It's October 16th, 2011, and this is The Candid Frame. The pursuit of a photographic life is often about the lives we imagine we could live,

and the photographs that we can make.

It's also about the places we could go and the people we might meet, and for a few

photographers, it's about the lives that they might change. Ryan Libre is one such photographer,

who through his photographic work in Southeast Asia, is hoping to educate and inform as well

as reveal the beauty of a place and its people.

And remarkably, he is offering an opportunity for another photographer to live out just such a life for himself or herself as you will soon hear.

If you've been waiting for an excuse to do something challenging and remarkable, this just might be the opportunity you've been waiting for.

So sit back and enjoy our conversation with Ryan Niebuhr.

Well, Ryan, welcome to The Candid Frame.

Every once in a while I get to do some very long-distance interviews, and this is one of them.

So it's always exciting to add a sort of a nice international flavor to the show.

So welcome.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Your work primarily has focused in Southeast Asia. And I want to ask you, when did an interest in that part of the world start happening

for you?

And did it happen before, after you developed an interest for photography?

Oh, well, I guess I've been basically living here for about 10 years now.

And my photography, you can say it started before in university.

I was doing photography quite seriously, did a few exhibitions and university and things.

But yeah, it was really here that I kind of took off, you know, and brought it to the next level and, you know,

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