TCF Ep. 515 - Colin Finlay

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Colin Finlay is one of the foremost documentary photographers and filmmakers in the world. For almost twenty-five years, Finlay has chronicled the human condition with compassion, empathy, and dignity. He has covered war and conflict, disappearing traditions, the environment in both its glory and its devastation, genocide, famine, religious pilgrimage, and global cultures. In pursuit of his passion, he has circled the globe twenty-seven times, in search of that one photo that will be a testament to the depth of human will and compassion, of hope and of an informed collective consciousness. In addition to book and photography projects, Finlay is an accomplished musician, with his compositions accompanying his latest photography exhibition, Of Consequence. Finlay has participated in a number of TEDx events nationally and is invited to speak regularly at a variety of prestigious events and institutions, such as the Annenberg, LACMA, ADOBE, Goldman Environmental Awards, and the Ford Foundation. Finlay is passionate about humanitarian efforts and even co-founded the non-profit organization Proof: Media for Social Justice to help address issues faced by populations in post-conflict societies, and to encourage social change through photography. Photographer Links: Colin Finlay Colin Finlay on Instagram Brian Eno Friedensreich Hundertwasser Photo Contest Your World Right Now: Light, Shapes and Moments Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow 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	If recent events have proven anything, it is how reliant we are on each other. I speak not only of the
0:16.5	connectedness between peoples, but also of nature and the planet. As big as this world may seem,
0:24.5	it's felt a lot smaller and more fragile than many might have imagined. There are many
0:30.3	photographers who have made it their life's work to remind us of that fragility, often turning
0:36.9	their lenses to the darker aspects of our humanity,
0:40.3	as well as the price of our actions and our inactions. It's their photographs that have helped
0:46.7	to create awareness and effect change. The best of them serve to remind us that we each have a role
0:53.4	to play during our borrowed time on this planet.
0:57.6	Colin Findling has spent his life exploring that reliant connectedness as a photographer and a musician.
1:04.9	His environmental work in Antarctica and West Virginia and conflict in Sudan and Cambodia
1:10.4	have been informed by a compassionate heart.
1:14.1	He and his work challenges us to take actions that are as good and as exceptional as we believe
1:21.3	ourselves to be. This is Ibarian, and welcome back to The Candid Frame.
1:32.3	Well, I'm excited to sit down and talk with you.
1:35.1	Yeah, man, I'm disappointed. You can't see me. I'm all dressed in my finest and freshly shaved out of respect for you.
1:41.1	Yeah, and looking at your work and seeing some of the presentations you've done and just getting a
1:46.2	really good understanding of what your career has looked like. I was really inspired, not just by the
1:54.2	work, which I think is exceptional, but I thought that you were one of the few photographers who focuses
2:00.0	on the things that you do in terms of the environment,
2:03.0	cultural, impact of social economic issues around the world.
2:07.0	And one of the things that you really adept at is providing a sense of connectedness between all these,
2:13.0	what normally would be disparate things in the minds of many of us Westerners, you know, because we tend to
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