The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Chris Gampat is the founder of The Phoblographer and he manages all of the daily tasks. He has worked for Photography Bay, PCMag, Geek.com, Magnum Photos, B&H Photo Video and MAC Group amongst others. He specializes in content development and Social Media marketing campaigns for the creative industry. Chris also freelances for many other publications such as Digital Camera Review, Gear Patrol, Imaging Resource, and Resource Magazine. The Phoblographer is a site dedicated to the practice of photography with reviews that are rooted within the real-world use of equipment and software. It also includes features on photographers, helpful tips and humorist articles revolving around the world of photography. www.thephoblographer.com http://500px.com/ChrisGampat http://eliotdudik.com/ www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

​Kevin McCollister is a Los Angeles based photographer who has been sharing images on his blog East of West LA since 2006. In his blog and his book by the same title, he explores parts of the city of Angeles not frequently explored in film and television. His photographs of Los Angeles, reveal the mash-up up the past and the present with images that often reflect how buildings and spaces have been continually adapted with each generation of Angelenos, particularly immigrants. His night photographs reveal a Los Angeles which seems virtually abandoned upon nightfall, but which still reveal glimpses of the people and the communities that work and exist there during daylight hours. Born in Ohio, McCollister worked as a deckhand on the Mississippi River for several years after which he lived in Cambridge, MA where he attended Harvard University Extension School. He has lived in Los Angeles longer than he has lived in any other city. http://jimsonweed.blogspot.com/ http://www.manuelalvarezbravo.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Alvarez_Bravo http://www.modotti.com/ www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

David H. Wells a free-lance photographer affiliated with Aurora Photos and photo educator in Providence, Rhode Island. He specializes in intercultural communications and the use of light and shadow to enhance visual narratives. His work has been featured in one-person exhibits at Brown University, U.C. Berkeley and Harvard University. His work has been part of group exhibitions at the Houston FotoFest and the Visa pour l'Image Festival in Perpignan, France. He has been an Artist in residence at the Visual Studies Workshop and the Light Works Photography Center. He has taught classes at the University of Pennsylvania and workshops at the International Center for Photography in NYC and Maine Media Workshops. He was featured in Photo District News as one of "The Best Workshop Instructors." http://www.pdnonline.com/features/PDN-Reader-Survey-T-3302.shtml His photo-essays have been funded by fellowships from Nikon/NPPA, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the MacArthur Foundation's Program of Research and Writing on International Peace and Cooperation, the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation. His project on the pesticide poisoning of California farm workers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Philadelphia Inquirer. As an Olympus Visionary, Wells has been contracted by the camera company to produce images and provide feedback on new product lines. You can find out more about David H. Wells and his work by visiting his site http://davidhwells.com/index.php or his blog http://thewellspoint.com/ or follow him on Tumblr at http://thewellspoint.tumblr.com/ or Twitter at https://twitter.com/thewellspoint David H. Wells recommends the work of Harry Callahan. www.davidhwells.com/index.php http://thewellspoint.com/ www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

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Mark and Holly Jansen of Mark Jansen Photography and Jansen Photo Expeditions have been displaying their art as well as teaching and guiding photographic workshops since 2005. They take their clients on photographic dream tours throughout the American West and the world. Jansen Photo Expeditions workshops include DSLR workshops, iPhone photography classes, and online classes in basic photography, Photoshop, and Macro Photography. Mark Jansen is a native of Los Angeles, CA, and the founder of Mark Jansen Photography and Jansen Photo Expeditions. He was educated at Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA, in Commercial Design and Photography. Mark participates regularly in photographic continuing education programs and trade shows, so he's always on the cutting edge of our rapidity changing photographic world. Mark is personally involved in every project and workshop he holds and puts his personal stamp of excellence on everything he does. Mark has lived and breathed photography all his life. His childhood passion for tinkering with video and film cameras and other gadgets has turned into a successful visual arts career. Many of his works are in private and corporate collections such as State Farm Insurance and Sysco Food Services Corporate offices in California as well as large format murals in the Waypoint Cafe in Camarillo, and the Santa Maria Airport in Santa Maria, CA. Holly Higbee-Jansen has a life long passion for photography and loves to share her art and knowledge with her clients . For the past 40 years, Holly has been exploring her fascination with light through photography since her family attended workshops with Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley as a young child. Holly has degrees in Business and Environmental and Interior Design. Holly honed her photographic skills through years of traveling the world and photographing natural landscapes and displaying her work along with her husband Mark in galleries and art shows throughout Southern California. Eventually, this love of light expanded into teaching workshops throughout the west and the world with Jansen Photo Expeditions. Currently, Holly's photographic work has expanded to include women's glamour portraits, the exploration of the beauty of women in natural light. Photographer Websites: www.markjansenphotography.com www.jansenphotoexpeditions.com www.JansenPhotoExplorations.com www.mountainlight.com www.vivianmaier.com The Candid Frame www.thecandidframe.com info@theandidframe.com

Influenced by both fashion photographers and internet bloggers, New York native photographer Chloe Rice gives photojournalism a unique editorial feel. But in addition to specific artists and authors, it is easy to see from her photos that she could acknowledge the entire world as her inspiration. Chloe sees trees as “bird umbrellas” and rain clouds as “just parts of the sky that like to laugh until they cry”. In her mind cars all smile and “everything looks prettier with eyelashes". Luckily, Chloe has a series of cameras to capture all of this imagination that she sees. Chloe’s photos both ask you to remain innovative and inspired, to infinity and beyond! http://ohchloe.com/ http://blog.itschloe.com/ www.theselby.com www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

James Carbone’s life is a study of cultures that’s expressed through his passion for photography. Carbone was born in Los Angeles, Calif. From an early age Carbone read through the books of great photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Mary Ellen Mark. “Seeing all those great images started my obsession with photography,” Carbone says. For the past ten years Carbone has studied under Mary Ellen Mark, a world-renown documentary photographer. The two started working together at Rockport College in Maine and have continued at Pacific Center Northwest in Seattle and El Centro Fotografico Manuel Alvarez Bravo Center in Oaxaca, Mexico. Since 2000, he has documented the day-to-day life of the Lopez family, pepenadores (literally “sorters”) who struggle to survive by scavenging plastic bottles in a garbage dump. He is currently collecting the photos for an upcoming book. His work continues with a chain of newspapers and magazines in Los Angeles and in the San Bernardino Counties. In every picture, Carbone uses composition to interpret reality and capture it in an image that resonates with his audience. “Every time I shoot I try to create an instant connection,” Carbone said. “I like to get close to people. When I’m right next to them, there’s a connection. They trust me, and that’s how I can build a really true image of their humanity.” www.jamescarbone.com www.maryellenmark.com www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

Don Giannatti has been a photographer for nearly 40 years, and has had studios in Phoenix, Chicago and New York. He was a fashion and beauty shooter for the first half of his photographic career, and now adds "Americana" portraiture and travel work to his diverse subjects. He has written three photography books for Amherst Media (avail on Amazon) and taught two highly acclaimed workshops on CreativeLIVE. He lives in Arizona and travels extensively throughout the West and Northwest. He is also a designer who specializes in working with small businesses and photographers. www.dongiannatti.com http://www.lighting-essentials.com/ www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

John Perello (Jon One) was born in New York's Harlem neighborhood to parents from the Dominican Republic. Growing up in Harlem, his introduction to street art began at an early age, when he would see graffiti and tags on subway cars and city walls. When he was 17 he entered the world of graffiti with his childhood friend "White Man," tagging his name Jon with the numbers 156 on walls and trains in his neighborhood. He said, "The subway is a museum that runs through the city." In 1984, he founded the graffiti group 156 All Starz, in order to bring together their passion for painting trains at night and to help forget about their problems, including drug use. At this time, he met the artist Bando, who was living in New York. Following an invitation from Bando, JonOne moved to Paris in 1987. He began his work as a painter on canvas in a workshop at the Hospital Ephemeral, a literal hospital building that became a squatting place for artists, located in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Here, he painted with the artists A-One, Sharp, Ash, and Jayone Skki. Soon, he made a name for himself in Parisian artistic circles through his work on canvas and the exhibitions he held, including one in 1990 at Gallery 45 Gleditsch in Berlin and the exhibition Graffiti Paris, at rue Chapon in Paris. At an Artcurial auction on June 6, 2007, Match Point, a large canvas by JonOne made at the Hospital Ephemeral in 1993, was bought by a New York collector for €24,800, a record sale for the artist. This auction was also the highest bid ever obtained in France for a work of graffiti art. www.jonone.net www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

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 photo journalist 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 the broad range of subject matter he is able to interpret, he is widely recognized for his unusual celebrity portraiture, his scientific photography, photo illustrations, drawings and photojournalistic stories. Dan has won over one hundred national and international awards from American Photography, Communications Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, PDN, The Art Director's Club of New York, Life Magazine, and won the world press photo award in the portrait category, among others. He was also awarded the prestigious, Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography. In 2003, he was honored by Kodak as a photo "Icon" in their biographical "Legends" series. He has had four exhibitions of his personal work in galleries In New York and Los Angeles and had a book of his magazine work entitled Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs published in 2009 by Aperture. In addition, he has photos in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Harry Ransom Center in Austin and the Wittliff Collection at the Jepson Center for the ARts/Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA. www.danwinters.com www.laurencemillergallery.com/artist_metzker.htm www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com