Contemporary Landscape Photographers?

[mfratt]

I'm looking for some inspiration from some contemporary landscape photographers, preferably black and white but color is good too. Any suggestions on who I might check out?

[memorris]

Jodie Forster is IMO a great landscape photographer. He is still making new photographs, mostly 8X10 B&W but he does some color also. http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/ex...ter/index.html

[Bill_1856]

Roman Loranc in the West, Clyde Butcher in the East.

[Frank_E]

When you asked for examples of “contemporary” landscape photographers, I was legitimately perplexed about which definition of contemporary you were referring to. So I looked up the word so that I can be precise. It can have two different meanings.

1. belonging to the same age; living or occurring in the same period of time
2. conforming to modern or current ideas in style, fashion, design, etc.

If you are using definition 1. it could be a photographer living and shooting now, who also shoots in the style of Ansel Adams.

If you use definition 2. you may be looking for someone who shoots in a current more modernistic style.

I am sure there are many example of both.

The name that came to mind, using definition 2 (because I recently saw his work) is Axel Hütte. He is an LF Contemporary photographer who is one of the group often referred to as “The Dusseldorf School of Photography”. His work is interesting and different. Here is one web reference which show some of his pictures.

http://deutsche-boerse.com/dbag/disp...ists/36_huette

[mfratt]

Sorry for the confusion in terminology. I was generally referring to present-day photographers, but I also meant to include photographers of any age who I guess have "thought outside the box" with landscape. I'm just trying to nudge my way into landscape, but I've found that while I can make decent photos of a mountain range or whatever, they're very cliche and they are pictures which have been made a hundred thousand times before.

[Kirk Gittings]

Edward Burtynsky

and look through back issues of FRACTION MAGAZINE (online).

[vinny]

Vinny Walsh

[Vaughn]

In addition to Vinny, Thomas Joshua Cooper.

[Greg Miller]

Chip Hooper

[Greg Miller]

and our own Brian Kosoff.