The Candid Frame #191 - Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's recent exhibitions include the Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, Sepia International, New York City, the RISD Museum, the 2006 Noorderlicht Photo Festival in Netherlands and the 2005 Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal Photo Biennale in Canada. In 2007, Matthew was the first of three artists to be awarded the 2007 MacColl Johnson Fellowship in Visual Arts. Among the list of other grants recently supporting Matthew's work include the John Gutmann Fellowship, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fellowship and the American Institute of Indian Studies Creative Arts fellowship. She was recently an artist in residence at the Yaddo Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY and the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH. Her work can be found in the collection of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, and the RISD Museum, Providence, RI, among others. Matthew's work is included in the book BLINK from Phaidon, that according to the publisher celebrates the quality and vision of today's 100 most exciting international contemporary photographers. Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is on the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and the URI Council for the Humanities. She is represented by Sepia International Inc., New York City & Tasveer Gallery, India. http://www.annumatthew.com/ http://www.davidhwells.com/ www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

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0:00.0	This is IvarianX and this is The Candid Frame.
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0:29.0	and use the offer code, Candid Frame 6. Today's digital cameras have allowed photographers to become more consistent, more consistent in terms of exposure and in terms of focus.
0:52.3	So in many ways, we're able to make better pictures. But that doesn't
0:58.1	necessarily make you a photographer. A lot of people will argue that now, because of the way
1:03.5	that cameras are designed now that anybody can become a photographer. And that's not altogether
1:08.5	true. Yeah, we can make better looking photographs.
1:11.9	But that doesn't necessarily mean that the photographs that we make are really expressing anything exceptional, unique, and more importantly, personal.
1:21.4	And when I'm looking for photographers to interview for the show, I'm always looking for a photographer who's saying something
1:28.3	with the camera that not everyone else is doing.
1:32.8	And today's guest, Anu Palakunathu Matthew, is a photographer who I think is expressing
1:38.4	something very personal and unique with her camera.
1:42.6	Like other guests I've had on the show, she's exploring issues of class, of race, of identity.
1:49.0	And the way she's exploring the photographic process, as well as exploring these ideas,
1:56.0	is something that I thought was really fascinating and made me want to include her as a guest on the show.
2:01.4	And as we get close to episode 200, I'm really looking for photographers who I feel like
2:06.9	are taking the technology, both new and old, and are looking to find some ways of saying
2:14.8	something that only they could express with a camera.
2:21.6	There's so much made about the technology and all the potential that software like
2:26.5	Lightroom and Photoshop and so on and so far, and you know, all these things do for us as
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