The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography
Episodes
TCF Ep. 558 - Melissa Breyer & Emily Sujay Sanchez
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Breyer & Emily Sujay Sanchez are street photographers showcased in the new book, Women Street Photographers. Founded by Gulnara Samoilova, Wom...
TCF Ep. 557 - Erin Ng
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by her dad's enthusiasm for the craft, Erin Ng got her first point-and-shoot camera in fifth grade and has been snapping away ever since. She...
TCF Ep. 556 - Mona Kuhn
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Mona Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning...
TCF Ep. 555 - Sarah Meister
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Meister became a Curator at The Museum of Modern Art in 2009, having joined the Department of Photography in 1997. Her research has included exp...
TCF Ep. 554 - William Allen Young
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
William Allen Young is an American actor and director who has starred in over 100 television, stage, and film projects, including two Academy Award-no...
TCF Ep. 553 - Alejandro Cartagena
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and port...
TCF Ep. 552 - Chinelle Rojas
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chinelle Rojas has been a self portrait photographer, among other niche specialties like birth and boudoir, since 2010, and logo designer who loves to...
TCF Ep. 551 - Anna Gunn
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Gunn is co-director of McGunnMedia, a photography and multimedia company based in Maia, Portugal. Born in Birmingham, UK, Anna moved to Portugal ...
TCF Ep. 550 - Andrew Moore
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
American photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957) is widely acclaimed for his photographic series, usually taken over many years, which record the effect...
TCF Ep. 549 - Steve Eichner
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Eichner's work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Women's Wear Daily, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, People, Vanity Fair...
TCF Ep. 548 - Michael Clark
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Clark is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. He produces in...
TCF Ep. 547 - Matthew Jordan Smith
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Jordan Smith is an American photographer based in Tokyo, Japan and working between Tokyo, New York City and Los Angeles. He has photographed s...
TCF Ep. 546 - Jeffery Saddoris
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffery Saddoris often refers to himself as a "serial conversationalist" and podcasting has become an increasingly important platform for his lifelong...
TCF Ep. 545 - Lucas Foglia
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lucas Foglia is a fine-art photographer who examines the intersections between humans and wild spaces. His recent book and traveling exhibition, Human...
TCF Ep. 544 - Shane Balkowitsch
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shane Balkowitsch (born January 24, 1969) is an American wet plate photographer from Bismarck, North Dakota. The subject of his photos is the human co...
TCF Ep. 543 - Valerie Jardin
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
TCF Ep. 542 - Carissa Dorson
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carissa Dorson is a fine art photographer and cinematographer originally from Silver Spring, Maryland. She graduated with a BFA from Florida State Uni...
TCF Ep. 541 - Dotan Saguy
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015 Dotan Saguy decided to focus on his lifelong passion for photography after a successful career as a high-tech entrepreneur. Since then Dotan a...
TCF Ep. 540 - Harvey Stein
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author, and curator based in New York City. He currently teaches at the International ...
TCF Ep. 539 - Hunter Barnes
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hunter Barnes is a documentary photographer whose work captures aspects of culture and communities ignored by the mainstream and often misrepresented ...
TCF Ep. 538 - Greg Gorman
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For over four decades, Greg Gorman has continued to master the art of photography. From celebrity portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layo...
TCF Ep. 537 - Melissa O'Shaughnessy
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa O'Shaughnessy was born in 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and studied at Georgetown University and the University of St. Thomas, graduating wi...
TCF Ep. 536 - Glenn Ruga
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
TCF Ep. 535 - Amy Toensing
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Toensing is a documentary photographer committed to telling stories with sensitivity and depth and known for her intimate stories about the lives ...
TCF Ep. 534 - Kate Breakey
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of bir...
TCF Ep. 533 - Michael M. Santiago
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
TCF Ep. 532 - Tomasz Trzebiatowski
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tomasz Trzebiatowski is a Polish fine art photographer living and working in Switzerland. He is the founder of the FujiLove website and magazine. He h...
TCF Ep. #531 - Brooke Schultz
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brooke Schultz is a family portrait and wedding photographer based in Southern California. Her fascination with photography was sparked with the work ...
TCF Ep. 530 - Brandon Thibodeaux
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Thibodeaux is a photographer and educator based in Houston, TX, who creates portraits in the documentary tradition. In addition to his assignm...
TCF Ep. 529 - Rob Feakins
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Feakins has spent his career as a writer, executive creative director, and chief creative officer at some of the most respected advertising agenci...
TCF Ep. 528 - Sue Bryce
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 li...
TCF Ep. 527 - Polly Irungu
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Multimedia journalist, digital editor, and self-taught photographer Polly Irungu is the founder of Black Women Photographers, a global community and o...
TCF Ep. 526 - Phil Penman
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
UK-born, NY-based photographer Phil Penman has documented the rapid flux of New York City's streets for over 25 years. With clients ranging from Peopl...
TCF Ep. 525 - Duane Michals
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Duane Michals (b. 1932, McKeesport, PA) is one of the great photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multip...
TCF Ep. 524 - Andrew Bernstein
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Bernstein's photography has appeared in thousands of newspapers and magazine covers worldwide, as well as major advertising campaigns for over ...
TCF Ep. 523 - Hernan Rodriguez
19 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hernan Rodriguez is the recipient of over 30 international photography awards for his work as a portrait, commercial, product, and fashion photographe...
TCF Ep. 522 - B. Proud
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Barbara Proud is a commercial photographer and for the past 20 years, the president of B. Proud Photography, Inc, She has developed a list of clients ...
TCF Ep. 521 - Stephen Wilkes
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since opening his studio in New York City in 1983, photographer Stephen Wilkes has built an unprecedented body of work and a reputation as one of Amer...
TCF Ep. 520 - Allen Clark
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Allen Clark is a commercial and advertising photographer based in Nashville, Tennessee. He is consistently rated one of the best photographers in the ...
TCF Ep. 519 - Julia Dean
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, writer, and executive director/founder of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. She began her career as an ap...
TCF Ep. 518 - Cheriss May & Idris T Solomon
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cheriss May is a visual storyteller and adjunct professor at Howard University, her alma mater, in Washington D.C. She is the president of Women Photo...
TCF Ep. 517 - Erika Larsen
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Erika Larsen is a multidisciplinary storyteller who works in photography, writing, and video. She is fascinated by the way people communicate with the...
TCF Ep. 516 - Chris Suspect
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Suspect was born in the Philippines in 1968. He is a street and documentary photographer hailing from the Washington, DC area. He specializes in...
TCF Ep. 515 - Colin Finlay
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Finlay is one of the foremost documentary photographers and filmmakers in the world. For almost twenty-five years, Finlay has chronicled the hum...
TCF Ep. 514 - Christopher Fernandez
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Fernandez is an editorial, commercial and fine art photographer based in London, specializing in portraiture and reportage photography, wi...
TCF Ep. 513 - Megan Kwasniak
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Kwasniak is a physician and an aspiring photographer whose biggest passion lies in discovering new places and meeting new people. My highest asp...
TCF Ep. 512 - Kristen Joy Emack
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kristen Joy Emack is a photographer and educator who lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds a degree in Latin American and Caribbean S...
TCF Ep. 511 - Isadora Kosofsky
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Isadora Kosofsky (b. 1993, USA) is a documentary photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She began photographing at the age...
TCF Ep. 510 - David duChemin
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David duChemin is a world and humanitarian assignment photographer, best-selling author, and international workshop leader whose spirit of adventure f...
TCF Ep. 509 - Hugh Brownstone
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hugh Brownstone is the owner and founder of Three Blind Men and An Elephant. He is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and YouTuber; producer of the en...
TCF Ep. 508 - Francisco Alcala
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Francisco Alcalá is a humanitarian and travel photographer with a focus on social and cultural documentaries. The images that he creates are positive...
TCF Ep. 507 - Ben Smith
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Smith is a London-based documentary, portrait and lifestyle photographer shooting commercial work, editorial commissions and long-term personal pr...
TCF Ep. 506 - Gus Powell
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gus Powell was born in New York City in 1974 and attended Oberlin College where he majored in comparative religion. In 2003 he was selected to be in P...
TCF Ep. 505 - Keron Psillas
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keron Psillas Oliveira is a photographer, writer, instructor and mentor, with an extensive background in the print and publishing industry. Raised in ...
TCF Ep. 504 - Sean Tucker
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're doing something a little different. This is a conversation that was inspired by rewatching a class presentation recorded in 1997 with...
TCF Ep. 503 - Brent Lewis
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brent Lewis is a Photo Editor based out of New York City, co-founder of Diversify.Photo and from the greatest city in the world Chicago. South Side to...
TCF Ep. 502 - Sarah Leen
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Leen is the former Director of Photography for National Geographic Visual Media. For nearly 20 years before that she worked as a freelance photo...
TCF Ep. 501 - Keith Carter
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Carter is an internationally respected author, educator, and workshop leader. He has published 13 books of his expressive images. Thirteen monog...
TCF Ep. 500 - Joel Meyerowitz
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Meyerowitz (born in New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries aro...
TCF Ep. 499 - Ellen Friedlander
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Born in 1959 in Utica, New York, Ellen Friedlander is a fine art and documentary photographer who makes the unseen, visible. She graduated from Ithaca...
TCF Ep. 498 - Sarah Hadley
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Hadley was born in Boston and studied both art history and photography at Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, D...
TCF Ep. 497 - Stephen Dimmick
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australian born Stephen Dimmick has been a make-up artist for over 20 years. His background includes high fashion editorial and advertising work inclu...
TCF Ep. 496 - George Nobechi & Ibarionex
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
George Nobechi is a Japanese/Canadian Fine Art and Documentary Photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. His bi-cultural upbringing has influenced his visio...
TCF Ep. 495 - Eiji Ohashi
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hokkaido-born and based photographer Eiji Ohashi (b. 1955, Japan) has been photographing Roadside Lights, a typology of vending machines across variou...
TCF Ep. 494 - Robert Hale
15 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Hale's work both as a photographer and as a journalist has taken him on assignment throughout the world. His images are characterized by clarit...
TCF Ep. 493 - Marc Silber
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Silber has been a photographer most of his life, and actually turned pro at age 13 when he sold one of his images to a teacher. He attended the S...
TCF Ep. 492 - Magdalena Sole
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Magdalena Sole was born in Spain and grew up in Switzerland, as a daughter of Spanish immigrants. She holds a Masters of Fine Art from Columbia Univer...
TCF Ep. 491 - KK Ottesen
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
KK Ottesen documents the stories of people's lives by combining words and images into powerful and accessible stories that resonate with a broad range...
TCF Ep. 490 - Sebastian Meyer
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Meyer is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker, and a recipient of multiple grants from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. His e...
TCF Ep. 489 - Corey Rich
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Rich is one of the world's most recognized adventure sports and outdoor lifestyle visual storytellers. Over the last two decades, this photograp...
TCF Ep. 488 - Allison Zaucha
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Allison Zaucha (b.1991) is an independent award-winning photojournalist based in Los Angeles, California. She is passionate about working on social is...
TCF Ep. 487 - Elliott Kaufman
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elliott Kaufman's career path is unique but has always revolved around architectural motives. When he began shooting in the mid 70s his orientation wa...
TCF Ep. 486 - Gulnara Samoilova
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gulnara Samoilova is a street and fine art photographer based in New York City and the founder of @WomenStreetPhotographers Instagram feed. She holds ...
TCF Ep. 485 - Karen Hutton
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Hutton is an International Landscape and Travel Photographer, Artist, Speaker, Author, Educator, Voice; as well as a Professional Fujifilm X-Pho...
TCF Ep. 484 - Jeffery Saddoris
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffery Saddoris is endlessly curious – about people, about creativity, about line and shape and color – and his personal and professional pursuit...
TCF Ep. 483 - Hadi Salehi
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hadi Salehi is a master of the art of analog photography. Salehi's images capture diverse portraits that are powerful and soft, leaving a haunting qua...
TCF Ep. 482 - Ernesto Bazan
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Italian photojournalist Ernesto Bazan first traveled to Cuba in 1992 and immediately fell in love with the county and its people; he felt transported ...
TCF Ep. 481 - Jason Hamacher
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Hamacher's professional efforts are shaped by passion, motivation, and vision. He is an internationally recognized musician, photographer, write...
TCF Ep. 480 - Jérôme Brunet
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in Ontario, Canada. His passion for music began at the age of four, when he started studying as...
TCF Ep. 479 - Ken Merfeld
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Merfeld owns and operates a commercial / fine art photography studio where he photographs fashion, advertising, portrait, and celebrity assignment...
TCF Ep. 478 - Sheila Pree Bright
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Pree Bright is often described as a "Cultural Anthropologist. Her earliest experience as a photographer began when she spent time in Houston wh...
TCF Ep. 477 - Patrick Brown
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Brown's images are testament to his remarkable versatility of approach and commitment to the profession. Patrick Brown has assembled an impres...
TCF Ep. 476 - Michael Benanav
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Benanav is an author and freelance photographer known for immersing in foreign cultures and bringing compelling stories and images back from d...
TCF Ep. 475 - Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye is a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photo-journalism photogr...
TCF Ep. 474 - Jasmin Mara Lopez
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jasmin Mara López is an award-winning journalist, radio producer, youth media educator and filmmaker that works in the U.S. and Mexico. Born in Los A...
TCF Ep. 473 - Willem Baptist
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Willem Baptist is a Dutch filmmaker and documentary-director whose latest film is Instant Dreams. Instant Dreams is a feature documentary about the fa...
TCF Ep. 472 - Jessica Chou
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Chou approaches her subjects with as little preconceived notions as possible, allowing people the space to collaborate with the moment and the...
TCF Ep. 471 - Jesse Dittmar
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Dittmar is a celebrity portrait photographer who began serving as an assistant for some of the industry's best photographers including Chris Buc...
TCF Ep. 470 - Sophie Mayanne
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Mayanne is a 26-year-old fashion and portrait photographer, splitting her time between London and Cotswolds, UK. Her style is unmistakable, fav...
TCF Ep. 469 - Sarah Marie Rooney & Sasha Dylan Bell
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Marie Rooney and Sasha Dylan Bell are photographers who collaborated on a conceptual photographic project titled "Fear of Dreaming". This work e...
TCF Ep. 468 - Julieanne Kost
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Julieanne Kost is a Principal Evangelist at Adobe Systems, responsible for fostering relationships with customers through meaningful and inspirational...
TCF Ep. 467 - Diana Lundin
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Diana Lundin is a commercial pet portrait photographer based in Southern California. After a successful career as a writer and editor, she embarked on...
TCF Ep. 466 - Mark de Paola
05 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark de Paola was literally born into a photo studio on Cahuenga Blvd in Los Angeles and grew up splitting time between Los Angeles and New York. Mark...
TCF Ep. 465 - Safi Alia Shabaik
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Safi Alia Shabaik discovered art and photography at an early age when her mother enrolled her in a pinhole camera class at the California Museum of Sc...
TCF Ep. 464 - Sam Abell, Arthur Meyerson & George Nobechi
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Abell, Arthur Meyerson, and George Nobechi recently shared a "buddy trip", traveling through the heart of Japan via train. While George lives in J...
TCF Ep. 463 - Sara Terry
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Terry is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker known for her work covering post-conflict stories, and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow ...
TCF Ep. 462 - Roland Miller
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Roland Miller, a Chicago native, studied photography at Utah State University earning his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees. For 14 years, he taught photograp...
TCF Ep. 461 - Thomas Michael Alleman
31 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Alleman was born and raised in Detroit, where his father was a traveling salesman and his mother was a ceramic artist. He graduated from Michig...
TCF Ep. 460 - Barbara Peacock
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Barbara Peacock studied fine arts at Boston University College of Fine Arts, and photography and filmmaking at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts a...
TCF Ep. 459 - Nico Therin
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nico Therin is a Los Angeles based French photographer. For as long as he can remember, he has been attracted to form and color, but it wasn't until h...