 How's it? How's it? It's sometimes tricky to discover new photographers to be inspired by. It's kind of like this this catch-22 that you can only really seek out photographers whom you already know. So how do you find photography that you're you're not familiar with new photographers to inspire you? And when you look through these these books of great photographers the same names surface again and again and again And I thought it might be fun every Friday just to give you a few suggestions of photographers whom you probably don't have heard of Whom you can explore over the weekend at the moment. I'm thinking about calling this series Photographers who you can explore over the weekend and hopefully enjoy looking at their images I thought that's gonna have certain snappiness and a zip to it or It could be like photography what is Gif and I like which is joke probably only about ten of you enjoyed Anyway, photography is is fascinating in that it takes us What is there in front of us normal every day and safe and transforms that into Something unreal and and compelling not like a painter who can use Licence when they're translating what they see in that subject onto the canvas in any way they see fit a photographer For the most part must work with only the raw materials that they are supplied with These three photographers today are standing examples of this Franco Fontana is an Italian photographer said that the purpose of art is to make visible The invisible and what better way to eloquently express the magic in in his photography And what draws you into his photographs Springs from that quote. It's a willingness to see the opportunities for photography that are bound and are all around us This is such a basic thing as often we forget, you know rather than looking for the grand Gesture his photography feels feels quiet. It feels pain to Lee It's simple the colors in many of the images echo back to those primary colors of the 1980s Which transport me to my childhood now some of this photography is from the 1980s and that's but that's not necessarily where this Color is is coming from there. They are strong primary colors, but they don't feel strong Now the more that I look at them. They're overt Simplicity also gives way to story. There's there's something and this is the hallmark of a great photograph There's there's the more that you look at it the more it offers up to you Now they also have this kind of odd vibe of despite being very public photographs of being Private like like the person viewing the image is the only one who is privileged to see that scene All of those scenes are familiar and none of those really make us Feel like it's a well We couldn't really be part of but possibly something that's only sort of glimpsed in a reflection or a mirror over our shoulder His portfolio is is absolutely diverse and and certainly worth digging into We're gonna stay in Europe, but hop over to France and here we find John Batho now unlike Fontana a lot of Bathos photography is staged and orchestrated now I don't think this is a bad thing necessarily, you know It's this staged approach which gives his photography a more kind of thoughtful air now This isn't of course to say that Fontana isn't thoughtful But when you look at Bathos's website his his photographs are presented initially as a Collection of images all together so evidently he wants us to consider the work as a whole You know, you know mentioned a previous video does so often these days We only tend to look at images as single images, you know, they are on the screen by themselves So it's great to be given an idea of how the photographer Intended for them to work together because this I think a point so often overlooked His parasol photographs feel like they could have been created a hundred years ago You almost expect ladies and voluminous swimsuits to step out into the frame or gents and linen Linen suits with with straw boaters and lateig if you see what I did there now He would probably feel right at home here. I'm exceptionally taken by John Bathos's cloud Photography, I think they are absolutely beautiful. They're just they're just lovely now I'm not a hundred percent sure but it feels like the on these photographs that the paper has had either the light sensor for Motion painted on it prior to being exposed in the dark room or perhaps The developer has been painted on to the exposed paper now, obviously I love this effect And I know you can do it quite easily with black and white printing because I've done it myself But perhaps somebody who's a bit more familiar with with color printing By hand could tell me if that would work given the complexities of the of the processes involved my initial kind of gut feeling Is that is that it wouldn't? Because the chemicals are so much more sensitive, but there must be something going on there And you certainly see in his earlier work that there's a lot of It's a chemical manipulation So I'm assuming that this is not Photoshop and well, I I certainly hope it's not photoshop If you've got an idea, let me know in the comments below I'd be fascinated to see if somebody's got a bit more insight into that now We're gonna jump over to Japan and one of my newest discoveries, but also one of my my favorite photographers and I owe a debt of gratitude to Ted Forbes for featuring this photographer on his channel a few years ago This is Hiroshi Sugimoto Now way back before me and maths came to an understanding that I would simply not Really be reaching an understanding with maths I Harbiter desired to be an architect and then I thought about being an architectural Photographer, but I saw an article in a magazine about a freelance architectural photographer and his car was chock-full of 4x5s 8x10s has a black super wide panoramic cameras all the lens boards and tripods You could shake a large stick at and that kind of put me off. I mean obviously as a young student I wasn't gonna be able to afford all that kid However, it didn't put off Sugimoto though and his large format images where he pushes our preconceptions about the technical limits of photography are utterly gorgeous His ultra long exposures of cinema screens and drive-in movies are fantastic, but it's his architectural Images that I absolutely adore Now I'm going to confess that Despite having gone to art school and feeling like I'm an artist myself There's some of his Rational and his accompanying texts to his photographs can feel just a tad overblown You know the idea that in his own words Superlative architecture survived the onslaught of blurred photography now It kind of smacks of somebody who is capable of creating Outstandingly beautiful photographs in quite a short time and sort of needed to pad out the process a bit So he looked like he knew was doing something and so he spent most of his time coming up with these phrases like erosion testing architecture for durability, you know, that's That can put some people off now I really hope that it doesn't put you off and that you go look his Photography and all of it all that to be to be fair you can give his wax up portraits probably just a bit of a mess You know, it's a bit like Monty Python. It's not all cheese shop and parrot sketches. Occasionally, there's there's a couple of Okay, that's not so hot, right Now what I do like about Sugimoto in case you think it's sort of odd that on one hand I say he's become one of my favorite photographers and then Jump straight into how much he kind of has some weirdness about him that doesn't quite resonate with me But what I do enjoy is his his willingness to push those technical boundaries like it like I mentioned earlier You know, he's taking his photography to the extreme Where he's looking at this idea that the camera can see the world in a way that we can't and he exploits that for all that it's worth You may not be familiar with but if you've seen the candle photographs where where he has a long exposure with the candle burns down It's entire length and the seascapes and all these other things. They're beautiful in their simplicity But for something that is is there right in front of us We just need the eyes and the willingness to see it Of course, some might say that these architectural photos are just they're just simply out of focus and that it's just it's just poor Lame photography and that's perfectly fine, you know each each to their own However, his photography does tickle your fancy seek out the aforementioned seascapes and the candle photographs Have a look at some of his work. It's absolutely gorgeous Perhaps one of these photographers is going to give you a bit of inspiration or encourage you to look at more of their photography I certainly hope so now remember every Friday I'm going to be dropping some new suggestions for photographers for you to explore and hopefully I'm going to come up with a snappier name for this series Anyway, thanks ever so much for watching and I'll see you again soon