Levon Biss was born in 1975 and grew up in South London. He trained initially to be an illustrator and it was not until his late teens that he picked up a camera, combining photography with his love of sports.
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photo: Estevan Oriol
The Candid Frame #329 - Estevan Oriol
Estevan Oriol is an internationally celebrated professional photographer, director and urban lifestyle entrepreneur. Beginning his career as a hip-hop club bouncer turned tour manager for popular Los Angeles-based rap groups Cypress Hill and House of Pain, Estevan’s passion for photography developed while traveling the world. With an influential nudge and old camera from his father, renowned photographer Eriberto Oriol, Estevan began documenting life on the road and established a name for himself amid the emerging hip-hop scene.
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photo: Masum Khan
Kids at Play: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, we talk about how to effectively photograph children at play. Ibarionex discusses the importance of paying attention to the quality of the lighting, the setting, color contrast and gesture.
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photo: Art Wolfe
The Candid Frame #328 - Art Wolfe
Over the course of his 40-year career, photographer Art Wolfe has worked on every continent and in hundreds of locations. Wolfe’s photographs are recognized throughout the world for their mastery of color, composition and perspective. Wolfe's photographic mission is multi-faceted: art, wildlife advocacy, education, and journalism inform his work.
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photo: Noe Montes
The Candid Frame #327 - Noe Montes
Noe Montes is a Los-Angeles based photographer who specializes in documentary work for small non-profits. Though he has years of experience in editorial and commercial work, Montes desire that his work help people to tell their stories and effect positive change.
Born to parents who were at the time undocumented migrant workers, he has turned his camera to other migrant families in Southern California. His work focuses on themes of power, media and race.
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photo: Kathy Shorr
The Candid Frame #326 - Kathy Shorr
Kathy Shorr is a freelance photographer based in New York. Her work has been exhibited widely at such galleries as Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY, and Sariedo Gallery, NY. Her series, "Limousine," was included in the prestigious Visa Pour L'Image, International Photo-Journaliosm Festival, in Perpignan, France. Her work has been published in Popular Photography, Newsweek, French Photo, Camera Austria, Photo Review, On Seeing, New York Observer, and The Village Voice. As a freelance educational consultant, Ms. Shorr works with diverse groups of all ages in helping to learn how to express themselves through the lens and screen arts.
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photo: The Dogist
The Candid Frame #325 - Elias Weiss Friedman (The Dogist)
Elias Weiss Friedman is a photographer who is popularly known as The Dogist. He is the creator of the popular Instagram feed and blog which is dedicated to portraits of dogs, primarily found in the city of New York. The Instagram feed, which enjoys over 2 million followers, has culminated into a best-selling book titled, The Dogist: Photographic Encounters with 1000 Dogs.
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photo: Yvonne Venegas
The Candid Frame #324 - Yvonne Venegas
As the daughter of a wedding photographer, Yvonne Venegas’ work emerges from a reflection of portraiture charged by an analysis of social class and self-representation, particularly that of the Mexican upper middle class. She is interested in problematizing the idea of the perfect or official memory, by seeking moments of fragility or un-preparedness for the camera. Inhabited by upper middle-class social rituals, ideas of celebrity and beauty, upper class leisure, animals from a private zoo, beauty queens, or young wealthy children, she seeks to represent a fractured version of the images and situations that are traditionally understood to bring status and/or respect. Her experience growing up in the border has established in the way she views her subjects as well as the photographic practice itself, where she constantly looks for blurring lines between portraiture and documentary as well as explores the pulsating space between the perfect image and one that social studio photography could consider an error.
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photo: Ben Helton
TCF Listener: Ben Helton - Images from the Flickr Pool
For the past year, we have been producing a YouTube channel where I pull images from The Candid Frame Flickr pool to provide critiques and insights about photography. There are some amazingly talented photographers contributing work on regular basis.
So, we thought that a great idea would be to showcase photographers who are producing photo projects. So, we intend to use the blog and channel to help promote some of the great work that is being produced.
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photo: Arthur Meyerson
The Candid Frame #323 - Arthur Meyerson
Arthur Meyerson is recognized as one of America's finest photographers. Since 1974, this native Texan has traveled throughout the world, creating award winning advertising, corporate and editorial photographs, as well as an extensive body of fine art imagery. A three-time winner of Adweek's "Southwest Photographer of the Year" award, he is on Communication World's list of top 10 corporate photographers and was named one of the 30 best advertising photographers by American Photo.
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photo: d_horton
Body Language: Images from The Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about the importance of body language and how that can elevate the impact of a composition.
Each week we pull images submitted by listeners to The Candid Frame Flickr pool. You can submit images for consideration in these weekly videos as well as become part of a growing community of photographers.
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photo: David Alan Harvey
The Candid Frame #322 - David Alan Harvey
Born in San Francisco, David Alan Harvey was raised in Virginia. He discovered photography at the age of 11. Harvey purchased a used Leica with savings from his newspaper route and began photographing his family and neighborhood in 1956.
When he was 20 he lived with and documented the lives of a black family living in Norfolk, Virginia, and the resulting book, Tell It Like It Is, was published in 1966. He was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association in 1978.
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The Candid Frame #321 - Patreon Fundraising Effort
For the past 10 years, we've produced one of the best photography-related content in the form ofThe Candid Frame photography podcast. It has featured in-depth and insightful conversations with some of the world's best established and emerging photographers including Mary Ellen Mark, Matthew Jordan Smith, Douglas Kirkland, Reza, Maki Kawakita, Joe McNally and hundreds of others.
Today, we are asking for your help to take the show to a whole new level with our Patreon Fundraising Effort
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photo: Evi Herlyna
On the Phone: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about photographing the common scene of people on their smart phones. Though many photographers lament people’s obsessions with looking at these small screens at all hours of the day, such moments can provide great photographs if you know what to look for.
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photo: Lara Jo Regan
The Candid Frame #320 - Lara Jo Regan
Lara Jo Regan's career as a photographer has been uncommon and diverse, achieving serious acclaim and respect across several disciplines.
With a background in anthropology, journalism, film and fine art, Regan's work combines painterly aesthetics with closely behavioral studies and oblique social commentary, a signature style she has applied to everything from impoverished Appalachians to the rich elite. Her interpretive documentary coverage of American culture has been regularly commissioned and published by the world's leading magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Life, Premiere and Entertainment Weekly, among many others. She is the recipient of many of her field's highest honors, including the coveted World Press Photo of the Year.
Her latest book is titled Dog in Cars.
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Shooting with the 50mm: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the benefits of shooting with a fixed focal length, specifically the 50mm lens. He discusses the benefits of seeing photographically with a lens that provides advantages for a wide variety of photography from street work to portraiture.
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