Friday October 8, 2010
The story behind the photo (Oct. 9)
A photograph is a moment frozen in time. But what was happening immediately before... and what happened after? And what was going on just outside the frame?
This week, we look at the stories behind some of our favourite photos.
Read on to find out what's on the show, and see some of the photos you'll hear about. You can click the player below to listen to the podcast (or download it from the CBC website here or from iTunes).
Chris dela Torre's vacation photos from Mexico show him and his girlfriend having a great time in the sun. But here's the thing: they weren't having such a great time leading up to that "vacation." And here's the other thing: their Mexican vacation photos weren't exactly taken in Mexico. Chris will tell us the story.
If your house was on fire, which photo would you save? Sook-Yin takes her mic to the street to find out what matters most to you.
Alex Voutsinas and his wife Donna are happily married and living in Florida. But before they got married, a photo revealed that they'd had a chance encounter there before. Alex will tell us the story of Disney World, a photograph, and a remarkable statistical unlikelihood:
(Photo courtesy Alex Voutsinas)
(Photo courtesy Nancy Gershman)
A whole family dressed in Star Trek uniforms. A pregnant lady gazing lovingly at her husband... while draped over a tire. And so many, many mullets. Why do we love those awkward family portraits so much... and what are they actually telling us about our familial units? We'll get the answers from Doug Chernack, one of the founders of Awkward Family Photos, and a co-author of the Awkward Family Photos book. (Doug will also tell us the story behind "The Space Between," the awkward family photo you can see below):
(Photo courtesy of Awkward Family Photos)
Can taking a photograph change your life? Photographer Thomas Hawk believes it can... because the photo below changed his. He'll tell us how, and about the project it kickstarted for him. (You can check out Thomas' "$2 Portraits" here.)
(Photo by Thomas Hawk)
Not every photo is a keeper. If you could erase one photo, what would it be? Sook-Yin gets your answers.
Five years ago, freelance photographer Marc Bence was offered a two-hundred-dollar-a-day job. All he had to do was stake out a house in the country, and get a photo of the couple inside when they emerged. The couple? Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.... Marc will tell us how he got this exclusive (and very lucrative) shot:
(Photo by Marc Bence)
Artist Joshua Hoffine's style of work is usually called "horror photography" (appropriately so - see his work below). The stylish images he creates have also been called shocking and disturbing. Monsters under beds. Snakes, wolves, darkness... and kids. So what makes Joshua want to take photos that harness our nightmares? Sook-Yin will chat with him about taking scary pictures.
(Photos by Joshua Hoffine)
Sometimes, taking a seemingly innocuous photo - like the one below - can have deadly consequences. In 2001, Mike Odongkara worked as a professional photo journalist for the Daily Monitor in Uganda. He was out late one night in Kampala, when he snapped this photo that changed the course of his and his family's life. He'll tell us how:
(Photo by Mike Odongkara)
The picture below looks like a pretty standard band photo. The band is Swollen Members, one of Canada's most popular hip-hop groups. The picture is from a series of publicity shots for their album, Armed to the Teeth. It was taken over a year ago, at the height of their popularity when they'd won all kinds of awards, sold hundreds of thousands of records, and toured the world. But the photo doesn't really reflect what was going on with the band at the time. Mad Child (far right in the photo) will tell us the real story.
(Photo courtesy Swollen Members)
They say photos don't lie - which is too bad if you've got something you're really trying to hide from everyone, including yourself. Diane Flacks will tell us about the photo that caught a reality so carefully hidden, it surprised even her.
And here's this week's playlist:
Local Natives - "Camera Talk"
Camera Obscura - "Sweetest Thing"
Paul Simon - "Kodachrome"
Modern Superstitions - "Everything That Is Not Mine"
The Awkward Stage - "Only Good Days Caught On Camera"
Ash Koley - "Brighter At Night"
Ellie Goulding - "Starry Eyed"
Spoon - "I Turn My Camera On"
Yukon Blonde - "Ghosts On Film"
M'bilia Bel - "Residence Marina"
Swollen Members - "Lonely One"
This week, we look at the stories behind some of our favourite photos.
Read on to find out what's on the show, and see some of the photos you'll hear about. You can click the player below to listen to the podcast (or download it from the CBC website here or from iTunes).
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Chris dela Torre's vacation photos from Mexico show him and his girlfriend having a great time in the sun. But here's the thing: they weren't having such a great time leading up to that "vacation." And here's the other thing: their Mexican vacation photos weren't exactly taken in Mexico. Chris will tell us the story.
If your house was on fire, which photo would you save? Sook-Yin takes her mic to the street to find out what matters most to you.
Alex Voutsinas and his wife Donna are happily married and living in Florida. But before they got married, a photo revealed that they'd had a chance encounter there before. Alex will tell us the story of Disney World, a photograph, and a remarkable statistical unlikelihood:
(Photo courtesy Alex Voutsinas)
We tend to think that a photograph is a perfect snapshot of reality. But
it's pretty easy to mess with a photo. You can take out the red eye, make the
sunset more orange, even airbrush a person out of a picture. Nancy Gershman is a
prescriptive artist who makes what she calls "healing dreamscapes" using
photographs. And one of the people she's done this for is bereaved mother
Shirley Heard. We'll find out what Nancy had to "alter" for Shirley (and you can
see the photo below):
(Photo courtesy Nancy Gershman)
A whole family dressed in Star Trek uniforms. A pregnant lady gazing lovingly at her husband... while draped over a tire. And so many, many mullets. Why do we love those awkward family portraits so much... and what are they actually telling us about our familial units? We'll get the answers from Doug Chernack, one of the founders of Awkward Family Photos, and a co-author of the Awkward Family Photos book. (Doug will also tell us the story behind "The Space Between," the awkward family photo you can see below):
(Photo courtesy of Awkward Family Photos)
Can taking a photograph change your life? Photographer Thomas Hawk believes it can... because the photo below changed his. He'll tell us how, and about the project it kickstarted for him. (You can check out Thomas' "$2 Portraits" here.)
(Photo by Thomas Hawk)
Not every photo is a keeper. If you could erase one photo, what would it be? Sook-Yin gets your answers.
Five years ago, freelance photographer Marc Bence was offered a two-hundred-dollar-a-day job. All he had to do was stake out a house in the country, and get a photo of the couple inside when they emerged. The couple? Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.... Marc will tell us how he got this exclusive (and very lucrative) shot:
(Photo by Marc Bence)
Artist Joshua Hoffine's style of work is usually called "horror photography" (appropriately so - see his work below). The stylish images he creates have also been called shocking and disturbing. Monsters under beds. Snakes, wolves, darkness... and kids. So what makes Joshua want to take photos that harness our nightmares? Sook-Yin will chat with him about taking scary pictures.
(Photos by Joshua Hoffine)
Sometimes, taking a seemingly innocuous photo - like the one below - can have deadly consequences. In 2001, Mike Odongkara worked as a professional photo journalist for the Daily Monitor in Uganda. He was out late one night in Kampala, when he snapped this photo that changed the course of his and his family's life. He'll tell us how:
(Photo by Mike Odongkara)
The picture below looks like a pretty standard band photo. The band is Swollen Members, one of Canada's most popular hip-hop groups. The picture is from a series of publicity shots for their album, Armed to the Teeth. It was taken over a year ago, at the height of their popularity when they'd won all kinds of awards, sold hundreds of thousands of records, and toured the world. But the photo doesn't really reflect what was going on with the band at the time. Mad Child (far right in the photo) will tell us the real story.
(Photo courtesy Swollen Members)
They say photos don't lie - which is too bad if you've got something you're really trying to hide from everyone, including yourself. Diane Flacks will tell us about the photo that caught a reality so carefully hidden, it surprised even her.
And here's this week's playlist:
Local Natives - "Camera Talk"
Camera Obscura - "Sweetest Thing"
Paul Simon - "Kodachrome"
Modern Superstitions - "Everything That Is Not Mine"
The Awkward Stage - "Only Good Days Caught On Camera"
Ash Koley - "Brighter At Night"
Ellie Goulding - "Starry Eyed"
Spoon - "I Turn My Camera On"
Yukon Blonde - "Ghosts On Film"
M'bilia Bel - "Residence Marina"
Swollen Members - "Lonely One"
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