TCF Ep. 522 - B. Proud

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

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Barbara Proud is a commercial photographer and for the past 20 years, the president of B. Proud Photography, Inc, She has developed a list of clients including the LPGA, the Human Rights Campaign, the Girl Scouts, the American Red Cross, Meals on Wheels, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKlein, and many more. As a fine art photographer, she has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions. In 2006, she was one of the two artists featured by the Equality Forum, the largest national and international LGBT civil rights summit and a weeklong celebration of the LGBT community. All of these experiences she shares with her students at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, where she is an adjunct professor. Her recent social documentary has included” First Comes Love”, a project that began as a response to the passing of Proposition 8 and other discriminatory measures during the 2008 presidential election. The new phase of the project, "Transcending Love" is focused on couples in the transgender and gender non-conforming community. Photographer Links: B. Proud Photography First Comes Love Project Transcending Love Instagram First Comes Love https://www.instagram.com/firstcomesloveproject/ Zanele Muholi 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	We are living in a time when tensions and anxiety are high.
0:12.8	With the challenges associated with COVID, race, and economic insecurity, it's been too easy for people to devolve into their baser instincts of anger,
0:23.6	prejudice, and indifference.
0:26.6	Despite the abundance of negativity, I find encouragement by seeing expressions of love, compassion, and respect.
0:34.6	As much as we can focus on our differences, it's our desire to love and to be loved
0:41.3	that reveals our commonality. This has been the focus of photographer Be Proud, who after years
0:48.3	as a successful commercial photographer began a personal project that focused on long-term relationships between gay and lesbian
0:56.7	couples titled First Comes Love. She has followed up that project with transcending love, which focuses
1:04.5	on members of the transgender community. These projects were born from a desire to use her talents and experience to make a
1:13.5	difference. It demonstrates the power available to all of us who wield a camera. This is Ibarianx,
1:21.6	and welcome back to the Candid Frame. All right, well, welcome to the candid frame.
1:30.9	All right, well, welcome to the show.
1:32.7	It was a real pleasure to have you.
1:34.0	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:35.7	I got to start off with your name.
1:36.9	It's just awesome.
1:37.6	Right?
1:38.6	I got so lucky.
1:40.6	People ask me all the time.
1:42.6	Like, or they say, oh, that's so clever.
1:44.8	And I'm like, well, no, not really.
1:48.5	It's the name I was born with. But, you know, when you're a lesbian photographer, I mean, you can't do anything but go by
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