We found 4,791 photography influencers on Instagram. These creators use "photography" in their Instagram bio. Here are the top 20, ranked on engagement rate, audience quality and reach, not follower count alone.
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Ranked by engagement rate, audience quality and reach
Updated August 23, 2026
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京本大我's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 59.3K. Avg comments: 231. Audience credibility: 80%.
Illustrator - Photographer - Designer Prints and merch available below
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Trevor Brighton's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 37.4K. Avg comments: 238. Audience credibility: 84%.
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Sheng Sheng's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 57.1K. Avg comments: 182. Audience credibility: 87%.
NYC Documentary Filmmaker & Photographer Order my photo book ‘Artist in Residence’ below:
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Joshua Charow's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 206K. Avg comments: 2.3K. Audience credibility: 75%.
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Joe Hahn's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 16.0K. Avg comments: 313. Audience credibility: 78%.
Researcher of Birds. Wildlife and Conservation photographer. Tropical ecologist. Spreading Awareness for Conservation.
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Sean Graesser's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 26.2K. Avg comments: 322. Audience credibility: 79%.
Wildlife Photographer focused on bird sounds 🐦🎶 Traveler, Vanlife, 50/63 NP's ⛰️
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Navarre Marshall's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 42.3K. Avg comments: 529. Audience credibility: 78%.
📷Photographer ✍🏻Mamoste (Örgetmen) 🗽Umarım fotoğraflarım sizlerle konuşur,sizlere şarkılar söyler.
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𝐌𝐄𝐇𝐌𝐄𝐓 Ö𝐙𝐂𝐀𝐍's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 13.5K. Avg comments: 162. Audience credibility: 80%.
Bangalore|Portrait & Travel Photographer Ambassador: @adobe Brand collabs open | Mail below
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Biplab Mohapatra's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 28.5K. Avg comments: 122. Audience credibility: 76%.
Traveler, Photographer, Coffee Farmer & Learner :) My stories one image at a time @inracing, Ambassador - Sony, Vivo, Videndum ↓Equipment↓
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Auditya Venkatesh's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 12.7K. Avg comments: 219. Audience credibility: 77%.
underwater photographer Contact: michaelboyyd@outlook.com La Jolla, CA 🦭 Support @sdsealsociety @osidewhales @swellseals
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michael boyd's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 23.7K. Avg comments: 66. Audience credibility: 83%.
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Lilia Kunytska's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 15.2K. Avg comments: 171. Audience credibility: 89%.
Aerial Photographer - Movie Maker Video Editor - YouTuber - Engineer CEO at @ana_muhands17 Email: bachfilms.nl@gmail.com
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Bachar Al Haji's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 39.0K. Avg comments: 183.
Official profile of photographer Sebastião Salgado
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Sebastião Salgado's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 38.8K. Avg comments: 453. Audience credibility: 85%.
قـطـر • DOHA 📷 : | @sfa.lens | Photographer | @974views 🩹 : | My highlights and posts are therapy
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SaL𓍼ོ's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 19.0K. Avg comments: 63. Audience credibility: 78%.
Awardwinning Photographer 🏆 📚 Bestseller Author 👁️ our life with animals,love, chaos 📸Workshops - Coachings-Shootings . NIKON 📷 EIZO 🖥 .…
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Tanja Brandt-Tierfotografie's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 20.8K. Avg comments: 144. Audience credibility: 79%.
UVERworldのVo Singer photographer #takuya_world_official #uverworld #takuya
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TAKUYA∞'s engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 22.1K. Avg comments: 118. Audience credibility: 84%.
Capturing the beauty of Paris and beyond ✨ 📸 Luxury hotels & interiors photographer 📩 raphael@futurmgmt.com Discover my prints of Paris:
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Raphael Metivet's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 10.4K. Avg comments: 79. Audience credibility: 81%.
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adam degross's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 11.4K. Avg comments: 108. Audience credibility: 75%.
I post videos on languages, culture, and stories in general. Also a photographer.
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Fadi's engagement rate benchmarked against this niche's real distribution.
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Avg likes: 34.0K. Avg comments: 1.1K. Audience credibility: 85%.
Benchmarks
The median and ranges across this ranking, so you can tell a genuinely strong photography creator from an average one.
The top photography influencers run a median engagement rate of 0.06% and average 19.3% suspicious followers. Treat 0.06% as the bar a strong photography creator should clear; below it, you are paying for reach, not attention.
The best photography influencers here span 0 nano or micro and 16 macro accounts, covering both cost-efficient gifting and broad-reach launches. Audiences concentrate in United States of America (45%), India (10%), Japan (10%), skewing female at 52%.
How this list is built. These are Instagram creators who describe themselves using terms like photography, photography, photo in their own bio. 4,791 accounts matched. We rank them on a blend of engagement rate, suspicious-follower share and reach, then publish the top 20. Figures are a snapshot taken on Aug 2026 and are frozen between refreshes, so the order you see is the order everyone sees.
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FAQ
Manual hashtag searching works but surfaces whoever posts most, not whoever performs best. Filtering an index is faster: Leewou holds 4,791 photography creators on Instagram and lets you narrow by follower range, engagement rate, audience country and suspicious-follower share. The 20 listed here are the top of that set on our ranking, and the full list is in the app.
On this ranking, 京本大我 (@kyomoto_art_put), Trevor Brighton (@trevor.brighton), Sheng Sheng (@sheng.rain). The ordering blends engagement rate, audience quality and reach rather than follower count alone, which is why a smaller account can outrank a larger one. Data was last refreshed in Aug 2026.
Use the set you are actually buying from as the benchmark, not a global average. Across these photography influencers, the median engagement rate is 0.06% at a median of 597K followers. Anything meaningfully above that median is doing better than its peers at the same size; anything well below is worth a second look before you pay for reach.
Not entirely, and that is true of every Instagram list. Across this group, an average of 19.3% of followers show signs of being fake or inactive. We publish that figure on every card instead of hiding it, so you can discount reach estimates before you negotiate. Anything above 30% is worth auditing manually before you commit budget.
Not on this page: it is a public preview. Inside Leewou you get the full audience breakdown (age, gender, country, city, interests, credibility), historical growth, content performance and email unlocks, plus the ability to save creators to shared lists and monitor their campaign posts. The trial runs 14 days with no card required.
This page shows the top 20. Inside Leewou you get the whole set, filterable by audience country, age, gender, engagement and audience credibility, plus contact emails, shared lists and campaign tracking.
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