Rafael Goldchain Interview — Photography podcast #29

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, ’‚©xico 1980

Comments

  1. Mary Fischer says:

    Amazing…I am just surf­ing a bit and decided to google Rafael…can’t believe the info avail­able. What can I say…Rafael is mar­ried to my sis­ter (older than me) and I am so happy to be able to call him my brother-in-law. I know how hard Raf works and it is evi­dent in every task he under­takes. I’m very, very proud to know him, never mind that I am actu­ally related to him. Good for me!

  2. C. Goldchain says:

    I was look­ing for stuff on my fam­ily and I didn’t real­ize that my uncle was inter­viewed in a pod­cast. I’m really happy that my Tio Rafa was able to be in your pod­cast and that you guys really liked it!

  3. Norm says:

    Awe­some inter­view! I’m a new lis­tener, I started lis­ten­ing a few weeks ago and finally got caught up. I am new pho­tog­ra­phy and so I appre­ci­ate how you’ve kept it fairly sim­ple yet still very infor­ma­tive. Unless it has been done before I’d love to hear a pod­cast about your rec­om­men­da­tions as to what equip­ment would be a neces­sity for new pho­tog­ra­phers (types of lenses,etc.).

    Thanks again!

  4. Al says:

    Great inter­view! I never heard of Raphael before and lis­ten­ing to this pod­cast has inter­ested me in his work.

  5. Bekka says:

    Wow these pho­tographs are just amaz­ing. Great pod­cast, thank you. The infor­ma­tion was really in depth and I loved lis­ten­ing to Raphael’s process from start to finish.

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  1. […] Other pho­tog­ra­phy links men­tioned in this pod­cast; Flickr Lead­ing lines in pho­tog­ra­phy The rule of thirds in pho­tog­ra­phyThanks as always for the com­ments by‚Bekka, Al and Norm‚on our pre­vi­ous podcast‚where we Interviewed‚fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Rafael Gold­chain. We LOVE com­ments and sug­ges­tions so please send more. […]