10 PHOTOGRAPHERS ON INSTAGRAM YOU NEED TO FOLLOW NOW
Is your feed lacking in creativity? Scrolling through instagram in hopes of finding gold is rare and tiresome. To save you some time, the team at .PNG Magazine have comprised 10 of our favourite photography accounts in no particular order to provide you with some solid creative inspiration!
Ben Zank's photography is surreal and meticulously composed. His work often features a person - but rarely their face - and usually in awkward, unnatural positions, making for a very visually interesting image.
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Andrew Albright's instagram is full of awkward yet visually pleasing compositions with a focus on abnormal colour placement and soft pastel gradients. His subjects are mostly seemingly mundane, such as a door handle or the inside of a car, yet somehow he shows it in a new light. It seems that Andrew has been experimenting with flash photography which adds to the slightly surreal-ness of his images by flattening and over-exposing.
Johnny Dufort is primarily a fashion photographer which an exceptional eye for fresh, off-beat styling. If you're into experimental fashion photography, this account is definitely worth a follow. Dufort rarely plays by the rules, by over-exposing, digitally enhancing, blurring and mixing clashing colours yet somehow keeping a fresh, high-fashion vibe to his images. This style of work has secured him commissions with the likes of Balenciaga, Kenzo, Gucci and Louis Vuitton.
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@tinycactus aka Kanghee Kim is a photographer whose work is entirely surreal. Her images are mostly taken with flash which gives them a flat, plastic look and then she super-imposes other scenes to some elements of the image. Combine that with a gorgeous, unnaturally soft colour palette and the result is a really spot-on composition which makes you question what's real and what's not.
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The term photographer should be used loosely to describe @dovneon aka David Stenbeck. As a self-titled "Spiritual Misleader", he creates surreal, digitally enhanced images mixing 3D, photography, and visual experimentation together to create beautiful work which explores colour, light, perception and subject. His Instagram feed is full of soft, pastel-coloured images and sometimes humorous perspectives which are sure to bring something fresh and inspiring to your home page.
Monty Kaplan's photography has a cinematic quality, especially owing to the dark, moody hues and tones in his images. Some of the colours in the subjects are seemingly out of place but work really well aesthetically. Monty is able to turn an ordinarily boring image into a really interesting and visually exciting image using composition, light, and thoughtful colour placement.
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An even moodier feed is created by Polish photographer and filmmaker Weronika Izdebska who shares her stunning, cinematic photographs. There is a strong lack of colour, with images seemingly toned down and a lot of blue, cool hues. Her subjects are often taken from a mysterious, voyeuristic angle; either looking through a window or the bag of someone's head through a fog which likely gives her photographs that cinematic feel. There is definitely a sense of melancholia and background context behind her images.
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Johnny Keethon aka Simon Kerola is a self-taught Swedish photographer who has an exceptional eye for photography. His work is very experimental and has abstract elements to it, such as blocking out the subject's face and playing with light. Kerola's use of colour is reminiscent of old movies and his photographs have a strong sense of narrative. Being only 19 years old, this young photographer is definitely one to keep an eye out for!
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Neil Kryszak's photographs explores Los Angeles at night. With a strong sense of aesthetic similar to that of the film "Drive" with unnatural but melancholic neon pink and blue hues, this photographer's feed is very inspiring in terms of colour. Scrolling through his work will give you that sense of being in a movie, taking in the beauty of the city and viewing it from perspectives you might not in daylight.
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