Crowned and Fairy Tale Retellings w/ Regis and Kahran Bethencourt

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

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Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

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

- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	M.
0:05.0	The 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.
0:37.8	And I'm Julia. We are so pleased today to have two authors, photographers, creative professionals with us.
0:44.4	Karin and Reg, welcome to the show. Thank you for joining. Thank you. Thank you so much for having us.
0:49.9	We're excited to be here. We are so excited to have you. And to get us started, how about you tell our listeners a little bit about who you are, what you do, and then we can get into all the delightful fairy tale details.
1:02.7	Sure, sure.
1:04.3	So again, we are photographers, but we like to say that we are more than just photographers.
1:10.8	We really use our platform
1:12.4	as a way to empower kids of color around the world by showcasing their beauty, uniqueness,
1:17.0	and creativity. And so, you know, we felt like there was a lack of representation of positive
1:23.0	imagery in terms of kids of color in the media. And so we stepped in to do something about it. So,
1:28.7	you know, we showcase them in really cool ways. We, you know, kind of serve as dreammakers for
1:34.2	them. So whether, you know, they want to be a scientist or an astronaut, we really just try to
1:39.3	showcase that in a really cool and unique way. Yeah, I know that one of the books we're going to be talking about
1:44.7	your newest book crowned, but one of the books that really brought you guys into the spotlight
1:49.1	was glory, magical visions of black beauty. And looking at the photography in that, it is absolutely
1:54.8	stunning. Oh, thank you. I know you talked a little bit about it, but what kind of inspired you
2:00.0	to like come together and put these photos into a book that, you know, could help bring kind of awareness to the ways that you can break the conventional beauty standards for black children?
2:13.1	Yeah. So, you know, we started a series called the Afro Art Series around 2017. And that was originally started with just showcasing the beauty and versatility of Afro hair. But as we started to shoot it, we started to realize that so many of these kids had, you know, so many unique and interesting stories. Right? And so our first book, Glory, we highlighted,
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