This is the Body and X, and welcome to another episode of the Candid Frame.

Now, one of the things that I teach in my classes and my workshops is the art and the craft of editing.

And I'm not talking about bringing your images into Photoshop and applying a bunch of curves and levels adjustments. I'm talking about taking a body of work and trying to make sense of it.

Trying to make a collection of images either for a portfolio or for an essay or for a slideshow and being able to take all those hundreds,

if not thousands of images and win them down into a manageable number of photographs.

And it's one of the skills as a photographer that's not often talked about or much less

taught in a lot of workshops and classes, but it's something that's not often talked about or much less taught in a lot of workshops and

classes, but it's something that's incredibly important.

And I've been thinking about it lately for a variety of reasons, and which is why I wanted

to have today's guest, Emilio Banuelos, on the show.

For those of you who have been following the show for a while, you're familiar with

Emilio.

I've had him on the show once before, as well as having taught a workshop with him up in San

Francisco and Los Angeles called Walking in the Company of Strangers.

But in this conversation, we really wanted to talk about the challenges of creating a body

of work.

We've talked about personal projects a lot on this show, but I thought this would be a real

good chance to sort of delve deeply into some of the ideas and challenges that are

involved in taking all these images and putting them

together into a collection that are not only meaningful for the photographer who created them,

but also for the people who have the opportunity to view it.

So I hope you take away a lot of value from this interview with my friend Emilio Banuelos.

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