Mr. Zhou, 33, who works independently from a base in Beijing, happily acknowledges influences from the great Western photojournalists of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith was one of America's great photojournalists, a Life magazine staff member during the 1940's and 50's whose work yielded archetypal American images.

What makes Capa a great photojournalist?

What made Capa a great photojournalist, besides his obvious bravery, was the essential paradox of his work: the love of life coexisting with the tendency toward annihilation.

Margaret Bourke-White is generally considered one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century.

This is a fine small survey of images by the great photojournalist, who worked for Life and many other magazines and died in 1978.

They bespeak uncanny formal intuition, a ready repertory of apt allusions to art history and peerless timing (and some luck maybe, too, which all great photojournalists have).

The agencies that the Guardian subscribes to - AP, Reuters and Getty Images, among others - have some truly great photojournalists on their staff and under contract, although they probably would be too modest to describe themselves as such.

Like many great photojournalists, he has become himself an outsider, a Gypsy.