Photo marketing and market company xxlpix published the 2016 list of global photographers ' network top 100, and after last year it was brandon stanton, the street photographer who filmed " humans of new york " , first, but the second became lebanese wedding photographer said mhamad, and the third was murad osmann, who was hot for "follow me " , one down from last year。
This ranking is based on web popularity index, wpi. The wpi takes into account three factors: the number of website views, interaction with users, number of referrals/references. During the survey, thousands of social media were collected as data references. For example, the number of fans, trackers, social media are facebook, instagram, weibo, pinterest, flickr, tumblr, 500px and so on to achieve the most accurate results。
Here are the top five photographers
Number one
" humans of new york " , a very simple project to film people on the streets of new york, is a very simple concept, but at the same time, photographers speak deeply to those people and share stories behind them, and because of this, it makes every picture extraordinary. Its facebook page now stands at over 17 million fans, with alarming impact。
Number two
Middle east photographers from lebanon, mainly in wedding dress and human photography, have drawn together a large number of supporters from the west and the middle east, whose facebook page now stands at about 7 million fans。
Number three
The photographer murad osmann himself is popular with the global photography program, fololow me, which has 3. 8 million followers in instagram, and whose work has led to imitations。
Number four
Mario testino, a peruvian photographer known as the master of model photography (mostly in the united kingdom), has recently been chosen by the royal family as a family photographer, as shown below. There are also 2 million followers on instagram。
Number five
The view cameraman, specializing in giant waves, has 1. 8 million followers in instagram and is also quite powerful。
It is worth mentioning that, according to the statistics, only 20 per cent of the top 100 seats are held by women, and until the 13th is the female photographer. It is clear that men's network visibility in the photography industry is still dominant, and the top five are listed below。
First place (13th full list)
On facebook, there were over 1 million fans, from india, and she took a great ecological picture with a giant heavy cannon。
Second place
She is an excellent fashion photographer and often travels to workshops around the world, such as asia, europe, australia, and has a website, fashionactions. Com, which attracts a large number of photographers through a number of actions & presets and teachings, with more than 700,000 fans on its faceboo page。
Third place (17th full list)
The photographer himself is a well-known fashion photographer who has been here before, and many are attracted to his model's appearance... There are now over 500,000 fans on facebook。
Fourth place (23rd full list)
There is no doubt that it is the strongest female photographer, with numerous classics, whose comments on photography will bring images to the photography community, although not the most powerful on social platforms, but rather influential。
Fifth place (36th full list)
There are 600,000 followers in instagram, very influential designers, photographers on the mexican network, who would like to see the other side of the world and enjoy her work。
In addition, the list provides a series of interesting statistics on top100, which you can refer to below
As mentioned earlier, of the 100 most prominent photographers, 80 are men and only 20 are women, but the overall number of women is higher than last year。
