The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Born in Brooklyn in 1968, Sasha Waters Freyer makes non-fiction films about outsiders, misfits, and everyday radicals.  Trained in photography and the documentary tradition, she fuses original and found footage in 16mm film and digital media.  Her newest work is a feature documentary on American photographer Garry Winogrand. The film titled Garry Winogrand: Everything is Photographable will air on PBS American Masters in 2019.

Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author and curator based in New York City. He has had seven books of his photographs published, including Coney Island 40 Years and his latest book, Mexico: Between Life and Death.

Peter Turnley is renowned for his photography of the realities of the human condition. His photographs have been featured on the cover of Newsweek 43 times and are published frequently in the world’s most prestigious publications.

TCF features a conversation with commercial portrait photographer Kate T. Parker, whose personal portrait project, Strong is the New Pretty became a best-selling book.

Randal Ford believes that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. He is obsessed with details, creative collaboration, and chasing a timeless aesthetic whether it's with his portraits, commercial shoots or his latest fine-art photographs of wildlife, Animal Kingdom.

This episode features a conversation with fine-art and documentary photographer, Gerald Cyrus on his photographs jazz culture and of middle-class African-American lives.

This week we speak with landscape and travel photographer, Brian Matiash to discuss the challenges of maintaining one's creativity after major life changes.

One of the early innovators of rock-and-roll photography, renowned photographer Guy Webster has spanned the worlds of music, films, and politics in a stellar 40-year career. While shooting album covers and billboards for groups that included The Rolling Stones, The Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel and Chicago, he also photographed such film legends as Rita Hayworth, Dean Martin, and Natalie Wood.

Michael Kamber has worked as a journalist for more than 25 years. Between 2002 and 2012 he worked for The New York Times covering conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, the Sudan, Somalia, the Congo and other countries. He has also worked as a writer and videographer for the Times. His photos have been published in nearly every major news magazine in the United States and Europe, as well as in many newspapers. I

This week, we speak with landscape photographer Matt Payne, who explains how growing up poor helped him to develop a life-long passion for the outdoors.

Melissa Spitz is a documentary photographer who has been photographing her mother's life-long struggle with mental illness titled, You Have Nothing to Worry About.

Jeff Mermelstein is a master street photographer who was born in 1957 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and studied at Rutgers College and the International Center of Photography. His career combines personal photographs with assignments for publications such as LIFE, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. In the tradition of other photographers such as Helen Levitt, he has photographed street life in New York City extensively as well as September 11th and its aftermath.

Born in Cambridge, England, Jacqueline Walters is a fine art photographer based in San Francisco who often uses a plastic toy camera to produce her beautiful natural and urban landscapes.

Forrest Walker is a Portland-based photographer who has been traveling full-time on a 5-year project photographing 100 cities around the world. He is focused on capturing interest from day-to-day life in a wide range of cities and cultures. I also share this passion for Street Photography around the world on his blog. We sit with him just as he launches the final leg of his unique photographic adventure.

Nicholas Pinto is a street and documentary photographer, his work explores topics of cultural and social awareness, poverty, and mental health issues. Capturing moments in time as a visual story-teller Pinto uses these projects to shine a light on the difficulties of living, and to give a face to it that many don’t see.