Maggie Steber has worked in 64 countries focusing on humanitarian, cultural, and social stories. Her honors include the Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation, the Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year, the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson and Ernst Haas Grants, and a Knight Foundation grant for the New American Newspaper project.
Read MoreStaying Aware of the Light: Images from the Flickr Pool
This week Ibarionex pulls images from The Candid Frame Flickr pool to discuss the importance of staying aware of light even when moving through the most ordinary and mundane situations.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #334 - Stacey Tyrell
Stacey Tyrell was born and raised in Toronto, ON, Canada. She attended OCAD University where she majored in Photography. Her work predominantly deals with themes of identity, race and heritage as it pertains to post-colonial societies and the Caribbean Diaspora. Her work has appeared in such shows as Flash Forward 2012 at the Magenta Foundation, Position As Desired: Contemporary African Canadian Photography at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Canadian Museum for Immigration at Pier 21, MLK50 at the Places des Arts, PQ and Photography NOW 2009 at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
Read MoreUsing the Fujifilm x100s in the Dominican Republic
In this video, Ibarionex shares on his recent trip to the Dominican Rep. where he exclusively used the Fujifilm x100s camera. He explains why he chose to use the camera and how he used it to produce a series of images.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #333 - Danny Clinch Pt. 2
Danny Clinch loves music. He listens to it, plays it, photographs it, and films it. Through this passion, Danny has established himself as one of the premier photographers across the entire music scene. He has shot and filmed a wide range of artists, from Johnny Cash to Tupac Shakur, from Bjork to Bruce Springsteen.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #332 - Danny Clinch Pt. 1
Danny Clinch loves music. He listens to it, plays it, photographs it, and films it. Through this passion, Danny has established himself as one of the premier photographers across the entire music scene. He has shot and filmed a wide range of artists, from Johnny Cash to Tupac Shakur, from Bjork to Bruce Springsteen.
His work has appeared on hundreds of album covers and in publications like Vanity Fair, Spin, Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, and more.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #331 - Chris Marquardt
Chris Marquardt is a professional photographer and producer of the photography podcast, Tips from the Top Floor. He is also leads photographic workshops in Europe, the United States and at the foot of the Himalayas. Chris is also a regular guest on the TWiT Network and Leo Laporte’s The Tech Guy show. He is the co-author of the new book, The Film Photography Handbook.
Read MoreSeeing in B&W: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, Ibarionex discusses how to evaluate a scene with the intention of creating a black and white photograph. He discusses the importance of evaluating a scene for brightness, contrast and pattern to help shape the photograph.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #329 - Estevan Oriol
Estevan Oriol is an internationally celebrated professional photographer, director and urban lifestyle entrepreneur. Beginning his career as a hip-hop club bouncer turned tour manager for popular Los Angeles-based rap groups Cypress Hill and House of Pain, Estevan’s passion for photography developed while traveling the world. With an influential nudge and old camera from his father, renowned photographer Eriberto Oriol, Estevan began documenting life on the road and established a name for himself amid the emerging hip-hop scene.
Read MoreKids at Play: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, we talk about how to effectively photograph children at play. Ibarionex discusses the importance of paying attention to the quality of the lighting, the setting, color contrast and gesture.
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The Candid Frame #328 - Art Wolfe
Over the course of his 40-year career, photographer Art Wolfe has worked on every continent and in hundreds of locations. Wolfe’s photographs are recognized throughout the world for their mastery of color, composition and perspective. Wolfe's photographic mission is multi-faceted: art, wildlife advocacy, education, and journalism inform his work.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #327 - Noe Montes
Noe Montes is a Los-Angeles based photographer who specializes in documentary work for small non-profits. Though he has years of experience in editorial and commercial work, Montes desire that his work help people to tell their stories and effect positive change.
Born to parents who were at the time undocumented migrant workers, he has turned his camera to other migrant families in Southern California. His work focuses on themes of power, media and race.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #326 - Kathy Shorr
Kathy Shorr is a freelance photographer based in New York. Her work has been exhibited widely at such galleries as Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY, and Sariedo Gallery, NY. Her series, "Limousine," was included in the prestigious Visa Pour L'Image, International Photo-Journaliosm Festival, in Perpignan, France. Her work has been published in Popular Photography, Newsweek, French Photo, Camera Austria, Photo Review, On Seeing, New York Observer, and The Village Voice. As a freelance educational consultant, Ms. Shorr works with diverse groups of all ages in helping to learn how to express themselves through the lens and screen arts.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #325 - Elias Weiss Friedman (The Dogist)
Elias Weiss Friedman is a photographer who is popularly known as The Dogist. He is the creator of the popular Instagram feed and blog which is dedicated to portraits of dogs, primarily found in the city of New York. The Instagram feed, which enjoys over 2 million followers, has culminated into a best-selling book titled, The Dogist: Photographic Encounters with 1000 Dogs.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #324 - Yvonne Venegas
As the daughter of a wedding photographer, Yvonne Venegas’ work emerges from a reflection of portraiture charged by an analysis of social class and self-representation, particularly that of the Mexican upper middle class. She is interested in problematizing the idea of the perfect or official memory, by seeking moments of fragility or un-preparedness for the camera. Inhabited by upper middle-class social rituals, ideas of celebrity and beauty, upper class leisure, animals from a private zoo, beauty queens, or young wealthy children, she seeks to represent a fractured version of the images and situations that are traditionally understood to bring status and/or respect. Her experience growing up in the border has established in the way she views her subjects as well as the photographic practice itself, where she constantly looks for blurring lines between portraiture and documentary as well as explores the pulsating space between the perfect image and one that social studio photography could consider an error.
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