Impulse

I like to keep an eye on pho­tos on Flickr to keep visu­ally stim­u­lated. I’ve writ­ten about a cou­ple pho­tog­ra­phers from Flickr on this blog (1 2). Here’s a quick roundup of other pho­tog­ra­phers, tags, and pools that I find cool.

[note: I’d have included more exam­ple pho­tos as I nor­mally do in CoolArt, but most of these folks are not using a cre­ative com­mons license and didn’t respond to my email ask­ing for per­mis­sion (sigh)]
Update: Janebug gave me per­mis­sion to use her images in this post, so now the place is dec­o­rated. Thanks Janebug!
Photographers

• Coquita — (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Coquita has an intrigu­ing way of see­ing the world. Her pho­tos have an appeal­ing inti­macy to them and a will­ing­ness to exper­i­ment. (My favorites: 1 2 3 4)
• Janebug — (Manchester, UK) great at moody atmos­phere in places & things. (My favorites: 1 2 3)
• Frans Peter Verheyen — (Groningen / Rotterdam, the Netherlands) I like Verheyen’s pho­tos of peo­ple the most as well as his cin­e­matic exam­ples (he’s a cin­e­matog­ra­pher). (My favorites: 1 2 3)
• Iguana Jo — (Modena, Italia) crisp com­po­si­tion; some­times sur­real; often very visu­ally inter­est­ing. (My favorites: 1 2 3 4 5)
• Bartu — Bartu has very few pho­tos on Flickr, but those that are up are quite good. Definately check out her excel­lent photo essay El Campo y su gente
• !efa­tima — Go see efatima’s pho­tos and come back here — I bet you the word “col­or­ful” is now in your mind. Great place to go when the world seems mono­chrome. (My favorites: 1 2 3)
• Cuellar — (Madrid, Spain) mostly does scenic pho­tog­ra­phy, but also quite good at cap­tur­ing quiet moments with peo­ple (yes, I’ve got a bit of a bias). (My favorites: 1 2 3 4)
• ath­omic — weird, sur­real, com­i­cal; always inter­est­ing. (My favorites: 1 2 3 4 5)
• Alvise Forcellini — (cameroon) Good pho­to­jour­nal­ism from Cameroon, India, and north­ern Africa. He’s espe­cially good at cap­tur­ing chil­dren at play. (My favorites: 1 2 3)
• dtc — (ottawa, canada) more good street pho­tog­ra­phy. (My favorites: 1 2)

Pools and tags

• Director of Photography pool
• street­pho­tog­ra­phy tag
• One Face @ a Time ~ Street Portraiture photo pool
• blackand­white tag
• JPG Magazine
• The Photographic Essay — note: this group con­tains links to peo­ples photo essays, not the entire essays.

Related posts:

1. CA: Flickr pho­tog­ra­pher ‘Emotionblogster’
2. CoolArt: Masahiro Makino
3. CoolArt: Ron Hammond
4. CoolArt: Jeff Bridges: Pictures
5. Seattle Flickr Meetup