TCF Ep. 530 - Brandon Thibodeaux

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

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Thibodeaux is a photographer and educator based in Houston, TX, who creates portraits in the documentary tradition. In addition to his assignment work and creative commissions, he explores life in the American South. He is a guest instructor with the Santa Fe Photographic and Maine Media Workshops, as well as both the Houston and Los Angeles Centers of Photography. His work has been recognized by American Photo Magazine, Photo District News, and the Oxford American lists him as one of their 100 Under 100, New Superstars of Southern Art. His long-term photographic project based in the Mississippi Delta first entitled, When Morning Comes, was awarded Center’s Gallerist Choice Award 2013, AI-AP American Photography 30, the Critical Mass Solo Show Award 2013, the 2014 Michael P. Smith Fund For Documentary Photography Grant and the 2016 Palm Springs Photo Festival Portfolio Review Award. This work, later published as a book by Red Hook Editions in 2017, under the new title, In That Land of Perfect Day, has been featured by numerous publications including American Photo Magazine, B+W Magazine, Garden &Gun, PDN, Port Magazine, Oxford American, The New York Times, Time.com and The Washington Post. Websites Brandon Thibodeaux Gareth Phillips Education Resources: Tokyo: Exploration of the Metropolis 2.0 Momenta Photographic Workshops 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	When it comes to photojournalism and documentary photography, there are moments when you are invited into someone's life.
0:16.1	The beginning of a special collaboration, when a person or community opens themselves and their lives to you.
0:23.8	It's both an honor and a huge responsibility.
0:28.0	To be handled right, it has to be more than just making nice-looking photographs and padding one's portfolio.
0:35.9	Brandon Tibido gets that, and you can see that in both his commissioned and personal projects,
0:41.6	especially his long-term project documenting the lives of a family in the Mississippi Delta.
0:47.7	Despite being an outsider, he and his camera have been welcomed and embraced in a very special way, resulting in images
0:55.6	that convey the dignity, pride, and faith of a people that we normally see superficially,
1:01.6	if at all.
1:03.0	He understands that he may be the author of these photographs, but these are not his stories
1:08.4	to tell.
1:09.6	It's theirs.
1:10.6	And he's just the means by which they can share it with us.
1:14.2	This is Ibadian X, and welcome back to The Candid Frame.
1:22.1	Have you been working through this time?
1:25.5	You know, at the beginning of COVID, I panicked.
1:29.6	I thought, this is the end of my career.
1:32.6	I don't know what's going to happen.
1:33.8	And I was busier than I had been since moving to Houston,
1:38.8	you know, relatively speaking within a two-month period.
1:42.2	And I'd say just within the past two months or so, it trailed off where it's dismos.
1:49.9	It hasn't been this slow for me since I started in 2004 freelancing.
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