Photography's Insta Addicts:
Magnum co-founder and French photography legend Henri Cartier-Bresson often, in reference to his work, spoke about the power of the decisive moment. He always emphasised how photography was a culmination of two distinct processes. One, where the photographer recognises the exact moment that would amplify the significance of his capture, and two, he uses, all his tools correctly to give that moment its correct art form. Bresson also famously spoke about how a photographer must walk miles to chance about that moment worth capturing.
Given to understand his idea of photography, some exceptional artists have been making images worth a curator’s wall, all on the photo sharing app of instagram. I have often come across this fact, and lived it too, that photo makers see the world around them in frames and compositions. They like the idea of being able to make an image at any given random, mundane moment. And thus, most have turned to the exceptional quality of their phone cameras, and taken to the app of instagram to share with the world how a heavy, booted professional camera is not necessarily a requisite for the perfect image. It's the photographer that makes the picture, not the camera. And these photographers have accounts that is worth every follow.
I. David Alan Harvey (@davidalanharvey)
II. Daniel Berehulak (@DanielBerehulak )
III. Richard Koci Hernandez (@koci)
IV. Humans of New York (@humansofny)
V. Laura E. Pritchett (@bythebrush)
instagram images exude a sense of deep personal involvement. Comprising of images of nature, and the world around her, her involvement with the subject lends the images a sense of affection that is immediately caught on by the viewer. Her account will lead to a sense of inwardness in every young photographer.
VI. Kevin Frayer (@kevinfrayer)
VII. Hironori Mizuno (@iphonegrapher_hiro)
VIII. Michael Christopher Brown (@michaelchristopherbrown)
Michael Christopher Brown
IX. David Guttenfelder (@dguttenfelder)
