who are your favourite photographers?
 

Some of mine.

Nan Goldin


Bruce Gilden


Larry Clark

Todd Hido


William Eggleston


Weegee

Martin Parr


Fan Ho


Gordon Parks

Hm, I haven't given a conscious thought to the photographers whose output I like the most as a whole in a while. And being on several photo-sites and just "collecting" (via favorites etc.) images I like kind of makes things fuzzy, so no guarantee of completeness and no absolute ranking, but off the top of my head:


Berenice Abbott



Aleksandr Rodchenko





Hengki Koentjoro





Branden May

Steven Siegel










Greg Fasolino






While his technique may have been more lo-res and less flashy than many photographers posted here, I absolutely admire his sheer output and determination. He documented so much that was happening at the time and continued to raise awareness about a lot of it. Lots of local scenes can only dream of that.


Patrick Clelland

Meredith Jacobson Marciano





Sarah Wonderling





And way too many more I watch on several sites. Honestly, there is a lot of amazing photography out there - and much of it not necessarily linked to household names.

I like Todd Hido's liminal space style but I am mostly oblivious to names in the photography medium, for shame. The best parts of John Carpenter movies is always the still-shot montages of empty living spaces, or the opening hallway sequence in David Lynch's Lost Highway for example, invoking a feeling of kenopsia. Something a movie like Skinamarink utilises and this channel I recently found.

Joel-Peter Witkin



Diane Arbus

I don't get a whole lot out of photography unless I know the person taking the picture. That wasn't always the case, I used to enjoy going to the Photographers Gallery to see what was on, or going to art book shops and flicking through the photography books. Nowadays there are about 5 or 6 friends and acquaintances whose instagram profiles I'm always pleased to see new posts from (including yours Gabriel, also Vince and Naomi who used to post here but whose usernames I can no longer remember).
There are a couple of instagram profiles I like, one that posts pictures from Japanese art books, occasionally it will share some 60s avant garde or experimental photography stuff that is amazing. Another called Apology Zine the sometimes posts pictures from old zines and some of the erotica stuff he shares is good.