TCF Ep. 356 - Ali LeRoi

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ali LeRoi is a photographer as well as the Emmy Award-winning co-creator/executive producer/writer of the critically acclaimed comedy “Everybody Hates Chris,” a series inspired by the childhood experiences of comedian Chris Rock. He is a Golden Globe nominee, a 2007 NAACP Image Award winner for best writer in a comedy series, as well as a winner of the 2007 AFI TV Program of the Year Award. LeRoi served as a producer and writer on “The Chris Rock Show,” for which he won an Emmy, a Cable Ace Award, and received five Emmy Award nominations. He is an NAACP Awards Best Director nominee for his work on Everybody Hates Chris, and has directed segments for the “77th Annual Academy Awards,” as well as for the “Orlando Jones Show.” Major motion picture credits include producing and co-writing “Head of State” and “Down to Earth,” as well as producing cult-favorite, “Pootie Tang.” Photography for him is meditation, memory, and connection. Taking time to consider what something is. Why something is. Who someone is. For LeRoi photography freezes the fractions of sections in between all of the things he sees and does and holds still all of the places and people he passes by and gives him a moment to consider them, inspect them, appreciate them, and remember them. While he has a focus on people, and exploring the breadth of their condition and their ability to connect to the world around them, as well as their ability to connect with him, he also ventures into architecture as abstract, and it’s collision as form, as still life. Much of his work grows out of a strongly held sense of solitude and a desire to connect to the things around him. He has no hard and fast rules about purity or constraints around editing an image. He does what he feel. And show it. He assumes that his body of work will take on a character as it grows, as he is it’s singular filter. Originally from Chicago, LeRoi currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons. Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Click here to download for Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	The Candid Frame is supported by donations by listeners just like you.
0:05.1	Help us to bring you great conversations with great photographers.
0:09.7	Support the show today with your monthly contribution through our Patreon effort at patreon.com
0:16.3	or click on the link in the show notes or the website at the candid frame.com.
0:26.1	Thank you.
0:34.7	This is E.BadienX and this is the candid frame.
0:40.0	When it comes to creativity, many people usually think you can only be good at one thing.
0:48.3	It can be hard to realize that a person is not only a photographer, but also a writer,
0:53.0	a composer, a musician, a performer, and
0:55.8	sometimes all of the above. It all comes from the very same place, but it's just being expressed
1:02.3	using another medium. Ali LaRoy is that kind of man, who is not only a photographer, but he's
1:09.1	also been a stand-up comedian, a writer, a producer, a
1:12.4	director, and a showrunner. His work has been seen in television and film, including the
1:18.2	Chris Rock Show, Head of State, and everybody hates Chris. It's allowed him to work alongside
1:24.8	and photograph some of Hollywood's best talents.
1:35.1	Ali, welcome to the candid frame. I'm really excited to have a chance to talk with you.
1:39.3	Thank you for having me. This is very cool. Nice way to start the year. Yeah, it's a beautiful
1:43.4	morning here now today, which is nice.
1:46.1	You know, I have to say, I was thinking about you and I was thinking, I'm really tempted to
1:50.0	start this conversation by asking him how he kept all his hair.
1:55.3	I guess I just have a hair gene.
1:57.3	You got quite the quaff, brother. I admire it. But it's interesting, you know,
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