Famous photographers to inspire you

Alex Webb
“For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more.”
Andrea Gulickx
Known for macro photography, abstract landscapes and smartphone photography, often featuring a dreamy atmosphere and a narrow depth of field.
Ansel Adams
Sweeping monochrome landscapes (especially of the American West), featuring a full tonal range.
Ben Kanarek
A fashion photographer whose work spans storytelling, cinematic and narrative, and who has worked with countless supermodels.
Bill Brandt
One of the 20th century’s most important British photographers. Images of British society, distorted nudes, famous artists and landscapes.
Brassaï
Iconic images of 1920s Parisian life, from the gritty to high society including the ballet, opera, and intellectuals.
Cecil Beaton
Elegant photographs of high society; a black-and-white cinematic approach characterised by staged poses and imaginative sets.
Charlie Waite
One of the world’s leading landscape photographers; his work is known for its almost spiritual quality of serenity and calm.
Chris Killip
A British documentary photographer whose work features in the permanent collections of many major institutions.
Colin Prior
Panoramic landscapes generally taken in the “golden hour” at dawn and dusk.
Danny Clifford
A world-renowned rock ‘n roll photographer with a ‘fly on the wall’ approach to photographing the most iconic artists of the last few decades.
Darcy Padilla
A documentary photographer and photojournalist known for her narrative photography, exploring themes of struggle and socio-economic issues.
David Bailey
English fashion photographer best known for his images of celebrities, models, and musicians.
Desiree Dolran
A Dutch photographer and filmmaker whose work ranges from documentary and still lifes to portraiture.
Dimpy Bhalotia
Gorgeous B&W street, portrait and documentary photography, based in London
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Don McCullin
A photojournalist without equal, from poverty in London to war photography and even soulful portraits and landscapes.
Dorothea Lange
Documented American life with riveting photographs, best known for iconic images of migrant farmworkers during the depression of the 1930s.
Duffy
One of the UK’s most respected photographers whose work documented the ‘Swinging 60s’ scene in London.
Eric Bouvet
Photojournalist/documentary photographer who has covered major world events and wars.
Ernst Haas
Considered one of the pioneers of colour photography. His early work on Austrian returning prisoners of war brought him to the attention of LIFE magazine.
Eve Arnold
Her work captured the lives and struggles of the 20th century with clarity, compassion, and a belief in human dignity.
Harry Callahan
An innovative photographer who enjoyed multiple exposures. He walked the city every day, but produced only a handful of final images each year.
Harry Gruyaert
Extraordinary use of colour, widely published and exhibited, with a focus on the images of India, Morocco and Egypt.
Helmut Newton
One of the world’s leading photographers; highly stylised, glamourised fashion shits and nudes – colour and black & white.
Horst P Horst
A pioneer of fashion photography – his elegant work made him one of the most influential fashion photographers of the mid-20th century. 
Irving Penn
One of the twentieth century’s great photographers, from still lifes through fashion, beauty, portraits travel and documentary.
Joel Meyerowitz
An award-winning pioneer of colour photography, whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions around the world.
John Bulmer
An adroit recorder of provincial Britain, with a reputation for recording the industrial cityscape.
John Swannell
A distinctive style in fashion and beauty photography for Vogue, Harpers & Queen and Tatler. Has photographed the royal family.
Julia Anna Gospodarou 
Twice International Photographer of the Year, a leader in contemporary black & white fine-art photography, especially architecture.
Lara Jade
Fashion, beauty, celebrities and advertising.
Lee Miller
From surrealist photography and Vogue to war photojournalism and portraits of key figures of the 20th century.
Linda Lashford
Dreamy, painterly landscapes and elements taken from landscapes.
Margaret Bourke White
The first female war correspondent and the first permitted to document Soviet industry. Iconic images of 20th-century life.
Mark Littlejohn
Soft, dreamy landscapes, especially of Britain, with superb tonal ranges in his mono work.
Martin Middlebrook
Documentary photograper/photojournalist from Brexit to Palestine, Afghanistan and the Gilets Jaunes.
Martin Parr
Street (and often beach) photography with humour. Look for kitsch, garish colours and unusual perspectives.
Michael Kenna
His mysterious photographs, often at dawn or at night, focus on the interaction between the landscape and human-made structures.
Patrick Lichfield
An internationally renowned fashion photographer who also did Princess Diana’s wedding.
Peter Lindbergh
A renowned fashion and music photographer who helped to start the era of supermodels.
Platon
One of world’s most renowned portrait photographers, having photographed more world leaders than anyone else, including 6 US presidents.
Richard Avedon
A fashion and portrait photographer who helped define America’s image of style and beauty – but was criticised for working with models of colour.
RK Metzker
Look for composites, multiple exposures, superimposition of negatives and solarisation, especially in black and white.
Sally Mann
An American photographer known for large-format black & white photographs of people and places around her.
Saul Leiter
An iconic street photographer known for shooting through windows and for abstract and layered images.
Sebastião Salgado
Portrayed individuals living in desperate economic circumstances without forcing heroism or soliciting pity. Superb black & white work.
Terence Donovan
A contemporary of David Bailey and Brian Duffy; came to prominence in ‘Swinging London’ focusing on art and fashion. 
Terry O’Neill
Known for documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s, capturing his subjects candidly or in unconventional settings.
Tish Murtha
A British social-documentary photographer best known for documenting marginalised communities, social realism and working-class life.
Trent Parke
An innovative photographer known for his poetic, often darkly humorous photography focusing on his home country of Australia.
Valda Bailey
Colourful, dreamy, abstract photographs created by using the camera as a paintbrush
Vivian Mayer
An American street photographer whose work was only discovered and recognised after her death.
Yvonn Zubak
Abstract, geometric and psychaedelic photography.