Joel Meyerowitz is a street photographer, author of 24 books, and a Guggenheim Fellow.

Lisa Sutcliffe is the Hertzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Vanessa K. De Luca is the former editor-in-chief of Essence magazine and a best-selling author.

Wynne Neilly is a Toronto based, queer identified, visual artist and award winning photographer.

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review, a photographer, and writer.

Tyler Mitchell is a fashion photographer, filmmaker, and the first African American photographer to shoot the cover of Vogue.

Dr. Makeda Best is the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums.

Stephanie Baptist is a Brooklyn based cultural producer and editor.

Pauline Vermare is a French photography curator based in New York City and the cultural director at Magnum Photos, New York.

Pete Souza is an American photojournalist, the former Chief Official White House Photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.

Greg Lutze is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of VSCO.

Holly Andres is an American painter turned award-winning photographer.

John Loengard is an American photographer who joined the staff of Life magazine and then became its magazine's picture editor.

Coreen Simpson is an African-American photographer and jewelry designer focused on African-American themes.

Lauren Greenfield is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker.

Christian Witkin is a New York-based photographer and cinematographer.

Yumna Al-Arashi is a photographer, filmmaker, and writer based in London whose work has been shown world wide.

George Lois is a legendary art director, designer, and author. Lois is perhaps best known for the 92 covers he designed for Esquire magazine from 1962 to 1972.

Sam Valenti IV is the founder and leader of of Ghostly International.

Nadine Ijewere is a fashion photographer focused on disrupting gender norms and widening the understanding of different cultures.

Robin de Puy is a portrait photographer based in Amsterdam whose work has been featured and exhibited world wide.

Martin Parr is a legendary British documentary photographer, photojournalist, and photo book collector.

Shaniqwa Jarvis is an editorial and portrait photographer based in New York City.

Nadav Kander is a London-based photographer who received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society in 2015, won the Prix Pictet and a World Press Photo award.

Mirjam Kooiman is an art historian and recently started working as a curator at Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam.

Alec Soth is a Magnum photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota with over a dozen photo books to his name.

Rinko Kawauchi is a Japanese photographer whose work was awarded an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2012.

Andre D. Wagner is an African-American photographer based in Brooklyn, New York and a contributor to the New York Times.

The creators of The Observers shares two photo books each that inspire their photography.