Dryden Goodwin
Goodwin's work heavily focusses on the human figure and portraits which creates intense curiosity, intriguing the viewers. He considers the process of looking and representing, in relation to what people experience and what they see. He has demonstrated a sustained interest in the investigation of the way we interact physically and psychologically with and within urban spaces. Further exploring the changing nature of our contact with people around us, both known and unknown. He captures people on a journey themselves, either walking around touring London or even on modes of transports such as buses.
Ben Gold
Gold's work predominantly includes the theme and sense of a journey in terms of the way he takes his photographs as well as where. He tends to use the technique of taking pictures whilst on a journey himself, capturing a variety of views from the front window of his car while including the rear view mirror in the shot. This provides another perspective and imagine in the same shot which can imply a sense of a route, showing where he is going to travel and also where he has already been. Gold also photographs people in very busy urban areas like city centre and depicts the subjects moving or going on a journey themselves.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank is an American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans for his fresh outsider's view of American society. Frank found a tension in the gloss of American culture and wealth over race and class differences, which gave his photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists, as did his use of unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from accepted photographic techniques. He often captured subjects during their travels on the streets and transport in America.
Ronya Galka
Pien Wilbrink
Pien Wilbrink’s work is fascinating in its detailing of urban spaces, versus the wide angles that many photographers on this list use. He focuses on the textures in fences and of skyscrapers, and has carved out a very unique, beautiful aesthetic for his work.
Seymour Templar
he documents New York's social life and also has created a series of photographs of individuals interacting with their connections with their smart phones. In this beautiful photo series, Templar candidly captures unsuspecting people interacting with their phones, their faces bathed by the blue glow from their device's screen.
Frank Bobhot
He is a documentarian with an eye for the theatrical who found his way to photography by way of cinema, and although he turned his focus fully to photography in 2008, the formal and aesthetic influences of the cinematographic form continue to underlie his present work. Bohbot’s work inhabits a space between reality and fantasy, documenting and storytelling, every frame. Depth and patterns are a key formal element of his style
Martin Roemers
Martin Roemers literally asked himself how he could encapsulate in a single image the boundless, almost tangible energy, chaos and tumult of a city of more than ten million people. And here again his analysis was both simple and effective: He focused on centres of business such as market places and main roads, while working with a slightly elevated position and a slow shutter speed. In this way, the endless stream of people, trains, cars, rickshaws and cyclists is transformed into an image of a single, vast and indefinable source of energy that hurtles between static elements including houses, stalls and merchandise.
William Eggleston
Eggleston says that he photographs democratically where all subjects are of equal importance. At first this indifference is disturbing. It feels at times that his subjects are things Eggleston noticed out of the corner of his eye and the scenes are nothing particularly special or notable. And that's exactly what they are, and what he intended them to be. In his work there is none of the certainty of photojournalism, and certainly none of its social or political comment
Steve Mccury
The majority of Steven McCurry's photography revolves heavily around colour and ethnicity as most of his work has been taken in the Indian region through travelling, therefore focussing on the formal element of colour. Also most of his work is portraits, which I would like to experiment with in the future. Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than thirty years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and countless exhibitions around the world to his name.
Jesse Wright
His portfolio is wide-ranging in both its composition and content; the one constant is what his bio describes as “the interplay between the conceptual and the mundane with a focus on the subtle interactions of people with their environment.”
Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna is a photographer who looks for interesting compositions and arrangements within the natural landscape. He is drawn to certain times of day and night, preferring to photograph in the mist, rain and snow clear blue sky and sunshine do not inspire him. He only photographs his work in black and white. His work heavily relates to the formal element on depth as objects seem smaller as they get further away. However he also shows depth in other pictures by blurring out objects in the background and enhancing the detail on things in the foreground.
Yvon Buchmann
The artist notes that his goal is to show the simplicity and poetry of everyday life, and in his elegantly composed black-and-white photographs even the most casual scenes are given a presence that makes them compelling. Along with his powerful graphic sensibility, Buchmann’s talent at manipulating light and focus brings the lines of modern buildings, as well as landscapes and the faces of people, vividly to life, creating images that make an immediate emotional connection.
Jomayra texeira
Her style of photography is a bit dark and nostalgic, mainly because I try as much as I can to express myself through editing, and compositions. I take parts of my personal life and bring it out in my photos. I want to be able to tell a story, without saying a word. I mostly shoot for pleasure, I don’t ever plan a photo, unless I’m working on a certain project but even then, i like to let things flow. My style came very natural to me, I try to use personal experiences to motivate me to shoot, and to be able to bring that emotion out of it. That’s probably I enjoy the most about shooting, especially in rain, cloudy days, they bring out a nostalgic sort of cinematic vibe to my photos.
Jasper James
Jasper James is a China based photographer working in Shanghai and Beijing,shooting editorial,advertising and corporate work. His photography ranges from portrait,travel and interiors to concept driven projects. A lot of his work incorporates the multiple exposure technique which consist of a human figure and outline with another image included inside. This image tends to be a location which can be related to a place that the subject has visited themselves or have some type of meaning or sentimental value.
Will Peasrons
His interest is in large-scale 360 and panoramic imagery, and within this, there are several areas he specialises in. Such as Panoramic photography, Interactive 360s, 360 Virtual Reality and 360 video. He is forever documenting the ever-changing London skyline, and have been lucky enough to travel in search of other cityscapes across the globe. He photographs the urban side of the world at large scale, showing the locations in their active prime and uses techniques such as time lapses and panoramic to illustrate movement and scale.
Henri Cartier Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographerconsidered the master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He helped develop street photography, and approvingly cited a notion of the inevitability of a decisive moment, a term adopted as the title for his first major book. His work has influenced many photographers. he applied geometry to his images poetically. If you look at the composition of his images he integrated vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, curves, shadows, triangles, circles, and squares to his advantage
Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz is a street photographer and portrait and landscape photographer. Although Meyerowitz is mostly known as a street photographer and a fine art photographer–.I think his 9/11 aftermath photographs are his most meaningful. His photographs are now a permanent installation at the 9/11 memorial in NYC– and the images he was able to capture recorded that moment in history– for future generations to remember and reflect upon. He felt that it is important for street photographers to have a sense of obligation or duty to be socially conscious. After all, we are documenting people and society through our lens.
Michael Bosanko
Michael Bosanko is a lighting drawing photographer who does not like to edit that much. He believes that his personal Light Graffiti portfolio shares one thing in common; not one piece has reached photo editing stage unless he is resizing for the web, and using watermarks. There is no layering or overlapping of any kind. He chose this path not because he os anti-editing bug to keep his light graffiti pure, learn from his mistakes and triumphs. Exposures range from seconds to over an hour. The vast majority of his tools are simple household torches that are used or fashioned in various ways, along with standard bulbs, LEDs, fire
Brassaï
Brassaï’s early photographs concentrated on the nighttime world of Montparnasse, a district of Paris then noted for its artists, streetwalkers, and petty criminals. These photographs are very different from Cartier-Bresson’s as they are theatrical performances rather than decisive moments. Brassaï’s subjects are not only aware of the photographer, they collaborate with him. Brassaï’s unique style gave Paris de nuit its distinctive intimacy and led to its huge public success.
