Showcase of Portrait Photography

Published in Galleries

In the past we’ve published showcases of landscape photography, architecture photography, animal photography, and other topics. Today we’re focusing on people and portrait photography. In this post you’ll find 30 examples of outstanding portrait photography. We hope that these photos will provide inspiration for your own work. If you see something you like, click on the image or the credit link to be led to the source.

Photo credit: Joanna Kustra

Photo credit: Brad Trent

Photo credit: Jamie Kingham

Photo credit: Hugh Hamilton

Photo credit: David Terrazas

Photo credit: Lance Dawes

Photo credit: Mike Campau

Photo credit: Victor Eredel

Photo credit: David Terrazas

Photo credit: Joanna Kustra

Photo credit: Lance Dawes

Photo credit: David Terrazas

Photo credit: Bruno Paixao

Photo credit: Patrick Mattison

Photo credit: Alan Shapiro

Photo credit: Jeff Martin

Photo credit: Jeroen Hofman

Photo credit: Hernan Corera

Photo credit: Milan Josipovic

Photo credit: Jose Ferreira

Photo credit: Andy Cantillon

Photo credit: Eolo Perfido

Photo credit: Bill Wadman

Photo credit: Alim Goodja

Photo credit: Thomas Cristofoletti

Photo credit: Miller Mobley

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Published April 25th, 2011 by Steven Snell

18 Responses

Litmusbranding April 26th, 2011

nice piece of work. Its great collection of portrait. portrait of child with football and lady with pink hair is beautiful. thanks for sharing

Harry Hilders April 26th, 2011

Great these portraits. Thanks for sharing!

David April 26th, 2011

Great collection of portraits. I’m not crazy, the one is Morgan Freeman right?

MFCarter April 26th, 2011

Oops. Made an error in typing in my last post.

Amazing variety and beauty here. Thanks for the post and your hard work in putting it all together.

Website Design Merseyside April 26th, 2011

Great selection of portraits, these are fantastic

Vandelay Website Design April 26th, 2011

David,
Yes, it’s Morgan Freeman.

Rebecca April 26th, 2011

Great collection. I like the variety (some b/w, different lighting effects, creative cropping) as it showcases how interesting portrait photography can be.

SampeiMihira April 26th, 2011

Many thanks, these portraits let us perceive souls within bodies.

Erika Koenig April 27th, 2011

Thanks, these are really wonderful and every single one captures an essence distilled…

Jahangir April 28th, 2011

Interesting portrait photos you have collected.

The beauty I see in these photos is that each and every photo is telling you a story, specially the old people’s faces have all the story of their lives. You can see “hope” in the eyes, happiness and sadness.

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