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.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #450 - David Burnett
David Burnett is a photojournalist with more than 5 decades of work covering the news, the people, and visual tempo of our age. He is co-founder of Contact Press Images, the New York based photojournalism agency.
Read MorePay Attention to Color: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the role of color in making an effective photograph. He explains how color can be too easily ignored and how instead photographers should focus their attention on the various colors in their composition and use them to increase the impact of their photographs.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #311 - Street Photography Presentations @ LACP
Recently, the Los Angeles Center of Photography dedicated a weekend to the genre of street photography. The weekend included an exhibition, a workshop and a symposium which featured seven street photographers.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #288 - Gary Wagner
The beauty of the landscape is experienced in a unique and beautiful way when it is captured as a black and white photograph. Without the presence of color, the natural world is revealed using a very personal point of view, that of the photographer.. Shades of gray reveal the subtle nuances that are not immediately obvious when we see the world in full color.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #262 - Nancy Lehrer
Nancy Lehrer sets out to capture daily life and interactions. These life events are sometimes celebratory but more often commonplace. They are made up of simple conversations and actions – calling out from a balcony, telling a secret, praying, or just engaging with the neighbors on a warm afternoon. She is an observer, seeking to find and record a bit of culture and community.
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Photographing at Night: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this latest TCF YouTube video, we talk about the benefits and challenges of photographing at night. Though today's cameras provide greater advantages for shooting in the evening, under low light, it's not something that's often taken advantage by many of today's photographers. It would seem that the idea of shooting at night doesn't seem to as ideal a time for photography as the day time. However, these images demonstrate that there may be just as many great opportunities for great photographs waiting for us well after the sun has set.
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