David Hume Kennerly has been a photographer on the front lines of history for more than fifty years. At 25 he was one of the youngest winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. Kennerly’s 1972 award for Feature Photography included images of the Vietnam and Cambodia wars, refugees escaping from East Pakistan into India, and the Ali v. Frazier “Fight of the Century” World Heavyweight Championship at Madison Square Garden. Two years later Kennerly was appointed President Gerald R. Ford's Personal White House Photographer.
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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 #576 - Meryl Meisler
Meryl Meisler was born 1951 in the South Bronx and raised in North Massapequa, Long Island, NY. Meryl began photographing herself, family, and friends while enrolled in a photography class taught by Cavalliere Ketchum at The University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1975, Meryl returned to New York City and studied with Lisette Model, photographing her hometown and the city around her. After working as a freelance illustrator by day, Meryl frequented and photographed the infamous New York Discos.
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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 #574 - Nathan Myhrvold
Dr. Nathan Myhrvold is a prominent scientist, technologist, inventor, author, and food photographer.
Food and cooking have been passions of Myhrvold since childhood. While at Microsoft, he worked nights at a Seattle restaurant with chef Thierry Rautureau and then obtained a culinary degree at Ecole De La Varenne in Burgundy. In 2007, he founded The Cooking Lab, a culinary research laboratory, photo studio, and publishing company. In 2011, he published a five-volume, 2,500-page cookbook, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking.
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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 #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.
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The Candid Frame #571 - Joao Velozo
Based in Pernambuco, Brazil, João Velozo is a freelance photographer specializing in covering urban violence, human rights, and environmental issues, most specifically those taking place in the Brazilian Northeast.
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The Candid Frame #570 - Michael Sherwin
Michael Sherwin is an artist currently based in the Appalachian mountains of northern West Virginia. From an early age, he found inspiration in the phenomena of the physical world and has spent most of this life exploring and seeking wild places, including nine years in the American West. Using the mediums of photography, video, and installation, his work reflects on the experience of observing nature through the lenses of science and popular culture. His latest book is titled Vanishing Points.
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The Candid Frame #569 - Glenn Losack
Dr. Glenn Losack is a psychiatrist, physician, photographer, social activist, and musician who has traveled and worked extensively in the developing world for over forty years. Devoted to raising awareness of poverty and stymying the stigma of diseases like leprosy, His new book of photography is titled The Bonds We Share.
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The Candid Frame #568 - Las Fotos Project
Las Fotos Project was founded in 2010 to elevate the voices of teenage girls from communities of color through photography and mentoring. They are uplifting the power and creativity of youth today through city-wide photography installations, virtual activations, and more. Join us in ushering in the next 10 years of creativity and inspiration. In October, they honor established and emerging women photographers at their annual Foto Awards.
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The Candid Frame #567 - Nicky Posley
Nicky Posley's journey into makeup began through a strong fascination with the transformative power of beauty, art, and fashion. A fine artist first, Nicky experimented with many visual art forms, eventually finding the medium he felt most at home with. He is both a working artist and a respected educator of his craft.
He believes that makeup is an art and that art is empowerment. Whether it be slick and modern or primitive and rudimentary, art can evoke emotions deeply rooted in the human experience. Like the human experience, it is ever-changing. . . always evolving.
We sit down to discuss the history of Kodak’s Shirley card and how the technology of film impacted the rendering of skin tones, especially those of people of color.
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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 #565 - The Curious Society
The Curious Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to publishing and showcasing the best in modern photojournalism and documentary photography. They publish a massive, oversized magazine that contains exceptional work from photographers producing work from the world over. The Curious Society is also committed to compensating photographers with fair market rates for their published work.
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The Candid Frame #564 - Albert Watson
Albert Watson OBE (born 1942) is a Scottish fashion, celebrity, and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s and has created major advertising campaigns for clients such as Prada, Chanel, and Levis.
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The Candid Frame #563 - Andria Lo & Valerie Luu
Chinatown Pretty was created by photographer Andria Lo and writer Valerie Luu, two friends who love dim sum and chasing after pretty poh pohs (grandmas). They started a blog after their personal project was featured as a story, Chinatown Sartorialist, on The Bold Italic.
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