10 Up And Coming Portrait Photographers

3. Christaan Felber

https://twitter.com/cerveris/status/581523150736867328 Christaan Felber studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, but was so burnt out from the intense curriculum that after graduation, he needed a breather. He stopped shooting €œto experience life a little bit.€

After a spell playing drums and bass guitar in rock bands and making street art, he scored a job at the agency Art Department. But as he retouched other photographers' work and managed their pages on Art Department's website, he thought about how many hours he had invested in the craft, and decided to make use of it.

One day, during his commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan, a building plastered with boxing fight posters drew his attention. He followed them to a family-owned gym called Zaragoza's, and spent the next two years photographing fighters and trainers. His photos, which captured moments of frailty and quiet introspection between the spurts of violence in the ring, were featured on The New Yorker's Photo Booth blog.