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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 359 - Kevin Weinstein

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8768 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Weinstein combines the worlds of photojournalism and artistic photography to capture memories, moods, split-second moments, and momentous events. He's been doing it since the darkroom ages. The instructions he was taught back then for developing photos has stuck with him: "If it is too light, add time; if it is too dark, take away time." But in the years since, as film gave way to digital, Kevin has learned that time cannot be added or subtracted—only seized or lost. His art as a documentarian, storyteller and photographer is all about seizing the moment, and the meaning within that moment. Kevin is a master at stripping away the nonessential and capturing the essence of a person, place or point in time. The results: emotive portraits and candids, lively magazine spreads, and images that command attention amid the visual clutter that defines the digital age. Before founding Kevin Weinstein Photography in 2001, Kevin spent 12 years in newspaper and magazine journalism. On the newspaper side, he worked for the Sun (Bremerton, Washington), the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Albuquerque Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, and the Sun in Illinois. His magazine credits include US Weekly, People, Hollywood Reporter and Mother Jones. Celebrity subjects include Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Longoria, Mario Lopez, Stacy Keibler, Smeezingtons producer Ari Levine, and Christoph Waltz, among others. Through Kevin Weinstein Photography, Kevin became a sought-after event photographer, and as his reputation and referrals spread beyond the Chicago market, he went on to shoot high-profile private parties and special events in Los Angeles, New York, and exotic and cosmopolitan destinations around the globe. Kevin Weinstein Photography has since come full circle, bringing Kevin back to his roots as an editorial and street photographer. Resources: Kevin Weinstein Diane Arbus 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 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. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

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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.

0:25.9

Thank you.

0:30.8

This is EibodynX and this is The Candid Frame.

0:39.5

Last weekend, I took part in the Los Angeles Center of Photography's Street Week.

0:45.0

It was a week-long celebration of street photography.

0:47.8

It featured presentations by a dozen photographers including Matt Stewart, John Free, Renzi Ruiz, Michelle Grosskoff,

0:56.0

Julia Dean, David Ingramham, Stephen McLaren, Dana Barsoon, and Norman Schwartz.

1:01.4

It was an amazing weekend. I was really impressed by the diversity of the work that was being

1:07.0

produced by all of these photographers. If you missed it, I hope you get to it next year.

1:12.1

It's a must-go-to if you're in Los Angeles.

1:15.4

However, in the near future, I will hopefully be releasing an episode, which includes small

1:20.0

bits of these photographers' presentations in a future episode.

1:24.4

Kevin Weinstein is another one of the photographers that presented this past week and whose story and work really struck accord with me.

1:32.2

He has worked as a photojournalist, a documentary and street photographer, and as an event photographer for high-end and celebrity clientele.

1:41.0

We really hit it off and I was really looking forward to sitting down and talking with him

1:45.3

and as you'll hear, we had a lot to talk about. This is a little longer than usual, but I hope you

1:52.0

enjoy every minute as much as I did. Coffee's good.

2:02.7

Yes.

2:03.7

Good coffee.

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