TCF Ep. 542 - Carissa Dorson

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 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Carissa Dorson is a fine art photographer and cinematographer originally from Silver Spring, Maryland. She graduated with a BFA from Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts in 2011 and then moved to Los Angeles. Carissa's first book of photos, “Conversations with Dad,” a visual conversation with her father, is being published by Kehrer Verlag. Her photography has also appeared on the front cover of “Like Brothers” by Mark and Jay Duplass, as well as in the photo book, “Home” by Don’t Smile. She has exhibited work at Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles Center of Photography and The Darkroom Gallery. Carissa is an established cinematographer whose work has garnered hundreds of millions of views online. She recently shot "Sketchy Times with Lilly Singh," a comedy special for NBC. Websites Carissa Dorson Conversations with Dad Kickstarter Jennifer McClure Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review Education Resources: Photo NOLA Ibarionex’s Workshop for Photo NOLA 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 by 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	This episode of The Candid Frame is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club.
0:13.0	The Charcoal Book Club is the monthly subscription service for photobook enthusiasts.
0:18.6	Working with the most respected names in contemporary photography,
0:22.1	Charcoal selects and delivers essential photo books to a worldwide community of collectors.
0:28.1	Each month, members receive a signed first edition monograph and an exclusive print to add to their collections.
0:35.9	Join the club by visiting Charcoalbookclub.com and use the promo code
0:41.1	the candid frame at checkout and receive a 10% discount on your first membership payment.
0:50.2	Over the life of this podcast, we have profiled many photographers who have created personal projects about the relationships between parents and their children.
1:01.1	Some have focused on the lives of their young children, with them as parent, all others have been adults and have turned their lens on their elderly parents.
1:10.5	All of these projects have resulted
1:12.2	in work that's insightful, thought-provoking, and oftentimes beautiful. Carissa Dorson's work is
1:19.1	even more intriguing because her project, Conversations with Dad, is a collaboration with her father.
1:26.5	With each of them living at different ends of the country,
1:29.9	their dialogue has become a series of photographs that have passed back and forth between them
1:35.0	over the last three years. Each one takes a look at the image sent by the other and basically
1:40.9	riffs on some theme or idea that they see in that image, and then they send their
1:45.9	response back. This back and forth has resulted in a dialogue that reveals more than even words
1:53.1	might ever say. This is Ibarian X, and welcome back to the candid frame.
2:04.1	Welcome to the show. It's good to have you. It's good to see you again.
2:07.1	Thanks so much for having me. Yeah, good to see you.
2:09.7	Yeah, I was getting familiar again with your work leading up to this conversation.
2:13.6	I remember the stuff that you showed at LICP, which I really liked, and I think we talked a little bit about that.
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