This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast‚fea­tures an inter­view with teacher and fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Rafael Gold­chain. In the inter­view Rafael tells us about his past work and we delve into his lat­est work called Famil­ial Ground.‚This work‚contains over 50 mas­ter­fully cre­ated self-portraits based on Rafael’s fam­ily his­tory and the influ­ences of the dif­fer­ent cultures‚that help make up his‚life. Rafael freely talks about how the project came to be, as well as all the tech­ni­cal ele­ments of the project includ­ing; light­ing, shoot­ing, print­ing and dig­i­tally post pro­cess­ing the photographs.

More of Rafael’s por­traits from this series can be seen at Lumi­nous Lint‚and Robot Fol­low.
A few of Rafael’s older images can be seen on this site, Photography.ca
For more infor­ma­tion on Rafael’s work, he‚can be con­tacted via email‚rafael (a t)rafaelgoldchain(d o t)com

Other pho­tog­ra­phy links men­tioned in this pod­cast;
The Applied Pho­tog­ra­phy pro­gram at Sheri­dan Col­lege.
Pho­tog­ra­phy at Ryer­son
Fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Susan Meise­las

Thanks as always for the com­ments by daronJ and‚Gary‚H on our pre­vi­ous pod­cast Pos­ing mod­els in pho­tog­ra­phy . We LOVE com­ments and sug­ges­tions so please send more.

You can down­load this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast directly by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player below this set of images.

‚ Rafael Gold­chain Self-Portrait as Naf­tuli Gold­szajn [Famil­ial Ground] — 2000‚ Light­jet chro­mogenic print — 30 x 40 in‚ Pro­vided by the artist — Rafael Gold­chain b. Kras­nik, Poland, early 1800’s d. Kras­nik, Poland, late 1800’s‚‚

Rafael Gold­chain Self-Portrait as Reizl Gold­schain [Famil­ial Ground] — 2001‚ Light­jet chro­mogenic print — 30 x 40 in‚ Pro­vided by the artist — Rafael Gold­chain b. Poland, 1905 d. Buenos Aires, Argentina 1975‚‚

Rafael Gold­chain Self-Portrait as Don Moi­ses Rubin­stein Kro­n­gold — Middle-aged [Famil­ial Ground] — 2000‚ Light­jet chro­mogenic print — 30 x 40 in‚ Pro­vided by the artist — Rafael Gold­chain b. Ostrowiec, Poland, 1902 d. Cuer­navaca, MÆ’‚©xico 1980

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