There's a difference between merely taking a photo of someone and making a great portrait. The first shows a person, the second tells something about a person. This article contains one hundred photos of the latter.
We recommend clicking show all photos, letting them load, opening the song Photographs by James Murphy in a new tab and scrolling through all photos.
How did we make this selection? We pulled out all photos containing phrases like great portrait, nice portrait and similar in the comments, went through them and handpicked one hundred. Let us know what you think of these photos, tell us some stories about your experience of taking portraits of friends and strangers and link them in the comments.
54 comments
lighttomysoul
excellent selection. some of these are pure magic.
eremigi
Agreed: absolutely outstanding selection. And ore or two are amazing.
kernow_and_cambria
Cool selection! Heres my own favourite http://www.lomograph(…)tos/6020137
tattso
fantastic!
adambradc
Amazing photos a split second in time says so very much - well done on a great collection
arabrab
taking portraits of strangers is a lot of fun, but also kind if scary! this is a project I did in art school http://www.lomograph(…)nts-in-life
u-t-e
Wow! A great selection! And I love that song, a beautiful combination: Lovely music and extraordinary portraits!
Thanks!
whitemikerocks
I feel like i know these people! great portraits! great song!
disdis
nice portrait gallery!
pulex
great selection....some of them are pretty stunning...and sometimes i felt like they are looking at me...
pushkar
awesome work
discodrew
Here's my favorite. he he :-) http://www.lomograph(…)os/12976731
dabai
some of the portraits are really awesome. great selection!
mattcharnock
wow...wow....and wow
dirklancer
here's a shameless plug of my favorite: http://www.lomograph(…)os/11683301
recurving
It's not shameless if the photo's great! :) Like it!
grazie
amazing selection and i love them all! a personal favorite portrait lately would be http://www.lomograph(…)os/12779551
angela_silva
jcgepte
excellent! my fave feature so far. =)
ariannapaloma
it's so hard to make a real good portrait! this selection is great!
squamy
Such an amazing gallery!!
gering
paramir
wonderful selection.
asaieva
Beautiful selection. I enjoyed every minute of that :)
kamalfaiz91
speechless when look through the pictures. awesome man!
eatclicklove
very cool
b0rn2b1ush
great stuff!
ali55
awesome collection :) Thank you for selecting one of mine :)
nock
amazing! trully amazing!
vicuna
excellent selection!
onegreenfan
superlighter
great portraits collection and I'm glad to be in with one of my friend Alessandra portraits. http://cloud.lomogra(…)ddf00ed.jpg
richidearthworm
Epic collection meow meow woof
nerobi
riette
domemerson
Amazing portrait gallery. I just loved all of them
albon13
AMAZING
albon13
AMAZING
hannahbryant_
galvao
paperplanepilot
<3
lageos
Love this article! :-)
sage495
I took this of my mom one day, and I think it embodies the word portrait
http://www.lomograph(…)os/11886918
renenob
18, 36, 81 are my faves!
blormore
Great selections!
eva_eva
awesome portraits! :D
nock
god put a smile uppon your face from coldplay is a great song to hear while you look at this portraits :)
maxpinckers
I think the definition of a portrait contains a little more complexity than the description written above. What about the relationship between photographer and photographed? Isn't that what a portrait should be about? Many pictures in this gallery seem to be merely nicely framed heads, nothing more...
recurving
@maxpinckers interesting point! the description above is just my take on this subject. to me the relationship between photographer and photographed is not that important (because half the time how should i find out just by looking at the photo), i care more about if i think the photo itself tells me something about the person. but as said: this is just my opinion. how do others feel about this?
bigphilly808
great article...great photos & a great song to tie it all together!!
maxpinckers
@recurving I don't think a portrait will ever really tell you something about a person. The only thing it tells you is how the photographer attempts to perceive the sitter and how the sitter reacts to this. Or maybe what touches you is the relationship to what you see in the image that mirrors back to yourself. That's why good portraits or images that deal with this theme are uncommon. I guess it depends on your own definition of what a portrait should be.
fahlavy
stinklecheeks
I like the one where the lens cap is covering the girl's nip!! It's funny.
eightmiles
wow!!!!!!!!!!how i wish i could own 1 now...nice photo...cheerz all