photographer

noun

pho·​tog·​ra·​pher fə-ˈtä-grə-fər 

: one who practices photography

especially : one who makes a business of taking photographs

Synonyms

• 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

The 11-day trip is led by National Geographic photographer Mattias Klum and Behzad J. Larry, founder of the High Asia Habitat Fund who has been documenting the Himalayan wildcats for several years. —AFAR Media, 14 July 2025

Images taken by wildlife photographer Isaac Ogden show the creatures breaching the surface near the rocky coastline. —Brendan Rascius july 14, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025

The photographer, Shaoyu Zhang, captured Oxygen-III data to bring out the blues and greens in the image and took more than 148 hours of exposures. —Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025

This placid scene taken with a Canon R6 Mark II camera by photographer Paul Joels captures the Milky Way in the sky over a boathouse in Lulworth Cove in the U.K. —Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 July 2025

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