TCF Ep. 438 - Kate T. Parker

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Kate Parker is a mother, wife, Ironman, and professional photographer who shoots both personal projects and commercial work for her clients. Her STRONG IS THE NEW PRETTY photo series led to collaborations with brands such as Disney, Athleta, Kellogg’s, and NBC. It has also inspired Kate to launch a philanthropic arm of SITNP, partnering with organizations such as Girls on the Run, Girl Up, The Arthur Blank Family Foundation, Disney, Glam4Good, and The Bully Project by investing in girls’ health and education. Strong is the New Pretty was also adapted for a book with Workman Publishing and became a national bestseller as well as selling overseas. Additional books will be published with Workman in 2018, 2019, and 2020. In 2017, her work was featured in Huffington Post, O Magazine, A Mighty Girl, Vogue, Redbook, NY Magazine, People, Good Morning America, Shape Magazine, Buzzfeed, Self Magazine, DailyWorth, CNN, Vanity Fair Italy, Today Show, PDN, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and ESPN W. Strong is the New Pretty was included in The Best Books of 2017 (Amazon), Books of the Year and Pick of the Day, 2017 (A Mighty Girl), Feminist Kids Books for Dismantling the Patriarchy (NY Mag), “Heather’s Picks” Chapters/Indigo (Canada), A list of her clients include Disney, REI, NBC, Girl Scouts of the USA, Athleta, American Express, Merck, Girls on the Run, AT&T, Kroger, IHG Group, Spanx, Nexcare, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Lululemon, Walgreens, GlaxoSmithKline, Biogen, Kelloggs’, Verizon, NFL, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Oxygen, Holiday Inn, Cigna, and Progressive Insurance. Resources: Photographer Recommendation Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	Help support The Candid Frame in bringing you awesome conversations with great photographers.
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0:27.1	This is EbodyNX and this is The Candid Frame.
0:32.8	You're familiar with that feeling you get when you make a really good photograph. I'm not talking
0:39.3	about a shot that is more luck than skill. I'm talking about when you make a photograph with
0:45.4	intent and purpose. You saw it and you knew what you wanted even before you depressed the
0:51.7	shutter release button. When you pull off that shot, you know you've accomplished something.
0:57.9	The sharing of that image, whether online or in a print, provide you another opportunity to share that moment.
1:04.7	You want to have someone else to experience what you felt when you made the photograph.
1:09.7	But it doesn't always turn out that way. And the
1:13.1	lack of enthusiasm and appreciation can be really disheartening. It hurts. That's what photographer
1:19.9	Kate T. Parker felt when an exhibition of her photographs of her daughters failed to garner
1:25.3	much appreciation or any sales. She knew that there was something
1:29.6	special about those images, but the reaction still stung. I got down on myself, but not for very long.
1:38.7	And then I just, honestly, I just got pissed. I was like, you know what? I still think that there's something
1:45.8	important about these images. I still think that there's a message here. And at that point,
1:49.9	it wasn't like this fully fleshed out about what we talked about earlier about, you know,
1:55.6	be yourself and pursue your passions. It wasn't there yet. It was more about these girls are being celebrated by
2:03.7	their mom's a photographer and they are not what you expect. There wasn't a lot of pictures that I saw
2:08.6	as a photographer of young girls being wild and being free and unapologetic and emotional. And so I took a
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