We believe that looking at the work of great photographers is really important in helping you to develop your vision. To help you do this, we have created some links to photographers on the web where we hope you will be truly inspired.
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century"
Irving Penn was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique.
Steve McCurry is an American photographer who has worked in photojournalism and editorial. His work spans conflicts, vanishing cultures, ancient traditions and contemporary culture alike - yet always retains the human element.
Charlie Waite is now firmly established as one of the world’s leading Landscape photographers. His style is unique in that his photographs convey a spiritual quality of serenity and calm. He has established a worldwide reputation for his particular approach to his work. His photographs are held in private and corporate collections throughout the world.
David Ward is one of Britain's most notable landscape photographers. His eye for shape and form is without equal and produces work that is startling in its clarity and intensity.
For over 40 years, Ragnar Axelsson, Rax has been photographing the people, animals, and landscape of the most remote regions of the Arctic, including Iceland, Siberia, and Greenland. In stark black-and-white images, he captures the elemental, human experience of nature at the edge of the liveable world, making visible the extraordinary relationships between the people of the Arctic and their extreme environment – relationships now being altered in profound and complex ways by the unprecedented changes in climate.
British photographer Paul Hart explores our relationship with the landscape, in both a humanistic and socio-historical sense. His work examines human altered topography and our occupation and stewardship of this land, usually concentrating on one specific geographical region were he photographs intensively over a number of years. He works primarily with the black and white analogue process, using large and medium format film cameras and is one of a diminishing number of photographers whose practice involves all aspects of the photographic process from the negative through to the print.
Josef Koudelka is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar, a Grand Prix National de la Photographie, a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson, and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.
Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer. He photographs tableaux of American homes and neighborhoods.
Diane Arbus was an American photographer. Arbus worked to normalize marginalized groups and highlight the importance of proper representation of all people.
Arnold Abner Newman was an American photographer, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images.
Sir Donald McCullin CBE is a British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished.
Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.
Elliott Erwitt is a French-born American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid photos of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings. He has been a Member of Magnum Photos since 1953.
Alec Soth is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis. Soth makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. New York Times art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers" and photographs "loners and dreamers".
Todd Hido is an American contemporary artist and photographer. He has produced 17 books, had his work exhibited widely and included in various public collections.
Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include Uncommon Places and American Surfaces, photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s.
Michael Kenna is an English photographer best known for his unusual black & white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. His photos concentrate on the interaction between the ephemeral atmospheric condition of the natural landscape, and human-made structures and sculptural mass.
Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, music vdieo director, and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2,having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both bands over three decades.
Frans Lanting uses his work to promote understanding about the wonder of our living planet with images, publications, and activities that inspire people to help achieve a sustainable future for all life on earth.
Dave is a British portrait & landscape photographer with a love of travelling & Motobikes.
A friend of Ansel Adams, Charles Cramer worked with and learned from Adams for many years. Charles continues to work with the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite, exhibiting his pictures and leading workshops.
Valda Bailey is a freelance photographer living in Sussex who first became passionate about photography when she was 14. Her approach to photography is greatly informed by her background in painting and her influences come as much from artists as photographers
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