10 photographers you should follow in 2023
10 of the best photographers working in color
Following up on my guide to “10 photographers you should follow in 2023 working in Black and White”, below is a list of 10 photographers you should follow in 2023, working in color.
A personal list of some of my favorite photographers, in no particular order.
I am a sucker for Black and White photography but sometimes color just hits my sweet spot.
Check out my previous guide “10 photographers you should follow in 2023 working in Black and White”.
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Niall McDiarmid
Niall McDiarmid is a Scottish photographer based in London. His work is primarily about documenting the people and landscape of Britain. His books include Crossing Paths (2013), Via Vauxhall (2015), Town To Town (2018), Southwestern (2019), Shore (2020) and Breakfast (2022).
Scott Rossi
Scott Rossi is a Canadian photographer living and working in New York. His work explores the poetic nuances of daily life, often focusing on subcultures and public spaces.
Rossi is a graduate of the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program at The International Center of Photography.
Molly Matalon
Molly Matalon, born in 1991 is a photographer born and raised in South Florida. She received her BFA in photography from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work, — which deals with desire, idealization, and power dynamics — has been exhibited in The United States and internationally. Matalon currently lives in Los Angeles working as a photographer for hire.
Caroline Tompkins
Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Caroline Tompkins received a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and the BBC, Vogue, and The New York Times, among others, have featured her work. Tompkins worked as a photo editor at Bloomberg Businessweek for five years before leaving in 2019 to pursue her practice. She is currently a professor at the School of Visual Arts and a freelance photographer for editorial and commercial clients. She lives in Queens, New York.
Nadia Lee Cohen
Nadia Lee Cohen is a photographer, filmmaker and self-portrait artist. Heavily inspired by cinema, Americana and Britain particularly in the 1960’s and 70’s, her photographs and films are veritable visions of saturated, surreal dreamscapes.
Drawing upon the duality of the female form, fine art photographer and filmmaker Nadia locks our optics upon the twisted paradise that lurks within her mind, exploring the paradoxical standoff between strength and fragility within womankind.
Tania Franco Klein
Tania Franco Klein (b. 1990) started her photography praxis while gaining her BA Architecture in Mexico City, which took her to pursue her Master in Photography at the University of the Arts London.
Her work is highly influenced by her fascination with social behavior and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, emotional disconnection, the obsession with eternal youth, the American dream in the Western world and the psychological sequels they generate in our everyday life.
Arnaud Montagard
Arnaud Montagard (b.1991) is a French photographer, he currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. His photography focuses on composition and details, creating an atmosphere that is often referencing the work of famous American realist painters. With an emphasis on minimalism, his photography creates a new angle on an ordinary detail.
There is a timeless elegance that Arnaud Montagard captures in his photography that echoes work by painters such as Edward Hopper but also pioneering colour photographers such as Stephen Shore & William Eggleston. Choosing to capture isolated figures caught in their own thoughts, staring out of view. Arnaud is always looking to bring the every day to life. Focusing on the details that might otherwise pass us by.
Wouter le Duc
Wouter le Duc (1989) is a Dutch portrait photographer. He strives to show what’s underneath the mask of daily life and capture a glimpse of the inner world of the sitter. His style is defined by silence, soft tones and the use of analogue photography combined with daylight.
In 2014 he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. He majored in photography and has since been working on refining his craftsmanship and visual signature in portraits.
Irina Rozovsky
Irina Rozovsky (born USSR, lives US), makes photographs of people and places, transforming external landscapes into interior states. Irina lives and works in Athens, Georgia where she and her husband Mark Steinmetz run the photography project space The Humid.
Jamie Hawkesworth
Jamie Hawkesworth was born 1987 in Suffolk, England. He initially majored in forensic science at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, but was introduced to photography through a class on crime scene documentation, changed majors, and graduated in 2009 with a degree in photography. After working as an assistant to a documentary photographer, he met Benjamin Bruno, a fashion stylist, and began working a as a fashion photographer.
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Kim
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Color is such an incredible challenge to do well. I have tremendous respect for these photographers.