On the back of your camera.

Go to a library and look at books. Books come from an ancient time before the internet told us all to think with a hive mind, so they can be useful to discerning actual ideas.

Look for photography collections. Preferably in B&W, which will both tend to be older and focus on concepts like telling a story and composition.

All the internet gives you is ten million examples of hyper sharp, over saturated, millionth of a second exposures, of birds doing something birds do, but that the lucktographers couldn’t be bothered to actually try to photograph.

You might start with my portfolio. I work in a few of the top industries for commercial photography, television and movies, events and even weddings.

My commercial work: www.photosOnWhite.com My weddings: www.LitWed.com, Mike Moon Studio.com, EmberWed.com.

You can even see my television, movie work as Easter eggs on my LitWed wedding site: Go to the “gallery,” and search for “DS,” “YWN” or “SG”.

All my work is done in camera with little to no post processing. It’s pure photography.

With 60,000 hours of real world work, you can investigate my portfolio with the assurance that you’re seeing “good” work.

In my work you’ll see: -Professional light control -Strong compositional theory -Pure photography with little computer interference -Accurate skin tones with a cinematic look that prioritizes high CRI like a movie maker -Strong story telling in the wedding galleries

And, most importantly, the real deal without a marketed agenda.

Thank you for looking

Museums are the best place, but if you’re also broke and incapable of travel I use the website Lomography often. A lot of the pictures are just okay, but some are really fantastic

I saw in another comment you are in NY. Aside from what others have already suggested, you could browse in the Taschen book store or the Kinokuniya book store. They both have tons of photo related stuff to look through. Also, try going to a magazine store, there’s usually tons of photography themed magazines to look through. You could also just google something like photography galleries NYC & go check out random galleries. If you are in NYC, that is basically the epicenter of America to view photography, so you really have no need for social media to inspire you.

Try this: karsh.org

Yousf Karsh was the master in my opinion. His portrait and darkroom skills were wondrous.

I don’t look to social media for inspiration.

I occasionally watch YouTube videos for information to refresh my knowledge or learn new things in different areas of photography that I generally don’t shoot. Plenty of the inspiration with learning.

Plus I have a list of over twenty sites where I live to take images on a wide variety of subjects, both day and night.

I run with the Nike slogan “Just do it.”

I love going to the local library and just randomly pulling photo books off the shelves to look at. I never know what I’m going to see (aside from Ansel Adams, it’s inescapable) and it’s always interesting.

There’s a series of links in the sidebar for agencies, galleries, book publishers, etc.

Start there.

Get a Readily subscription. Here in the UK it is £8 a month. That will give you access to photography magazines from across the world, plus their back issues.

Unsplash.com, and certain fine arts galleries on ig. Besides that i agree with u/Peoito_Pepito on books.

I generally use all sorts of media to find inspriation. Books, YouTube, Instagram (only because I found photographers I like to follow the recommendations aren’t that great. Technically fine but creatively a bit bland), word of mouth, flickr, friends who do photography

500px editors choice is usually pretty solid

I enjoy using vero for more than a year now. ☺️ better than instagram but not that popular

Go to Dashwood Books in NoHo (https://www.dashwoodbooks.com)