TCF Ep. 489 - Corey Rich

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

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Corey Rich is one of the world’s most recognized adventure sports and outdoor lifestyle visual storytellers. Over the last two decades, this photographer, director, and DP has combined his creativity, athleticism and burning desire for exploration to capture some of the wildest places on earth. In doing so, Rich not only secured a place at the center of contemporary adventure storytelling, but he can be named as one of the pioneers of this authentic style of immersion-based photographic and motion work. Rich has documented some of the world’s greatest athletes in extreme locations spanning the globe, from alpine climbing in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains to ultramarathon racing in the Sahara Desert of Morocco, freight-train hopping in the American West, underwater cave exploration in the Yucatan and snowboarding in Papua New Guinea. Rich who is also a Nikon Ambassador has directed and shot still and motion campaigns for some of the most innovative companies of our time and his work have been featured in a host of top editorial publications around the world. 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	Eleanor Roosevelt once said,
0:10.6	The purpose of life, after all, is to live it,
0:14.3	to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
0:24.2	Photographer Corey Rich has lived that sentiment in his career as an adventure photographer.
0:31.1	For decades, he not only photographed some of the world's most intense and dangerous sports activities,
0:37.9	he has made them a way of life.
0:40.8	The results are not just amazing photographs,
0:44.5	but life experiences that can be found in his new book,
0:48.5	stories behind the images,
0:50.7	lessons from a life in adventure photography.
0:54.4	Now, some people would define him as a photographer and as a director, but they would be
1:01.5	making a mistake, thinking of those roles as just his job.
1:06.4	I'm not sure I feel like I've ever worked a day in my life because I'm doing exactly what I love.
1:12.7	I mean, I'm doing, I have, that's that, you know, that's an exaggeration.
1:16.3	There have been some days where I thought, I am working right now.
1:19.7	This sucks.
1:20.6	I don't want to be here.
1:21.7	This is hard.
1:22.7	I'm tired.
1:23.7	I'm not stimulated.
1:25.7	This is not what I want to be doing, but I'm working. But I'll say that there are
1:28.9	very few days that feel that way. And I think there's a parallel to the folks in this book. And I think
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