I've been a long-time fan of the photographer Phil Borges, whose work (Wikipedia calls him a humanitarian photographer) puts a human face to forgotten places and overlooked headlines. His portrait style, where he retouches the pic into black and white and then tones in the subject's skin, just somehow works for me.
One of Borges' influences is the stupendously talented Irving Penn, whose mid-century stuff was so far ahead of its time, we're probably still waiting to catch up with it. I love how Penn's work covers anything and everything from still life to portrait to fashion to some tribal dudes with crazy masks and sharp spears.
