- Burk Uzzle 
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
Garry Gordon is an avid traveler who loves photography and shares his deep insights into culture and history. Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is …
The colours, the subjects, the compositions, the magical moments … it’s just so good.
- Aaron Siskind
The atmosphere and the melancholy in his photos are out of this world …
Garry has a knack for finding shots that are extremely rare to come across. It is not just one shot that mesmerises … it is the body of work that rocks
Some of most influential and highly regarded photographers across different genres and time periods:
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness
~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.”
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
~ Diane Arbus
Historical & Documentary Masters
- Ansel Adams: Widely regarded as one of the pioneers and best landscape photographers of all time, known for his iconic black-and-white images of the American West.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: Described by many as the greatest photographer of the twentieth century, he was a master of street photography and is famous for his concept of "the decisive moment".
- Dorothea Lange: One of the nation's greatest documentary photographers, known for her empathetic and powerful images of people during the Great Depression.
- Robert Capa: A co-founder of Magnum Photos and a revered photojournalist, known as a "poet of the camera" who captured the suffering of war with unique human tenderness.
- Vivian Maier: A posthumously famous street photographer whose candid mid-century photographs of Chicago and New York offer an incredible look into American life.
Portraiture & Fine Art
- Yousuf Karsh: Considered by many to be the best portrait photographer of all time, known for his definitive portraits of celebrities and politicians, and his distinctive lighting style.
- Annie Leibovitz: Considered one of the best photographers in the world, renowned for her iconic and often controversial celebrity portraits published in magazines like Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and Vogue.
- Andreas Gursky: A German photographer known for his large-scale color images that command record prices at auction and transform how photography is perceived as art.
- Lisa Kristine: An internationally recognized fine-art and humanitarian photographer who has spent decades documenting indigenous cultures and social causes, particularly modern slavery.
Modern & Commercial Innovators
- Peter Lik: Known for creating extremely successful landscape fine art businesses, one of his photographs ("Phantom") reportedly sold for $6.5 million, an all-time high price for a single photo.
- Jimmy Nelson: Celebrated for his work documenting indigenous cultures and tribes around the world, creating stunning and inspiring images that highlight global diversity.
- Demas Rusli: A modern talent known for his expert use of social media and exceptional post-editing skills in Lightroom to create "other-worldly" and creative images.
My brother in law gave us a book by Helmut Newton. We treasure this provocative fashion photographer who has numerous acclaimed books showcasing his iconic work, including the comprehensive
Helmut Newton. Legacy and the famously oversized Helmut Newton. SUMO. My parents introduced me to images by Karol Plicka and
I treasure it especially as late Karol gave them a book
that I keep on coffee table as it was a gift for their
hospitality as he stayed in our house in Vrbov
for a week in the early 1970s.
Tatranka folkloric singing and dancing group (subor)background - the High Tatra Mountains
The result of his life-long activity is a remarkable, monumental work of an outstanding standard, comprising over 100 book publications (in 1937 he published the first picture publication “Slovakia in Photography”), about 50 000 recordings of folk songs and tales, tens of thousands of negatives and slides documenting nature, architecture, man - his way of life and his art; a large quantity of films (he began filming in 1927 for the needs of the Slovak Foundation at Martin – “After the Slovak People”, “Through Hills and Dales”, “After Slovaks from New York to the Mississippi”; through his sound film “The Singing Earth” he became the founder of Slovak national cinematography).
