Naturally by Bertil Nilsson

Being the art/design/social media obsessed person I am, I spend a good deal of my time on the internet and come across hundreds and hundreds of photos everyday. Most of them interest me but those that I find super duper interesting of course catch my attention a lot more than others. A lot of times I'll see a photo I like and ask myself questions like, "who designed those shoes?"… "what's this model's name?" … "does this person have an Instagram?" and so on and so forth. But, as a photographer first, and a social media fiend second, the question I ask myself most frequently is the "who shot this?" question. 80% of the time the answer to that is not hard to find and little work needs to be done to figure out the source or artist behind a photograph. However, every once in a while when it isn't as easy; I've found myself googling key words, clicking links that lead to more links and going through different processes just to find an artist's name. Once I discovered Google Image Search, my life got a lot easier. I saw the image on the upper right on Tumblr and unfortunately because it was a reposted photograph (meaning it lacked the original basic information such as who the artist was or a link to their website), I had to look through notes and blogs to try and find more of this artist's work and ultimately just searched the image on Google.

Simply put, I find these images absolutely breathtaking. They're the work of artist Bertil Nilsson and a reminder that contemporary photography doesn't need much editing or manipulation to be appealing, but if one focuses on the core concepts like tonal range and contrast, you can produce some beautiful photographs. These photos don't look very edited at all but the creative concept behind it make them so powerful. Enjoy.