Brice is a friend i made while in Louisiana, his work has always inspired me. His work has both a since of humor and a depth to them. He is also very good at taking painterly photographs, and I am a huge fan of painterly photographs.

i’d like to give an internet shout out to my boys at ayy girl studios.
“For consumers of high end portraits only ayy gurl studios can provide evocative and emotionally charged iamges because we at ayy gurl studios say so…Holla”

portrait they shot of the abercrombie speakers

you can check out more of their work here:
Joe and here: Ross

Another portrait photographer who i find very to be very incredible/inspiring is Amy Elkins .

Alec Soth is my other favorite contemporary photographer. One of the reasons i am drawn to his work is that he has a very specific aesthetic. He could photograph anything in a way that you could look at the image and know that it was decisively taken by him. Also, his work is just fantastic and he picks incredible subject matter.
He also has an incredible blog which is one of the few things i check daily on the internet.

Pamela Pecchio was one of my favoirte teachers in undergrad. I find her work to be incredibly smart and beautiful.

Alessandra Sanguinetti spent five years working photographing two cousins she met in the remote farmlands of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Here are some of the resulting images from the series which she called The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams :

You can see more of her work here

“We can never be born enough. We are human beings; for whom birth is a supremely welcome mystery, the mystery of growing: the mystery that happens only and whenever we are faithful to ourselves.” - e.e. cummings