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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 606 - Richard Sandler

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8768 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Richard Sandler is a street photographer and documentary filmmaker. He has directed and shot eight non-fiction films, including "The Gods of Times Square," "Brave New York" and "Radioactive City." Sandler's still photographs are in the permanent collections of Brooklyn Museum, Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Museum of the City of New York, New York Historical Society, New York Public Library. He was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship for photography, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for Filmmaking, and a New York State Council on the Arts fellowship for Filmmaking. Resources Richard Sandler https://www.richardsandler.com/ Harvey Wang hw@harveywang.com The Gods of New York Documentary Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0-BaBALfDY Websites The Candid Frame Patreon Page The Candid Frame PayPal Contribution Link Signed Editions of "Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow. Sponsors Charcoal Book Club https://charcoalbookclub.com Frames Magazine FRAMES Magazine | Because Excellent Photography Belongs On Paper (readframes.com) Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops https://momentaworkshops.com/workshops/ Candid Frame Resources The Candid Frame Newsletter The Candid Frame Alexa Skill Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow The Candid Frame Flickr Pool The Candid Frame YouTube Channel Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download it for iOS. Click here to download it for Android Support the work at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting patreon.com/thecandidframe or the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via PayPal. You can follow Ibarionex on Instagram and Twitter.

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0:00.0

This episode of the Candid Frame supported by Fuji Films new integration with Frame I.O. Camera to Cloud. A new integration between Fujifilm and Frame I.O allows transferring images or video to the web directly from your Fujifilm camera using C2C technology.

0:31.9

Find out more by visiting Fujifilm-x.com and clicking camera to cloud.

0:43.0

A common query for those teaching photography is about the right and wrong way to do something.

0:50.6

You hear questions like what's the right camera, what's the right lens, color or black and white.

0:57.2

The questions assume that there is one clear definitive answer.

1:02.1

But for me, the answers are always preceded by the phrase, it depends.

1:08.0

It depends on what you hope to say and communicate with your photographs.

1:12.6

It's about knowing what's important to you.

1:15.6

When you have a sense of how you are doing a thing, the answer to these many questions come from inside of you,

1:23.6

rather than from some outside authority.

1:33.1

When I look at Richard Sandler's photography, even his earlier work, he seems to understand this. Yes, he learned from and was inspired by photographers like Gary Winnegrant,

1:40.0

but he didn't merely mimic other photographers. He made his photographs his own,

1:47.3

often making the edges of the composition as important

1:50.7

as what existed in the center of the frame.

1:54.2

His commitment to his vision and still photography and documentary filmmaking

1:58.5

results in work that is never cookie cutter and demonstrates the beauty and

2:04.0

importance of a personal voice. This is IbarianX and welcome back to the Candid Frame.

2:16.2

Richard, welcome to the show.

2:18.4

It's a pleasure to finally have you and have some time to catch up.

2:23.4

I'm very glad to be on your podcast here.

2:28.0

We haven't seen each other since Miami Street Photography Festival.

2:31.9

Yeah, yeah.

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