TCF Ep. 580 - Natasha Egan

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Since 2011, Natasha Egan has served as the executive director of the MoCP, where she was previously the associate director and curator since 2000. She has organized over sixty exhibitions at the museum and worldwide, focusing on contemporary Asian art and artists concerned with societal issues such as the environment, war, and economics. For over a decade, she taught in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago, including a course she co-taught in Shanghai focusing on the arts and culture of China. Natasha holds a BA in Asian Studies from the University of Puget Sound, an MA in Museum Studies, and an MFA in Fine Art Photography from Columbia College Chicago. Websites Museum of Contemporary Photography Martine Guitierrez Sponsors Charcoal Book Club Curious Society 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 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.
0:14.4	Working with the most respected names in contemporary photography, charcoal selects and delivers essential photo books to a worldwide community
0:23.9	of collectors. Each month, members receive a signed first edition monograph and an exclusive
0:30.8	print to add to their collections. Join the club by visiting charcoal bookclub.com and use the promo code, The Candid Frame at checkout, and receive a 10% discount on your first membership payment.
0:50.7	My current position provides me a unique perspective.
0:55.6	I experience firsthand what it takes to curate and put on a museum exhibition.
1:02.4	Many resources, including people, time, and money are needed for an idea to turn into an open show.
1:15.3	The care and dedication involved are not to be undervalued or underestimated. Natasha Egan, the executive director at the Museum of Contemporary Photography
1:21.6	in Chicago, knows that very well. Over the past two decades, she has not only curated numerous exhibitions,
1:30.3	but she has played an important role in establishing the museum as an important force in photography
1:37.1	in the heart of the country. This conversation was enlightening and left me so excited to return to museums and galleries in the very
1:47.0	near future to enjoy the work of the past and the present. This is Eibati and X, and welcome back to
1:55.0	the Candid Frame. How are you? I'm good. I'm very good. Yeah.
2:03.6	Well, it's a pleasure to talk to you. I'm glad that your people reached out to me.
2:07.6	As I learned more about, you know, the institution there and thought, oh, this would be a really good conversation.
2:13.6	So I've been looking forward to it.
2:16.6	So let's start with you before we start about the work
2:21.4	that you do there. When did you fall in love with photography? What was that triggering moment for you?
2:28.7	You know, I have always loved photography. My father loved photography, so I grew up around it.
2:36.7	He had a dark room in the bathroom, and so I always grew up around photography.
2:42.7	But I didn't know I was going to have like a career or my path was really in photography until after college.
2:51.4	I had taken some photo classes, like in high school and college, but nothing too serious.
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