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7 Famous Photographers in The World
If you plan to be a photographer, you may be in a creative rut. A lack of ideas, or rather, an abundance, can make it difficult to finalize a theme for your photographs. This is where the masters of photography can help you. We’ve compiled a list of famous photographers who delight us with their pictures.
#1. Lee Jeffries
Lee Jeffries is a self-taught artist who penetrates the soul of homeless people through his photography. Most of his work is in black and white and shot from the point of view of black as he doesn’t want anyone to interfere with what he’s trying to depict with his photography. His art awakens people to a moral sense.
For him, photography is not portraying homeless people. It’s about connecting with them. So before clicking any picture, he approaches every single person he’s going to photograph. And talks to them.
#2. Jimmy Nelson
James “Jimmy” Philip Nelson, an English photographer, is professionally known as Jimmy Nelson. He is known for his portraits of tribal and indigenous peoples. Jimmy was born in 1967 in Sevenoaks, Kent, and is famous for his book Literary Portraits of China.
Shell Oil assigned this project in 1992. He and his wife ( Ashkaine Hora Adema) traveled to 30 countries to collect photographs for this book.
In 2010, Nelson started working on his second book, Before They Pass Away. He traveled for three years and photographed more than 35 indigenous groups in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the South Pacific using a 50-year-old 4x5in camera.
#3. Eric Lafforgue
Eric Lafforgue, a French photographer, was born on July 17, 1964. A member of the Hans Lucas studio, he started working in Media and mobile applications. He started publishing his photographs in 2006, and they soon became recognized by various magazines worldwide.
He is famous for his photographs taken in North Korea, as every picture tells a story of the person he has photographed. He works for National Geographic, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Lonely Planet, Times, and Grands Reportages.
He has photographed everyone – from the groups of Namibia to the Yazidis. His tales are fascinating and depict some real emotions.
#4. Lisa Kristine
Lisa Kristine’s images take us behind the veil to the atrocities of slavery.
Lisa Kristine is known as a humanitarian photographer who photographs more than images. A master storyteller has photographed cultures of over 100 countries in six continents. She is famous for highlighting various social causes of modern slavery with her broad-sweeping images of courage, tenderness, and intimate portrayals.
She uses saturated colors for her photography and her fine art prints are among the most sought after and collected worldwide.
#5. Robert Capa
Famous Photographers in The World – Robert Capa
Robert Capa was born on 22nd October 1913 in Budapest, Hungary. This Hungarian boy was a famous American war photographer and photojournalist. Some consider his work the greatest adventure photographer in history.
He has covered five wars – the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. His photographs got published in various major magazines and newspapers.
He was an artist who believed you wouldn’t get a good photograph if you were not close enough to the subject.
#6. Joel Santos
“Joel has an eye for the wild and the remote, and his photographs are in the tradition of great travel writers and artists.”
— Canon Europe
Joel Santos was born in 1978, in Lisbon, Portugal. He started working as a professional travel photographer and documentary filmmaker in 2003.
He won various national and international photography awards – Travel Photographer Of The Year (2016), and VISÃO/BES (WPP standards and jury) 2005. He won 1st (“Dream Places”) and 2nd (Nature and wildlife) place awards at the ART & Tour — International Tourism Film Festival (2019) with the short film “Identidade de um Território”, shot for Geopark Estrela (UNESCO).
#7. Phil Borges
Phil Borges is a social documentary photographer and filmmaker famous for his photographs of Tibetan refugees. He has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures for over 25 years and has had his work exhibited in various galleries and museums throughout the world.
His award-winning books (Tibetan Portrait, Women Empowered, Enduring Spirit, and Tibet: Culture on the Edge) have been published in four languages. He has also hosted television documentaries on indigenous cultures for Discovery and National Geographic channels.
This list lists the most famous photographers this world has ever seen. We’re sure their fascinating work will guide you in choosing your theme. If you want to know more about these photographers, do let us know in the comment section below.