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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 393 - Jim Harmer

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8768 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

A few years ago Jim Harmer was a law student in Florida, and a passionate photographer on the side. He started his blog, Improve Photography, while pretending to listen to his law school professors, and it changed his life. Before long, millions of photographers from around the world were visiting his blog and he became a full-time photographer. Although he did finish law school and passed the bar to be an attorney, he dedicated all his time to photography and his blog. Now, over a million photographers follow him on social media, he travels the world multiple times per year teaching completely free (yep, really) workshops for readers of Improve Photography, and he has been ranked in the top 20 photographers in the United States. Photography has been a dream come true for him, and he loves it. Resources: Jim Harmer Photography Improve Photography Dotan Saguy Venice Beach Project Dotan Saguy - TCF Ep. 355 4x5 Photo Fest Miami Street Photography Festival 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

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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

0:23.8

the candid frame.com. Thank you.

0:37.2

This is your next, and this is The Candid Frame.

0:41.9

We have two conversations to share with you today.

0:45.3

The first is with recent guest, Doten Sagai, a photographer who we interviewed back in episode 355.

0:52.5

He just launched a Kickstarter effort to fund a new book that he's publishing on his work in Venice Beach, California.

1:00.2

Take a listen.

1:05.8

Dothan, welcome again to The Candid Frame.

1:08.1

It's a pleasure to have a chance to speak with you about your project.

1:12.1

Why don't you tell us a little more about it?

1:13.8

Well, thank you so much, Baronex.

1:15.2

It's a pleasure to be here again with you.

1:18.2

This is a project that started out as a street photography project around L.A.

1:23.1

It really wasn't focused on Venice Beach originally.

1:26.3

But I realized little by little, each day I would shoot

1:29.7

in a different neighborhood of LA and Beverly Hills

1:33.5

and so on and Hollywood.

1:35.9

And I would realize, after looking at my portfolio

1:39.4

after the first year of doing that, I realized,

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