I have always admired the work of Josef Koudelka which fills me with sadness but also hope at the same time.
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Paul Wakefield is a photographer I have long admired and he has been a huge influence on my own approach to photography and many other people I know. Paul is an extremely successful commercial photographer responsible for many memorable advertising campaigns. But his passion has been landscape photography, often spending half the year on his private work whilst he was working the rest of the year. He contributed the pictures for a number of books on the English, Scottish and Irish landscape in the 80s. I was lucky enough to attend what I think has been his only week long workshop and the things I learned are still resonating 10 years later.
His recent India project and his book ‘the landscape’ are both magnificent works.
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A good interview with Paul for those who are interested. On the launch of his previous to last book.
And…
One photographer I greatly admire is the social documentarian, Sebastiao Salgado. He passed in May of this year.
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I admire the work of the Dutch war photographer Eddy van Wessel. He concentrates on the consequences of the conflicts for civilians and has an impressive exposition in the Dutch Military Museum in Soesterberg until the end of the year.
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Jonathan Scott, wildlife photographer and winner of the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year .
Especially noted for his photography of Wild Dogs and the Marsh Lions /Great Migration
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Thanks for quoting from my list. Jack Hill and Marc Aspland should be easy to find since they are both staffers on The Times.
C.
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I did a workshop a couple of years ago with Craig Semetko through Leica Australia. Loved his work, and his two Unposed books have a great theme. Also, as a Leica addict, I need to bring up Henri Cartier Bresson!!
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I’d taken HCB as a given!
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@badger1 John Blakemore black and white studies of tulips was an insight into still life for me.
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Thomas Joshua Cooper is a landscape inspiration. I have seen several of his exhibitions and own a few photobooks.
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Blakemore’s work was and indeed still is inspiring. Sadly I missed the opportunity to meet him.
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I really like the work of Eve Arnold. There’s a glorious heterogeneity about her photography – she was just at home snapping the poor and downtrodden as she was the rich and famous (her portraits of Marilyn Monroe are among the best ever taken of the star). She was particularly adept at photographing women, and she never intrudes, or imposes on her subjects…
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Then there’s Lee Miller. Her extraordinary life, and her experiences as the only frontline female photographer during the war, tend to overshadow her work, but like her early lover and mentor Man Ray, she had an eye for the unusual and the surreal; and especially when she was photographing artists like Picasso, she was shooting them as an equal, a fellow artist, rather than as a photographer on assignment.
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Plenty of names being posted.
But how about people posting a few of there own photos, that where influenced by the influencer.
One of the best photographers of musicians is Val Wilmer, who I am fortunate enough to count as good friend. Val’s pictures of jazz and blues greats (especially black ones) are unrivalled. As well as being a brilliant photographer she is also a wonderful storyteller and anecdotist and an inspiration for me in life as well as photography (not that I do too much of that at the moment).
And she met Bobbie Gentry!
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You appear to be looking for an ‘evidence based photography’ thread!
Best,
Chris
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Well. I’d like to see examples of photos that were influenced by various photographers, in this thread.
Do you have any. 
Ansel Adams, his three books and a couple of visits to Yosemite have been my main photographic inspiration, but I have nothing I would post here that would show that influence.
I have also been an admirer of many British landscape photographers, including Fay Godwin, Colin Blakemore, Joe Cornish and, most recently, Mark Littlejohn.
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Being not good at all in portrait photography,I sold my Zeiss Batis 85 mm,I admire Vivian Maier.Saw her photographic exhibition a couple of years ago in Milan and I was amazed.
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