Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks (1912–2006) was an American photographer, filmmaker and writer. He taught himself photography with a camera from a pawnshop, worked for the Farm Security Administration and became the first African American staff photographer at Life.
Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman (1906–1979) was a portrait photographer born in Riga. He worked in Paris in the 1930s and in New York from 1940, where his pictures appeared on 101 covers of Life magazine.
Elizabeth Messina
Elizabeth Messina is an American wedding and portrait photographer based in Southern California. She is known for soft portraits in natural light of brides, couples, mothers and women, made on film and digital.
Jerry Ghionis
Jerry Ghionis (born 1973) is an Australian wedding and portrait photographer based in Las Vegas. He is known for glamorous wedding portraits that have the finesse of a pose and the feel of a candid moment.
Joe Buissink
Joe Buissink (born around 1950) is an American wedding photographer based in Los Angeles. He is known for candid, emotional pictures made in a photojournalistic style, and for the weddings of many famous couples.
Jasmine Star
Jasmine Star is an American wedding photographer from Southern California. She left law school, started her business without owning a camera and, four years later, was named one of the top ten wedding photographers in the world.
Jose Villa
Jose Villa (born 1980) is an American wedding photographer, born in Mexico and raised in California’s Santa Ynez Valley. He is known for soft, romantic pictures made in natural light, often on medium format film.
Alex MacLean
Alex MacLean (born 1947) is an American pilot and photographer. Trained as an architect, he has flown his own plane over the United States since the 1970s.
Tommy Clarke
Tommy Clarke (born c. 1986) is a British aerial photographer. He is self-taught.
Vincent Laforet
Vincent Laforet (born 1975) is a French-American photographer and director. As a staff photographer for The New York Times, he shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
George Steinmetz
George Steinmetz (born 1957) is an American photographer who works from the air. He flies a motorized paraglider, and later also drones, low over deserts, farms and cities.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born 1946) is a French photographer, filmmaker and environmental activist. He is best known for Earth from Above, a book of aerial photographs first published in 1999 that has sold more than three million copies.
Penny De Los Santos
Penny De Los Santos is a Mexican-American photographer and director based in New York City. She trained for the first ten years of her career with National Geographic, and since 2006 she has been a senior contributing photographer for Saveur.
Katie Quinn Davies
Katie Quinn Davies is an Irish food and lifestyle photographer, food stylist and cookbook author based in Sydney. She worked as a graphic designer and art director for more than a decade, then taught herself food photography in 2009.
Deb Perelman
Deb Perelman (born 1976) is the cook, writer and photographer behind Smitten Kitchen, the food blog she started in New York in 2006. She takes all the photos for the site herself.
Helene Dujardin
Hélène Dujardin is a French-born food photographer from Provence who lives in Charleston, South Carolina. A former pastry chef, she taught herself photography on her blog Tartelette.
David Loftus
David Loftus (born 1963) is a London-based food photographer. He has photographed more than 100 books, including all but one of Jamie Oliver’s international best-sellers, which have sold more than 30 million copies.
Damian Peach
Damian Peach (born 1978) is a British amateur astronomer and astrophotographer. He is known around the world for detailed photographs of the planets, made with telescopes on the ground.
Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Rogelio Bernal Andreo (born 1969) is an astrophotographer from Murcia, Spain, who lives and works in California. He is known for deep, wide views of nebulae, galaxies and faint clouds of dust.