TCF Ep. 304 - Sophia Nahli Allison

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Sophia Nahli Allison is a visual journalist at the community level and a media arts educator. Born in 1987 + a native of South Central Los Angeles, she is passionate about stories that humanize the black and LGBT communities. She believes storytelling is a tool for social change. This spring she will be a video journalist with the New York Times Student Journalism Institute and during the summer will be an intern at The Seattle Times. She recently completed a summer visual journalism internship at the The Tampa Bay Times and has interned at The Chicago Reporter. She participated in the Eddie Adams Workshop XXVIII, the 2014 New York Times Lens Blog Portfolio Review and NABJ's student multimedia projects fellowship. She taught photo and video to youth in Chicago and Los Angeles and is a grateful recipient of the Chicago 3Arts Award for teaching artist. She is currently a Roy H. Park Fellow at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pursuing a master's degree in visual communication. Resources: Sophia Nahli Allison http://www.sophianahliallison.com Roy DeCarava http://decarava.org Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for iOS. Click here to download for Android Click here to download for Windows 8 Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with your donations via PayPal. https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=VgliBy3J2e39NoaYEakyINt-17h2AevWulBCcGTirwI6lei5NIMz-60qhE4&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d64ad11bbf4d2a5a1a0d303a50933f9b2

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0:00.0	The Candid Frame is supported by donations by listeners just like you.
0:04.9	You can support the show by clicking on the donate button on the website or in the show notes.
0:13.9	This is IbarianX, and this is the candid frame.
0:23.1	Photojournalism has changed a lot in the last decade, largely propelled by an increased
0:28.3	appetite for multimedia.
0:30.6	Though the still image is still first and foremost, there is also a desire for stories
0:35.8	that leverage the power of audio and video.
0:40.0	So the modern visual journalist not only has to have a nose for news,
0:45.0	but they also have to be proficient with more than just a still camera.
0:50.2	But ultimately, it's not just about the technology.
0:54.0	It's about the story and finding a way to make readers and viewers understand why this
0:59.6	particular story is worthy of their attention, why it's important that they know about this.
1:07.0	Sophia Nali Allison is part of a new generation of visual journalists who are using the medium to tell stories that not only matter to them personally, but who recognize the importance of sharing these stories of people's successes and tragedies in a way that encourages people to do more than just skim the headlines.
1:26.6	I can't think of a better guest with which to end our
1:29.6	ninth season of TCF. Enjoy. What part of South Los Angeles did you grow up in? I grew up in
1:41.7	Jefferson Park, well first Lamart Park and then we moved to Jefferson Park.
1:45.3	Okay.
1:46.1	Yeah.
1:46.8	So my mom was a storyteller in the area, so my brother and I were really always involved
1:53.2	and aware of the art scene, of the richness of the art scene in Lambert Park.
1:57.4	And my dad was a musician.
2:00.5	So we were always surrounded by that eclectic, beautiful side of South Central L.A.
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