Jacque Rupp is a documentary and fine-art photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A visual storyteller, Rupp uses the camera to challenge and question, offering a unique perspective on the world around us. In her most recent work, Rupp focuses on womanhood, using herself and experiences. As the subject matter, Rupp ventures off into the imagined, exploring issues of identity and purpose. Her new book is The Red Purse.
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The Candid Frame #630 - Valerie Jardin
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 #620 - Elinor Carucci
Elinor Carucci (born 1971) is an Israeli American photographer and educator living in New York City. She is noted for her intimate portraits of her family's lives.[2][3][4] She has published four monographs: Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013), and Midlife (2019). She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Shortly after RBG’s passing in September 2020, Time magazine commissioned Carucci to write a commemorative piece on the late justice, focused on the stories behind her legendary collars.
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The Candid Frame #597 - Anouk Krantz
Born and raised in France, Anouk Krantz moved to the United States in the late 1990s. Living in New York City, she completed high school at the Lycee Francais and earned her bachelor’s degree while working for a lifestyle magazine. Following college, she worked at Cartier’s corporate office in New York that, oversees the Americas. Anouk's solo journey across America from 2019 to 2021 - reveals the intimate lives and families of this private and elusive icon of the American West.
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The Candid Frame #583 - Alexis Hunley
Alexis Hunley is a freelance photographer whose work focuses on utilizing storytelling to celebrate the beauty and complexity of living as a human. She specializes in portraiture and documentary projects that explore authenticity and emotions.
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The Candid Frame #582 - Nancy Baron
Nancy Baron was born in Chicago and is now based in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California. In her fine art documentary photography, she uses portraits, landscapes, and architectural photographs to record the world nearby with a hopeful bias. Her background in filmmaking, including the documentary form, has inspired her to honor the still image while giving it a cinematic tone.
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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 #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 #573 - Sandra Adorno
Sandra Cattaneo Adorno began photographing eight years ago, at the age of 60, and has continuously been thrilled by the possibilities of interacting with the world photography has offered her.
Sandra is the recipient of international awards and her work has been exhibited and published worldwide. Her latest book is Águas de Ouro.
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The 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
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The Candid Frame #561 - Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn is an award-winning documentary and portrait photographer working in the medium for 20 years. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. Her work has also been published in Vogue, National Geographic, The Washington Post, VOX, NPR, BBC, The Nation, Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
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The Candid Frame #558 - Melissa Breyer & Emily Sujay Sanchez
Melissa Breyer & Emily Sujay Sanchez are street photographers showcased in the new book, Women Street Photographers. Founded by Gulnara Samoilova, Women Street Photographers has brought together photographers from all over the world who share a passion for public photography. After curating several exhibitions, Gulnara has gathered a collection of talented photographers who bring their personal stamps to the genre.
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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 #552 - Chinelle Rojas
Chinelle Rojas has been a self portrait photographer, among other niche specialties like birth and boudoir, since 2010, and logo designer who loves to challenge her creativity with her personal work with her passion project “My Black Self” when she isn’t helping her fellow entrepreneurs make a magical first impression. Chinelle has dreams of being a world traveler alongside her family. Speaking of family, she is a wife and homeschooling (before COVID) mother of three creative souls.
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The Candid Frame #537 - Melissa O’Shaughnessy
Melissa O’Shaughnessy was born in 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and studied at Georgetown University and the University of St. Thomas, graduating with a degree in journalism. She is now a photographer based in New York City. Her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and publications, and her work is included in the book Bystander: A History of Street Photography.
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The Candid Frame #535 - Amy Toensing
Amy Toensing is a documentary photographer committed to telling stories with sensitivity and depth and known for her intimate stories about the lives of ordinary people. Toensing has been a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine for over two decades.
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