TCF Ep. 387 - Catherine Just

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Catherine Just is an award winning photographer, artist and mentor living in Los Angeles, California with her son, Max. She travels the globe capturing the Breath, Heartbeat and Pulse of the planet with her 4x5 camera, Polaroid, Pinhole and other alternative film cameras. Her career began in 1987 studying photography, film and video at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Catherine's work has been published on the cover of National Geographic Magazine, inside Oprah.com and PDN.com as well as galleries internationally including her most recent collaborative show in Paris, France. Catherine believes that photography can be used to gather up evidence of what's living in-between the words and to document the unseen but deeply felt spaces and places within the internal and external landscape. In 2016-2017 her personal projects, workshops and photo sessions took her to Paris, Cannes and Antibes, France, Marrakech, Morocco, Rome and Montecastello, Italy, Vancouver, B.C, Canada, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido and Teotihuacan, Mexico, NYC, Boston, Seattle, Sedona and San Diego, USA with plans to head to Barcelona and Mallorca, Spain, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Albequerque and other US and International destinations. She teaches workshops and courses both online and in person as well as creating images for highly visible creatives for their new albums, websites, books and creative projects. Her most prized creation is her son Max Harrison who happens to have Down syndrome and teaches her the most valuable tool to creativity is love. They are working on a collaborative photography project, film and book that will be shown around the world as a way to educate and advocate that Max, and people like him are valuable and unique individuals and not just a diagnosis. Catherine is currently putting together Pop-Up Art show events in Los Angeles, Barcelona and Paris. Her fine art is sold online in limited editions. Resources: Catherine Just Francesca Woodman 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.
0:30.7	This is your buddy annex and this is The Candid Frame.
0:40.6	Richard Avedon once said that his portraits are more about him than the people he photographs.
0:47.9	I love that quote because it reminds me of how important it is to put a bit of myself into each photograph.
0:56.9	It's one of the reasons why I describe the process of photography as more making pictures
1:02.9	rather than taking pictures.
1:06.4	Catherine Just is a photographer who is the person both behind and in front of the camera
1:12.8	whenever she's creating these beautiful and haunting self-portraits. Using medium format cameras,
1:20.4	film, and long exposures, she creates images that are more about feeling something
1:25.5	than just looking at something.
1:29.8	Her experiences with addiction and recovery have not only inspired her work,
1:35.1	but have also provided her the voice that so alluded her as a young girl.
1:45.4	Well, welcome to the Gander Frame. It's really a pleasure girl. Well, welcome to the Candid Frame.
1:47.5	It's really a pleasure, Catherine, to have you on the show.
1:50.3	Thank you for having me.
1:51.9	I really love your work.
1:54.5	And one of the things that I find remarkable about it is your ability to turn the camera on yourself.
2:02.9	I have such an aversion to that, which is why I do audio.
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