Featured
Landscape photographers
Featured
Landscape photography shows the land and the places where people live, from mountains and coasts to suburbs and mines. This guide covers its main approaches, its history from Carleton Watkins to New Topographics, and the basic techniques.
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (about 1840 to 1882) was an American photographer of the Civil War and the American West. He is known for his pictures made on the King and Wheeler surveys.
Roger Fenton (1819 to 1869) was an English photographer. He is known for his 1855 photographs of the Crimean War and for his views of abbeys, cathedrals and landscapes.
John Gossage (born 1946) is an American photographer, best known for his photobooks. His books The Pond and Berlin in the Time of the Wall turn plain, overlooked places into quiet stories.
Don McCullin (born 1935) is a British photographer known for his black and white pictures of war, from Cyprus and Vietnam to Biafra and Beirut. He has also photographed poverty in England and, in later years, the dark landscapes of Somerset.
Michael Kenna (born 1953) is a British photographer of quiet black and white landscapes, often made at dawn or at night with long exposures. Since 1987 he has photographed Japan again and again, from Tokyo to the snowy hills of Hokkaido.
Rebecca Norris Webb (born 1956) is an American photographer and poet. Her quiet color books, like My Dakota and Night Calls, pair photographs with short texts about place, memory and loss.
Robert Adams (born 1937) is an American photographer of the American West. His quiet black and white pictures of new suburbs, plains and forests helped define the New Topographics.
Anette Nordskog is a self-taught photographer based in Norway. Her ongoing project Lågen documents traditional raft fishing for wild salmon on one Norwegian river.
Eiji Ohashi is a Japanese photographer from Hokkaido. Since 2008 he has photographed lone vending machines glowing in snowy nights, in his series Roadside Lights.
Ansley West Rivers is an American photographer based in Victor, Idaho. Her project Seven Rivers (Aint Bad Publisher, 2019) builds layered river landscapes on single sheets of large-format film.
Eric Meola is an American photographer known for his work in color. He photographed the cover of Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run in 1975. His books include Fierce Beauty and Bending Light.
Mark McLennan is a photographer from Calgary, Alberta, currently based in New York City. His first book, No Fences (Stanley/Barker, 2024), shows ranching communities between Southern Alberta and West Texas.
Jon Ortner is an American photographer. His black-and-white books include Visions of Paradise: American Wilderness (The Images Publishing Group, 2024) and Peak of Perfection (Schiffer Publishing).
Ingrid Weyland is an Argentine artist and photographer based in Buenos Aires. In her project Topographies of Fragility, she crumples printed landscapes and photographs them again.
Bill Ward is a British photographer and actor. His book IMMERSIVE (Kozu Books, 2025) is an ocean project made with intentional camera movement among breaking waves.
John Volynchook is a photographer born in Liverpool. His book Faultlines (GOST Books, 2024) shows UK landscapes threatened by fracking.
Leonard Sussman is a photographer born in San Francisco in 1947. His book From Brooklyn to the North Pole follows a 52-day voyage on an icebreaker to the North Pole in 2022.
Mac Stone is a conservation photographer and National Geographic Explorer who focuses on wetlands and swamps of the American South. His book American Amazon (teNeues, 2026) draws on more than 20 years of work.
Massimo Lupidi is a self-taught photographer based in Italy of landscapes and aerial views. His book Cinque Terre tra cielo e mare (Sagep Editori, 2026) combines ground and aerial photography.
Patrick Lefèvre is a photographer whose book Vetur: Frozen Landscapes of Iceland (Kehrer Verlag, 2025) shows Iceland's winter in a Pictorialist style.
Sakaguchi Tomoyuki is a Japanese photographer. He has photographed Tama New Town near Tokyo at night for more than twenty years. His book GOING HOME was published by Sokyusha in 2025.
Elizabeth Sanjuan is a visual artist who photographs people, landscapes and built places around the world. Her book Silent Snow: Hokkaido (Daylight Books, 2025) comes from winter journeys to Hokkaido, Japan.
Norio Kobayashi is a Japanese photographer born in 1952. His book Japanese Blue (AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2025) collects photographs of blue tarps made over more than thirty years.
Kentaro Kumon is a photographer born in 1981. He works for magazines, books and advertising and makes his own projects on rural Japan and landscapes shaped by people.
Alex Kittoe is a photographer and visual artist based in Kansas City. His book 024 (Setanta Books, 2025) gathers photographs from years of travel.
Victoria Sambunaris is an American photographer who has crossed the United States alone by car for more than 25 years. Her book Transformation of a Landscape was published by Radius Books in 2024.
Christophe Jacrot is a French photographer based in Paris. He is known for photographs of cities and landscapes in rain and snow, and for the book Winterland: The Colors of Snow (teNeues, 2025).
Catherine DeLattre is an American photographer born in 1949. Her book The Great Wide Open (Setanta Books, 2026) brings together 62 photographs of rural Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
Arthur Drooker is a photographer and author based in Marin County, California. His self-published book Thirty-Six Views of the Golden Gate Bridge (2024) shows the bridge in black and white from unusual angles.
Steve Giovinco is a fine art and night landscape photographer based in New York. His series Vanishing Glaciers shows Greenland's glaciers at night.