Reddit reviews Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS

A nice camera bag if you need one. I have four right now, a big one for a full kit, a very small one that sees no real use, a medium sized old school shoulder bag that I use to pack my back up kit in and a modern messenger style bag that can hold my body and a few lenses/flashes, but usually just holds the body with a fifty and everything else I carry with me day to day (Ipad, phone, ecig stuff, papers, pens, change of clothes for kid, gym clothes etc.) The last is immensely handy as it functions as a man purse and allows me to carry my camera with me pretty much all the time.

Barring that I'd just go for a Amazon gift card and pick out some nice Photography books for inspiration. My last purchase was Steve McCurry the Iconic Photographs, Genesis by Sebastião Salgado, and Frontcountry by Lucas Foglia. All three are fantastic, McCurry's is of course amazing, but you probably seen a lot of his work. Salgado's is rich textured, black and white landscapes. The Arctic shots are simply mindblowing. But my favourite of these three is Frontcountry. Foglia captures such a mood and setting perfectly, the whole book is somewhat diverse, but works as a single piece perfectly.

Great suggestions all around! I would add a personal favourite of mine: Genesis, Sebastiao Salgado.

James Nachtwey Inferno

Sebastiao Salgado Migrations out of print. Also see Africa and Genesis

Robert Doisneau Paris

EDIT: Also see Fan Ho. The books go in and out of print but a third is available for pre-order.

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If he's more of a reader get About Looking by John Berger

Its a great book that talks about why we take pictures of the things we do and much more.

If he's more interested in looking at actual photographs, I would recommend a number of books

Genesis by Sebastiao Salgado

Magnum Contact Sheets

The Americans by Robert Frank

The Last Resort by Martin Parr

One of my favorites is Genesis By Sebastiao Salgado. I have the big hardcover published by Taschen.