The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Chinelle Rojas has been a self portrait photographer, among other niche specialties like birth and boudoir, since 2010, and logo designer who loves to challenge her creativity with her personal work with her passion project “My Black Self” when she isn’t helping her fellow entrepreneurs make a magical first impression. Chinelle has dreams of being a world traveler alongside her family. Speaking of family, she is a wife and homeschooling (before COVID) mother of three creative souls.   Websites Chinelle Rojas Toni Black Melanated Film Presets   Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today   Education Resources: 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 .

Anna Gunn is co-director of McGunnMedia, a photography and multimedia company based in Maia, Portugal. Born in Birmingham, UK, Anna moved to Portugal in 2009 and has been enjoying the sunny weather ever since. Along with being the founder of the Porto Photo Festival, Anna teaches photography, film, as well as lighting and sound. Her online classrooms are currently filled with over 900 students.  Her latest project, Womansion is an international collection of thirteen female photographers who each found creative ways of interpreting their experiences through Covid-19.  Websites Anna Gunn Porto Photo Festival Womansion Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today   Education Resources: 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 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 .

American photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957) is widely acclaimed for his photographic series, usually taken over many years, which record the effect of time on the natural and built landscape. These series include work made in Cuba, Russia, Bosnia, Times Square, Detroit, The Great Plains, and most recently, the American South. His most recent book, Blue Alabama, with a preface by Imani Perry and story by Madison Smartt Bell was released in the fall of 2019. His previous work on the lands and people along the 100th Meridian in the US, called Dirt Meridian, has a preface by Kent Haruf and was exhibited at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. An earlier book, the bestselling Detroit Disassembled, included an essay by the late Poet Laureate Philip Levine, and an exhibition of the same title opened at the Akron Museum of Art before also traveling to the Queens Museum of Art, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Mr. Moore was a lecturer on photography in the Visual Arts Program at Princeton University from 2001 to 2010. Presently he teaches a graduate seminar in the MFA Photography Video and Related Media program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.   Websites Andrew Moore John Lehr Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today   Education Resources: 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 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 .

Steve Eichner’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Women's Wear Daily, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, People, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, GQ, W, and Details. For the past 20 years, Steve has been a staff photographer for Women's Wear Daily and shot over 40 New York Fashion Weeks, inside the MET GALA every year, the Victoria Secret Show, and the CFDA awards. His work is diverse, ranging from celebrity portraiture and fashion photography to concerts, extreme sports, and aerial scenes. Since he began shooting 30 years ago, Steve has captured thousands of key moments on film and now digitally. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, he was the exclusive photographer for night clubs such as Limelight, Palladium, Wetlands Preserve, and Tunnel, gaining access to coveted photo opportunities. His book, In the Limelight showcase that period in the New York club scene.    Websites Steve Eichner Bill Cunningham   Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today   Education Resources: 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 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 Clark is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, big-wave surfers and mountain bikers in remote locations around the world. He uses unique angles, bold colors, strong graphics and dramatic lighting to capture fleeting moments of passion, gusto, flair and bravado in the outdoors. Balancing extreme action with subtle details, striking portraits and wild landscapes, he creates images for the editorial, advertising and stock markets worldwide.  As a former physicist Michael has worked on both sides of the technical revolution – helping refine the technology and using it for his current profession. Michael has worked as a professional photographer since 1996 and added digital photography to his repertoire in 2003. While Michael still shoots some film, mostly medium format, the lion’s share of his images are now produced with high-resolution digital cameras.    Websites Michael Clark Christian Pondella Tristan Shu Brian Bielmann   Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today   Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Creating a Personal Breakthrough Photo Workshop   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 .

Matthew Jordan Smith is an American photographer based in Tokyo, Japan and working between Tokyo, New York City and Los Angeles. He has photographed some of the worlds most famous celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Queen Latifah, Angela Bassett, Tyra Banks and more. His advertising clients include Olay, Pantene, Revlon, Showtime and HBO.  In his spare time Matthew focuses on personal projects, photo exhibits and book projects. To date, Smith has published three books, Sepia Dreams, Lost & Found, and Future American President.  He has received numerous awards including the Vision Award and the George Eastman Power of Image award. He is a Nikon Ambassador and the host of the Master Your Lens photography podcast. Matthew is represented by LVA Represents in New York City.   Websites Matthew Jordan Smith Orlett Pearson McCall Cathrielah B. Israel   Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review   Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Creating a Personal Breakthrough Photo Workshop   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 .

Jeffery Saddoris often refers to himself as a “serial conversationalist” and podcasting has become an increasingly important platform for his lifelong interest in learning, exploring, communicating, and sharing about art and artists – between more than 5 years talking about photography on On Taking Pictures, hosting the 12-episode Craft & Vision Podcast, and Process Driven, his ongoing podcast of long-form conversations about creativity and how the creative process manifests itself across a wide range of genres and disciplines.   Websites Jeffery Saddoris Jeffery Saddoris Podcast Library Dan Wood   Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review   Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Creating a Personal Breakthrough Photo Workshop   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 .

Lucas Foglia is a fine-art photographer who examines the intersections between humans and wild spaces. His recent book and traveling exhibition, Human Nature, focuses on people in diverse ecosystems who rely on nature in the context of climate change. Foglia exhibits his work internationally, and his prints are in notable collections including the International Center of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Victoria and Albert Museum.  His images have appeared in National Geographic magazine and The New York Times Magazine, among others. Foglia also collaborates with non-profit organizations including the Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy. Foglia grew up on a small family farm in New York and currently lives in San Francisco.   Websites Lucas Foglia Maria Lax Eugenia Arbogaeva   Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review   Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Creating a Personal Breakthrough Photo Workshop   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 .

Shane Balkowitsch (born January 24, 1969) is an American wet plate photographer from Bismarck, North Dakota. The subject of his photos is the human condition. Since 2012 he has photographed over 4,000 individuals, including various celebrities and historical figures. On October 20, 2016, the Smithsonian Institution acquired The Real Deal, A wet plate collodion photograph of American former professional boxer Evander Holyfield taken by Balkowitch on February 28, 2015. Balkowitsch is a self-taught photographer. In 2012 Balkowitsch began researching the process of wet plate photography after reading a manual on the subject by tintype photographer John Coffer. With little experience in photography, Balkowitsch experimented with the process and took his first successful photo the same year. Since then he has produced over 4,000 plates and his work has appeared in numerous publications. He holds demonstrations in North Dakota with the use of a portable darkroom.   Websites Shane Balkowitsch William Mortensen   Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review   Education Resources: 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 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 .

Valerie Jardin is a popular street and travel photographer, educator, and host of the Hit the Street podcast. After leaving a successful career as a professional commercial photographer, she dedicated herself to her personal photography and conducting photo experiences both in the United States and Europe.  She has recently turned her lens to more personal projects including a series of environmental portraits of artists that live and work in her community. Valerie’s latest book Street Photography Assignments: 75 Reasons to Hit the Streets and Learn.   Websites Valerie Jardine Hit the Street with Valerie Jardin Podcast Neil Kramer Street Photography Assignments by Valerie Jardin   Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review   Education Resources: Photo NOLA 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 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 .