The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, writer, and executive director/founder of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. She began her career as an apprentice to pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott. Later, Julia was a photo editor for the Associated Press in New York. She has traveled to more than 45 countries while freelancing for numerous relief groups and magazines. Her extensive teaching experience includes over 36 years at various colleges, universities and educational institutions including the University of Nebraska, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Santa Monica College, the Santa Fe Workshops, the Maine Photographic Workshops, Oxford University and the Los Angeles Center of Photography. For the past 18 years, Julia has concentrated on street photography around the world. For the past eight years, street shooting in downtown Los Angeles has been her primary focus. Julia's work was selected for a book produced by Acuity Press and PDN magazine featuring 20 street shooters around the world, and published in two lengthy spreads in Digital Photo Pro magazine and B&W Magazine UK over the last couple of years. Photographer Links: Julia Dean http://juliadean.com Los Angeles Center of Photography https://lacphoto.org Joel Sartore https://www.joelsartore.com TCF #219 - Joel Sartore https://www.ibarionex.net/thecandidframe/2014/2/9/the-candid-frame-219-joel-sartore Education Resources: Using Your Life to Launch Your Photography https://www.nobechicreative.com/using-your-life-to-launch-your-photography-ibarionex-perello-july-aug-2020 Creating Personal Breakthroughs https://lacphoto.org/events/creating-personal-breakthroughs-with-ibarionex-perello-2020/ Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 https://www.nobechicreative.com/workshops#/tokyo-explorations-in-the-metropolis-v-2-with-ibarionex-perello-and-george-nobechi/ Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Become a Patron! Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter. You can download the latest episode by clicking here. To stream the current episode on your computer, click on the player below.

Cheriss May is a visual storyteller and adjunct professor at Howard University, her alma mater, in Washington D.C. She is the president of Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW), and co-chair of the photography committee at The National Press Club. Idris Talib Solomon is a photojournalist and portrait photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. In 2016, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to photograph Hip Hop culture in Ghana. He is also the host and producer of the Black Shutter podcast. Photographer Links: Cheriss May http://www.cherissmay.com/index.html Idris Talib Solomon http://www.isolomonphoto.com Black Shutter Podcast https://blackshutterpodcast.com Laylah Amatullah Barrayn https://www.instagram.com/laylahb/ Adama Delphine Fawundu https://www.instagram.com/adamadelphine/ Michael Santiago https://www.msantiagophotos.com MFON http://mfonfoto.org Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 https://www.nobechicreative.com/workshops#/tokyo-explorations-in-the-metropolis-v-2-with-ibarionex-perello-and-george-nobechi/ Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

Erika Larsen is a multidisciplinary storyteller who works in photography, writing, and video. She is fascinated by the way people communicate with the natural world. Her monograph 'Sami-Walking with Reindeer', a reflection of her time living in the Scandinavian Arctic, was published in 2013. Larsen was a 2017 Fellow with National Geographic Society for an ongoing project exploring how communities that maintain close ties to nature communicate this relationship through ritual. Her work has been included in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, National Geographic Society, Fotografiska Museum, and the United States Embassy in Oslo. Photographer Links: Erika Larsen http://www.erikalarsenphoto.com Evgenia Arbugaeva http://www.evgeniaarbugaeva.com Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 https://www.nobechicreative.com/workshops#/tokyo-explorations-in-the-metropolis-v-2-with-ibarionex-perello-and-george-nobechi/ Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

Chris Suspect was born in the Philippines in 1968. He is a street and documentary photographer hailing from the Washington, DC area. He specializes in capturing absurd and profound moments in the quotidian. His street photography work has been recognized internationally and has been exhibited in Miami, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Romania, Georgia, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. His documentary work on the underground music scene in Washington, D.C., was published as a book, Suspect Device, by Empty Stretch in 2014 and was a featured exhibit at the Kolga Tblisi Photo Festival 2015 in Tblisi, Georgia. His latest book is Leather Boys. Photographer Links: Chris Suspect https://www.chrissuspect.com Leather Boyz https://www.chrissuspect.com/shop/leather-boyz-by-chris-suspect/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gratuity_included/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/chris.suspect.56 Chris Gatewood https://www.amazon.com/Sidetripping-Charles-Gatewood/dp/0867194421 Photo Contest Your World Right Now: Light, Shapes and Moments https://www.viewbug.com/contests/your-world-right-now-light-shapes-moments-photo-contest Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 https://www.nobechicreative.com/workshops#/tokyo-explorations-in-the-metropolis-v-2-with-ibarionex-perello-and-george-nobechi/ Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

Colin Finlay is one of the foremost documentary photographers and filmmakers in the world. For almost twenty-five years, Finlay has chronicled the human condition with compassion, empathy, and dignity. He has covered war and conflict, disappearing traditions, the environment in both its glory and its devastation, genocide, famine, religious pilgrimage, and global cultures. In pursuit of his passion, he has circled the globe twenty-seven times, in search of that one photo that will be a testament to the depth of human will and compassion, of hope and of an informed collective consciousness. In addition to book and photography projects, Finlay is an accomplished musician, with his compositions accompanying his latest photography exhibition, Of Consequence. Finlay has participated in a number of TEDx events nationally and is invited to speak regularly at a variety of prestigious events and institutions, such as the Annenberg, LACMA, ADOBE, Goldman Environmental Awards, and the Ford Foundation. Finlay is passionate about humanitarian efforts and even co-founded the non-profit organization Proof: Media for Social Justice to help address issues faced by populations in post-conflict societies, and to encourage social change through photography. Photographer Links: Colin Finlay https://www.colinfinlay.com Colin Finlay on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/colinfinlay/?hl=en Brian Eno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno Friedensreich Hundertwasser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedensreich_Hundertwasser Photo Contest Your World Right Now: Light, Shapes and Moments https://www.viewbug.com/contests/your-world-right-now-light-shapes-moments-photo-contest Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 https://www.nobechicreative.com/workshops#/tokyo-explorations-in-the-metropolis-v-2-with-ibarionex-perello-and-george-nobechi/ Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

Christopher Fernandez is an editorial, commercial and fine art photographer based in London, specializing in portraiture and reportage photography, with an atmospheric style consisting of heightened drama and a cinematic aesthetic. His recent personal project was inspired by the current pandemic and spurred him to solicit the collaboration of portraits created through their apartment windows. His work is often described as documentary photography combined with the fictional world of cinema and advertising, creating a powerful connection between reality and fantasy. His clients include Art & Fashion magazines, Celebrities, Ad agencies, Design agencies, and TVC'. Photographer Links: Christopher Fernandez https://christopherfernandez.com Rankin https://rankin.co.uk David Bailey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bailey Philip-Lorca diCorcia http://www.thecollectiveshift.com/site/assets/files/1024/pld_presskit_smallest.pdf Photo Contest Your World Right Now: Light, Shapes and Moments https://www.viewbug.com/contests/your-world-right-now-light-shapes-moments-photo-contest Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 https://www.nobechicreative.com/workshops#/tokyo-explorations-in-the-metropolis-v-2-with-ibarionex-perello-and-george-nobechi/ Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

Megan Kwasniak is a physician and an aspiring photographer whose biggest passion lies in discovering new places and meeting new people. My highest aspiration is to ultimately combine my love for photography and my dedication to the field of medicine and use it for the betterment of human health worldwide.Her accomplishments have included exhibits at Miami Street Photo Festival, Women Street Photographers and publications in The Guardian, TRVL and EV magazines She currently works as a doctor specializing in emergency medicine in a hospital in Southern Florida. She has been documenting her and her co-workers experiences over the last several months. Photographer Links: Megan Kwasniak https://megankwasniakphotography.com Megan Kwasniak Blog https://thisphotographylife.com Sonia Goydenko https://www.soniagoydenko.com Photo Contest Your World Right Now: Light, Shapes and Moments https://www.viewbug.com/contests/your-world-right-now-light-shapes-moments-photo-contest Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 https://www.nobechicreative.com/workshops#/tokyo-explorations-in-the-metropolis-v-2-with-ibarionex-perello-and-george-nobechi/ Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

Kristen Joy Emack is a photographer and educator who lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds a degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is primarily a self-taught photographer. Kristen recently won 2nd place in the Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, curated by Steve Locke and Camilo Alvarez, and is a recipient of this year's Mass Cultural Council's Photography Fellowship grant. Her work has been published in PDN, Rangefinder, The Library Journal and The Sun Magazine. Kristen's work includes two long-term projects that look at childhood, family and visibility. Photographer Links: Kristen Joy Emack Commercial Photography https://www.kristenjoyemackphotography.com Kristen Joy Emack Personal Work https://kristen-emack.format.com Al J. Thompson https://www.aljthompson.com/ Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

Isadora Kosofsky (b. 1993, USA) is a documentary photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She began photographing at the age of 14, documenting individuals in hospice care. She takes an immersive approach to visual storytelling, spending months and years embedded in the lives of the people she shadows. For her, the relationships formed with the subjects are tantamount to the image-making. Her area of focus is American social issues, looking at the intersection of personal and political conflicts. She works on a range of subject matters through the lens of one individual or group of people, looking at mental health, incarceration, substance use, disability rights, gender violences, childhood trauma, senior citizen rights, documenting from an interpersonal, humanistic stance. She has contributed to the NY Times, TIME, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Stern, Le Monde, M le Magazine du Monde, GEO Germany, Paris Match, The London Sunday Times, The Guardian, Slate, Internazionale, and many others. She is currently on assignment for National Geographic Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2012 Inge Morath Award from the Magnum Foundation for her multi-series work on the aged. She was nominated for a 2016 Lead Award (German Pulitzer) for her long-term documentary about a senior citizen love triangle. Photographer Links: Isadora Kosofsky https://isadorakosofsky.com Diana Markosian: http://www.dianamarkosian.com Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

David duChemin is a world and humanitarian assignment photographer, best-selling author, and international workshop leader whose spirit of adventure fuels his fire to create and share. Based in Vancouver, Canada, David chases compelling images on all seven continents. When on assignment, David creates powerful photographs that convey the hope and dignity of children, the vulnerable, and the oppressed for the international NGO community. When creating the art he so passionately shares, David strives to capture the beauty of the natural world. Photographer Links: David duChemin https://davidduchemin.com Willy Ronis https://huxleyparlour.com/artists/willy-ronis/ Alex Webb https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/alex-webb/ Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.