TCF Ep. 470 - Sophie Mayanne

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

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sophie Mayanne is a 26-year-old fashion and portrait photographer, splitting her time between London and Cotswolds, UK. Her style is unmistakable, favoring raw, striking imagery that is hers and hers alone. Her work has been recognized by both the fashion and music industries and has been particularly favored by up and coming artists & publications who admire the honesty and genuineness in her images. Behind The Scars is a photography campaign that celebrates scars of all shapes and sizes, and the incredible stories behind them. The series is photographed by Sophie Mayanne and began in April 2017. Since then, Mayanne has captured over 300 scar portraits and stories – encouraging many men, women, and children all over the world to embrace the skin they are in. 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	Hi, this is Scott Allen from Honolulu, Hawaii. Welcome to the Candid Frame.
0:13.4	Standards of beauty and style have come to be defined and spread through photography,
0:18.7	resulting in fads and trends being embraced globally.
0:22.4	But many of these standards of beauty have proven more exclusionary than inclusive.
0:28.0	Some of the very things that make us uniquely human have been labeled as ugly and undesirable.
0:34.7	Sophie Mayan's photography runs counter to that pursuit of idealized perfection.
0:39.6	Her photographs are beautiful, not because she renders her subjects as perfect.
0:44.9	Instead, she celebrates blemishes and flaws by allowing them to just be.
0:51.7	In her series, Behind the Scars, she creates portraits of people whose scars
0:57.1	have come from surgeries, accidents, illnesses, and even self-harm. Rather than hiding these marks,
1:05.1	her subjects reveal their scars and themselves to Sophie and her camera. What I was seeing kind of time and time again is that it was just the scar.
1:15.8	A lot of the time the person's face wasn't shown in the photo or they were turned away from
1:21.0	the camera.
1:22.3	So it was like even the images were kind of reinforcing this idea that the person should be hidden or shouldn't be
1:29.3	proud of them. So from the beginning of the project as well, I was very much, if I'm going to do
1:34.3	these photos, they have to be of the person as well. Sophie's approach to photographing the human
1:40.6	body has changed her style of fashion and beauty photography.
1:46.0	She's turned away from an over-reliance on photo manipulation and retouching, and embraced an
1:52.0	approach that remains true to who she wants to be as a photographer and as a person.
1:57.0	Most of the people I've worked with are very aware of the way I work. There's been points
2:02.2	where I probably have lost jobs because of it. But then I've also gained work at the same time
2:07.0	because people appreciate the way I work and they want to kind of honour that as well or bring
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