The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Melissa O’Shaughnessy was born in 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and studied at Georgetown University and the University of St. Thomas, graduating with a degree in journalism. She is now a photographer based in New York City. Her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and publications, and her work is included in the book Bystander: A History of Street Photography.  She is a member of UP Photographers, a collective of 27 international street photographers. Her first monograph, Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs, has just been published by Aperture.   Websites Melissa O’Shaughnessy UP Photographers   Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/   Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

Glenn Ruga is a graphic designer, photographer, and a life-long human rights activist. He is the founder of the Social Documentary Network who through its website, magazine, and contest showcase the documentary work of photographers from all over the world.  Ruga has created traveling and online documentary exhibits on the struggle for a multicultural future in Bosnia, the war and aftermath in Kosovo, and on an immigrant community in Holyoke, Mass. In February 2010, Ruga curated SDN's first exhibition at powerHouse Arena in New York on the global recession. The photographers were winners of an SDN call for entries. The second SDN live exhibition "Ten Years after 9/11" was shown at powerHouse Arena in September 2011. Ruga has continued to curate exhibitions for SDN in New York and other locations. From 2010-2013, Ruga was the Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston University. He curated numerous exhibitions while at the PRC including "Global Health in Focus" featuring work by Kristen Ashburn, Dominic Chavez, and David Rochkind. Ruga is also the former Publisher and Art Director of Loupe, the magazine of the PRC.     Websites Social Documentary Network Zeke Magazine Social Documentary Network YouTube Channel Bayet Ross Smith Michelle Bogre   Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/   Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

Amy Toensing is a documentary photographer committed to telling stories with sensitivity and depth and known for her intimate stories about the lives of ordinary people. Toensing has been a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine for over two decades. She has photographed cultures around the world including the last cave-dwelling tribe of Papua New Guinea, remote Aboriginal Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, and the Kingdom of Tonga. She has also covered issues such as food insecurity in the United States, the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, and Muslim women living in Western culture. She recently completed her sixteenth feature story for National Geographic magazine on how conservation projects impact the surrounding culture and community. In addition to her photojournalism and documentary work, Toensing teaches photography to kids and young adults in underserved communities, including Burmese refugees in Baltimore, a young photojournalist in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Syrian refugee children in Jordan. Currently, Toensing is an Assistant Professor of Visual Storytelling at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a National Geographic Explorer (2021-2022).   Websites Amy Toensing Jason Eskenazi   Education Resources: Using Your Life to Launch Your Photography Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers, and animals in a series called Small Deaths published in 2001 by University of Texas Press. Her other monographs include Painted Light, the University of Texas in 2010, a career retrospective that encompasses a quarter-century of prolific image-making.  Her collection of photograms, entitled 'Las Sombras / The shadows' was published by the University of Texas Press in October 2012. This series is a continuation of her lifetime investigation of the natural world which in her own words is ‘brimming with fantastic mysterious beautiful things.  She has resided in Tucson, Arizona for 20 years. She regularly teaches workshops nationally and internationally.    Websites Kate Breakey Holly Roberts   Education Resources: Using Your Life to Launch Your Photography Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/   Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

Michael M. Santiago (b. 1980) is a staff news photojournalist with Getty Images. His work has focused on issues ranging from health, race and identity, family relationships, youth empowerment, and more. Michael is a member of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the shooting deaths of 11 people and the wounding of seven others on Oct. 27 at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The judges called the staff's work “immersive, compassionate coverage ... that captured the anguish and resilience of a community thrust into grief.”  He was the recipient of the 2015 Alexia Foundation student grant for his project "Stolen Land, Stolen Future" a body of work focusing on Black farmers of California. His project “250” a work revolving the life of a man’s struggle with obesity won the 2014 Forward Thinking Museum 1st quarter photography competition and his projects  "A Promise" and "Michael the Veteran" was selected as juried winners for Morpholio Projects Future Voices. He was also invited to attend the 2015 and 2017 New York Times portfolio review and was a student at the Eddie Adams Workshop XXVII. His portfolio received an Award of excellence at the 70th College Photographer of the Year awards. He received a Grand Prize award in the Documentary/Photojournalism category at PDNedu 13th Annual Student Photography Competition and a winner in the 2016 PDN Photo Annual in the student category. the film has gone on to win an Edward R. Murrow award, final in the yearly Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, earned a second-place title in Best of The West, was honored for a Webby, a Pro-Am Student Award at the 2018 Online Journalism Awards, and a 2018 Student Production Award at the Rocky Mountain Emmy.   Websites Michael M. Santiago Brandon Bell   Education Resources: Using Your Life to Launch Your Photography Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

Tomasz Trzebiatowski is a Polish fine art photographer living and working in Switzerland. He is the founder of the FujiLove website and magazine. He has become a new-generation publisher leveraging the power of digital photography, the internet, and social media. His latest effort is Frames, an online community that includes a high-quality quarterly magazine that showcases great photography from photographers regardless of brand loyalty.   Websites FujiLove Frames Michael Kenna   Education Resources: Using Your Life to Launch Your Photography Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/   Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

Brooke Schultz is a family portrait and wedding photographer based in Southern California. Her fascination with photography was sparked with the work of the photographer that documented Brooke’s wedding. She pursued her new creative outlet that eventually led her to begin her own career as a professional photographer.   As she’s grown as a photographer and a businesswoman, she has helped others pursuing similar dreams through her workshops and her podcast, Heartful with Brooke Schultz   Websites Brooke Schultz Photography Heartful with Brooke Schultz Podcast Richard Avedon   Education Resources: Using Your Life to Launch Your Photography Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

Brandon Thibodeaux is a photographer and educator based in Houston, TX, who creates portraits in the documentary tradition. In addition to his assignment work and creative commissions, he explores life in the American South. He is a guest instructor with the Santa Fe Photographic and Maine Media Workshops, as well as both the Houston and Los Angeles Centers of Photography. His work has been recognized by American Photo Magazine, Photo District News, and the Oxford American lists him as one of their 100 Under 100, New Superstars of Southern Art. His long-term photographic project based in the Mississippi Delta first entitled, When Morning Comes, was awarded Center’s Gallerist Choice Award 2013, AI-AP American Photography 30, the Critical Mass Solo Show Award 2013, the 2014 Michael P. Smith Fund For Documentary Photography Grant and the 2016 Palm Springs Photo Festival Portfolio Review Award. This work, later published as a book by Red Hook Editions in 2017,  under the new title, In That Land of Perfect Day, has been featured by numerous publications including American Photo Magazine, B+W Magazine, Garden &Gun, PDN, Port Magazine, Oxford American, The New York Times, Time.com and The Washington Post.   Websites Brandon Thibodeaux Gareth Phillips   Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

Rob Feakins has spent his career as a writer, executive creative director, and chief creative officer at some of the most respected advertising agencies in America. He has creatively led and won awards on some of the most recognized global brands in the world including Target, Citibank, P&G, BMW, Porsche, Four Seasons, Volvo, Hilton, and Goldman Sachs to name a few. He is now taking his skills and applying it where it is needed most, helping brands, NGOs and charities activate their cause marketing and helping nonprofits with issue raising instead of merely focusing on fundraising.  Rob is an award-winning filmmaker and wonderful storyteller who is skilled at creating viral films and mini-docs that drive engagement and emotionally connect followers to charities. Over the last two years, Rob’s humanitarian films received over 20 awards from differing film festivals.  Rob is a former member of Facebook's Creative Council, has advanced training in digital marketing from the Wharton School, evaluating social programs from MIT and humanitarian response to conflict and disaster from Harvard.   Websites For All Humankind Amy Vitale Paul Nicklen   Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops   Candid Frame Resources Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and

With 30 years of experience, Sue Bryce is one of the most recognizable photographers in the imaging industry. New Zealand born and raised Bryce now lives and works in Los Angeles. Her contemporary glamour portrait style transcends past stereotypes and has changed the face of portrait photography. “I have seen this industry grow and change so fast, moving from manual dye retouching and analog cameras to Photoshop and digital was not only challenging and frightening but also an inspirational experience for me, our evolution has been prodigious.“ Bryce has created her own ground-breaking educational platform in 2014, in which she uses her signature techniques to mentor and empower thousands of photographers and businesses internationally. Sue Bryce Education is an online education platform & community for contemporary portrait, connecting to photographers globally through live broadcasts, videos, in-person workshops, and The Portrait Masters annual boutique conference that hosts the Awards + Accreditation program. In 2015 Bryce was greatly honored to be chosen to represent Canon USA in the Explorers of Light program.   Websites Sue Bryce Photography Sue Bryce Education Kesha Lambert   Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops   Candid Frame Resources Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .