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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 588 - Arturo Soto

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

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

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Arturo Soto was born in 1981 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He has published the photobooks In the Heat (2018) and A Certain Logic of Expectations (2021). Soto holds a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Oxford, an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and an MA in Art History from University College London. He curated the exhibition Foreign Correspondence at the Architectural Association and took part in the first edition of Forecast Platform at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the books Primal Sight, Imaginaria, and the Subjective Atlas of Mexico. Soto's photobook reviews have been published in ASX, Elephant, and the VII Foundation. Websites Arturo Soto Thomas Locke Hobbs Moyra Davey Sponsors Charcoal Book Club Chris Suspect Day of the Dead Workshop Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download it 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 brought to you by the Charcoal Book Club.

0:13.4

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0:20.6

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0:24.3

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0:28.2

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0:29.5

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0:35.0

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0:40.1

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0:49.8

The legendary photographer Gary Winogrand once said,

0:53.7

I have a burning desire to see what things look like. The legendary photographer Gary Winnegrant once said,

0:59.3

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

1:05.9

He understood that making a photograph is a very personal thing.

1:16.6

Photographers make different choices, resulting in images that, at their best, express not only a style, but a point of view. Arturo Soto's photographs possess that quality.

1:20.6

It's obvious when he photographs the most ordinary, urban scenes.

1:25.6

They are scenes that many would dismiss, but that he transforms into something

1:31.3

special. Even though many of the images don't include people, the photographs are as much about

1:39.0

the presence of people and their impact on the environment as any traditional street photograph could be.

1:47.0

Every photographer chooses what they deem worthy of a photograph.

1:53.0

Arturo's work inspires me to reconsider my part of the world and its worthiness in being transformed into a great photograph.

2:03.6

This is Ebodyon X and welcome back to the Candid Frame.

2:09.6

Well, welcome to the Candid Frame.

2:15.6

Really good to have you. Your work has really been interesting for me. The way you see urban spaces is very unique, and I find it very fascinating because it's, I see reflected in your work a lot of what I have experienced myself and exploring different cities and towns all over the world.

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