In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses two different approaches to creating street photographs and how seeing the composition applies to both.
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The Candid Frame #466 - Mark de Paola
Mark de Paola was literally born into a photo studio on Cahuenga Blvd in Los Angeles and grew up splitting time between Los Angeles and New York. Mark's earliest recollections are of watching photoshoots and being completely immersed in the fashion books and periodicals of the time, Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Mark's photographic foundation is the works of his father Alessio, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern, and Art Kane.
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The Candid Frame #465 - Safi Alia Shabaik
Safi Alia Shabaik's work has been about identity, persona, subculture and the humanity of all people. Her subject matter moved from the public realm to the private, when she became a caregiver for her father who was beginning to exhibit symptoms of the disease. Personality Crash: Portraits of My Father Who Suffered from Advanced Stages of Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia, and Sundowner’s Syndrome documents the final years of their life together.
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The Candid Frame #464 - Sam Abell, Arthur Meyerson & George Nobechi
Sam Abell, Arthur Meyerson and George Nobechi recently shared a “buddy trip”, traveling through the heart of Japan via train. While George lives in Japan, Arthur and Sam have frequently traveled to the country on assignment and to teach workshops. However, this trip was a very personal one, which allowed these three friends to do more than photograph together, but to also share a wealth of unique cultural and personal experiences.
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The Discoveries of Risk: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the importance of taking risks and how they can result in insights that will help your photography.
Normally, 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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The Candid Frame #463 - Sara Terry
Sara Terry is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker known for her work covering post-conflict stories, and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow for her long-term project, “Forgiveness and Conflict: Lessons from Africa.” Her first long-term post-conflict work, “Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace,” led her to found The Aftermath Project in 2003 on the premise that “War is Only Half the Story.” An accomplished speaker on aftermath and visual literacy issues, her lectures include a TEDx talk, “Storytelling in a Post-Journalism Word,” and several appearances at The Annenberg Space for Photography.
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Composing Around Gesture: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the importance of gesture and how to build a composition around it.
Normally, 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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The Candid Frame #462 - Roland Miller
Miller’s project, Abandoned in Place: Preserving America’s Space History, documenting the deactivated and repurposed space launch and test facilities around the United States was published by the University of New Mexico Press.
Color as an Element vs Subject: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses how to consider color as a visual element and not just as the subject of your photograph. By stripping away the color in several submitted photographs he demonstrates why it’s important to still consider line and shape, gesture and tonal contrast in building your composition.
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The Candid Frame #461 - Thomas Michael Alleman
Thomas Alleman was born and raised in Detroit, where his father was a traveling salesman and his mother was a ceramic artist. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in English Literature.
During a fifteen-year newspaper career, Tom was a frequent winner of distinctions from the National Press Photographer's Association, as well as being named California Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1995 and Los Angeles Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1996.
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Making Different Choices: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses why it’s important to consider more than one perspective when making photographs. Rather than always photographing from eye-level or from a given distance, a photographer can produce images with more impact and intimacy.
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The Candid Frame #460 - Barbara Peacock
Barbara Peacock is currently working on her project, American Bedroom. It is a cultural and anthropological study of Americans in their private dwelling: their bedroom. The nature of the project comprises portraits of individuals, couples, and families that reveal the depth of their character and spirit.
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Putting It All Together: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the importance of the visual draws of light and shadow, line and shape, color and gesture. He emphasizes how by carefully considering all these elements to serve your subject produces better photographs.
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The Candid Frame #459 - Nico Therin
Nico Therin is a Los Angeles based French photographer. For as long as he can remember, he has been attracted to form and color, but it wasn’t until he moved from France to the United States to follow his exchange student high school sweetheart that he entertained the idea of studying photography.
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Ibarionex's Appearance on Scott Kelby's The Grid
I was honored with the opportunity to appear as a guest on Scott Kelby’s The Grid to talk on the topic of street photography and my latest book, Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow. It was great fun and it was a pleasure to spend time with Scott who I first interviewed for TCF in Ep. 119.
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The Candid Frame #458 - Meryl Meisler
Meryl Meisler frequented and photographed the infamous New York Discos. As a 1978 CETA Artist grant recipient, Meryl created a portfolio of photographs which explored her Jewish Identity for the American Jewish Congress. After CETA, Meryl began a 31-year career as an NYC Public School Art Teacher.
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