photographer

noun

pho·​tog·​ra·​pher fə-ˈtä-grə-fər 

: one who practices photography

especially : one who makes a business of taking photographs

Synonyms of photographer

• shooter
• cinematographer
• photog

Examples of photographer in a Sentence

He worked for the magazine as a fashion photographer.

we'll need to choose a photographer for the wedding

Recent Examples on the Web

For decades now, the station has been the place news photographers, camera crews and now social media influencers go when prices spike. —Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026

But an even quieter problem the park faces is a large number of commercial photographers coming into the park and damaging flowers and other plants, said Don Young, president of Friends of Tandy Hills. —Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026

In his home darkroom, a crime scene photographer develops pictures of a gruesome murder, and each new print comes out more unsettling than the last. —William Earl, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026

Take the SanDisk 4-terabyte SSD, a popular device for photographers. —Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 25 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for photographer

• biographer
• demographer
• ethnographer
• geographer
• hydrographer
• lithographer
• topographer
• typographer
• bibliographer
• choreographer
• historiographer
• lexicographer