Looking at the Magnum Photos website: http://www.magnumphotos.com/ There are so many excellent photographers here. I particularly like the work of Carl De Keyser, Ian Berry, Werner Bischof, Philip Jones Griffiths, Steve McCurry, David Hurn, Guy Le Querrec, Dominic Nahr (some incredible photojournalist images), Trent Parke, Raghu Rai and Moises Saman in relation to this project – they all use wide angle lenses to show their subjects in context in many of their images. In particular I’m impressed with the work of Steve McCurry.
Following the Magnum Photos link to his blog http://stevemccurry.wordpress.com/ there are various posts where his portraits put the subjects in context and tell such stories. He’s obviously travelled to some amazing places but his talent for showing people in their surroundings is amazing. Many of them use wider angle lenses to show the subjects in context and he’s obviously at one with the people he’s photographing. I don’t pretend to have his talents or skills (not yet anyway) but it’s a level to aspire to.
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