Michael Grecco is an award-winning commercial photographer and film director noted for his iconic celebrity portraits, innovative magazine covers, editorial images, and advertising spreads. Michael makes his second appearance on the show to discuss his recent book, Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face, 1978-1991. The seminal book provides a personal and intimate of the punk rock scene.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #566 - Janet Macoska
Janet Macoska is an American photographer. A lifelong Cleveland, Ohio native, she has been capturing images of rock and roll musicians since 1974. Her work has been prominently featured in many publications including Rolling Stone, People, US Weekly, Vogue, and The New York Times. Her latest book is Bruce Springsteen: Live in the Heartland
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #549 - Steve Eichner
Steve Eichner’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Women's Wear Daily, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, People, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, GQ, W, and Details.
For the past 20 years, Steve has been a staff photographer for Women's Wear Daily and shot over 40 New York Fashion Weeks, inside the MET GALA every year, the Victoria Secret Show, and the CFDA awards.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #520 - Allen Clark
Allen Clark is a commercial and advertising photographer based in Nashville, Tennessee. He is consistently rated one of the best photographers in the country. His work can be seen on music packaging, magazines, and countless celebrity and Fortune 500 company websites.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #515 - Colin Finlay
Colin Finlay is one of the foremost documentary photographers and filmmakers in the world. For almost twenty-five years, Finlay has chronicled the human condition with compassion, empathy, and dignity. He has covered war and conflict, disappearing traditions, the environment in both its glory and its devastation, genocide, famine, religious pilgrimage and global cultures. In pursuit of his passion, he has circled the globe twenty-seven times, in search of that one photo that will be a testament to the depth of human will and compassion, of hope and of an informed collective consciousness.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #481 - Jason Hamacher
Jason Hamacher‘s professional efforts are shaped by passion, motivation and vision. He is an internationally recognized musician, photographer, writer, public speaker and massage therapist. His work has taken him across the globe documenting the sights and sounds of culture, music, people and food. Hamacher’s diverse clientele ranges from Vidal Sassoon to an NBA dance team, from the Syrian Embassy to some of the most popular heavy-metal bands in the world. He exhibits his photography frequently and is currently finishing a both a book on Aleppo, Syria and a CD of ancient Christian chants.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #480 - Jérôme Brunet
Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in Ontario, Canada. His passion for music began at the age of four, when he started studying as a classical cellist for eight years before moving on to the guitar. He continues to play guitar to this day. Jérôme displayed an early talent in the visual arts, studying the discipline in high school before completing a formal education in photography at the prestigious E.F.E.T. School of Photography in Paris, France.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #442 - Brian (B+) Cross
BRIAN “B+” CROSS is one of the most prominent music photographers working today. He has photographed many album covers for artists such as Damian Marley, David Axelrod, DJ Shadow, Flying Lotus, Eazy-E, J Dilla, Jurassic 5, Rza, Company Flow, Madlib, Dilated Peoples, Mos Def, Thundercat, Kamasi Washington and Q-Tip. Cross was the director of photography for the Academy Award–nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, and he has made several feature-length music films (Keepintime, Brasilintime and Timeless) and many music videos.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #379 - Ori Aguila
Tracy Barbour lives in Brooklyn, NY. A US Army veteran, Tracy was attending Rose Bruford College as a distance honors student in Theatre Studies when she dropped out to join a media group as a freelance photographer and journalist. Her personal project includes the Grief Grace Project documenting people face some of life's most difficult challenges.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #361 - Ave Pildas
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ave Pildas worked early in his career as a photo stringer for Downbeat Magazine in the Ohio Valley and Pennsylvania in the 1960's, and has been a successful photographer and educator for the past 40 years.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #357 - Kawai Matthews
Kawai Matthews is an internationally published and award-winning photographer specializing in portraiture for editorial, entertainment marketing & advertising. Her ability to capture the depth of a subject, while delivering quality, awe-inspiring imagery is uncanny and unmatched. Shooting unforgettable moments of flair, confidence, substance and honesty in her subjects, her heavyweight portfolio includes some of today’s most celebrated entertainers.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #333 - Danny Clinch Pt. 2
Danny Clinch loves music. He listens to it, plays it, photographs it, and films it. Through this passion, Danny has established himself as one of the premier photographers across the entire music scene. He has shot and filmed a wide range of artists, from Johnny Cash to Tupac Shakur, from Bjork to Bruce Springsteen.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #332 - Danny Clinch Pt. 1
Danny Clinch loves music. He listens to it, plays it, photographs it, and films it. Through this passion, Danny has established himself as one of the premier photographers across the entire music scene. He has shot and filmed a wide range of artists, from Johnny Cash to Tupac Shakur, from Bjork to Bruce Springsteen.
His work has appeared on hundreds of album covers and in publications like Vanity Fair, Spin, Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, and more.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #329 - Estevan Oriol
Estevan Oriol is an internationally celebrated professional photographer, director and urban lifestyle entrepreneur. Beginning his career as a hip-hop club bouncer turned tour manager for popular Los Angeles-based rap groups Cypress Hill and House of Pain, Estevan’s passion for photography developed while traveling the world. With an influential nudge and old camera from his father, renowned photographer Eriberto Oriol, Estevan began documenting life on the road and established a name for himself amid the emerging hip-hop scene.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #254 - Ryan Muirhead
Ryan Muirhead is a portrait and fashion photographer who has created a unique and consistent body of work that is born as a normal extension of his life. As a dedicated shooter of film, his photographs take full advantage of the medium for a distinctive and very personal look.
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