Shawn Theodore's guest appearances

Shawn Theodore

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Interviews by Brainard Carey

Artblog Radio

Studio Noize: Black Art Podcast

Ali LeRoi

Lavett Ballard

Duane Michals

Tim McFarlane

Autumn Wallace

Vashti DuBois

Elise Tak

Simonetta Moro

Patrick Dougher

Mary Dinaburg

Diego Leclery

Ted Riederer

Maimuna Adam

Debbie Hillyerd

Terise Slotkin

OwlTail

This week, Jamaal and Jasmine talk with photographer Shawn Theodore.  Check out our sponsor National Black Arts at nbaf.org/ Send us your creative question or show topics or questions to our email studionoizepodcast@gmail.com. We can’t wait to hear from you.  StudioNoizePodcast.com https://www.shawntheodo.re/ Follow Shawn on Instagram @_xst  Follow Studio Noize Podcast @StudioNoizePodcast.  Follow Jamaal Barber on Instagram @JBarberStudio  Follow Jasmine Nicole on Instagram @Negress.Supreme

This week, Jamaal and Jasmine talk with photographer Shawn Theodore. Check out our sponsor National Black Arts at <a href="http://nbaf.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nbaf.org/</a> Send us your creative question or show topics or questions to our email studionoizepodcast@gmail.com. We can’t wait to hear from you. <a href="http://StudioNoizePodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">StudioNoizePodcast.com</a> <a href="https://www.shawntheodo.re/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.shawntheodo.re/</a> Follow Shawn on Instagram @_xst Follow Studio Noize Podcast @StudioNoizePodcast. Follow Jamaal Barber on Instagram @JBarberStudio Follow Jasmine Nicole on Instagram @Negress.Supreme

Streets is Watching w/ photographer Shawn Theodore

Shawn Theodore at Steven Kasher Gallery, NYC. Collages belong to the artist.Shawn Theodore's (b. 1970) artistic practice merges real and hypothesized mythological black experiences set within contemporary, yet fading, black environments. While the intent of his work is to shift stereotypical frameworks and false representations of African Americans and African Diasporan individuals, his overarching goal is to center black individuals and their communities as trans-historical, transnational, and metaphysical entities mobilizing against erasure in all forms.Set to the visual texture of black life, his work demonstrates physical and spiritual resistance to systematic oppression and provides a necessary metaphorical connection to African legacies and traditions in visual narrative form. The act of creating images and agency within predominantly black neighborhoods is meant to awaken the dormant identifiers attached to black places, culture, and attitude to illuminate how African Americans continuously express a cultural connection to the African Diaspora while fulfilling the need for African American myths as altered histories and shared memories.In this regard this view of blackness resonates with a self-assured authority -- with or without the black figure present -- negating displacement, gentrification, and socio-economic disparity; the weight of assembled woes that dull the vibrancy of African American life, and demands a sustained attentiveness to the measurable agency brimming in the everyday African American neighborhood. These depictions weave together the ‘nigritudo in motu’; corporeal elements composed of the essential spirit, rich cultures, histories, and possible mythologies driving ‘black life’.Shawn Theodore attended Tyler School of Art and received his BA in Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising from Temple University. He is currently enrolled at Savannah College of Art and Design for his MFA in Photography. He is currently based in Philadelphia and is a professor at the University of the Arts. Theodore travels often for photography assignments, research, lectures, exhibitions, and similar intellectual endeavors.Not So Satisfactual, 2017, 40 x 60 or 60 x 90A Portrait of Oluchi Oneya Unadorned No.1, 2018 40 x 60

Shawn Theodore at Steven Kasher Gallery, NYC. Collages belong to the artist. Shawn Theodore's (b. 1970) artistic practice merges real and hypothesized mythological black experiences set within contemporary, yet fading, black environments. While the intent of his work is to shift stereotypical frameworks and false representations of African Americans and African Diasporan individuals, his overarching goal is to center black individuals and their communities as trans-historical, transnational, and metaphysical entities mobilizing against erasure in all forms. Set to the visual texture of black life, his work demonstrates physical and spiritual resistance to systematic oppression and provides a necessary metaphorical connection to African legacies and traditions in visual narrative form. The act of creating images and agency within predominantly black neighborhoods is meant to awaken the dormant identifiers attached to black places, culture, and attitude to illuminate how African Americans continuously express a cultural connection to the African Diaspora while fulfilling the need for African American myths as altered histories and shared memories. In this regard this view of blackness resonates with a self-assured authority -- with or without the black figure present -- negating displacement, gentrification, and socio-economic disparity; the weight of assembled woes that dull the vibrancy of African American life, and demands a sustained attentiveness to the measurable agency brimming in the everyday African American neighborhood. These depictions weave together the ‘nigritudo in motu’; corporeal elements composed of the essential spirit, rich cultures, histories, and possible mythologies driving ‘black life’. Shawn Theodore attended Tyler School of Art and received his BA in Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising from Temple University. He is currently enrolled at Savannah College of Art and Design for his MFA in Photography. He is currently based in Philadelphia and is a professor at the University of the Arts. Theodore travels often for photography assignments, research, lectures, exhibitions, and similar intellectual endeavors. Not So Satisfactual, 2017, 40 x 60 or 60 x 90 A Portrait of Oluchi Oneya Unadorned No.1, 2018 40 x 60

Jennifer Zarro talks with photographer Shawn Theodore, alias _xST, about his work--including why he shoots in large-format and how people react to his photos.

_xST / Shawn Theodore on Artblog Radio

A great street portrait is more than just a photograph of a stranger. In many ways that person being photographed and the photographer enter a collaboration. The subject is choosing to open themselves to being revealed and interpreted by the photographer. And the photographer, if he’s adept enough, is communicating what they find fascinating and beautiful about that subject. And in the hands of a really good photographer, they reveal something about the community and the culture they exist in.  Shawn Theodore is just such a photographer. Known as @_xST on Instagram, the photographer who calls Philadelphia home has been creating a remarkable series of portraits largely of African American men and women of various generations against the colorful backdrops that exist in rapidly changing urban communities. His work is as much a chronicler of a people at a specific time as it is a bold statement of what it means to be black, to be beautiful and be visible. Resources:Shawn Theodore aka @_xST (https://instagram.com/_xst/?hl=en)Nema Etebar (http://www.nemaetebar.com/)Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device.Click here to download for .Click here to download Click here to download for Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with your donations via PayPal.https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=bwhP3_K6eEqv4CWIVgfaQUYkbmsDFYnOnyweTpJiRMrJxPRnqrxtxrI3vN4&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d0b9dcb01a9b6dc564e45f62871326a5e

A great street portrait is more than just a photograph of a stranger. In many ways that person being photographed and the photographer enter a collaboration. The subject is choosing to open themselves to being revealed and interpreted by the photographer. And the photographer, if he’s adept enough, is communicating what they find fascinating and beautiful about that subject. And in the hands of a really good photographer, they reveal something about the community and the culture they exist in.   Shawn Theodore is just such a photographer. Known as @_xST on Instagram, the photographer who calls Philadelphia home has been creating a remarkable series of portraits largely of African American men and women of various generations against the colorful backdrops that exist in rapidly changing urban communities. His work is as much a chronicler of a people at a specific time as it is a bold statement of what it means to be black, to be beautiful and be visible. Resources: Shawn Theodore aka @_xST (<a href="https://instagram.com/_xst/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/_xst/?hl=en</a>) Nema Etebar (<a href="http://www.nemaetebar.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nemaetebar.com/</a>) Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Click here to download for Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with your donations via PayPal. <a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=bwhP3_K6eEqv4CWIVgfaQUYkbmsDFYnOnyweTpJiRMrJxPRnqrxtxrI3vN4&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d0b9dcb01a9b6dc564e45f62871326a5e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=bwhP3_K6eEqv4CWIVgfaQUYkbmsDFYnOnyweTpJiRMrJxPRnqrxtxrI3vN4&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d0b9dcb01a9b6dc564e45f62871326a5e</a>