Valérie Jardin is an award-winning French photographer who has developed a unique style that is both evocative and authentic. Her work is characterized by a strong sense of narrative, capturing candid moments that reveal the human experience in all its complexity and beauty. With a discerning eye for composition and a keen understanding of light and shadow, Valérie Jardin creates emotionally charged photographs of everyday moments.
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The Candid Frame #618 - Nick Carver
Nick Carver is a working photographer and photography instructor based in Southern California with over eighteen years shooting experience and a professional career spanning more than a decade. Although his teaching and commercial work hinges primarily on digital photography, his passion is fueled by a love for analog film and creating fine art prints. Nick has sought to educate, entertain, and inspire other photographers both in the classroom and through his YouTube videos.
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The Candid Frame #601 - Mark Edward Harris
After graduating from California State University, Los Angeles with a Master of Arts Degree in Pictorial/Documentary History, Mark Edward Harris started his professional photography career doing the stills for the Merv Griffin Show and various television and movie companies. Mark has worked on numerous documentary projects. His latest project focuses on the challenges of orangutans, their habitat, and the people that are helping them to survive.
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The Candid Frame #598 - Rollence Patugan
Rollence Patugan is an American Photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA. Identity, diversity, and visibility are undercurrents of Rollence’s work. Having originally come from Baldwin Park, CA, a small but diverse town in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles.
Rollence wants his work to serve the underrepresented. Growing up in the 1980s as an Asian-American of Chinese and Filipino descent, he did not see a reflection of himself or his Latino friends in government, sports, entertainment, and the arts.
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The Candid Frame #589 - Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi is a renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker, and educator who has been making images and telling stories for 40 years. His restless creativity has continually placed him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling. Dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times, a sensitive eye and an intimate and compassionate relationship with his subjects are signatures of his intense and unsparing work. As a member of VII Photo Agency, Kashi has been recognized for his complex imagery and compelling rendering of the human condition.
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The Candid Frame #579 - Joe McNally
Joe McNally is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning photographer whose prolific career includes assignments in nearly 70 countries. McNally is known worldwide as not only one of the top, technically excellent photographers of his generation, but his charming demeanor, confidence, and humor make him a sought-after choice from CEOs to celebrities to commercial and magazine clients alike.
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The Candid Frame #577 - Cig Harvey
Cig Harvey (b.1973) is a British-born artist and writer, who lives in Maine, USA, working in large-format color photography and poetry, whose practice seeks to find the magic in everyday life. She uses both images and language to explore sensory experiences and elevate the everyday. Rich in an implied narrative, deeply rooted in the natural world, her work is devoted to the topic of what it is to feel.
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The Candid Frame #570 - Michael Sherwin
Michael Sherwin is an artist currently based in the Appalachian mountains of northern West Virginia. From an early age, he found inspiration in the phenomena of the physical world and has spent most of this life exploring and seeking wild places, including nine years in the American West. Using the mediums of photography, video, and installation, his work reflects on the experience of observing nature through the lenses of science and popular culture. His latest book is titled Vanishing Points.
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The Candid Frame #562 - J. Sybylla Smith
As curator of 28 exhibitions featuring over 110 international photographers J. Sybylla Smith provides context for an expansive array of image-based work. Her Concept Aware® curriculum provides a unique concept development framework that strengthens creative practice. Amplifying visual narrative, fostering collaborations across disciplines - she believes visual culture creates social change.
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The Candid Frame #560 - Catherine Opie
Catherine Sue Opie (born 1961)[1] is an American fine-art photographer. She lives and works in West Adams, Los Angeles as a tenured professor of photography at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her latest book is the self-titled Catherine Opie and is available for pre-order now and will be widely available in June 2021.
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The Candid Frame #556 - Mona Kuhn
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Mona Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. Her latest monograph is titled Mona Kuhn: Works.
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The Candid Frame #528 - Sue Bryce
With 30 years of experience, Sue Bryce is one of the most recognizable photographers in the imaging industry. New Zealand born and raised Bryce now lives and works in Los Angeles.
Her contemporary glamour portrait style transcends past stereotypes and has changed the face of portrait photography.
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The Candid Frame #509 - Hugh Brownstone
Hugh Brownstone is the owner and founder of Three Blind Men and An Elephant. He is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and YouTuber; producer of the environmental web series Mariner East; and holder of an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate. He is also the host/producer of his popular photography YouTube channel that shares the name of his production company.
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The Candid Frame #485 - Karen Hutton
Karen Hutton is an International Landscape and Travel Photographer, Artist, Speaker, Author, Educator, Voice; as well as a Professional Fujifilm X-Photographer. She has been photographing for over 40 years and, in addition to her large social media following, her voice has been heard around the world in commercials, apps, tutorials and television.
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The Candid Frame #483 - Hadi Salehi
Hadi Salehi is a master of the art of analog photography. Salehi’s images capture diverse portraits that are powerful and soft, leaving a haunting quality that lingers in the psyche. Salehi seeks to create a collective awareness as a cultural messenger through his images, revealing quiet truths through his process intensive works. With a career that spans more than 40 years,
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The Candid Frame #479 - Ken Merfeld
Ken Merfeld owns and operates a commercial / fine art photography studio where he photographs fashion, advertising, portrait, and celebrity assignments. His work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Angelino, Zoom, Black and White, and Los Angeles magazines.
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