George Lange is a photographer whose pictures have appeared in almost all major magazines, ranging from Entertainment Weekly to Esquire. George has shot advertising photos for many movies and TV shows, including; Seinfeld, The Today Show, Cake Boss, and Jim Carrey’s movies. Most recently, he has worked with Norwest Venture Partners, Twilio, the Richard King Mellon Foundation, and the Grammy Award-winning Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. George's new book, Picturing Joy: Stories of Connection, is a lively guide to George’s approach to life and the highlights of his career.
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The Candid Frame #564 - Albert Watson
Albert Watson OBE (born 1942) is a Scottish fashion, celebrity, and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s and has created major advertising campaigns for clients such as Prada, Chanel, and Levis.
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The Candid Frame #561 - Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn is an award-winning documentary and portrait photographer working in the medium for 20 years. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. Her work has also been published in Vogue, National Geographic, The Washington Post, VOX, NPR, BBC, The Nation, Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
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The Candid Frame #560 - Catherine Opie
Catherine Sue Opie (born 1961)[1] is an American fine-art photographer. She lives and works in West Adams, Los Angeles as a tenured professor of photography at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her latest book is the self-titled Catherine Opie and is available for pre-order now and will be widely available in June 2021.
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The Candid Frame #523 - Hernan Rodriguez
Hernan Rodriguez is the recipient of over 30 international photography awards for his work as a portrait, commercial, product, and fashion photographer. He juggles a steady roster of commercial, product, and celebrity photography, along with corporate photography, and portraiture for families.
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The Candid Frame #522 - B. Proud
Barbara Proud is a commercial photographer and for the past 20 years, the president of B. Proud Photography, Inc, She has developed a list of clients including the LPGA, the Human Rights Campaign, the Girl Scouts, the American Red Cross, Meals on Wheels, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKlein, and many more.
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The Candid Frame #520 - Allen Clark
Allen Clark is a commercial and advertising photographer based in Nashville, Tennessee. He is consistently rated one of the best photographers in the country. His work can be seen on music packaging, magazines, and countless celebrity and Fortune 500 company websites.
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The Candid Frame 472 - Jessica Chou
Jessica Chou approaches her subjects with as little preconceived notions as possible, allowing people the space to collaborate with the moment and the place they inhabit. She strives for honesty and to look at things as they are, without artifice or judgement. The result is something that is at once observant and intimate. While her photography is documentary in style, it is led by the possibilities for storytelling and expression within a single frame.
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The Candid Frame #471 - Jesse Dittmar
Jesse Dittmar is a celebrity portrait photographer who began serving as an assistant for some of the industry’s best photographers including Chris Buck and Annie Leibovitz. On his own, he has photographed celebrities including Jodie Foster, Uma Thurman, Tom Hanks, Sting, James Earl Jones and more. His photographs have been published in numerous newspapers and magazines including The Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice and Rolling Stone.
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The Candid Frame #434 - Guy Webster
One of the early innovators of rock-and-roll photography, renowned photographer Guy Webster has spanned the worlds of music, films and politics in a stellar 40-year career. While shooting album covers and billboards for groups that included The Rolling Stones, The Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel and Chicago, he also photographed such film legends as Rita Hayworth, Dean Martin and Natalie Wood.
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photo: Levon Biss
The Candid Frame #330 - Levon Biss
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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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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photo: Robert Fischer
The Candid Frame #313 - Robert Fischer
Robert Fischer is a photographer and artist who once thought his life path would be that of a psychologist. Instead, he chose to lead a creative life as a painter, sculptor and a photographer.
He appreciates that the camera provides him the opportunity to closely examine his skewed perspective of life, sexuality and personality. He sees himself really as a painter that takes pictures. He is often in pursuit of getting the image rather than the perfect photograph.
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photo: Ryan Muirhead
The Candid Frame #254 - Ryan Muirhead
Ryan Muirhead is a portrait and fashion photographer who has created a unique and consistent body of work that is born as a normal extension of his life. As a dedicated shooter of film, his photographs take full advantage of the medium for a distinctive and very personal look.
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photo: Liso O
Photographing Strangers: Images from the Flickr Pool
This week we focus on photographing strangers. With images submitted from the TCF Flickr pool we discuss what makes some of these image successful as portrait and candids.
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photo: John Keatley
The Candid Frame #229 - John Keatley
John Keatley has swapped photography stories with Annie Leibovitz, taken geography lessons from Sarah Palin, and learned to craft the perfect cocktail with the best bartender in the country. He’ll climb a tree, fight off a snow monster, or bury someone in kitty litter; all in the name of getting the perfect shot, and that’s just before breakfast. John is known for putting even the most camera-shy individual completely at ease in front of the lens. His quick sense of humor and down-to-earth outlook are what allow him to connect with his subjects and create dramatic images.
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