The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

James Maher runs a fine-art business, a portrait photography business works with companies and people around New York, and has a photography workshop business, helping photographers from all over the world capture the best of New York. Over the years, he has worked with the Daily News, with businesses of all sizes and types around New York and the world, and with many websites. He has written thre...

Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ave Pildas worked early in his career as a photo stringer for Downbeat Magazine in the Ohio Valley and Pennsylvania in the 1960's, and has been a successful photographer and educator for the past 40 years. In 1971 Pildas began working as the Art Director at Capitol Records in Hollywood and designed and photographed album covers for the label's recording artists...

Jamie Rose is co-founder of Momenta Group LLC, which operates Momenta Workshops and Momenta Creative. She has worked as an international photojournalist on five continents and has been a contract photographer and communication strategist with some of the world's largest nonprofit organizations. Resources: Jamie Rose Sophia Nahli Allison Sophia Nahli Allison - TCF Ep. 304 Momenta Photography Worksh...

Kevin Weinstein combines the worlds of photojournalism and artistic photography to capture memories, moods, split-second moments, and momentous events. He's been doing it since the darkroom ages. The instructions he was taught back then for developing photos has stuck with him: "If it is too light, add time; if it is too dark, take away time." But in the years since, as film gave way to digital, K...

Ursula Tocik is natural light portrait photographer based in Helderkruin Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa. She has been a professional photographer since 2008, starting out in the wedding industry, however a health crisis led her to a career as a studio-based portrait photographer. After surviving a severe stroke in 2012, which made wedding photography physically impossible she left the wedding in...

KAWAI MATTHEWS is an internationally published and award-winning photographer specializing in portraiture for editorial, entertainment marketing & advertising. Her ability to capture the depth of a subject, while delivering quality, awe-inspiring imagery is uncanny and unmatched. Shooting unforgettable moments of flair, confidence, substance and honesty in her subjects, her heavyweight portfolio i...

Ali LeRoi is a photographer as well as the Emmy Award-winning co-creator/executive producer/writer of the critically acclaimed comedy "Everybody Hates Chris," a series inspired by the childhood experiences of comedian Chris Rock. He is a Golden Globe nominee, a 2007 NAACP Image Award winner for best writer in a comedy series, as well as a winner of the 2007 AFI TV Program of the Year Award. LeRoi...

Dotan Saguy was born in a small kibbutz five miles south of Israel's Lebanese border. He grew-up in a diverse working class Parisian suburb, lived in Lower Manhattan during 9/11 and moved to Los Angeles in 2003. In 2015 Dotan decided to focus on his lifelong passion for photography after a successful career as a high-tech entrepreneur. Since then Dotan attended the Eddie Adams Workshop, the Missou...

Mark Bennington is a New York-based portrait and commercial photographer who also make personal projects a big part of what he does. His creative life began as a professional actor in theater and television, but after some major life changes he turned his attention to the camera. Since then he has been making a career for himself behind the camera instead of in front of it. His initially started a...

Stacy L. Pearsall got her start as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in service, she traveled to over 41 countries, and attended the Military Photojournalism Program at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. During three combat tours, she earned the Bronze Star Medal and Air Force Commendation with Valor for combat actions in Iraq. Though co...

Rose Callahan is a photographer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, New York. Rose is the creator of The Dandy Portraits blog and photographer/co-author of I Am Dandy: The Return of the Elegant Gentleman (Gestalten 2013), and We are Dandy: The Elegant Gentleman Around the World (Gestalten 2016). In addition to working for editorial, corporate, and advertising clients, Rose is the exclusive photograp...

Russell Frederick is a photographer from Brooklyn, New York whose global world view and compassion for the human condition informs his work. He produces his photographs primarily with medium format black and white film. For years, he has been documenting the people of the community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, which is second only to Harlem in terms of African-American pop culture. Bed-Stuy, as the plac...

Andrea Francolini is an photographer who is best known for his amazing photographs of yachting and sailing. His work has been in demand in both the editorial and commercial world. My-First-School is a personal project for Francolini, who has a keen interest in Pakistan's diverse society. Away from the struggles reported by the media, Pakistani people are open, friendly and family-oriented but face...

Castro Frank is one of today's premier contemporary street photographers. His style fuses a journalistic approach with an artistic eye to create imagery that is raw and speaks powerfully of our time. His compassion and empathy for the disenfranchised within our society has prompted him to capture them in such a way which attempts to restore the humanity and dignity of those often forgotten. Castro...

Euan Forrester lives in Vancouver, BC and spent 9 months photographing 2 trailbuilders as they built a new mountain bike trail from scratch. He chose 20 photos and made big prints of them that he hung along the trails. He found a place that printed them with UV-resistant ink on a hard plastic material and then laminated them. It took some back-and-forth to make prints that are visible in the dim l...

A professional photographer, author, and public speaker, Khara Plicanic's unique teaching style and playful sense of humor have endeared her to audiences around the globe. She's the author of several books, including Getting Started in Digital Photography, Wicked Fast Workflow, and Album Moxie, where Khara rescues photographers from themselves with the magic of InDesign. Her latest book is The Ent...

Known for her intense and sensitive work, Lynn Johnson has been capturing the subtleties of the human condition for 35 years. A regular contributor to publications such as National Geographic, Johnson brings a fresh perspective to fearsome issues—the scourge of landmines, the erosion of threatened languages, rape in the US military ranks, the daily challenge for African women of carrying water or...

Hannah Reyes Morales is a Filipina photojournalist whose work focuses on individuals mired in complex situations created by inequality, poverty, and impunity. This includes photographing human trafficking at sea for The New York Times, reporting on war crimes against Cambodian women for Al Jazeera America, and documenting changing indigenous cultures in the Philippines for a grant from National Ge...

Andrea Penteado is a Brazilian-born photographer whose work has transitioned from commercial work into the world of fine-art. He increasingly has made his personal projects a larger part of his photographic life. The suicide of his father inspired him to use the camera to not only contend with his own grief, but also to explore how such tragedies affect the families and friends that are left behin...

Tony Di Zinno has worked in over 43 countries and on six different continents, this Los Angeles based photographer is as comfortable on Hollywood studio back lots as he is on the foothills of the Himalaya. Tony assisted a milieu of Hollywood's A-list of celebrity shooters before transitioning into the 'athlete meets aesthete' genre with the likes of Nike and Adidas. Tony's reputation was built as...

Ashleigh Raddatz specializes in women and family documentary-style photography. She creates images which capture authentic stories and emotions through different stages of life: from a woman's strength within herself, to family stories of partnership, motherhood, and the beauty of everyday chaos and life in childhood. She is intrigued by human experiences and relationships that bind people togethe...

Keith Dannemiller was born and raised in Ohio (US). He graduated with a degree in Biochemistry from Vanderbilt University and worked in this field for three years before turning to photography. He left for Mexico 29 years ago and is going to stay. Specializing in documentary photography, his works have been published in Stern, Al Jazeera America, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Nation, Fusion, The Inte...

When Donato DiCamillo first picked up a camera he knew he would have a hard time putting it down. It became a reason for him to step out from a dark place, which he had struggled with for some time. The dark world in which he knew so well would soon come to light after being released from prison in 2011. His inspiration derived from many great documentary photographers, such as Robert Frank, Diane...

Gabriel Hill is a portrait photographer living in the heart of Basel, Switzerland. His work has been published in various magazines and sites in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, UK, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, France, Hungary, Russia and many more. Even as a kid he was fascinated with discovering the world through a viewfinder and this fascination has lasted...

After studying photography in Southern California, Dan Winters finished his formal education at the film school of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He began his career in photography as a photojournalist in his home town in Ventura County, California. After winning several regional awards for his work, he moved to New York City, where magazine assignments came rapidly. Known for th...