TCF Ep. 307 - Shannon Johnstone

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Photographers want to create beauty. It’s the impetus that inspires many to pick up a camera and bring it to their eye. Yet, creating a pleasing composition is not the only thing that drives many a photographer to use a camera. Some hope to effect change. There are countless documentary photographers and photojournalists who have been inspired to do more with a camera than produce a pretty picture. However, you don’t have to be either to help bring about change. Shannon Johnstone is a photographer who has been using her camera to change the lives of dogs at a local animal shelter. These are dogs, who were at risk of being euthanized. Her project and book Landfill Dogs has provided an opportunity to not only save the lives of hundreds of animals, but also create greater awareness of the importance of spaying and neutering pets. As mentioned in the interview, adoption and rescues are not the solution to this problem. We can’t expect animals to change their behavior for our benefit. It’s our duty and responsibility as pet owners to spay and neuter animals in our care. Otherwise animals such as the ones beautifully captured in in Shannon’s photographs will continue to be destroyed. You can find out more about spaying and neutering your pets as well as locations near you where you might adopt and find a home for a cat or dog by visiting ASPCA.org. Resources: Shannon Johnstone http://shannonjohnstone.com/ Landfill Dogs http://www.landfilldogs.com/about/book.html Chris Jordan http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn2/#water-bottles Traer Scott http://www.traerscott.com/ ASPCA https://www.aspca.org/ Los Angeles Street Photography Workshop with Ibarionex - January 30th, 2016 https://lacphoto.org/events/one-day-of-street-photography-with-ibarionex-perello-one-session-jan/ 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=Mi4dvPrTA1swPjOF_OtGoFfv7ZXMtQIo9p1P9MEBsvbtPk_-DliSc55i1Ti&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d64ad11bbf4d2a5a1a0d303a50933f9b2

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0:34.7	This is E-Body and X, and this is The Candid Frame.
0:38.7	The act of making a photograph is often a selfish one.
0:43.6	We see something, we respond to something, and we want to create an image that expresses
0:48.5	what we felt, what we experienced when we saw that person or that scene in front of our lens.
0:55.0	We want to communicate the unique way that we see and experience the world and have others
1:00.0	take pleasure in that moment that they were not witnessed to.
1:05.4	Yet there are other times where the act of making a photograph is less selfish.
1:10.0	There are things that we photograph not merely for aesthetic reasons, but because we have
1:14.5	something important to say or to share.
1:17.6	And in some cases, it's because there's a hope that photographs can result in change.
1:25.1	Photographer Shannon Johnstone is a person who has been using her talent as a photographer to create change in the lives of animals,
1:32.8	specifically dogs that have found their way into a local animal shelter in her community.
1:38.6	Her project landfill dogs is a project and book that consists of beautiful portraits of dogs that were and are at risk
1:46.7	for being euthanized. And while the circumstances that inspire this project are sad, the photographs
1:53.0	are anything but. They are beautiful and hopeful, and in many cases, have made a positive change
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