TCF Ep. 581 - R.J. Kern

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

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

J. Kern (b. 1978) is an American artist whose work investigates ideas of home, ancestry, and a sense of place. His portraits focus on intimate, interdependent relationships of people, animals, and landscapes as a means of exploring how ancestry shapes identity and how myth intertwines with personal history. His camera has led him from an inquiry into his lineage in the farming communities of Scandinavia and Ireland to the examination of similar communities near his home in Minnesota. Increasingly, his attention has been captured by the next generation of young people, who may or may not be the stewards of rural communities and economies in the future. His latest book is titled The UnChosen Ones. Websites R.J. Kern Greg Heisler 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 .

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode of The Candid Frame is sponsored but the Charcoal Book Club.
0:13.4	Working with the most respected names in contemporary photography, charcoal selects and delivers
0:19.2	essential photo books to a worldwide community of collectors.
0:24.1	Each month, members receive a signed first edition monograph and an exclusive print to add to their collections.
0:32.0	Join the club by visiting charcoal book club.com and use the promo code the candid frame at checkout and receive a 10%
0:40.8	discount on your first membership payment. Humans have a necessary and unique relationship with
0:48.9	animals. City living can lead us to focus on domesticated animals as pets, but our relationship with
0:56.0	animals is much more complex than that. We rely on them for our food, clothing, and so much more.
1:03.4	In the U.S., organizations such as the 4-H club focus on the personal relationships between people
1:10.8	and their animals, especially
1:12.8	livestock. The resulting competitions fascinated photographer R.J. Kern, who created a project
1:19.7	titled The Unchosen Ones. There, he focused his lands not on the winners of these competitions,
1:26.2	but the young men and women who had not
1:28.5	earned the top prize. The portraits and the accompanying stories provide a rare glimpse in today's
1:35.6	rural life in today's America. This is Ibarian X, and welcome back to the Candid Frame.
1:47.0	Well, thanks for making time for me on a Monday.
1:50.0	My pleasure. I'm glad to be here.
1:52.5	Yeah. I've been looking forward to the conversation.
1:54.9	I really have enjoyed the book.
1:56.8	I get a lot of books and a lot of proposals for people to talk to.
2:03.2	Got a limited number of spots and a lot of books and a lot of proposals for people to talk to, got a limited number of spots, and a lot of them, good percentage tend to be portrait books.
2:08.2	So usually I'm kind of looking for something that sort of goes beyond just the subject matter.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ibarionex R. Perello, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ibarionex R. Perello and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.