What Inspires Me
Peter was asked by one of our YouTube subscribers that ‘it would be interesting and I think instructive to see, say, the 20-25 photos by other photographers (fashion or not) that have influenced/inspired you the most, and to hear the reason why’, and in this video Peter will take you through who and what inspires him, plus how he finds inspiration.
Some of the photographers & models Peter mentioned:
Helmut Newton
Peter Lindbergh
Nick Knight
Richard Avedon
Patrick Demarchelier
Ellen Von Unwerth
Irving Penn
Marc Lagrange
Vincent Peters
Erwin Olaf
Karl Lagerfeld
David LaChapelle
Adriana Lima
Kate Moss
Mila Jovovich
Daphne Guinness
Karlie Kloss
14 comments on “What Inspires Me”
Peter:
Great as always. Thanks for letting us in your mind, even just a little…
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I did a bunch of work with Melvin over the years. kinda looks at the world in a differant way too..
thanks again..
Thanks heaps Chris. I love Melvin’s work too, been a fan for a long time 🙂
I loved that you did this, Peter. You mentioned so many names of photographers and models you admire. I’m wondering if you could put their names in a list? I know many of the biggest names, but there were others I’ve never heard of. Thanks for doing this video.
Thanks heaps, I’ll get Bec to put them in a list in the description today
Just updated the description with a list of names 😀
Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for sharing these insights.
Love the ideas if saving mix batch of models and photographers you admire which evolves into a unique persona that is really you. Feeling grateful that you put time into these videos Peter, and Bec taking care of so many details behind the scene. 😉
Hey Peter,
Fantastic insight right there. “The essence of the picture; can we tell our story to people who aren’t photographers”.
Now that’s the ‘secret sauce’ if ever I heard it.
Thanks for the inspiration to find my style (working on it) and continuing to pick up my camera and not to be afraid to try new techniques, lighting, etc.
Leigh
Thanks so much Leigh
It is always helpful that you share images that inspire you. I like it when you start a video with a reference image
Thanks for the awesome feed back, happy to hear you like seeing the inspiration photos, we’ll keep it up
As always great information and inspiration, set something like this up on my computer just so the thoughts and ideas flowing each time.
Have the various books but this works so much better for me and for when getting new models to relax into something that they can enjoy and faces they can relate too.Thanks Peter.
Thanks for this video, I appreciate you going in such details. saw a scull in one of the messed up images and now i can’t un-see it.now I know why that list is messed up 😀
Thanks for sharing. Picked up the Peter Lindbergh and Ellen von Unwerth books from the Taschen 40 series. Both excellent collections and really been helping inspire my next shoot.