This is a tricky list to compile, as I am not sure that my interpretation of a landscape, is everyone’s interpretation. Surely, it is just somewhere you look at and photograph? It doesn’t have to include hills, mountains, lakes and jetties, does it? It might do, but it doesn’t have to. Hence, my list of photographers below, whom I recommend checking out. I know that I have not included many of the names landscape photographers see as heroes, but I am more excited by images that are not over post-produced or repetitive of each other. Therefore, my suggestion is to remain open-minded as to what these photographers are doing. You may find some new heroes. As always they are listed in no particular order.

Further reading
https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2026/06/24/the-photography-canon-and-why-it-is-important-not-the-camera-brand/
https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2026/06/25/the-unp-top-20-photographers-working-with-colour/

Joel Sternfeld www.joelsternfeld.net

Mitch Epstein www.mitchepstein.net

Henrik Saxgren https://henriksaxgren.com

Matt Black www.mattblack.com

Mark Power www.markpower.co.uk

Ragnar Axxelsson https://rax.is

Stuart Franklin www.stuartfranklin.com

Marc Wilson www.marcwilson.co.uk

Massimo Vitali www.massimovitali.com

Edward Burtynsky www.edwardburtynsky.com

Stephen Shore www.stephenshore.net

Lewis Baltz www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/lewis-baltz

Simon Norfolk www.simonnorfolk.com

Michael Kenna www.michaelkenna.net

Robert Adams https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/robert-adams

Thomas Joshua Cooper www.inglebygallery.com/artists/75-thomas-joshua-cooper/works/

Frances Scott https://frances-scott.co.uk

Harry Callaghan www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/harry-callahan

Ansel Adams www.anseladams.com

Eugène Atget www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/eugène-atget

Dr.Grant Scott
After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby’s, art directed foto8 magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020) and Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, (Orphans Publishing 2024). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018.

© Grant Scott 2026

Image: Joel Sternfeld