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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 382 - Laura Pannack

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8768 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Laura Pannack's art focuses on social documentary and portraiture, and seeks to explore the complex relationship between subject and photographer. She is driven by research led, self-initiated projects that push her both as an artist and as an individual. She needs to question what she doesn't understands and gain access to worlds closed off to her. She is drawn to adventure, and wants to roam and play with the limitations and dynamics of photography as an art and as an act. She largely shoots on analogue film allowing the process to be organic rather than being predefined by fixed ideas, thus removing additional pressure on the sitter. She tries to understand the lives of those she captures, and to present them creatively. She's a firm believer that time, trust and understanding is the key to portraying subjects truthfully, as such, many of her projects develop over several years. This particular approach allows a genuine connection to exist between sitter and photographer, which in turn elucidates the intimacy of these very human exchanges. Her images aim to suggest the shared ideas and experiences that are entwined in each frame that she shoots. Her work aims to tell and inspire stories and she wants to connect and emotionally engage with viewers. Resources: Laura Pannack Nan Goldin 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.

0:30.9

This is E. Buddy and X and this is The Candid Frame.

0:40.7

People enjoy putting labels on things.

0:44.2

It seems to make things simpler.

0:46.7

This is especially the case when you say that you are a photographer.

0:50.9

You're a wedding photographer, or a portrait portrait photographer or a landscape photographer.

0:55.0

If you try to explain it's really about practicing a way of seeing the world, you get this glazed look in their eyes.

1:02.0

Because even with photographers who are known for a particular genre or a body of work, they are often practicing a way of seeing that's applicable for any genre

1:13.6

of photography.

1:14.6

That's the case with photographer Laura Panic, who applies the sensibility of a street photographer

1:21.6

to her work as a portrait photographer.

1:24.6

Laura's work is beautiful, not only for how she works with available light and her

1:30.2

subjects, but because she's open to the unexpected surprises that the world has to offer.

1:40.8

All right, well, Laura, welcome to the Candid Frame. It's a real pleasure to have you join us.

1:45.3

Thank you for having me.

1:46.7

Lovely work. I mean, I can't say enough about how much I love your portraits.

1:52.4

As simple as they are in terms of their overall composition, I'm always struck by how

1:58.3

drawn into those images. And one of the things that you've talked

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