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photo: Jo Farrell
Jo Farrell is an award-winning black and white documentary photographer and culture anthropologist, born in London, England. Her work has been published in numerous places including: the BBC news website, SilkRoad (Cathay Pacific), Huffington Post, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out HK, Creative Quarterly, and 50 other publications that can be viewed on her website.
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photo: Ibarionex
I’ve had been in need of a creative challenge. That uneasy feeling of wanting to do something different, to push past my comfort zone had been gnawing at me for months. Yet, I was not addressing that hunger as I was making so many other things in my life the priority.
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photo: Chris Leskovsek
In the latest TCF YouTube video, we talk about images that are unique and strong because they are black and white. We examine how images based on tonality, shape, form, line and gesture gain their impact when seen as a monochrome image.
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photo: Ibarionex
Spurred by questions from viewers of the TCF YouTube Channel, we are introducing a series of videos that walk through the different ways that Ibarionex converts his color photographs into black and white photographs. This videos will discuss his approach begin with Adobe Lightroom and in subsequent videos will include the use of several third-party plug-ins.
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photo: Jay Bartlett
Jay Bartlett is a Los Angeles-based commercial photographer who has been shooting for over 10 years. A grass-roots photographer who in his early stages of his career pounded the pavement by cold calling and doing door to door advertising for new prospective clients.
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photo: Chris Leskovsek
In this video, Ibarionex discusses what he is looking for in images submitted to The Candid Frame Flickr pool He focuses on photographers who are seeing and composing their images a little bit differently.
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photo: Valerie Jardin
Ibarionex Perello and Valerie Jardin sit down to discuss their recent experience photographing in Paris using mirrorless cameras, which included the Fujifilm x100s and Samsung NX30. Using images produced from their respective trips, they talk about their respective approaches to street photography.
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photo: Damon Casarez
Damon Casarez is an emerging documentary and portrait photographer based in Los Angeles county. His recent project, "Boomerang Kids," that was pitched to the New York Times Magazine, has brought up a lot of conversation about the factors recent college graduates face as soon as they leave school.
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photo: Ibarionex
It’s inevitable. There will be those days that despite, my eagerness, excitement and abundance of high-tech gear that I will have a day of street photography where I come home with nothing. Nada. Zilch. Strike out.
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photo: Kevin Mullins
We speak with photographer, Kevin Mullins who used his storytelling skills as wedding photographer to photograph the birth of a client's daughter. Using his visual narrative skills, he chronicles the the time leading to the birth and the emotional moments afterwards.
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photo: Ola Billmont
Ola Billmont is a full-time entrepreneur but who has managed to create a strong body of work as a street photographer. He is a photographer who favors film and passes it through 35mm, medium format and large format cameras. His use of flash and close-working distance results in a distinctive look to his photographs of people and life on the streets. He considers himself an enthuastic amatuer, but his work demonstrates a professional work-ethic and commitment to his craft.
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photo: Robert Larson
In our latest TCF YouTube video, we talk about photographing hands to capture not only an action, but also to convey character, intimacy and emotions. Select image are pulled from the TCF Flickr pool where listener regular upload and share some of their favorite images. It's a great opportunity to discover new work and to dialog with the many people who make the podcast a regular part of their creative lives.
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photo: Ibarionex
One of the greatest traps that any creative person can fall into is comparing their progress against someone else’s apparent success. It’s a common human behavior, but in the the realm of the artist, it can be incredibly self-sabotaging, leading to procrastination, paralysis and a pernicious undervaluing of one’s work.
As Zack Arias says so eloquently in his video, Transform, every one’s photographs sucked when they first picked up a camera. Great photographers who have achieved a level of public name recognition in and out of the photographic world all began with little knowledge of the difference between an f-stop and a shutter speed.
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photo: Zune Lee
Zune Lee is a photographer whose personal project, Father Figure, explores a personal exploration of fatherhood, identify and family secrets. His surprise discovery that his biological father was black eventually led him to use the camera to explore issues of father-son relationships through the lives of African-American men and their sons.
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photo: Ibarionex
In this latest TCF video, Ibarionex talks about his use of the Fujifilm x100s during a recent trip to Europe. In it, he discusses his personal experience with the camera and how he used its features and limitations to create his photographs.
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photo: Arthur Grace
Arthur Grace began his professional career in 1973 as a staff photographer for United Press International. During his award-winning career in photojournalism spanning three decades, he covered stories worldwide as a contract photographer for Time magazine and a staff photographer for Newsweek magazine. Through his affiliation with Sygma photo agency and now Zuma Press, his photographs have regularly appeared in leading publications worldwide, including on the covers of Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Paris Match and Stern.
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