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🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | One of the promises of the United States is the opportunity for recreation. |
0:13.0 | Regardless of where or what you come from, this country offers the possibility of creating a new and different life for oneself and |
0:22.7 | one's family. If nothing else, it offers a sense of hope for something better. That is what's brought |
0:29.7 | countless people to these shores, not least of which were my parents who immigrated from the |
0:35.1 | Caribbean in the late 50s. |
0:42.6 | But that opportunity for transformation is markedly different for those original immigrants and their first generation children, whose lives are more rooted in the American experience. |
0:48.7 | For these children, it can be difficult to straddle expectations that reflect both the unlimited possibilities of a new |
0:56.4 | generation and the lack of possibilities by the generation before. |
1:01.7 | Michael Santiago faced just such an issue after emigrating with his parents from the Dominican |
1:07.0 | Republic. His desire to be a photographer was tempered by the more realistic, |
1:11.9 | cultural and familial expectations for consistency and reliability. But after a decades-long delay, |
1:18.4 | he returned to the camera and made a name for himself as a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, |
1:24.4 | currently working as a staff photographer for getting images. His story is an |
1:29.2 | immigrant story, as much as it is the story of a photographer, but it's also the story of anyone |
1:35.8 | who seeks to define themselves on their own terms. This is Ibarian X, and welcome back to the |
1:43.1 | Candid Frame. |
1:49.7 | Thanks for doing this. |
1:50.9 | Of course, no problem. |
1:52.5 | I'm a beach fan of your show. |
1:57.7 | I mean, this is like, it's the conversations that I had on here are pretty dope. |
2:00.3 | So I'm glad to, an honor to be, to be part of this. |
2:02.0 | Well, your name has come up several times over the last couple of years so I've always had you on the had you on the list so I said |
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