World Photography Day, observed on August 19, honors one of the greatest gifts to humanity. Photographs allow others to take a peek inside one’s mind, one frame at a time. For some who seek to revisit the past and reminisce, they provide solace. News source- http://newsworldindia.in https://www.facebook.com/newsworldin https://twitter.com/NewsWorldIN https://www.pinterest.com/newsworldin

1. 10 Eye-Catching Pics
Caught By The Best
‘Shutterbugs’
[In Pics]

2. World Photography Day, observed on August
19, honours one of the greatest gifts to
humanity. Photographs allow others to take a
peek inside one’s mind, one frame at a time.
For some who seek to revisit the past and
reminisce, they provide solace.

3. To commemorate the day, we bring you 10
artists who have managed to leave an imprint of
their minds onto ours.

4. 1. Annie Leibovitz

5. • Annie Leibovitz is a world-renowned American
photographer, famous for portrait
photography. She’s photographed many
famous celebrities in her career spanning over
four decades. She joined Rolling Stones as a
staff photographer in 1970 and was
later denominate the chief. In 1983, she left
Rolling Stones as her desire was to expand her
personal work.
• She says photographers Robert Frank and
Henri Cartier-Bresson greatly influenced her
which helped her in developing her own style.

6. 2. Steve McCurry

7. Steve McCurry is a photojournalist
from America. He worked for Today’s
Post for two years after which, he
moved to India. There, he started his
freelancing career. He went on to
Pakistan where he covered war-torn
regions and rose to worldwide fame.
He photographed other wars over
the following years and in 1984, he
captured one of his most notable
works, ‘The Afghan Girl’. The
photograph has been featured in
National Geographic magazine and is
now arguably the most recognised
photograph.

8. 3. Jeremy Cowart

9. Cowart started off as a
painter who later switched
to graphic design. He
founded his own
company Pixelgrazer, where
he started clicking
photographs to use as
templates for his digital
work. He soon gained an
interest in photography and
in 2005, he started working
as a full-time photographer.

10. 4. Mario Testino

11. Mario Testino is a portrait and
fashion photographer from Peru.
He started his work by selling
portraits for aspiring models in
London. His work has been
featured in several magazines
including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and
V magazine.

12. 5. Michael Kenna

13. Michael Kenna is a landscape
photographer best known for his
utilization of monochrome
filters. His works have
a diaphanous appearance that
transport you into the scene.
Kenna has won several awards
through his career including the
Golden Saffron Award, Institute
for Aesthetic Development
Award, Art in Public Buildings
Award, and the Imogen
Cunningham Award.

14. 6. Anne Geddes

15. Anne Geddes is an Australian
photographer currently based in
America, famous for doing portraits of
children in adorable setups. Geddes
has also published several books
including her photographs. Geddes,
who started her work when she was
25, has used children as subjects
because of her inclination towards
them. Although most of her work
includes colourful setups, she prefers
her photos to be black and white as
she believes that colours are
distracting.

16. 7. Sebastião Salgado

17. Sebastião Salgado is a
photojournalist and a documentary
photographer. Salgado’s works have
a dark, painful undertone that tell a
story of their own. His proclivity
towards monochrome also moves
parallel to his perspectives. Salgado’s
landscape photographs especially
convey a sense of solitary bliss to the
beholder. His work has been
featured in the 2014 documentary
film ‘The Salt Of The Earth’.

18. 8. Bruce Weber

19. An American fashion
photographer, Bruce Weber has
been in the business since the
’70s. Having shot for Calvin
Klein, Ralph Lauren, Pirelli,
Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon,
and Gianni Versace, his works
have been featured in Elle, Life,
Vanity Fair and Vogue.

20. 9. Sapna Reddy

21. Sapna Reddy is a California based
landscape photographer who has
recently risen to fame through her
amazing photographs from across the
world. She mostly photographs the
wilds in Northern America and
manages to channel the liveliness of
the scene into the colours of her
photograph. She especially plays with
lighting in her works which contribute
to the vivacity of her photographs.

22. 10. Salim Islam

23. Based in India, Salim Islam is an emerging
travel photographer and travel blogger.
An engineer and a lawyer by profession,
Salim recounts his travels through his
beautiful writings and wondrous
photographs that together, enable you to
feel as if you have been transported to
the destination itself. As evident from his
photographs, he is a mountain lover and
prefers to immerse himself into the
culture and the community, leaving parts
of him behind, and taking some from the
place for himself.