As I'm coming to a close on my career at CMU, I'm trying to figure out what direction I want to go with my photography. Every class I've taken has brought me closer to realizing what it is that I truly enjoy. One of these areas of photography just so happens to be documentary photography.
Someone who has inspired me is Brent Stirton. He is the senior staff photographer for the assignment division at Getty Images. His photos have been used in publications ranging from National Geographic to GQ and many more. He is given the opportunity to travel nine months out of the year, and has won many awards from many different clubs and publications, one in particular being the National Press Photographers Association.
What really stuck out about Stirton's work was his use of lighting, composition, and color. In his project of a tribe in Papua New Guinea, he accentuates the color of the tribe's painted faces, and uses angles and situations that drive home the idea that these people do not live the way the rest of the world as we see it lives. The access he must have is simply incredible, and he uses that to his advantage to make amazing photos that others are not privy to. If I could ever aspire to be as good as someone, he would be it.
http://www.brentstirton.com/index.php
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3 years ago
I have never heard of this photographer before, I looked at his website and I think he's really good. I think image number 6 is my favorite, it's an interesting composition and is really colorful, like most of his work seems to be.
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