Ansel Adams:
http://www.anseladams.com
Lee Frielander:
Lee Frielander is an American-born photographer who has delved into a wide range of travel photography. His work has developed over many years, tackling a wide range of subjects. However, his portraiture interests me the most. He places himself into these different locations, showing how far he has come. This style of self-portrait also implies to the audience that his journey is more personal to him as a result as he works his way into these altering environments and backdrops.
William Eggleston:
William Eggleston, is an American photographer who is widely credited for his use of color photography. He focuses mainly on location photography which depicts a vast for of journey, however it is his use of colour which helps elevate his photography. He uses pastel colours and neon bathed images in order to transport audiences into a different time or place. The vivid and seemingly out of place colours immediately cause the audience to draw connotations to the unknown as they are transported into a world different to the one they know.
Robert Frank:
Robert Frank is an American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His work focuses on the contextual aspects of the time in which his photos were taken. He also studies the character of different people that he finds along the way as they stand out distinctively from their environment. The contextual themes are used to show changes within society and to show how far the world has come since.
Stephen Shore:
http://stephenshore.net
Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his images of diverse landscape and objects within the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. He analyses different aspects of American life showing contrasting images of bustling intersections and roads compared to desolate landscapes of the desert. His images mainly take place on location which gives the audience a sense of journey as they are able to experience these different environments from different lifestyles and cultures first hand. Each image expresses each location within a completely different tone which implies a sense of variation and journey within the landscape.
Tomer Ifrah:
Tomer Ifrah carefully analyses the locations and cultures in which he photographs and attempts to fill the frame with as much references to these aspects as possible. He communicates the different tones of each location through the use of colour and focuses on what each location means to a person. He demonstrates this through framing and composition.
Chris Upton:
Chris Upton is a Nottinghamshire based photographer who travels across the globe, following his passion of travel photography. He uses colour and composition in order to create variation between each location and image. For a less developed location he may highlight small buildings, washed out paint and weak architecture. However, for a larger scale location he will show the vastness and unique aspects by taking large landscape images, highlighting the colours of the buildings and biodiversity within the frame.
Ben Gold:
Ben Gold is a London based photographer who has created a vast body of work with varying examples of journey. A large amount of his journey work takes place within a car. This causes the journey to feel more personal as the audience are given a sense that they are experiencing the sights for themselves. He is able to distinguish between locations by focusing on different key elements. A mountain range will be captured through a landscape shot in order to reflect vastness while a snowy area may be highlighted by a more close up shot of ice on a windshield.
Vasantha Yogananthan:
Vasantha Yogananthan is a Paris-based photographer who is noted for his work in travel photography within places such as India. Vasantha Yogananthan has looked to reflect contrasts within our lifestyle and cultures compared to the locations that he has photographed. He focuses on imagery and moments which may seem strange to the audience but in reality this is just another aspect of everyday life for the people within the image. He creates diverse imagery within the locations he uses by highlighting colours. Within his India photography he highlights orange and red tones which are not common within architecture around the world which causes the location to become distinguishable from the others.
Jane Dorn:
Jane Dorn is a graphic designer, photographer, and educator of graphic design. Her images mainly focus around the subject of human presence and abandonment. Dorn reflects this in her work by having empty rooms with fading paint or even showing objects that humans have thrown away. This photography can depict journey as Dorn highlights unusual and sometimes unnerving sights that take the audience completely out of their everyday lives and immerse them in an entirely new environment.
Murray Becker:
Murray Becker was a photographer whose career included photo journalism, sports photography, and management of photographic services at the wire service. Becker has been considered one of the worlds most famous photographers largely due to his fifteen shot sequence that he took when the hindenburg disaster occurred as he was one out of only seven photographers able to capture the event. Becker's images mainly focus on medium to full body shots of specific people and events. The black and white style of the images mix well and add to the tone of the picture in order to get your attention and focus it on a character or object in the photo. Becker's collection of historic moments that he has documented within his career give the audience a sense of journey as he has seen so much across the world.
Walker Evans:
Walker Evans was an American photographer, most famous for his work during the great depression. Evans' photography is distinctive within the genre of journey photography as he chooses to focus on the people and culture of the area in which he is depicting. The result is a more personal journey as the audience can begin to analyse the lives of the people he met along his journey.
Steve McCurry:
Steve McCurry's career was launched when he crossed the pakistan border while wearing native garb. He returned with rolls of film sewn to his clothes and the pictures were published around the world and were the first photos to really show the conflict in rebel-controlled areas in afganistan, just before the soviet invasion. McCurry's work in outstanding environments are used to really capture the setting through a use of vibrant colours and a focus on foreign locations and people. McCurry shows evidence of different civilisations and the people within them through the focus on living conditions, beliefs and in some cases starving children. McCurry takes the audience on a visual journey within his body of work, displaying different aspects of culture such as colour, environment and clothing in order to make his work even more diverse.
Liam Frankland:
Liam Frankland is a photographer from Suffolk who likes to photograph landscapes, seasides and streets. Frankland uses objects as the main focus of his images with different backgrounds. Franklin's composition is very minimalist but while being very informative. He uses the same concept of focusing on an object and the environment in which the object originates. Keeping this consistent composition within his work causes the audience to feel a sensation of journey as he takes them to different places.
Bruce Davidson:
Davidson is an American photographer whose documentary work of gang life in Brooklyn, poor districts of Harlem, New York, and his photographs of the New York subway system in the 1970s helped him break new ground. He has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 1958. His mother built him a dark room and he began taking photos. Soon after, he approached a local photographer who taught him about the technical sides of photography, in addition to lighting and printing skills. His influences included Robert Frank, Eugene Smith, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Davidson shows a sense of journey as he exposes the audience to different aspects of culture, context and living environments.
Frans Lanting
Netherlands-born nature photographer and long-term National Geographic contributor whose work has broken new ground and directly influenced governments’ conservation policies. Lating's work is one of the most clear examples of journey as he does it for a living, highlighting different lives, biology, and settings. The audience can analyse this work and experience aspects of a life completely different from their own.
Art Wolfe:
Art Wolfe is an American photographer and conservationist, he is best known for his colour images of wildlife, landscapes and different cultures. His photographs document scenes from every continent and hundreds of locations. His images depict journey in a wide variety of formats. He can document vast areas through landscape photography or take close up images of people. He uses colour to distinguish between different locations, and his portraiture usually features people with their vast landscape behind them in order to show where they are from.
Ami Vitale:
Ami Vitale is a National Geographic photographer who's has travelled to over 90 countries and has bared witness to violence and conflict across the world. Vitalie's documentary work is unique because she adds some artistic variation to her image with her chosen composition. Her profile shots of people within their environment stand out as the frame around the people reveal everything that is needed to be known about their location. The colour within the image is used to transport the audience to a surreal location, for example the use of a red river is so visually different from anything that will be seen within everyday life.
Emmanuel Rosario:
Emmanuel Rosario is a Documentary photographer from Harlem, New York. He mostly photographs his adventures with his friends and the people he meets. His images depict different cultures and environments. The audience can see different ranges of city life within Rosario's work and the different cultures that he meets which gives a sensation of journey.
Ernest Sebastian:
Sebastian was born in 1981 and lives in Liège, Belgium. He started photography in 2011 with a self-taught approach. He does not have any real preference and likes experimenting with different styles. His work mainly focuses on evidence of abandonment. He is able to show this by photographing locations that have entirely been left over large periods of time with rust, litter and debris. This form of travel photography is interesting as there is an implied sense of journey and story within each image that causes the audience to wonder how it came to be.
I would ask you to be more evaluative in your work… connotations, denotations and contextual information can be added to some of these posts…
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