It's June 5th, 2011, and this is the Candid Frame. Welcome to the show.

One of the reasons I created a candid frame Flickr group was to have the opportunity to see the kind of work being produced by listeners like you.

Because of the nature of the show, I knew that fans of the show were obviously passionate about photography,

and I wanted to create an opportunity for you and I to be able to discover those images.

One of these people is Noah Stevens, a Detroit photographer whose portraits of the people of Detroit really caught my attention.

I didn't know what to expect when I asked him to come on the show, but the story that he had to tell about these images and how they helped change his life couldn't have been more perfect for this show.

I think you'll find this conversation both fascinating and inspiring.

So sit back and enjoy our conversation with Noah Stevens.

Well, Noah, welcome to the Candid Frame. I found your work as a result of the Candid Frame flicker pool, and I was looking through

images there, and I saw some of the portraits and images that you had put up there.

And when I found that blog entry for

the people of Detroit, I really loved what you were doing there with the photographs, not only

with the photographs, but the whole project. Tell us about how that started for you.

Oh, man, I appreciate that, man. I'm glad that the images called your eye and the flicker pool.

About, well, this was in around April 2010, so last year, I don't know if you remember it,

but Dateline NBC came out with a program about Detroit called Detroit

City of Hope and Sadness or something.

But in that program, they featured a man who was selling raccoon meat.

And the unstated premise was, or the unstated implication was that somehow that was

a staple food source for people in Detroit.

And I just found that absurd.

I found it characteristic of the type of coverage

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