TCF Ep. 242 - Damon Casarez

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Damon Casarez is an emerging documentary and portrait photographer based in Los Angeles county. His recent project, "Boomerang Kids," that was pitched to the New York Times Magazine, has brought up a lot of conversation about the factors recent college graduates face as soon as they leave school. The cinematic environmental portraits put a face to the stories of thousands of recent college grads who are buried in student loan debt and cannot support themselves, something he went through himself after leaving school. His personal projects are often Damon graduated from Art Center College of Design in August of 2012, where he had a very rigorous and technical photography education, which he applied to his conceptual projects about his suburban upbringing. Most of his education in commercial photography would be learned while interning for a photo agency and under a photo editor, where he was taught about the business and marketing side of photography as well as seeing the inner workings of a magazine. While in school and after school, he began assisting under commercial and editorial photographers in L.A. while taking editorial assignments and marketing his work. His assignments appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Pacific Standard Magazine. Resources: http://www.damoncasarez.com/ http://daniellelevitt.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/magazine/its-official-the-boomerang-kids-wont-leave.html

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0:00.0	This is a Body and X and welcome to The Candid Frame.
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0:36.6	the app.
0:39.7	Download it today using your favorite app store or click on the links in the show notes found at the Candid Frame website. As an educator,
0:50.0	one of the things that has been of increasing concern to me is the cost of a college education.
0:56.1	As part of the social contract that many of us in the U.S. grew up with, the idea was that if you studied hard, worked hard, and got a college degree, you would be laying a solid foundation for a personal and financial future.
1:13.4	And as a result, us as a society,
1:19.3	would benefit from it. Today, the cost of a degree has become prohibitively expensive,
1:24.2	unless, of course, you're willing to take on the burden of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in loan debt. If your future demands a college degree, that's just the price it has to be paid, it would seem.
1:32.6	But the price that is being paid goes beyond the individual debtors.
1:36.5	It's an issue that we're all going to have to face as new generations of young men and women
1:41.5	are being valued more as a source of profits rather than on their
1:45.9	contributions to our communities and our country.
1:50.4	The challenge of today's graduates is no better illustrated by the work of Damon Cesaris,
1:55.4	who as a photographer and a recent graduate, faces the challenge of building a career
2:00.4	while contending with a large
2:02.3	college loan debt. His personal story helped inspire a personal project on what's being termed
2:08.9	boomerang kids, young people who find themselves returning to their parents' homes as they
2:14.7	struggle to begin careers while dealing with large amounts of debt.
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