TCF Ep. 519 - Julia Dean

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

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, writer, and executive director/founder of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. She began her career as an apprentice to pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott. Later, Julia was a photo editor for the Associated Press in New York. She has traveled to more than 45 countries while freelancing for numerous relief groups and magazines. Her extensive teaching experience includes over 36 years at various colleges, universities and educational institutions including the University of Nebraska, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Santa Monica College, the Santa Fe Workshops, the Maine Photographic Workshops, Oxford University and the Los Angeles Center of Photography. For the past 18 years, Julia has concentrated on street photography around the world. For the past eight years, street shooting in downtown Los Angeles has been her primary focus. Julia's work was selected for a book produced by Acuity Press and PDN magazine featuring 20 street shooters around the world, and published in two lengthy spreads in Digital Photo Pro magazine and B&W Magazine UK over the last couple of years. Photographer Links: Julia Dean Los Angeles Center of Photography Joel Sartore TCF #219 - Joel Sartore Education Resources: Using Your Life to Launch Your Photography Creating Personal Breakthroughs Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic 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 Become a Patron! 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 . You can download the latest episode by clicking here. To stream the current episode on your computer, click on the player below.

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0:00.0	In the past, when we've faced difficult times as we are currently experiencing,
0:13.8	it has been an opportunity for reinvention.
0:18.1	As difficult as it has and can be, such moments push people and institutions to
0:25.0	finally act on ideas and plans that have been long delayed. For photographers, whether professional
0:32.2	or enthusiast, these moments push us in new directions and create unexpected opportunities.
0:40.7	That's been the case with today's guest, Julia Dean, who is the founder of the Los Angeles Center of Photography.
0:47.4	After a career as a successful photojournalist, Julian began what was then called the Julia Dean School of Photography.
0:55.0	Over the last few decades, LACP has become a thriving photographic community
1:01.0	that offers classes and workshops, but most importantly,
1:05.0	it creates a community in which photographers of all stripes have grown and thrived.
1:14.7	Recent events have led Julia and her team to reinvent LACP,
1:19.8	including offering online courses as well as in-person events and workshops,
1:25.0	opening up LACP to an audience well outside the Los Angeles area.
1:32.0	As with any new effort, there are challenges, but as you'll hear, Julia's passion for photography and for people is why LACP has become such a success and why I believe it will continue to be
1:39.5	so in the future.
1:40.9	This is Ibadian X, and welcome back to the Candid Frame.
1:49.8	But how are you doing otherwise? I know it's a challenging time for you.
1:53.9	It is a challenging time for everybody, but we're hanging in there. We have quite a team between
1:58.9	our board of directors and all our friends and donors
2:02.2	and students and staff. We've had a lot of people who have really wanted to help us,
2:08.6	including you. Yeah. I mean, it's just amazing what you've built over these many years,
2:14.0	especially in Los Angeles. Los Angeles is really always lacked a sort of a central
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