These days, everyone is a photographer. Facebook is crawling with friends and family members that think they’re the next Ansel Adams. If it isn’t graduation pictures, then it’s them channeling their inner nature lover and taking pictures of trees. If I have to see another picture of a snowy branch, I may scream. Then came Instagram, it has made everyone and their mother catch the photographer flu. Pick a filter and let the app do the work for you. Where’s the creativity in that?
Luckily, the world isn’t without up and rising photographers that take pictures and do the hard work themselves. For many, photography is still a job. After browsing through the talented and inspiring works of these five on-the-rise artists and photojournalists, it appears the world of photography can coexist with Facebook photographers and Instagram.
Let us introduce you to Sebastian Mader, Christelle de Castro, Claire Rosen, Elizabeth Herman and David X Prutting. They don’t need their smart phones to produce brilliant images for magazines, ad campaigns, newspapers, dot-coms, and more. We’ve compiled a gallery of some of their most inspired works. Take a browse through and experience their world without a filter.
