TCF Ep. 494 - Robert Hale

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

🗓️ 15 December 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Robert Hale's work both as a photographer and as a journalist has taken him on assignment throughout the world. His images are characterized by clarity and simplicity, with an extraordinary eye for light and shadow. His images are characterized by clarity and simplicity, with an extraordinary eye for light and shadow. Whether animate or inanimate, Robert feels his subjects have an inner essence, and, if handled with patience and sensitivity, this essence will reveal itself. His goal is to allow it to live in prints. Robert’s images, essentially portraiture, have been printed in such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, The LA Weekly, Black Enterprise, and a variety of national and international publications. Robert has been proud to volunteer his photographic services to the Los Angeles Children’s Museum, Aids Project Los Angeles, LA Shanti, Aids Service Center in Pasadena, California, as well as serving on the board of Directors for The Black Gallery Group, Los Angeles, California. 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	As I record this, I'm beginning my second full week in Tokyo, Japan, where I'm conducting my last
0:15.8	workshop of the year with my friend George Nebechi. I want to find the words to describe what I've been experiencing,
0:23.8	but any words I think would be premature.
0:27.8	All I can say is that something very special is happening for me here.
0:34.5	George, my students and I, are enjoying wonderful experiences and making thousands of photographs.
0:42.3	But what makes everything special is that we are experiencing this journey together.
0:49.3	Each of us is learning how to see and bear witness to our personal experiences using the camera.
0:58.6	And by sharing them through our images, we are learning about the uniqueness of each other in ways that words just couldn't.
1:07.4	I met Robert Hale about 25 years ago through our association with the Black Gallery,
1:14.6	a fine art gallery and collective of African American photographers here in Los Angeles.
1:20.6	And while I remember his tall, lean look and his ever-calmed, peaceful demeanor, I also remember a small metal container of prints he would always have with him.
1:33.8	It was those images that told me so much about who Robert was.
1:39.5	And it wasn't until recently that I finally had the chance to have a proper conversation with a man
1:46.2	whose work I have long admired. It's a conversation that was too long coming. This is I
1:54.1	Badi and X, and welcome back to the Candid Frame. All right, welcome, brother, the Candid Frame.
2:02.6	All right.
2:03.6	Welcome, brother.
2:08.3	The Candid Frame, it's been so long since I had a chance to see you.
2:09.2	Years.
2:09.8	Yeah.
2:12.5	And I've never had a proper sit down with you.
2:13.2	No, no.
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