The Candid Frame #137 - Qiana Mestrich

Qiana Mestrich is a photographer and the creator of the popular Dodge and Burn blog, a site dedicated to work of photographers of color. Since she fell in love with photography at the age of 16, photography has been her obsession. Her professional career has involved her help other professionals to use social networking as a marketing tool, but it's her love for photography and the work on her blog that has helped to inspire her to return to school at earn her master's degree in photography at the International School of Photography in New York, where she is working to develop her own distinct photographic vision.

You can discover more about Qiana and her work by visiting her website and the Dodge and Burn blog

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The Candid Frame #125 - Steve Simon


Steve Simon is a photojournalist and documentary photographer who has spent years photographing events both large and small. From political events, religious practices and cultural influences, he has rooted his work on the practice of telling stories both big and small. He is also an educator who has taught photography at the International Center of Photography in NewYork and the Loyalist College Photojournalism Program in Canada. He is also the recent author, The Passionate Photographer, a book which focuses on his personal approach to using personal projects to explore a photographer's ability to tell stories and improve their photographic skills. You can discover more about him and his work by visiting his website and his blog, the latter which will be up and live before the end of 2011.

Steve Simon recommends the work of Josef Koudelka.

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The Candid Frame #103 - Jo Ann Santangelo

Jo Ann Santangelo is a documentary photographer whose career with a camera began as a pedi-cab driver in Austin, Texas. While studying at the International Center of Photography, she began a project documenting veterans impacted by the United State's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy. She has recently finished traveling across the country where she created a series of portraits with these veterans. Her documentary projects revolve around community and putting faces and revealing the stories of the parts of our communities that many of us do not or choose not to see. You can discover more about her work by visiting her website.

If you are listening to this show during the week of November 7th and are in the New York area, you can catch the opening of her exhibition Proud to Serve on November 11, 2010. Click here for details.

Jo Ann Santangelo recommends the work of Darcy Padilla.

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