Joel Meyerowtiz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide. Celebrated as a pioneer of color photography, he is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards and The Royal Society’s Centenary Medal. He has published over 53 books. His latest release is titled. The Pleasure of Seeing.
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The Candid Frame #575 - Vanessa Charlot
Vanessa Charlot is an award-winning photojournalist/ documentary photographer, filmmaker, lecturer, and curator. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of race, spirituality, economics, and sexual/gender expression. She shoots primarily in black and white to disrupt compositional hierarchy and explore the immutability of the collective human experience.
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The Candid Frame #572 - Amelia Davis
Amelia Davis, the sole beneficiary of legendary photographer Jim Marshall who served as his assistant before his death in 2010. Jim Marshall is recognized as one of the greatest photographers of jazz and rock and rock, having created iconic images of music legends including John Coltraine, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Beatles, and hundreds more.
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The Candid Frame #500 - Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz (born in New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and a recipient of the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, and has published over thirty books, including the Aperture titles Legacy (2009), Cape Light (2015), and Seeing Things (2016).
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The Candid Frame #466 - Mark de Paola
Mark de Paola was literally born into a photo studio on Cahuenga Blvd in Los Angeles and grew up splitting time between Los Angeles and New York. Mark's earliest recollections are of watching photoshoots and being completely immersed in the fashion books and periodicals of the time, Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Mark's photographic foundation is the works of his father Alessio, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern, and Art Kane.
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The Candid Frame #440 - Harvey Stein
Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author and curator based in New York City.
He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography and has taught in several undergraduate and graduate photography programs in the past. Stein is a frequent lecturer on photography both in the United States and abroad. His latest book is Mexico: Between Life and Death.
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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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Dotan Saguy
The Candid Frame #425 - Dotan Saguy
Dotan Saguy was born in a small kibbutz five miles south of Israel’s Lebanese border. He grew up in a diverse working-class Parisian suburb, lived in Lower Manhattan during 9/11 and moved to Los Angeles in 2003.
In 2015 Dotan decided to focus on his lifelong passion for photography after a successful career as a high-tech entrepreneur. For the last several years he has been working on a personal project documenting Venice Beach, California, which is one of Los Angeles's most iconic cultural locations. The result is his book Venice Beach: The Last Days of a Bohemian Paradise.
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Photo: Julia Coddington
Pay Attention to Color: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the role of color in making an effective photograph. He explains how color can be too easily ignored and how instead photographers should focus their attention on the various colors in their composition and use them to increase the impact of their photographs.
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Photo: Chuck Anerino
The Candid Frame #405 - Chuck Anerino
Chuck Anerino is a photographer whose work revolves around his family. Practicing a style described as family documentary, Anerino uses the sensibility of a documentary photographer to capture lives of his family, particularly his young boys.
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Photo: James Ramos
Seeing Thru the Mundane: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about creating something extraordinary from the ordinary. Spurred by a recent email, he discusses how one perceives the mundane is what really determines whether a photographer can successfully make a great picture from the most ordinary of elements.
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Photo: Roman Lunin
High Contrast Scenes: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about photographing a high contrast scene, where there are strong highlight and shadows, but few or no middle tones. He discusses the importance of metering and creating a well-balanced composition when including a lot of negative space.
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photo: Mahesh Balasubramanian
Seeing Off Center: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, Ibarionex discusses the importance of framing your compositions with awareness of what’s happening along the edges of the frame. Instead of singularly focusing on your subject, he demonstrates how three photographers use the elements along the edges of their respective frames to create strong impactful photographs.
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photo: Anna Mia Davidson
The Candid Frame #309 - Anna Mia Davidson
Anna Mia Davidson is a professional photographer based in Seattle, Washington. She believes strongly in the power of images to influence, inspire, and impact the way we see the world around us.
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photo: Andrew Gibbins
In a Crowd: Images from The Flickr Pool
In this week's video, we talk about photographing in crowds. Whether it's a festival, fair or a public religious festival, such an event provides a wonderful opportunity to photograph strangers with little to no push back.
Using images submitted by listeners to the TCF Flickr pool, we discuss how camera position, lighting, camera to subject distance can impact a photograph where you are including a lot of people.
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The Candid Frame #294 - Take Kayo
Take Kayo is a Vancouver based street photographer and camera reviewer. Starting his career in photography as a weekend warrior wedding, commercial and sports photographer in the mid 1990's, Take worked for Kodak-Phototrader from 1996 to 2005. During that time he worked with all the local commercial labs and professional photographers in town and understood the 'business' of photography... and wasn't happy.
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