Every so often I’ll see an another photographers image and think, or even say out loud, “Damn you! That is so f**king great…I wish I’d taken that!” – Here are four of my favourite photographers, whose work causes that mental and verbal outbreak, consistently, time and time again. I won’t go into a huge amount of detail about why I love their work so much, the images speak for themselves. I think maybe they all see the world in a similar way to me? I love the way a lot of the portraits are obviously set-up (although not so in the case of Jim Mortram), but never contrived or false. Put them into whatever category you like – I see them all as superb portrait photographers.
Anyway, this is them. Be inspired.
Jim Mortram – I first became aware of Jim’s work a couple of years ago, he was featured in The British Journal of Photography ‘Cool and Noteworthy’ year end edition. Jim is certainly both. Watch this man, he’s going to be massive…
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Abigail Steed – Isle of Wight based portrait photographer. I just love Abi’s portraits, I think she’d make a great documentary portrait photographer, I’d like to see her shoot in the middle of China or somewhere.
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Daniyel Lowden-Stoole – I’ve followed Daniyel from the very start of his career, he produces those amazing intimate portraits of people his own age, friends, a lot of them, the kind of portraits you can really only get if your subject is totally at ease with you.
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Danielle Foreman Acken – a professional food photographer, primarily, but an incredible portrait photographer too. Superb, contemporary, honest pictures of humans…I don’t know what else to tell you!
++++++ ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF THE RESPECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHERS AND MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANYWAY WITHOUT THEIR PRIOR AND EXPRESS PERMISSION ++++++
PHIL KNEEN 
Right back at ya Phil – totally honoured and love the fact that we found each other.
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there are a lot of good photographers out there
some with really good ideas
but you just have to keep on going and do what you like!
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Better than chocolate….
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Thanks for sharing the work of these photographers! Some amazing images in this post!
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amazing portraits!!
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Thanks for sharing! ❤
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Everyone elicited a WOW out of me!!! Thank you for sharing! Love, Amy
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They are all wonderful and definitely can see the similarities to your work in some cases. Love that image with the hazy foreground from Abigail.
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I say the same about your photos. Wish they were mine. 😉
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The best blog of the day … thank you for putting these wonderful photographers together … I will enjoy exploring their work.
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Cheers one and all! X
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Ancient Tombs of Banan
Four very light pebbles attached
to flung-sprung rubber band found
between new laid bricks, retrieved
by mound-viewing haze-gazer reminds
him of the day he gave up that for this.
Tall seeded grasses wave as a group
passes and a small bee buzzes with
interest. The man with no plan sees rice
on the land, chattel by cart, its grain
raked onto black plastic on the road.
Some is still standing, Van Gogh’s yellow
landing between green and smoldering
fields. Ggachis fly by, bales are stacked
high, a rooster lets loose surrounded by
mountains’ shapes feathered in as if Ross
took his two-incher and stroked Payne’s
gray in a jagged horizontal line between
white grading to blue atop, and the
harvester’s fog below. Set free again, he
sits looking at ancient burial homes
so rounded and soft, kept mown, who
knows how, in pairs that excite the
dream of the lonely tractor driver
who precisely gathers the rows. He
leaves tracks for spring’s women to sew.
Here comes a guard atop Folk Museum
to punch his post. He doesn’t look hard
or he’d see the forbidden beer that
mimics the color of one more field’s
cloud that floats by but still notices tears.
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