TCF Ep. 469 - Sarah Marie Rooney & Sasha Dylan Bell

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

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Marie Rooney and Sasha Dylan Bell are photographers who collaborated on a conceptual photographic project titled “Fear of Dreaming”. This work explores the inner conflict, following a dreamer who has lost her way. The portraits which solicited the involvement of a trained dancer explored the process of being overwhelmed by fear and of moving through and out of it. Sarah Marie Rooney grew up in Connecticut and obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts, in Musical Theatre, from Syracuse University. After graduating she continued her vocal studies in the UK and New Zealand, before performing more than fifty solo vocal recitals and operas in the United States, Australia, the UK, and New Zealand. Sarah was also the Business Manager and Executive Theater Producer at BATS Theatre, Producer of Summer Shakespeare, and the Producer for Young and Hungry Theatre Company. In addition to performing and producing, she taught and directed classes for theater, voice, and stage at the Wellington Theatre for Performing Arts (NZ), Oregon Children’s Theatre and School (USA), and St. Mary’s in Sydney (AU). She also maintained a private singing studio for ten years. A photographer for animal welfare and rescue organizations, Sarah documents events for Best Friends Animal Society and Wags and Walks. When not photographing animals, she is capturing everyday life on the street or planning her next travel adventure. Sarah lives in Manhattan Beach, California with her furry, four-legged family (two rescue dogs and one rescue cat). Sasha Dylan Bell is an artist based in Los Angeles, with an interest in portrait photography and cinematic storytelling. In 2015 Sasha was Creative Arts Emmy-nominated for his editing work on Got Your 6, a documentary chronicling battle-worn soldiers and their struggle to find a new ’normal’ in returning home from Afghanistan. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is at work on the photography series, Wise, a gentle exploration of the lives of the elderly, along with directing & producing the documentary, The Regulars, a love letter to the unusual personalities of Hollywood Boulevard and editing on David Makes Man for Oscar-winning creator, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight). Photographer Links: Education Resources: Candid Frame Resources 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	I'm Ryan Kitsanas from Vancouver, Washington.
0:03.0	Welcome to the Candid Frame.
0:05.0	Nelson Mandela said, he learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
0:21.1	The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
0:27.9	It's a sentiment that is invaluable, not only when you're combating inequality and injustice.
0:33.3	It's also true when your personal dreams and aspirations come up against insecurity, self-down,
0:40.3	and fear.
0:42.2	It was this shared awareness of the role of fear in their creative lives that brought
0:46.9	together photographers Sarah Marie Rooney and Sasha Dylan Bell to collaborate on a series
0:53.1	of conceptual portraits they called Fear of Dreaming.
0:57.6	Though they each had achieved success in their respective creative careers, Sarah and musical
1:02.7	theater and Sasha in film, they each found themselves wrestling with fear as they strive
1:08.6	to express themselves through photography.
1:11.6	I just started a six-month job on something, and at the beginning I had a week-long
1:16.7	meltdown, just in the company I was keeping, and that's not unusual.
1:21.9	And that's the plus, is knowing that it's not unusual.
1:25.4	And even though I was sweating it, I was like, just get
1:27.9	through it. Just keep your head down. Just do what you do and trust that it'll, I've learned
1:33.8	that though. That's come over a long period of time. When you're in a new medium, though,
1:38.8	it's amplified for sure. And that was certainly part of the decision to do it. It was like,
1:43.3	all right, let's just do it.
1:44.5	Let's just do it. Like, you know, get in there and face this stuff.
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