This is the Body Annex, and this is the Candid Frame.

Join the fast-growing community of TCF listeners who are sharing their best photographic work on the Candid Frame Flickr

Group. Not only is it a great place to see and enjoy photographs, but each week I pull from

these submissions to produce a weekly video on my YouTube channel. To join, all you need to do is

sign up on Flickr and ask to join the group.

It's a great place to discover others who share your passion for photography.

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Cheryl Dunn, the director of Everybody Street, a wonderful documentary about New York Street photography. If you haven't seen it yet, it should be on your

short list of films to watch before the end of the year. Today's guest was one of the

photographers profiled in the film. Jamel Shabazz has been documenting his

community in Brooklyn and elsewhere since the 70s, and he's produced the quintessential document

of life in New York City, as well as the birth and growth of hip-pop culture. He has published

several books, including his first, The iconic Back in the Day. As you'll hear,

he is a passionate photographer, and his images are far more than just about music and fashion.

Introduced to photography by his father, we started our conversation talking about those

early influences, and one photo book in particular that changed his life.

Yes, first of all, I was very fortunate to have a father who was a photographer. He had spent

eight years in the Navy and at the age of 17, he picked up the camera while in there,

and the Navy trained him, actually.

So he was professional, and he took craft very serious.

So we had a vast library of photography books, and I was just taken behind that.

So that's really where my interest

came in, because unbeknownst to my father, I used to go through all of his photography books and just

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