TCF Ep. 503 - Brent Lewis

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

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Brent Lewis is a Photo Editor based out of New York City, co-founder of and from the greatest city in the world Chicago. South Side to be exact. Brent is a photo editor at The New York Times working on the Business Desk, assigning visual coverage of technology, the economy, and auto industry. Brent was a Photo Editor at The Washington Post. Formerly, he was the Senior Photo Editor of , where he drove the visual language of the website that is based around the intersection of sports, race, and culture. Before joining the turning his life over to photo editing, he was a staff with stints at The Denver Post, The Rockford Register Star and the Chillicothe Gazette. Through the years his photos have been used by the Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, Associated Press, Forbes, and Yahoo! News. Once Brent decided to follow his passion and become a full-time photojournalist, he transferred to Columbia College Chicago, home of greats like John H. White and Dawoud Bey. At the Columbia Chronicle, the weekly student newspaper, he established himself as a go-to for all assignments whether they were sports, political events, spot news or just a feature to fill up a page. After graduating in 2012 and a short, uneventful stint freelancing, he realized that the life of a staffer was way more his speed. 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	Though I don't know this for a fact, I think that many journalists and photojournal
0:14.0	had a seminal experience in their lives that led them to that particular career path.
0:20.0	It's analogous to how some photographers felt when they
0:23.8	first saw an image appear like magic in a developing tray. Photojournalist Brent Lewis had such a
0:30.8	moment in college. It led him to change his studies from electrical engineering to photojournalism.
0:37.0	It wasn't so much the subject of that pivotal story that was so important, but the feelings
0:42.2	he had when he raced back to the newspaper, processed his images, and saw them laid out
0:48.2	on the front page for the next issue.
0:51.4	At the end of the day, it was like, cool, we're done, pages down, we got the A1
0:54.4	story out, we're good to go. And I remember walking out of their, like, which should be
0:59.7	completely tired, but I had like the shoulders of energy. And I was walking across the street,
1:05.3	heading back to my dorm and did that, if you ever seen a movie Pursuit a Happiness, like
1:09.5	right after Wilson, if he gets the job, he does like this butt of the head clap when he's walked up
1:12.9	up street. That was me. I did that. It was probably 2 a.m. in the Cal of Illinois,
1:17.8	and I am the only person outside on the street, and I am just clapping. And I was like,
1:21.6	that's it. This is what I want to do. be damned we'll talk to brent about the relationships that have played a role
1:29.6	in his career as a photojournalist of color and how it's all led him to his current position
1:34.9	as a photo editor for the new york times this is ibody an x and welcome back to the Candid Frame.
1:49.8	Well, thanks for making time for me, man.
1:50.7	Welcome to the show.
1:51.5	Thank you.
1:52.3	Thank you for having me.
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