Harry Gallagher (aka Nightscape)
Harry Gallagher, born July 5 1997, is a British YouTuber from London. His content is mostly urban exploring, such as climbing tall buildings and exploring abandoned places.Nightscape is one of the biggest urban explorers in the current generation. He has gained 196k Instagram followers and 919k subscribers by early December 2018.
Nightscape's following increased rapidly after uploading a video of him and some friends sneaking into the West Ham Football Club Stadium. This video is currently on 6.8 million views, as well as being all over the news when it happened.
He has inspired a lot of people to start doing what he does. In an interview, he went on to say how he used to suffer from a huge fear of heights.
"You can overcome any fear by exposing yourself to it."
I love the way he takes and edits his photos. The way he makes the colours more saturated and vibrant adds so much to the image. He has inspired me to, hopefully one day, go out in to cities and possibly do similar photos and edits.
Michael Regan
After a year ad an assistant developing films, editing and working on the picture desk for a local agency in his hometown of Leicester, England, Michael started as a trainee sports photographer in January 1998.
His passion for football saw him focus primarily on that sport although he is a keen tennis photographer when his schedule allows. Michael's remit saw him eventually work closely with the FA to become the in house photographer to the England senior team, a role which he held until 107 before moving on to work closely with FIFA.
Michael has covered five World Cups, (France 1998, Germany 2006, South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014, Russia 2018), the last six European Championships and several Chamipons League Finals. However, his favourite event to shoot is the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, an event he has covered five times.
In 2012 he was selected to be part of the Getty Images team to cover the London Olympics.Recently Michael has worked closely with several clients wishing to make use of his football expertise including Adidas, Nike and FIFA. I recently started having a passion for football and have become interested within sports photography. Some of the shots Michael has gotten look outstanding and inspire me to hopefully, one day, achieve images in that standard.
Brad Heaton
Brad Heaton is an Ohio-based concert photographer.He has taken photos of a range of artists, such as Hoodie Allen, Beartooth, and my personal favourite, twenty one pilots.
He got started in photography during baseball tournaments as a teen. He ended up watching the photographers in the dugout, instead of his games.While he may have broken in to the concert photography scene the way many do, Heaton has separated himself from the pack by realising that he could pick his point-of-view
and apply interesting, varied shooting styles.
Brad is one of my biggest inspirations. The way he grew and managed to become so successful is aspiring. The execution of his shots are incredible and really give a new experience to the photos.
Brad would love for the world to recognise concert photography as an artistic representation rather than documenting an experience.
Will Nicholls
Will Nicholls has been photographing since the age of 12, since then he has won a string of awards, including the title of "Young British Wildlife Photographer of the Year" in 2009 from the British Wildlife Photography Awards.
His interest in photography first began in 2007 when he moved from the city to the countryside. Will loved to work both in the UK and abroad, with rain-forest being his favourite environment.Will has spent a lot of time working with red squirrels, both photographically and in conversation. He is a supporter of Red Squirrels Northern England who are doing work to bring back this mammal.
Will is also the founder of a popular nature website Nature TTL which provides photographers with free tutorials and inspiration to improve their photos. He published a book in October 2013, On The Trail of Red Squirrels, which has proved popular with wildlife lovers.
Platon
Platon, born April 20 1968, is a photographer mainly focusing on portraits of famous people. He has taken many pictures of presidents and world figures.
Born in Britain, he had an English mother and Greek father, however he was raised in Greece.
Platon finds ways to connect with his subjects and is able to get past any tension associated for a portrait picture. An example of getting past this tension is with Mark Zuckerberg. Platon captured a picture of him before while he was still tense and guarded.
“His neck was tense, his eyes were wide open. And he almost resisted every attempt I made to connect with him”
Platon was able to capture a picture of Zuckerberg with a side no one has ever seen.
He was relaxed and composed. All Platon did was ask a question, enabling his guard to go for a few frames.
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