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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