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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 398 - Veronica G. Cardenas

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8768 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Veronica G. Cardenas is a documentary photographer based in the Rio Grande Valley. Migration issues are a recurring theme that she explores. Her work has been shown at the United Nations, Long Island City Arts in New York City, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley-UTRGV, Festival of International Books and Arts, FESTIBA, South Texas College, and Festival Internacional de Poesia Latinoamericana, FEIPOL among others. Publications where her work has been featured, including El Mundo, Juxtapoz, Splinter News, Feature Shoot, Neta, Konbini, Texas Observer, San Antonio Current, Austin Chronicle, Black & White Magazine, Society Magazine and Pulse Magazine. Resources: Veronica Cardenas Eric Kim 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.

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The Candid Frame is supported by donations by listeners just like you.

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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.

0:36.0

This episode of The Candid Frame is sponsored by Storyblocks.

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It's the first and only subscription-based stock media company that offers unlimited downloads of member library content for a modest annual fee of just $149 per year per site while providing its contributing artist 100% of the sales revenue

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for their photographs, video, or audio. To find out more, visit storyblocks.com forward slash

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candid. This episode is also brought to you by LinkedIn Learning, the online learning platform with thousands of expert-led video tutorials to help you build your creative, tech, and business skills.

1:19.2

For a free 30-day trial, visit LinkedIn.com forward slash candid to start achieving more today.

1:30.1

This is I'm about you next and this is the Candid Frame.

1:34.0

When I went to San Antonio, Texas last month, to attend 4x5 Photo Fest, I knew that I would meet

1:40.0

some great photographers with some interesting stories to tell.

1:46.5

What I wasn't expecting was to be as moved and inspired as I was. My first conversation was with Reg Campbell, whose episode we released

1:53.7

last week. If you missed it, make some time today to listen to that. You won't regret it. But today,

2:00.5

we share my conversation with

2:02.4

Veronica G. Cardenas, a photographer whose story is no less inspiring. Her passion for the

2:09.5

subject of migration has led her to create some stunning and jaw-dropping images of people

2:14.9

attempting to cross the border under the most dangerous of circumstances.

2:19.5

What's even more amazing is that she documented this not as a distant observer, but by taking

2:25.5

some of those same risks herself. And as you'll hear, this was taken on not as an assignment

2:32.2

for some magazine or newspaper, but rather as a personal

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