Photographers that inspire me #4

This series of posts is to give you an insight into the photographers, and their various styles of photography, that inspire me to go and take more photographs. i hope these photographers help to give you ideas and inspiration.

Nick Knight

    Nick Knight OBE (born 1958), is a groundbreaking fashion and documentary photographer from Britain.

    He first came to light when, in 1982, he published a book entitled “Skinheads” whilst he was a student at Bournemouth. From this Nick was commissioned to create a series of 100 portraits for i-D magazine’s 5^th anniversary.

    His work with i-D soon caught the attention of art director Marc Ascoli. In 1986 Nick was then commissioned to shoot a catalogue for the avant-garde Japanese designer YohjiYamamoto alongside graphic designer Peter Saville.

    Nick really pushes the boundaries, not only and his creativity, but in his technical abilities and he can always be found at the forefront of innovation.

Nick once said “ I don’t want to reflect social change, I want to cause social change”

   

 Nick is now a influential and internationally acclaimed in the fashion photography scene ever since, working with clients such as Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Lancôme, Swarovski and Christian Dior.

Most people would recognize his work from music videos for Lady Gaga’s “Born this way” and Bjork’s “Pagan Poetry”. 

Boris Mikhailov 

   Boris Andreyevich Mikhailov (born 1938), is a very influential who is said to be one of the most important artists to emerge from the former USSR. 

  

  In his photographs Boris examines the consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the people who lived there, taking photographs of the homeless who he gained the trust of enabling him to capture the true essence of their lives and surroundings.

   

Boris is most famous for the “Red Series” (1968-1975), using red in his photographs to picture groups of people, individuals and the city-life that surrounded him. In his photographs, Boris points out, in a really rather direct manor, the “mask of beauty” of the post-soviet capitalistic uprising. Boris continues to primarily deal with the people on the outskirts of society. 

I hope you found the photographers in this post as interesting as I do.

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Written by Paul Casey Hemming @ Big World Picture Dot Com

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