Skip to content
Category

Social documentary photographers

page 1
Robert Capa
American photographer (1913–1954)
Dorothea Lange
American photojournalist (1895-1965)
Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian photographer (1944–2025)
Lewis Hine
American sociologist and photographer (1874–1940)
Jacob Riis
American photographer, journalist and activist (1849–1914)
Gordon Parks
American photographer, musician, writer and film director (1912–2006)
Walker Evans
American photographer and photojournalist (1903-1975)
Martin Parr
British photographer (1952–2025)
Robert Frank
Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker (1924-2019)
W. Eugene Smith
American photojournalist (1918–1978)
Don McCullin
British photographer (born 1935)
Mary Ellen Mark
American photographer (1940–2015)
Garry Winogrand
American street photographer (1928–1984)
Sooni Taraporevala
Indian film director (born 1957)
Lee Friedlander
American photographer (born 1934)
Henry Mayhew
British writer and activist (1812–1887)
Dayanita Singh
Indian photographer (born 1961)
John Thomson
Scottish photographer, geographer, and traveller (1837–1921)
LaToya Ruby Frazier
American photographer and professor (born 1982)
Newsha Tavakolian
Iranian photographer (born 1981)
Paul Graham
English photographer (born 1956)
Olga Lander
Soviet photojournalist (1909-1996)
Galina Sanko
Soviet photojournalist (1904–1981)
Hildegard Ochse
German photographer (1935-1997)
Irena Blühová
Slovak photographer (1904–1991)
Fatemeh Behboudi
Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer
Jacob Holdt
Danish photographer
Solmaz Daryani
Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer
Evelyn Richter
German photographer (1930–2021)
Tom Wood
Irish photographer (born 1951)
Boris Carmi
Israeli photojournalist (1914–2002)
Tish Murtha
British photographer
Donna Ferrato
American photojournalist and activist (born 1949)
Louise Boyle
American photographer
Tony Ray-Jones
English photographer (1941–1972)
Wayne Lawrence
American photographer (born 1974)
Ken Grant
Photographer, particularly of the underclass in the Liverpool area (born 1967)
K.W. Gullers
Swedish photographer (1916-1998)