Lucas Foglia is a fine-art photographer who examines the intersections between humans and wild spaces. His recent book and traveling exhibition, Human Nature, focuses on people in diverse ecosystems who rely on nature in the context of climate change. Foglia exhibits his work internationally, and his prints are in notable collections including the International Center of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Victoria and Albert Museum.
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The Candid Frame #544 - Shane Balkowitsch
Shane Balkowitsch (born January 24, 1969) is an American wet plate photographer from Bismarck, North Dakota. The subject of his photos is the human condition. Since 2012 he has photographed over 4,000 individuals, including various celebrities and historical figures.
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The Candid Frame #541 - Dotan Saguy
Dotan Saguy is a documentary photographer living in Southern California. His second monograph showcases a new body of work that documents the everyday life of a family of vehicle dwellers with their three young children on the streets of Los Angeles.
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The Candid Frame #539 - Hunter Barnes
Hunter Barnes is a documentary photographer whose work captures aspects of culture and communities ignored by the mainstream and often misrepresented in the modern American narrative.
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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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The Candid Frame #533 - Michael M. Santiago
Michael M. Santiago (b. 1980) is a staff news photojournalist with Getty Images. His work has focused on issues ranging from health, race and identity, family relationships, youth empowerment, and more. Michael is a member of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the shooting deaths of 11 people and the wounding of seven others on Oct. 27 at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
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The Candid Frame #530 - Brandon Thibodeaux
Brandon Thibodeaux is a photographer and educator based in Houston, TX, who creates portraits in the documentary tradition. In addition to his assignment work and creative commissions, he explores life in the American South. He is a guest instructor with the Santa Fe Photographic and Maine Media Workshops, as well as both the Houston and Los Angeles Centers of Photography.
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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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photo: Cheriss May
The Candid Frame #518 - Cheriss May & Idris T. Solomon
Cheriss May is a visual storyteller and adjunct professor at Howard University, her alma mater, in Washington D.C. She is the president of Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW), and co-chair of the photography committee at The National Press Club.
Idris Talib Solomon is a photojournalist and portrait photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. In 2016, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to photograph Hip Hop culture in Ghana. He is also the host and producer of the Black Shutter podcast.
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The Candid Frame #517 - Erika Larsen
Erika Larsen is a multidisciplinary storyteller who works in photography, writing, and video.
She is fascinated by the way people communicate with the natural world.
Her monograph ‘Sami-Walking with Reindeer’, a reflection of her time living in the Scandinavian Arctic, was published in 2013.
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The Candid Frame #516 - Chris Suspect
Chris Suspect was born in the Philippines in 1968. He is a street and documentary photographer hailing from the Washington, DC area. He specializes in capturing absurd and profound moments in the quotidian. His street photography work has been recognized internationally and has been exhibited in Miami, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Romania, Georgia, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. His documentary work on the underground music scene in Washington, D.C., was published as a book, Suspect Device, by Empty Stretch in 2014 and was a featured exhibit at the Kolga Tblisi Photo Festival 2015 in Tblisi, Georgia. His latest book is Leather Boys.
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The 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.
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The Candid Frame #514 - Christopher Fernandez
Christopher Fernandez is an editorial, commercial and fine art photographer based in London, specialising in portraiture and reportage photography, with an atmospheric style consisting of heightened drama and a cinematic aesthetic. The circumstances of the recent pandemic spurred him to solicit the collaboration of his neighbors for portraits created through their apartment windows.
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The Candid Frame #513 - Megan Kwasniak
Megan Kwasniak is a physician and an aspiring photographer whose biggest passion lies in discovering new places and meeting new people. Her highest aspiration is to ultimately combine her love for photography and her dedication to the field of medicine and use it for the betterment of human health worldwide. Her my accomplishments have included exhibits at Miami Street Photo Festival, Women Street Photographers and publications in The Guardian, TRVL and EV magazines.
She currently works as a doctor specializing in emergency medicine in a hospital in Southern Florida. She has been documenting her and her co-workers experiences over the last several months.
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The Candid Frame #512 -Kristen Joy Emack
Kristen Joy Emack is a photographer and educator who lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds a degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is primarily a self-taught photographer. Kristen recently won 2nd place in the Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, curated by Steve Locke and Camilo Alvarez, and is a recipient of this year's Mass Cultural Council's Photography Fellowship grant. Her work has been published in PDN, Rangefinder, The Library Journal and The Sun Magazine. Kristen's work includes two long-term projects that look at childhood, family and visibility.
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The Candid Frame #511 - Isadora Kosofsky
Isadora Kosofsky (b. 1993, USA) is a documentary photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She began photographing at the age of 14, documenting individuals in hospice care. She takes an immersive approach to visual storytelling, spending months and years imbedded in the lives of the people she shadows.
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