The Candid Frame #114 - Rick Nahmias

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2011

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Rick Nahmias is a photographer, writer and visual storyteller whose work has been shown across North America, Europe, and Asia. He creates social-issue themed media projects for foundations, non-profits, corporations and cause-driven organizations. He also shoots freelance assignments with an emphasis on editorial, travel, medical and food subjects. He is best known for documenting the lives and struggles of numerous marginalized communities. "Golden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited," his traveling photographic, text and audio exhibit which documents eleven marginalized communities at prayer was recently published by University of New Mexico Press. His acclaimed body of work exploring California's agricultural workforce "The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers" was published in 2008. Its companion exhibition has toured to over three dozen museums, universities, and cultural centers across the country.

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0:00.0	It's May 22nd, 2011, and this is the Candid Frame. Welcome to the show.
0:27.7	One of the things I've been talking about with you and other photographers is making the
0:32.6	choice to photograph things that you are passionate about.
0:36.0	It's an important decision because those strong feelings not only get you out there to shoot,
0:41.4	but also keep the momentum going when the rest of life's challenges seem to be getting the best of us.
0:47.5	Today's guest, Rick Namias, is a photographer who has been making just such a choice
0:52.4	and has been using his camera
0:54.4	to explore stories about agriculture and immigration.
0:58.1	Having a passion besides photography itself
1:00.4	can often lead to a body of work
1:02.8	that challenges both the photographer and the viewer.
1:07.3	So sit back and enjoy our conversation with Rick Namias.
1:20.3	Rick, welcome to the show.
1:22.0	I'm so thankful that you contacted me and gave me an opportunity to take a look at your work,
1:28.3	particularly in these two books that you ended up sending me. It's beautiful work. And you identify yourself
1:35.5	primarily as a documentary photographer. For people who don't know exactly what that is,
1:40.4	how do you define being a documentary photographer um well first of all thanks for
1:46.3	having me it's really um you know nice to to have somebody who's who's looking at the frame in
1:52.6	so many different ways kind of uh i don't know enjoy this work and and want to give it a you know
1:57.9	give it a look on on this podcast or listen to at least i i see documentary work as
2:05.1	often long-term projects that take a fair amount of research that need to gestate that have many
2:11.8	moving parts as opposed to photojournalism which is often something that has got to be captured in a very finite
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