TCF Ep. 497 - Stephen Dimmick

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

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Australian born Stephen Dimmick has been a make-up artist for over 20 years. His background includes high fashion editorial and advertising work including clients like Vogue Italia, Time Magazine, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom. Dimmick worked underneath the incredible Pat McGrath for many years working on editorials for Vogue U.S and Vogue Italia, as well as, runway shows including Dior and Valentino couture. He has worked with celebrity clients such as Cate Blanchett, Nina Dobrev, Marcia Gay Harden, Teri Hatcher, Anna Kendrick, Vanessa Hudgens, and Toni Collette. As of 2018, Dimmick is a beauty instructor for Make-up Designory. 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	Happy New Year and welcome back to the 14th season of the Candid Frame.
0:15.0	It's amazing that I've been doing this for almost 14 years, but I'm so glad that I am,
0:20.6	because despite all the hundreds of photographers
0:23.3	I've already interviewed, there are so many more that I'm looking forward to speaking to and
0:27.7	sharing with you. But for the first episode of 2020, I thought I'd do something a little different.
0:34.6	So instead of a photographer, I invited my friend Stephen Dimick, who is an
0:39.5	exceptionally talented makeup artist, who's worked with some of the world's top designers and fashion
0:44.9	photographers, and whose work has graced the cover of Time Magazine and Italian Vogue. At first,
0:51.1	I thought it would provide a good alternative perspective from the fashion photographers we've interviewed in the past.
0:57.9	But what I got was also an amazing story of raising oneself up from nothing, crashing back down, and then slowly building oneself up again.
1:09.1	It's a great story that involves talent, passion, determination, ego,
1:14.9	and proves that we all have second chances. The first job was a friend of mine, Marla, who I'd met,
1:21.9	she worked at the Mac Pro Store. That's Mac Cosmetics. That's not Mac the computer.
1:26.5	We had a similar aesthetic. I assisted
1:29.0	one of her makeup idols who had died. He did a lot of David Bowie stuff in the 70s and a lot of
1:34.5	iconic images. And I got to assist him when he moved back to Australia. And so her and I connected
1:40.1	on that. So 10 years later, she disappeared from Mac and I don't know where she ended.
1:44.7	I didn't know where she was. And I got a phone call out of the blue and she said,
1:47.7	would you like to come and do looks for Dior Couture in Paris? And I'm like, yeah, I do. That was
1:58.3	with Pat McGrath, the most iconic makeup artist
2:00.9	to date. She said,
2:03.0	great, there's a ticket at the airport. I'll see you
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