There are a lot of photographs on social media. Most of them are crap. Some are good. Some are really, really good. In this first installment of a series, “I Love Black & White Photography” scours social media for fantastic images in specific areas of photography and brings them to you, so you don’t have to scroll through the stuff that isn’t yet up to par.

Here are eight portrait photographers who we found on flickr whose work rises through the social media noise. Click on their names to see more of their work on flickr.

 

Thierry Blondel

Valeria Marelli

Lars Lejring

Monica Antonelli

Wayne Mackeson

 

Alper Fidaner

Wijnand Schouten

Daras Bereya