TCF Ep. 213 - Matthew Jordan Smith

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Celebrated photographer Matthew Jordan Smith has worked with some of the top names in entertainment today including Haile Berry, Jennifer Connelly, Jamie Fox, Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey. Matthew’s love of photography and people stretches far beyond his commissioned work and has given birth to several personal projects including two books. The first book entitled Lost and Found and sponsored by Microsoft focuses on missing and exploited children and is endorsed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. His other book includes Sepia Dreams which features portraits and interviews with accomplished African Americans. A native of New York City, Matthew has taught at the prestigious School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. He is also an active volunteer with several art schools including Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design and RIT. He is a board member of Kids with a Cause Europe and APA/LA. http://matthewjordansmith.com/ http://matthewjordansmith.com/blog/ www.rev.com www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Ivadi NX and welcome to another episode of The Candid Frame.
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0:45.7	at the candid frame.com.
0:52.5	Well, one of the types of photographers that a lot of people would like to be is a fashion portrait celebrity photographer.
1:00.6	There's just something about the mythology surrounding what it means to be that kind of photographer that draws a lot of people to pick up the camera.
1:08.8	But it's not all glitz and glory, as you'll find out in this
1:13.4	conversation that we have with Matthew Jordan Smith. There's a lot of hard work involved in
1:18.4	being just such a photographer. A lot of you are familiar with Matthew Jordan Smith's work.
1:24.3	His work has appeared in countless numbers of magazines. He's photographed for a lot of commercial
1:29.3	clients like HBO and Revlon and L'O. And more popularly, you may have seen him on America's
1:36.6	next top model where he appeared as a guest photographer on numerous times. He's also the author
1:43.9	of several books, one of which includes
1:45.8	Sepia Dreams, a book that is collection of interviews and portraits of accomplished African
1:51.3	Americans. His latest project is a personal project called Future Presidents, in which he
1:56.3	traveled over 14,000 miles to photograph young children and to hopefully inspire a lot of
2:02.7	children to do a lot more with their lives than they maybe could have initially imagined.
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