If you think you had it tough growing up, just take a look at Yousuf Karsh’s childhood. He grew up during the Armenian Genocide. This meant for him and his family they were starved, driven away from their homes, and many were massacred. His family was no exception. He had many relatives that were literally [...]
Robert Doisneau is one of France’s most well-known and easily recognizable photographers. He is known for his playful sense of style. Rarely are his photographs serious or taken with a heavy heart. Rather, his work is fairly light-hearted, taking pictures of everyday people, often children, throughout France.
Most people would view Robert Doisneau as though he [...]
Henri Cartier-Bresson, like many of the early photography pioneers, was one that started as a painter. He had an appreciation for capturing life. He loved the artistic side of it and had a candid eye for it. As a native to Paris, he was inspired by another photographers work and realized how amazing photography was [...]
Alfred Eisenstaedt has quite an amazing story primarily because his talent was good enough to make him popular not only once, but twice. Alfred Eisenstaedt was a citizen of Germany as his Jewish family moved there in 1906. Early on, even as a young adult Eisenstaedt was able to make a name for himself as [...]
It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.
~James Lalropui Keivom
I believe the world should be thanking James Nachtwey for his commitment to photography. There are several photographs who could say that they have put their lives on the line to document conflicts, but probably not as frequently as James Nachtwey has.
James Nachtwey started out as most other photographers have. They started out working for [...]
