Charlie Kirk is an English, ex-Japan based corporate lawyer, who is now a full-time street / documentary photographer, based in Istanbul, Turkey. He is working obsessively on a book, and he shoots with film, on a Leica, predominantly in 28mm, in both black and white and colour. He loves grain, flash, pretty women, "fat kids", "dwarfs", people kissing, cigarettes and beer. He is a great guy and a harsh critic.
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Robert Frank's work 'The Americans' was deemed too controversial at the time he had completed it. He had essentially created a raw snapshot of America, warts and all, that no one had ever successfully done before and this resulted in a die hard following by many influential artists at the time including Jack Kerouac, the Rolling Stones and Allen Ginsberg.
Read Moreabout Alex Webb
Having met Alex and his wife Rebecca in Poland I can say that I really admire his humility, gentle approach and persistence to capturing difficult images. He is very down to earth, incredibly approachable and I think that is what allows him to sometimes become invisible to his subjects. Alex has achieved a mastery of colour photography and is easily one of my top five favourite photographers of all time.
Read Moreabout Jesse Marlow
Jesse is an Australian documentary photojournalist and street photographer. I have met him on a few occasions and definitely admire his long term approach to photography. He is based in Melbourne and shoots both film and digitally.
Read Moreabout Trent Parke
Trent Parke is the next photographer I thought I should post about as he is an Australian who produces consistently inspiring, unique and well thought out work. And because I'm a massive fan of his work. My Queensland friends should definitely have a look and a laugh at the familiar scenes of his 'AUSTRALIA. GOLD COAST. 2006' series.
Read Moreabout Susan Meiselas
So here goes... I wanted to start posting short snapshots about photographers that really interest me in one way or another, to introduce them to those that don't know them, provide a few links to content about them for those that do, and in doing so learn more about them myself.
I thought I would start with Susan Meiselas as I am a big fan of her work and how she approaches it.
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