344: Crowned and Fairy Tale Retellings (with Regis and Kahran Bethencourt)
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We’re joined this week by photographers and creatives, Regis and Kahran Bethencourt, to chat about Western fairy tale retellings, African folklore, and creating fairy tales for a new generation of kids!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of racism, beauty standards, misogyny, arranged marriage, death, and domestic violence.
Guests
Regis and Kahran Bethencourt are a husband-and-wife duo and the imaginative forces behind CreativeSoul Photography and creators of Crowned. With more than ten years of working with hundreds of children, families and brands, they specialize in child and lifestyle photography while incorporating authentic visual storytelling. As artists, CreativeSoul Photography is committed to helping kids and brands create fascinating imagery by operating as a one-stop shop offering expert creative direction, vision, planning, strategy, and execution. They've worked with brands small and large around the globe such as Disney, Amazon, Just for Me, CurlyKids Haircare, CamilleRose Haircare and more.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
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About Us
Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'll see you in the next video. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.2 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Amanda and I'm Julia. |
| 0:38.5 | We are so pleased today to have two authors, photographers, creative professionals with |
| 0:43.8 | us, Karin and Reg, welcome to the show. |
| 0:46.8 | Thank you for joining. |
| 0:47.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:48.8 | Thank you so much for having us. |
| 0:49.8 | We're excited to be here. |
| 0:51.6 | We are so excited to have you and to get us started, how about you tell our listeners |
| 0:56.4 | a little bit about who you are, what you do, and then we can get into all the delightful |
| 1:01.5 | fairy tale details. |
| 1:02.5 | Sure. |
| 1:03.5 | Sure. |
| 1:04.5 | Again, we are photographers, but we like to say that we are more than just photographers. |
| 1:11.2 | We really use our platform as a way to empower kids of color around the world by showcasing |
| 1:16.2 | their beauty, uniqueness, and creativity. |
| 1:19.5 | We felt like there was a lack of representation of positive imagery in terms of kids of color |
| 1:25.6 | in the media, and so we stepped in to do something about it. |
| 1:29.3 | We showcase them in really cool ways. |
| 1:31.9 | We serve as dream makers for them, so whether they want to be a scientist or an astronaut, |
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