Mike Poggioli came to see photography as a serious creative outlet when he moved to Chicago in 2015 and became enamored by the beauty of the city’s architecture. He was particularly drawn to the L trains, experiencing every ride through The Loop, Chicago’s downtown center, as a complimentary architecture tour.
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The Candid Frame #584 - Asha Iman Veal & Farah Salem
Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Part is an exhibition that challenges ideas of who is worth remembering and forgetting in the stories of a place. It is currently being exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in (Chicago).
Asha Iman Veal is a curator for the show and serves as the Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago) and faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Farah Salem is a Chicago-based artist and art therapist/counselor. Her multidisciplinary practice is rooted within photography and expands into video, performance, fiber, and installation.
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The Candid Frame #580 - Natasha Egan
Since 2011, Natasha Egan has served as the executive director of the MoCP, where she was previously the associate director and curator since 2000. She has organized over sixty exhibitions at the museum and worldwide, focusing on contemporary Asian art and artists concerned with societal issues such as the environment, war, and economics.
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The Candid Frame #498 - Sarah Hadley
Sarah Hadley was born in Boston and studied both art history and photography at Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, DC. She spent time in her 20's studying and working at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Biennale in Venice, Italy, where she first started photographing seriously. She worked at the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress and as a photojournalist for a newspaper in Virginia before moving to Chicago in 1996, where she founded the Filter Photo Festival.
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Nicholas Pinto
The Candid Frame #427 - Nicholas Pinto
Nicholas Pinto (b. 1979) is an Italian-American photographer based in Chicago, IL.
As a street and documentary photographer, his work explores topics of cultural and social awareness, poverty, and mental health issues. Capturing moments in time as a visual story-teller Pinto uses these projects to shine a light on the difficulties of living, and to give a face to it that many don’t see.
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photo: Sophia Nahli Allison
The Candid Frame #304 - Sophia Nahli Allison
Sophia Nahli Allison is a visual journalist at the community level and a media arts educator. Born in 1987 + a native of South Central Los Angeles, she is passionate about stories that humanize the black and LGBT communities. She believes storytelling is a tool for social change.
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photo: Sandro
The Candid Frame #298 - Sandro
Sandro has been photographing people for over thirty years. He became interested in photography at the age of sixteen upon seeing the work of Irving Penn and has since devoted his life to creating expressive images.
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