meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 365 - Scott Strazzante

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 β€’ 768 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Scott Strazzante (born March 11, 1964) is a U.S. photojournalist at the San Francisco Chronicle. As a member of the Chicago Tribune staff, co-won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series about faulty government regulation of dangerously defective toys, cribs and car seats. He grew up in Chicago and graduated from Ripon College, where he majored in Business management and art (1982–86). He was awarded National Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2000 and National Newspaper Photographer of the Year runner-up in 2007. He is an eleven-time Illinois Photographer of the Year. He has been published in National Geographic Magazine, Mother Jones Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and other publications. He is a former Illinois Press Photographer Association President (2001–2010) and National Press Photographers Association Region 5 Director and Associate Director (1999–2005). Strazzante's Common Ground project has been published in National Geographic and made into a video by MediaStorm. Strazzante is a prolific street photographer using his iPhone with Hipstamatic app. Resources: Scott Strazzante's Common Ground Matt Stuart Los Angeles Center of Photography 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.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.

0:25.6

Thank you.

0:30.9

This is your body in X and this is the candid frame.

0:39.8

As much as technology has changed the way we make photographs, it's also changed how we

0:45.8

experience them.

0:47.6

Today, we rarely linger and take in a photograph.

0:51.7

We flip through them in seconds with a swipe of a finger.

0:55.6

In the age of the ever-shortening attention span,

0:59.3

a photograph only has seconds to hold our attention.

1:03.7

But when it comes to the documentary tradition of photography,

1:07.4

the intention is to make you stop,

1:10.3

put aside all other distractions, and to pay attention.

1:13.6

Pay attention to not just individual photographs, but to a series of images that tell a story.

1:21.6

For years, Scott Strzanty has done this in his role as a photojournalist,

1:26.6

but you can see it especially

1:28.6

well in his project Common Ground. Over his span of several years, he photographs how a piece

1:35.5

of land transitions from one family of farmers to home for a growing suburban family who

1:41.9

purchased a home on that redeveloped land.

1:45.3

It's a story that reveals not only the changes in the family farm and modern land use,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ibarionex R. Perello, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ibarionex R. Perello and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright Β© Tapesearch 2026.