Author Topic: Who are your favourite Flickr photographers? (Read 5576 times)

Ailsa · « **on:** March 06, 2011, 04:23:15 PM »

Who do you follow on Flickr that's doing interesting, creative work - or work that you just like a lot?

Francois · « **Reply #1 on:** March 06, 2011, 05:13:07 PM »

Well, I kinda like a certain Ed W. 's work

Ailsa · « **Reply #2 on:** March 06, 2011, 05:28:24 PM »

Quote from: Francois on March 06, 2011, 05:13:07 PM

Well, I kinda like a certain Ed W. 's work

Nah - he's rubbish.

I was sort of hoping for people I might not have heard of before...

Lino · « **Reply #3 on:** March 07, 2011, 01:12:59 AM »

hey Ailsa, i've been folowing this person for a while:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35336382@N00/page5/

also this guy here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/junku-newcleus/page3/

Mojave · « **Reply #4 on:** March 07, 2011, 02:59:15 AM »

Well, other than the FW crew that I follow, there are these:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/this_fleeting_life/ who is also on FW but hasnt posted yet.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/portal23/ Does a lot of wetplate, dry plate and other work.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaunkeenan/ does great Instax work.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/waterlightgallery/ does a lot of film and Polaroid and pinhole work.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/caballosblancos/ does a lot of TZ Artistic Polaroid work.

Hope this gives you some new artists to look at.

Urban Hafner · « **Reply #5 on:** March 07, 2011, 07:35:21 AM »

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakmati/ : He does very nice portraits, especially with his Kowa 6

http://www.flickr.com/photos/_kuri/ : Also from Heidelberg (like me), but he's also in China very often.

Oh, and both shoot mostly film!

Urban

Andrea. · « **Reply #6 on:** March 07, 2011, 09:14:18 AM »

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenakallberg/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/igorsv/sets/72157619441518814/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wozaczynski/ - has some nudity!

These are usually interesting.

CarlRadford · « **Reply #7 on:** March 07, 2011, 10:24:29 AM »

A little too overdone in places but incredibly engaging: http://www.flickr.com/photos/16536699@N07/

Mil Mascaras · « **Reply #8 on:** March 07, 2011, 08:27:58 PM »

Quote from: Lino on March 07, 2011, 01:12:59 AM

also this guy here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/junku-newcleus/page3/

Another vote for Junku Nishimura. I know this may sound like a cliche, but he's got a gift of capturing real emotion in his photography.

Some wonderful discoveries here: I love the Kowa 6 galleries that Urban suggests. Show you how a "poor man's hasselblad" in a skilled photographer can produce equal or even superior quality to a Leica, Hasselblad, or whatever 5000 USD setup you can think of.

original_ann · « **Reply #9 on:** March 07, 2011, 08:42:02 PM »

I echo many that have been mentioned here, including FW regulars. Some other film shooters that I'm quite enamored with:
Lauren Rabbit http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurensimonutti/
Michael Dorr http://www.flickr.com/photos/12232659@N08/
Isa Marcelli http://www.flickr.com/photos/isamarcelli/
Ben Goss http://www.flickr.com/photos/benjamingoss/
Ostrakizm http://www.flickr.com/photos/0strakizm/
Electrolite http://www.flickr.com/photos/smelterx/
Yu Ichiro http://www.flickr.com/photos/miyano/

johann · « **Reply #10 on:** March 07, 2011, 09:03:37 PM »

I second (or third) Junku Nishimura and Missy Prince. Great work !
Here are some of my favorites :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spassk/
A photo student with a mean eye for black and white, a great traditional printer and a good energy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamadahideaki/
He takes beautiful pictures of his children with a bokelicious pentax 67.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdzn/
I actually know this guy in real life. A fellow photographer from Lausanne. Great analog work.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/katherinesquier/
A young texan amateur with great sensibility for beautiful emotions and light.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tommyoshima/
A japanese master of light and darkness.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zipco-and-cal/
My favorite landscape photographer. She has a bit of the same approach as Missy Prince.

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #11 on:** March 08, 2011, 12:10:17 AM »

Ailsa....are you bored, or researching a book? Or (and this is good one, so let's start the rumours here and now) are you going to launch a new magazine and you're looking for photographers to feature?

jojonas~ · « **Reply #12 on:** March 08, 2011, 09:51:41 AM »

that'd be an interesting magazine then

here's two of mine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ludwigwest/
composer of a dreamworld within his polaroids
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simontomlinson/
camerahacker with a taste for toycameras and experimental exposures

this is an interesting thread, I'll be sure to check these links~ maybe I'll have to look up if I can find the filmwasters on flickr. sure wasn't obvious, atleast for me, that ed had a flickr! you trying to HIDE, ed?

Ailsa · « **Reply #13 on:** March 08, 2011, 12:58:37 PM »

Thanks everyone - there's some fantastic stuff here.

Quote from: ed.wenn on March 08, 2011, 12:10:17 AM

Ailsa....are you bored, or researching a book? Or (and this is good one, so let's start the rumours here and now) are you going to launch a new magazine and you're looking for photographers to feature?

One of the above.

Francois · « **Reply #14 on:** March 08, 2011, 04:10:10 PM »

Ooh!
Ailsa, international woman of mystery...

moominsean · « **Reply #15 on:** March 08, 2011, 04:22:39 PM »

i know what all this is about, so i won't slam flickr too much (and since i use it a lot, myself)....but it's soooo difficult to measure photographic skill/talent versus popularity on flickr. i'm always befuddled when i see someone who doesn't add to any groups and only had 100 contacts, and every single photo they post appears in explore and every photo has 4,000 views and 200 comments...and it's pictures of oranges on a table and shoes by the door or some such. and others have consistently fantastic photos and they have 50 views at best.

i'm also a little suspicious when every photo someone posts has thousands of views, regardless of quality. tommy o's stream is like that...he takes some fantastic shots. but his mundane/boring shots have the same number of views and comments. i mean, yeah there are lots of great shots on flickr, but so many don't really warrant the attention they receive.

but one of my faves is

michael pastur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael-pastur/

he deserves some attention.

skorj doesn't like flickr all that much, but he does try to whittle his stream down to his 50 "best". and i like his stuff a lot, as well.

Mojave · « **Reply #16 on:** March 08, 2011, 05:24:08 PM »

You know Sean, I never thought about that until I read your post but I bet there are people who know how to hack flickr and add their images to explore or maybe even how to increase the number of views so the images show up on Explore. I know people who know how to do this sort of thing with regular search engines like Google and Yahoo so I can only imagine something like that can be done with Flickr.

I dont spend much time on Explore myself. While I do see some good images there, I also see a lot of snapshots that I dont understand at all. I prefer to find my favorites by doing a search for a specific film type, camera type or process from the home menu. Its funny how many Filmwasters I have found by doing that. I just found Ed again by searching for Monocle Lens and I find you, Sean, all the time by searching for Polaroid film types.

Lino · « **Reply #17 on:** March 08, 2011, 08:52:05 PM »

Quote from: Mojave on March 08, 2011, 05:24:08 PM

...I bet there are people who know how to hack flickr and add their images to explore or maybe even how to increase the number of views so the images show up on Explore.

well... i read a piece somewhere that teached how to be explored. All you gotta do is: whenever you post a new picture you go all out on commenting and "faveing" other peoples picture that just have been posted. People will respond by commenting and faveing the first picture that they see on your stream.

I do know that there has been a few acounts that where forbidden to comment, because they did this too much.

It sounds silly that there is this popularity contest on flickr and even more silly that people cheat to be popular. But, there's also a lot of great stuff in there.

Andrea. · « **Reply #18 on:** March 08, 2011, 09:01:00 PM »

Yes, Ben Goss. Brilliant paper neg work!

original_ann · « **Reply #19 on:** March 08, 2011, 10:07:27 PM »

Michael Pastur - definitely! And his camera hacks are FABULOUS

loved the hullabaloo that ensued prior to his posting this 'reveal'

cZak142, on Flickr

on how he did this fabulous pinhole...

Zeppelin by cZak142, on Flickr

gothamtomato · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2011, 11:20:50 PM »

Vicky Slater.

astrobeck · « **Reply #21 on:** March 09, 2011, 12:29:35 AM »

Pastur is definitely on my radar. I love his hacks and am going to copy his Zeppelin but use a UFO.

LT · « **Reply #22 on:** March 09, 2011, 07:16:56 AM »

Quote from: gothamtomato on March 08, 2011, 11:20:50 PM

Vicky Slater.

echo that. I think Vicky's flickr name is sweetdistin

vicky slater · « **Reply #23 on:** March 09, 2011, 10:54:33 AM »

Thanks Deborah and Leon :)

These are three of my favourites...

Harpy.
just love the way she sees and alot of her struggles with it all seem so familiar.breezy and pretty but complicated and thoughtful too. and lovely woman too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/harpy/

Andreas Kaiser.
b/w, hand printed, 35mm, his everyday life/family. I wrote "intense, honest, moving and beautiful" on a testimonial for him and that's really it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreaskaiser/

Ashley and Traci
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tetheredto/
who have now stopped posting.

and now Traci on her own.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracimatlock/

Oh gosh, what to say. Raw, beautiful, heart in your mouth pictures.
Often very sexually explicit, always intelligent and challenging. So worth checking out.

jojonas~ · « **Reply #24 on:** March 09, 2011, 01:07:59 PM »

damn. now I'm sad. had this gnawing feeling in the back of my head that I was forgetting someone.. and I had. I found her first when I saw some photos she put into the great wall group. she had a really relaxed relationship with sharing her work. she used to say that she just enjoyed knowing that her photos were out there, beeing seen and herself seeing how the views counter changed now and again.

when I wanted to see some dreamy black and white shots of urban enviroments I knew I could just look up her stream. and she was getting better too! last shots I saw from her was before christmas. a bird shot real close when flying and two that looked just like they were shot from the eyes of both a cat and a bird, with the cat stalking on the bird.

dunno if it was her original name but she had //. now atleast after deleting her account. I'd love to see some shots from her again :/

DS · « **Reply #25 on:** March 09, 2011, 08:00:04 PM »

I like fellow archaeologist Guy Hunt's pictures a lot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/guyhunt/
He makes the mundane reality of my day job into something quite beautiful:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/guyhunt/3984179448/#

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #26 on:** March 09, 2011, 09:42:25 PM »

I'm not joining in until I know what this is about. I don't like being kept in the dark

Karl · « **Reply #27 on:** March 09, 2011, 10:54:47 PM »

Chris Friel consistently impresses me. Here's one I was enjoying earlier...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cfriel/3059146025/#in/set-72157601763140608/

Mojave · « **Reply #28 on:** March 10, 2011, 02:16:10 PM »

Karl, I forgot about Chris. He is already on my contacts list. I love his blurry images.

thil · « **Reply #29 on:** March 14, 2011, 12:48:25 PM »

One of my faves: "E L E C T R O L I T E"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smelterx/

Author Topic: Who are your favourite Flickr photographers? (Read 5576 times)

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