long time he was the first portrait photographer that I fell in love with due to his way of putting across a political statement in a single photographer involving some very famous politician and world leaders. Furthermore he has photographed musicians, actors and other famous celebrities.

Nils Jorgensen

Nils Jorgensen is a small and little known street photographer based in London I found out about Nils in the Street photography now book which I use a lot for inspiration due to the amount of photographers and photographs in the book. As well as all the different styles of street photography used by all the different photographers in the book.

Looking more into Nils Jorgensen’s work I have found that he likes to record and document the life he sees around the city of London freezing all the different moments he stumbles across with a lot of different styles used in his own work. Style that I have learnt and decided to shoot with when looking at and researching all the other photographers on this list.

This makes me feel that inspiration from different photographers and researching all these photographers will help my own style of photography a lot as well as give me a lot of knowledge to use when out in the field whether it’s to do with the shooting styles lighting condition or what kit to use.

Michael Kamber

Michael Kamber is a war photographer that I have only recently started to research My favourites of his work all come from the untold stories from Iraq and I feel that his work has truly opened my eyes to what you can achieve when you are a successful war photographer.

Martin Parr

Martin Parr is a photographer that people either love or hate I love him not because I love all of his photography because I do tend to dislike a lot of his photography that I come across. But the originality of his photographs is something that attracts me a lot. Think of England and last resort of my favourite projects of his.

His food project opened my eyes to how you can shoot subjects as well as his Think of England and Last Resort projects showed me how you can alter the way you shoot a subject to put across a message and change the way the audience perceives the image.

Markus Hartel

Markus Hartel is a street photographer that I found in the book Street Photography NOW he is A photographer that is based in New York city and I am mainly interested in the work that he has shot on the New York City Subway.

Kevin Carter

Kevin Carter is a photographer that created in my eyes one of the most powerful stories I have seen and also one of the most heart-breaking photographic stories on the 1993 famine of sudan. His work in Sudan also one him the Pulitzer prize for his amazing work that gained so much publicity for the crises.

John Stanmeyer

John Stanmeyer is a photojournalist from America he is well known for being one of the founders of VII news agency and has been awarded 4 well known prizes during his career. The World Press Photo of the Year, Robert Capa Gold Medal, Magazine Photographer of the Year and a National Magazine Award for Photojournalism.

John Blumer

John bulmer is a photographer that I have only recently discovered and looked at due to his work titled ‘The North’ it was a project about the life of northerners in the 60’s to early 80’s. I love his work as it highlights the harsh life of northerners in the big cities of Liverpool, Manchester and Scottish in the 60’s.

He captures his subjects always in an interesting and different way using both wide angle lenses and fairly long lenses I think up to 135mm. I also love the way that john bulmer shoots always with someone in the foreground doing something but then also having a great subject matter in the background for example. My favourite shot is a picture of a man walking across a road onto a path and in front of him is a road that is split down the middle by a row of houses. This makes his photography a very beautiful and cool project to research and look at.

Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz is a street photographer based in New York his work is all based on observation but his more famous work is the work he did on behalf of New York city photography Ground zero after the 9/11 attacks.

I am more interested in his street photography but I love his work on ground zero he used a large format camera he decided to do this to make sure he gets as much detail in the shots as he can.

James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey is my favourite photographer due to the stunning work that he produces. Nachtwey choices to still use analogue techniques over digital shooting both 35mm and 120mm.

Nachtwey is a conflict photographer shooting from 9/11 to the conflict in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Nachtwey is my favourite photographer as the composition of all of his shots is always perfect and after watching The War Photographer which is a documentary on James Nachtwey career. In the documentary you get to see how Nachtwey handles and shoots situations.

I believe it’s both his humanistic nature and approach that allows him access to take such breath-taking imagery. Nachtwey has inspired me a lot in my current photography due to the fact I can use his techniques and shoot in the style of him in my current street photography practice. I believe that looking and researching Nachtwey has helped a lot with the progression of my own photographic practice in both street and documentary photography due to the inspiration I have taken from his work.

I also find myself looking deeper into Nachtweys’ photography whether it’s more into the story behind the photograph or the conflict that he is photographing. This is down to the photography grabbing my attention so much which I has not been as strong when researching and looking at both contemporary and historical photographers and their photography.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of my go to photographers for inspiration due to capa coining the phrase the Decisive moment he learnt and taught himself that with photography there is always a decisive moment.

Patience is something I have always struggled with but looking at Bresson’s work and shooting on film has taught me to slow down and wait for the shot to come to you if its not a grab shot that I have already pre-set my camera to shoot.

In 1947 Bresson co found Magnum Photos in Paris with fellow photographer Robert Capa, George Rodger, William vandivert and David Seymour the organisation was the first cooperative agency made for the worldwide collection of freelance photographers set up by some of the greatest names at the time.

Bresson in my eyes can not only be judged on his amazing photography but also on what he was part of and also what he stood for. Bresson has left a lot for the present day freelance photographer not only with the inspiration from his own work but also for Magnum Photos.

Don McCullin

Don McCullin is a war photographer and photojournalist from the England he has photographed a lot of different subject all around the world. This makes him an amazing photographer to research as there is so much work in so many contexts to look at that was all shot by one photographer making it easier to see what they did to accomplish a specific photograph.

Corey Arnold

Corey Arnold is the photographer behind one of my favourite documentary projects titled ‘Fish Work’. I love the way that Arnold shot his work as he didn’t just focus on the people but also on the small details as well as looking for stand-alone shots alongside shooting the documentary project.

I have looked over Arnolds’s documentary work a lot during my studies and also research for my own photographic practice as his work is a very inspirational one to me.

During studying and researching more into Arnold’s work and looking at more of his work I have seen what a great photographer he is. Arnold uses a lot of different angles in his shot shooting from both up high and from low furthermore Arnold frames his images perfectly reminding me about thinking about framing when out shooting.

Chuck Jines

Chuck Jines is a street photographer and photojournalist I came across his work on youtube from tutorial videos on street photography from a few years ago. He is quite big in the street photography blogging world and since then his work has become well known in the street photography community. He has also photographed the abuses of class A drugs among the homeless community in L.A.

Christophe Agou

Christophe Agou is a photographer that I have recently started researching. Looking in to Agou’s work my favourite images are all the ones shot on the subway and in close with his wide angle lens which looks around 28mm on a 35mm sensor.

This work is very inspirational to me as the style of shooting is what I like to shoot I like to be up close shooting with wide angle lenses I also love black and white photography when It comes to street photography although I understand that you can shoot street photography in colour and it becomes a completely different genre of photography and the style of shooting change drastically.

With black and white photography and street photography it makes it more gritty and a bit more opaque and less transparent than shooting in colour meaning you can almost completely eliminate a subject or idea of thinking about an image by putting it in black and white and forcing an idea on the audience.

Christine Spengler

Christine Spengler is one of the only a few renowned female war photographers hew works are primarily a view point of the victims of war and the people that are unheard in a war zone. Her work is extremely powerful and she documented a lot of wars from Chad, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Western Sahara, Kurdistan, Nicaragua, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, among others.

Bruce Gilden

Bruce Gilden was one of the first street photographers I ever researched in detail and so he has still left his mark as I still love to shoot with very wide angle lenses when shooting street photography.

Gilden is quite a controversial photographer due to the style of shooting as he uses very intrusive methods to create his style of photography which can be seen as quite aggressive and intimidating.

Gildens method of shooting is to use a wide angle lens with an off camera flash while also shooting at f11 upwards to create a very isolated exposure on the one subject but sometimes this isolation will occur on more than one subject in the shot.

Gilden although far from the style that I have developed for myself is a very inspirational photographer to me due to the very unique style of photography. I want to follow in the footsteps of photographers like Bruce Gilden who have found a very unique style of photography that I am good at shooting.

Alex Webb

Alex Webb is a photographer that I have been following since the first year of college and is someone that I have always found inspiration from due to his shooting style.

Alex webb loves to obscure the viewers view of a subject his can come in many ways from random objects to other people and action in the foreground. Furthermore he uses light a lot in his shots to control the framing of his images incorporating people’s shadows. This is something that is very inspirational to me due to shooting style that I prefer which is to watch a shoot and shoot around action and what the subject is doing instead of building and creating a shot.

Alec Soth

Alec soth is a magnum photographer that I only stumbled across recently his work was very intriguing to me as it was some of the first portrait work that really interested me.

I found out that Soth uses a large format camera using the tilt shit of the large format camera he alters the focus of the camera to give his portraits a lot of shallow depth of field making beautiful stand alone images.