Photography by Mark Abrahams

"Everything I've learned about life and places, I've learned through photography," muses photographer Mark Abrahams, whose impressive lineup of fashion and celebrity portraits is recorded in a new self-titled volume (Damiani). It's been a long time coming for this one-time California truck driver, whose first taste behind the lens was taking pictures of characters he encountered along the way. His is a self-taught profession, with a raw, no-artifice technique, which hasn't really changed as he's done countless covers for Vogue and GQ. It's all about personality for this artist who can do to much with texture and light: "Fashion is more fun to shoot but they're all portraits anyway," says Abrahams.

The portfolio of black-and-white pictures sees Abrahams extract ever-deeper emotion from his sometimes reticent subjects. James Frey wrote the forward in the style of a poetic short story titled "The End of the Beginning." If this is just the starter, the photographer assures us he's more than happy to keep "allowing people to view his pictures through their own world experience."

Disclaimer: I only marked this list as contains mature content because in one or two pictures you may see parts of a bare female chest. If you can't stand to look at it just scroll further. Though there might be the one or another male bare chest as well which seems to be accepted as "normal".

I made this list because I think that Mark Abrahams does beautiful black and white photography. Of course I may be missing pictures since not everything gets posted and credited officially. Hope you will enjoy it :)

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