TCF Ep. 308 - Mick Victor

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mick Victor, in his career as a creative director, helps bridge the gap that sometimes exists between a business and a creative mentality. He’s made it his job to find ways for creatives to collaborate with businesses who are accustomed to quantifying work in terms of spreadsheets and cost assessments. He’s in many respects a cultural translator. But Mick Victor is also an accomplished photographer who makes the streets and not an office his studio. But his imagery in not typical street photography. Instead his images from his Art Unexpected Series are abstractions of marking and paintings that are an everyday part of our modern urban world. These are not just photographs of graffiti. Instead, the are photographs that are the accumulation of graffiti, tagging and painting over these elements resulting in images that many would easily mistake for abstract paintings. Resources: Mick Victor http://www.mickvictor.com Art Unexpected http://www.artunexpected.dphoto.com/# Karen Devine http://www.karendivinephotography.com 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=0q50pmZy7C5IgJgqbMYe2iAiPQzPn5AJv5yKS-HwteLeBZu887i4rTjFBFe&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d64ad11bbf4d2a5a1a0d303a50933f9b2

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0:00.0	The Candid Frame is supported by donations by listeners just like you.
0:04.0	You can support the show by clicking on the donate button on the website or in the show notes.
0:09.0	This is YvadiNX and this is The Candid Frame.
0:13.0	When it comes to photographing in Los Angeles, it's not often that a photographer
0:26.6	reveals the city in a way that surprises me.
0:29.6	I've not only made images in this town for decades, but I've immersed myself in the photography
0:35.6	of many great photographers who've made fantastic images in the City of Angels.
0:41.5	But Mick Victor surprised me with his abstract images that he finds in the streets and alleys of Los Angeles and other cities.
0:49.0	Things that I have passed hundreds of times in the past with little notice are revealed to me through his camera,
0:55.0	and the results are beautiful and inspiring.
0:58.6	It's always a pleasure to discover and talk with a photographer that reminds me that when it
1:03.9	comes to photography, that the possibilities really are endless.
1:11.4	How long have you been living in Long Beach?
1:14.1	I've been here a long time.
1:16.8	Pretty much since I came to California in the late 80s.
1:23.2	I had a big fat corporate job.
1:26.4	Yeah, I had a big fat corporate job, which is why I, well,
1:28.8	with why I came out here. And then we just stayed. And we have two girls. We stayed here in this city.
1:38.1	You know, I mean, I worked a lot in Santa Monica, worked a lot in Burbank, some in Orange County
1:44.0	with different clients and different things.
1:46.3	But ultimately, this was a really good city and the area that we're in.
1:51.3	It's really good for just them getting around on their bicycles and we're around the water.
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