Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen

Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen was one of the leading early amateur photographers in Belgium. He was a pictorialist, born in Antwerp in 1884. He saw all important periods in photography since the turn of the century and marvelously adapted to new styles and techniques. He was the editor of the magazine “Fotokunst” from 1924 to 1939…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Harold Cazneaux

Harold Cazneaux was an Australian pictorialist photographer. A pioneer whose style had an indelible impact on the development of Australian photographic history. Harold Pierce Cazneaux was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 30 March 1878. His family moved to Adelaide in the 1890s and Harold started working in his father’s studio and attended H. P. Gill’s evening classes at…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Burton Brothers

Burton Brothers was one of New Zealand’s most important nineteenth-century. Alfred Henry Burton (1834–1914) and Walter John Burton (1836–1880) were born in Leicester, England.  Their father, John Burton, was a prominent photographer in the region.  His firm, John Burton and Sons, was patronised by Queen Victoria and other members of the Royal Family. In 1866…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Samuel Bourne

Samuel Bourne was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years’ work in India. His name is synonymous with British and Indian photography and he is the most researched and acclaimed colonial photographer. Bourne was born on 30 October 1834, at Napley Heath, near Mucklestone, on the Staffordshire and Shropshire border. After being educated by a clergyman near Fairburn,…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Adolphe Braun

Adolphe Braun was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes, and grand Alpine landscapes. Adolphe Braun was born in Besançon in 1812. His family relocated to Mulhouse, a textile manufacturing center in the Alsace region along the Franco-German border at the age of 10. He showed promise as a…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished contemporary photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent over 40 years of his dedication to bearing witness to the impact of human industry on the planet. Edward Burtynsky was born in St. Catharines, Ontario. He received his Bachelor of Applied Arts…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Leopold Ahrendts

Leopold Ahrendts was a  was a German draftsman, painter, lithographer and photographer born in Dessau Berlin in 1825. He first worked as a painter and lithographer. There is evidence of his participation in the Berlin academy exhibition in the years 1850–52 with lithographs. From 1852 he is listed in the Berlin address book, initially as a lithographer…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – James Craig Annan

James Craig Annan was a pioneering Scottish-born photographer and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He was born on 8 March 1864 and educated at Hamilton Academy before studying chemistry and natural philosophy at Anderson’s College, Glasgow. He joined his father Thomas Annan, (known for his early documentation of Glasgow Slums) business at a…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Charles Kerry

Charles Kerry was an Australian photographer noted for his photographs that contributed to the development of the Australian national psyche and romance of the bush. He was born on Bobundra Station in the Monaro region of New South Wales and began working in the Sydney photo studio of A.H. Lamartiniere in 1875. When Lamartiniere fled from creditors a few years later, Kerry took…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Arthur Batut

Arthur Batut was a French photographer and pioneer of aerial photography. He was born in 1846 in Castres, and developed interest in history, archeology and photography. Following in the family tradition of academic excellence, he received his degree from of college of Castres before moving to the nearby town of Labruguiere. Batut was fascinated by the…