Ex-medical doctor Norman Seeff emigrated from South Africa to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as a photographer, filmmaker, and designer. Three years later, he relocated to Los Angeles as Art Director at United Artists Records, where his album cover designs and photography received many Grammy nominations.
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The Candid Frame #529 - Rob Feakins
Rob Feakins has spent his career as a writer, executive creative director, and chief creative officer at some of the most respected advertising agencies in America. He has creatively led and won awards on some of the most recognized global brands in the world including Target, Citibank, P&G, BMW, Porsche, Four Seasons, Volvo, Hilton, and Goldman Sachs to name a few. He is the founder of For All Humankind multimedia production company.
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Photographing the Dance: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the concept of “photographing the dance”, a moment where different figures and graphic elements achieve a sense of synchronicity within the composition.
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The Candid Frame #508 - Francisco Alcala
Francisco Alcalá is a humanitarian and travel photographer with a focus on social and cultural documentaries. The images that he creates are positive, visually compelling and with profound meaning that reflects his artistic sensibility and his great respect for people independently of origin, genre, or socioeconomic level. He founded the Home Storytellers that produces multimedia content for NGOs working with refugee populations.
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Olaf & Ibarionex in Paris
While traveling in Paris recently, I had the pleasure of spending time with Canadian-based street photographer Olaf Sztaba. He was conducting a workshop in the City of Lights and luckily it coincided with our time there.
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Photo: Jens Krauer
A Wonderful Conversation
I recently began subscribing to the YouTube Channel of the photographer, Olaf Sztaba. Olaf who describes himself as a visual poet is a photographer who not only has a wonderful visual aesthetic but possesses a philosophy of photography that is not shared often enough. In the YouTube world where there is no shortage of videos of street photographers working out in the street, Olaf brings along a sensibility that brings context to the process.
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Photo: Dean Forbes
What Makes It Street Photography?: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses what makes a photograph “street photography”. Rather than debating what is and what isn’t street photography, he instead focuses on the sensibility of photographers who produce consistently good photographs in this genre.
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Photo: Magnum Photos
Do Great Photographers Make Bad Pictures?
The greatest source of education and inspiration for me has been looking at the work of great photographers. I have spent endless hours looking thru the monographs of Gordon Parks, Mary Ellen Mark, Roy DeCarava, Josef Koudelka, Tina Modotti, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Robert Frank, William Albert Allard and countless others. Those moments leave me marveling at the unique way a person can see the world and capture a moment with a camera.
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Photo: vasco Trancoso
Street as Character: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex, spurred by a comment by a viewer, examines the idea of street as character. Though a lot of street photography utilizes people as their primary subject matter, Ibarionex considers what happens when the photographer doesn’t include people or only uses people as a graphic element in the photograph.
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Photo: Erick Peres
Visual Anchor: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week’s video, Ibarionex discusses the importance of a visual anchor, an element in the composition that leads the viewer’s eye to a starting point for examining the frame.
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photo: Tony Di Zinno
The Candid Frame #343 - Tony Dizinno
Tony Di Zinno has worked in over 43 countries and on six different continents, this Los Angeles based photographer is as comfortable on Hollywood studio back lots as he is on the foothills of the Himalaya. Tony assisted a milieu of Hollywood’s A-list of celebrity shooters before transitioning into the ‘athlete meets aesthete’ genre with the likes of Nike and Adidas.
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photo: Wasim Mukllashy
The Candid Frame #302 - Wasim Muklashy
Wasim Muklashy is a media professional involved in everything from print publications to video production. He began his career writing for various Primedia and Conde Nast publications before founding a national newsstand print publication featuring everyone from Hunter S Thompson’s renown artist Ralph Steadman to influential political and philanthropic personalities including Congressman Henry Waxman and The Sierra Club’s founder Carl Pope.
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photo: Benjiman Brown
Photographing Street Performers: Images from the Flickr Pool
In our latest video, we explore how to make better photographs of street performers. We explore the importance not only of the subject, but also the background, foreground, lighting and considerations for making better, simpler and strong compositions.
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photo: Mike Beecham
This Week's Favorites: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, we focus on three images that we particular liked. Though there is no specific theme or idea that we focus on, we hope that it provides some examples of what makes a good street photograph stand out.
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photo John Colledge
Leading Lines: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, we talk about the concept of leading lines and a vanishing point to improve composition. Using images submitted to The Candid Frame podcast Flickr pool, Ibarionex, demonstrates how graphic lines can lead to more dynamic and successful images.
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photo: Michael Grecco
The Candid Frame #249 - Michael Grecco
Michael Grecco is an award-winning and internationally renowned photographer of celebrity portraits, advertising and editorial commissions, private collections and fine art.
One of the most sought-out visual storytellers in the world, his artistic conceptual vision and signature dramatic lighting create incomparable distinctive images that are famously dramatic, evocative, sophisticated, ironic and comedic.
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