Influential photographers.

A few weeks ago I discovered iTunes U, not that it was hard, I knew it was there, I had just never used it.

I started to look around and found a few interesting educational collections. I found a History of Architecture, Volcanos, Justice, and Masters of Photography.

The Masters of Photography collection contains a whole heap of videos showcasing photographers’ work from a series of National Geographic Live lectures.

So far I have found two photographers from this series whose work has made an impression on me – where I have just thought, “Those are some amazing photos”.

The first is Mattias Klum, a Swedish photographer who travels around the world for assignments.

In a few of the lectures from National Geographic, Klum talked about encounters he had with a female lion in India. Luckily, these lectures have made their way to YouTube.

Another is where he gets a rather personal welcome from Meerkats.

Below are some of his photographs. [I do not own these, they are Mattias Klum’s, I found them through Google Images.]

The other photographer is Steve Winter. Winter does some interesting things when out photographing subjects – he likes to use robots and camera boxes.

Here is one of the videos from National Geographic showing how he used the robots.

Here are some of Winter’s photographs. [Once again, I do not own them, I found them on his website.]

As you can see Winters likes photographing Tigers. Tigers are awesome and he also participates in raising awareness about Tigers so they do not become extinct.