Juha Ylitalo

digital Photography School published 99 Remarkable Photographer’s Portfolios. I’ve tried to go through them all once or twice, but something always interrupts my photo watching session. I finally decided that I have to digest them in smaller groups. Nice thing about this approach is that I get opportunity to write whole serie of posts.

Since this is countdown, we will start from number 99 and eventually finish at number one.

99. Gregory Colbert

Gregory’s Ashes and Snow expedition shows collection of sepia toned images, which all have woman, child, both or group of them (mostly just one child) interacting with single animal or group of animals (birds, cheetah, elephant, lynx (?), orangutans, whales, …). All unnecessary elements have been removed from photographs. Photos have very recognizable style in them.

I personally like these images a lot, but at the sametime they are presenting something that I can’t easily add into my own portfolio, since the style is so far away from my “world”.

98. Grant Hamilton

Grant Hamilton has large collection of polaroid images, where the big thing is textures and patterns. For me, the most interesting aspect on these images was to look for small details, which gave me hints, where Grant has taken that particular photograph.

97. John Hyde

John Hyde is my favorite photographer among those, whose portfolio’s I will go through in this post. He has magnificent collection of photographs about eagles, whales, etc. I was trying to find more information about his work methods, but his biography doesn’t reveal whole lot about that.

If I would have to find something negative to say about John’s portfolio, there are probably too many photographs in portfolio (15 portfolios, 32 photographs each …). To provide examples, where I would cut down number of images, first 32 images about Eagles have seven images, where eagle is diving for fish with its claws in front of it.

96. Sam Bassett

Sam Bassett seems to be fond of portraits. His portfolio has 20 portraits (and even I can recognize couple names and faces: Willie and Annie Nelson and Donald Trump). All these portraits are trying to be some sort of parody about subjects public image.