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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 330 - Levon Biss

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8768 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Levon Biss was born in 1975 and grew up in South London. He trained initially to be an illustrator and it was not until his late teens that he picked up a camera, combining photography with his love of sports. Much of Levon's work concentrates on shooting dynamic action portraits that show the beauty of the human form in movement. His keen understanding of the mind-set and extraordinary talents of athletes at their peak gives Levon an easy affinity with his subjects and this very much underpins the technical success of his images. His more recent work in a personal project called Microsculpture in which he captures incredibly detailed photographs of insects. Levon has also been drawn to cover the culture surrounding sport and the fan's perspective. His project 'One Love' is a brilliant exploration of the global love and passion for football, it took him to 26 countries, produced a best selling book, and an exhibition viewed by 1.2 million people worldwide. Alongside his sports work, Levon has fulfilled many portrait and lifestyle commissions that showcase his great creativity and flexibility as a photographer, these include advertising shoots for O2, Deutsche Post, Mastercard and Sky and editorial work for the Observer, GQ and New York Times. Resources: Levon Biss http://www.levonbiss.com/ Microsculpture http://microsculpture.net/ Brent Stirton http://www.brentstirton.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 contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button.

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This is Ebody and X and this is the candid frame.

0:59.8

Emerging photographers are often told to specialize in something, some genre photography.

1:04.1

Saying that you are a generalist, that you can shoot anything and everything,

1:07.4

leaves people at a loss as to what to hire you for. So eventually, professional photographers find a niche by which they not only are

1:11.9

identified by, but are often hired for. But finding success in a particular area of photography

1:18.9

doesn't mean you can't find other avenues to express your creativity with a camera.

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LeVon Bess is a commercial and editorial photographer who has gained a reputation

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as a great portrait and sports photographer. So it might be surprising to many that such a photographer

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has created an amazing body of work, not photographing athletes or celebrities, but insects.

1:43.1

His project called micro sculpture is a personal project where he

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photographs insects under a microscope. But before you think, been there done that, you have to

1:52.4

see the work to see how unique and remarkable it really is. The level of detail and sharpness

1:57.8

is nothing like you would get with a DSLR and a macro lens. This is

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