TCF Ep. 552 - Chinelle Rojas

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 February 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Chinelle Rojas has been a self portrait photographer, among other niche specialties like birth and boudoir, since 2010, and logo designer who loves to challenge her creativity with her personal work with her passion project “My Black Self” when she isn’t helping her fellow entrepreneurs make a magical first impression. Chinelle has dreams of being a world traveler alongside her family. Speaking of family, she is a wife and homeschooling (before COVID) mother of three creative souls. Websites Chinelle Rojas Toni Black Melanated Film Presets Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today Education Resources: 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	This episode of The Candid Frame is sponsored by Charcoal Book Club.
0:12.3	The Charcoal Book Club is the monthly subscription service for photo book enthusiasts.
0:18.2	Working with the most respected names and contemporary photography,
0:21.8	charcoal selects and delivers essential photo books to a worldwide community of collectors.
0:27.6	Each month, members receive a signed first edition monograph and an exclusive print to add to
0:33.2	their collections. Join the club by visiting charcoal bookclub.com and use the promo code
0:39.6	the candid frame at checkout and receive a 10% discount on your first membership payment.
0:49.9	Over the past year, I've been teaching online workshops that focus on people using their own
0:56.3	lives, their own experiences, to create a body of work. Though turning a lens on yourself and
1:03.1	your life invites anxiety and insecurity, I've witnessed amazing photographs being created.
1:10.0	There is a raw genuineness that the best of this work
1:13.5	possesses, despite the fact that it may not follow all the traditional rules of photography.
1:19.4	The choice to reveal the deepest and truest part of yourself in photos is powerful and
1:25.1	liberating. This is what I like about the work of Chanel Rojas, whose self-portraits allow her to constantly examine the many facets of what make her a human being.
1:36.3	Beyond the confines of titles such as woman, black, wife, or mother, her work comes from a personal and intimate place, resulting in photographs that are both
1:48.0	beautiful and honest. This is Ibadian X, and welcome back to the Candid for him.
2:00.0	Well, thank you for making time for me.
2:02.0	My pleasure.
2:02.9	My pleasure.
2:03.5	I have my daughter in the room, so hopefully she doesn't try to ask me any questions during this.
2:09.1	Well, that's okay.
2:10.3	I've had more distractions on the show than a small child, so I think we can deal with it.
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