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Help defining the genre of photography that interests me (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, I need a bit of help.

I’m looking to get further down the rabbit hole of interesting photographers, but I struggle to define what I’m after. My general misanthropy extends into photography, people are almost always the least interesting thing in the frame to me. Why would you waste film on faces, when you could be taking interesting images of some nice concrete or rusty iron?!

I love the work of Toshio Shibata, Bernd and Hilla Bescher, Bill Brandt, Danila Tkachenko, and GXAce on YouTube. The problem I have is that searching for “Urban” photographers brings up street stuff, “Architectural” ends up with folks who take pictures of whole buildings, “industrial” seems to lead to people who take photos for corporate websites, or urbexers (though some of those are verging on what I’m after). Constructed landscapes, textures, geometric shapes, and the juxtaposition of human artifice and nature, that’s my bag.

Is there a term or genre that would connect all this? Or am I just going to have to keep finding new artists one at a time?

Ta!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what genre you would call it, but I also enjoy that type of photography as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I ended up having a go at asking DuckDuckGo’s ai about similar photographers, and then quizzing it about what genre this might be, and the “human-altered landscape” thing typified by Toshio Shibata is known as “New Topographics”. It still doesn’t completely cover what I’m interested in, but it’s a good rabbit hole that goes in the right direction