The Candid Frame #177 - Martine Roch

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Martine Roch was in mid-life, living in Dijon, France, when she started getting serious about photography. It was 2004, and she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She dove into photography and Photoshop to take her mind off the disease. She was passionate about her new art form and learned quickly. One day, while looking at a daguerreotype of a 19th-century lady that she had scanned into Photoshop, Roch looked down at her dog, a golden Labrador Retriever named Boudi. Suddenly, something clicked in her head. “Let’s try to dress you as a lady,” she said aloud. And thus was a career born. Roch created dozens of these whimsical hybrids, then started posting them on the social-networking site Flickr. They became an immediate Internet sensation. A French publisher asked if she would license her photos for reproduction on notebooks and postcards. Soon, a German publisher came calling. Today, her notebooks and postcards are sold worldwide. People don’t give animals enough credit for being intelligent, Roch believes. “They think animals are like objects,” Roch says, “but they have feelings and emotions. They have their own way of thinking and reacting to what they see and feel.” http://martineroch-studio.com/ www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Involio Nex and welcome to another episode of The Candid Frame.
0:12.8	Today's guest is a photographer who I discovered as part of my research for my latest book,
0:18.7	the Adobe Photoshop Masterclass. and as I've mentioned before I
0:23.3	spent a lot of time going through a lot of different websites and in various
0:27.5	resources trying to find photographers who I felt were using the application of
0:32.7	Photoshop in really unique ways and making really interesting images and one of the
0:36.7	things that I really like about certain images is a sense of whimsy.
0:43.1	I think it goes back to when I was a young child and I would like to read these sort of fantastical
0:48.4	novels that were sort of set rooted in the real world, but there was just something a little
0:53.4	off to it. And the images of
0:55.4	Martin Roche really sort of exemplify that in which she combines vintage pictures of people
1:02.5	portraits. And then she introduces the element of the animal figure. And when you see the images, I think they're really well crafted,
1:14.1	but I really like the fact that there's some humor and some oddity to it. A lot of people
1:19.4	may have done this before. She's probably not, not easily not the first person to do it.
1:24.6	But she really has a personal investment and you really get that when you
1:29.6	take a look at the pictures. You can't help but look at them and linger on the photographs in a way that
1:35.1	I think a lot of images sort of just miss the mark. And I have a lot of fun with her images. And I think
1:42.1	a lot of photography out there takes themselves
1:44.4	a little bit too seriously and I just like that our photographs exemplify just a lot of joy
1:51.4	and it's just lovely to see and lovely to have the opportunity to share my conversation
1:57.3	with you with today's guest, Martin Roche.
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