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Nalani Hernandez-Melo an LA-based photographer, studio owner, gallery director and healer shares about significant images she has taken during her return to Los Angeles and entry to its photography community. She describes how she came to take what she considers one of her iconic images of Mexican-American actor Annie Gonzalez. She recounts the opportunity she had to photograph one of the artistic icons of her youth on an assignment for one of the biggest brands in LA. And she delves deep into her inner self to share an image from her self-portrait series Las Cuatro Direcciones and why it is a return to a path she started on as an art school student.

This is the last episode of season one of Our Latina Lens Podcast. Thank you for listening and join us for season two.

Annie Gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/annieggonzalez

Mr Cartoon https://www.mistercartoon.com/

Seen exhibit at Altura LA https://altura.la/exhibitions

Artist links

Photography Website | https://nalanihmelo.com/

Studio Website | https://www.storyandimagestudio.com/

Personal IG | https://www.instagram.com/nalanihmelo/

Studio IG | https://www.instagram.com/storyandimage/

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music by Mattijs Muller

additonal music from Blue Dot Sessions

Nalani Hernandez-Melo is a multi-faceted artist, curator and healer. Her photography journey began at an arts high school and took a winding road through film, the early days of visual curation for social media, and editorial photography and videography. She shares how her love for her culture and community led her to found her own studio, Story and Image Studio, and to join the team as Gallery Director and Marketing Manager at Altura LA.

Links to Nalani's Work

Photography Website | https://nalanihmelo.com/

Studio Website | https://www.storyandimagestudio.com/

Personal IG | https://www.instagram.com/nalanihmelo/

Studio IG | https://www.instagram.com/storyandimage/

Altura LA | https://www.instagram.com/altura.la/

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In this Image Tour Josie Lepe, a photojournalist with 20+ years experience and a specialty in Sports Photography takes us behind the scenes of three of her most significant images. She opens with an image that came through preparation, luck, and her playing her part of the team, no matter what. Her historic image of how the 49ers won their last game at Candlestick Park rightly became one of the 100 memorable images of Candlestick Park. Then Josie takes us to her strength, hockey. First with an image from her first solo travel assignment to photograph the San Jose Sharks in Detroit, and then Tomáš Hertl's iconic introduction to the NHL.

You can view the images on our website at ourlatinalens.com/podcast

Josie Lepe Website: https://www.josielepe.com/index

Josie's IG: https://www.instagram.com/josielepe/

Josie's work at the San Jose Mercury News: https://www.mercurynews.com/author/josie-lepe/

Support future journalists through Mosaic. Their focus is on reaching young Latinos, Asian, and Black youth to be inspired to be future journalists. https://www.mosaicjournalism.org

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Josie Lepe began as a lab tech at the San Jose Mercury News and went on to capture some of the iconic moments in San Francisco Bay Area Sports as a Sports Photographer. She discusses her journey into photojournalism, the challenges she faced as a woman in sports photojournalism, how her culture and background influenced how she approached her work and why she chose to pursue a Master's in Fine Art photography after a twenty plus year career in photojournalism.

Josie Lepe Website: https://www.josielepe.com/index

Josie's IG: https://www.instagram.com/josielepe/

Josie's work at the San Jose Mercury News: https://www.mercurynews.com/author/josie-lepe/

Support future journalists through Mosaic. Their focus is on reaching young Latinos, Asian, and Black youth to be inspired to be future journalists. https://www.mosaicjournalism.org

Photogrpahers Josie mentions:

Richard Wisdom
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/16/richard-wisdom-longtime-mercury-news-photographer-dies-at-81/

Marcio Sanchez
https://www.instagram.com/marciojsanchez/?hl=en

Karen Borchers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_T._Borchers

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See Karina's Images here: https://ourlatinalens.com/podcasts/s1e9-karina-mora-image-tour/

Karina's Tours to Mexico
https://karinamora.com/mexico2023

Karina Mora Photography site
https://karinamora.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/karinamora_prints/

Elevating Cultura
https://www.elevatinglacultura.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/elevatinglacultura/

All images shared with this episode were created by Karina Mora and used with permission.

Theme music was composed by Mattijas Muller.
Logo designed by Tumpa Mistry
Produced and hosted by Mónika Aldarondo-Lugo.

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Karina Mora shares how she built a successful wedding photography business and then pivoted to elevate her culture and communities in Chicago and Mexico through photography and entrepreneurship.

Karina Mora
karinamora.com

IG: @karinamora_prints

Elevating La Cultura website

IG: @elevatinglacultura

Other links mentioned:

Veronica
@goldenmeanboudoir

Jasmine Lopez
@authenticadventureco

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Cinthia Jaimes Image Tour S1E7

You can view the images for this episode at https://ourlatinalens.com/podcasts/s1e7-cinthia-jaimes-image-tour/

Portrait and boudoir photographer Cinthia Jaimes, known as Cin, shares three of her significant images. These images represent different milestones in Cinthia's creative journey. The images include a path not taken and how she found genres that allowed her to live her values in a different way than she expected.

Image tours are an opportunity for photographers to share some of their most significant images and take you behind the scenes. This can include why or how they made the image, its personal significance and/or the social or political context of the image. She is the owner of Cin Photos Studio in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas.

Content Warning: we discuss the following in this episode: Gun violence, Racial Trauma

Website: https://www.cinphotos.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cinphotos/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cinphotos

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cinphotos?lang=en

Collaborators for Día de los Muertos Campaign
Cadena Collective https://www.instagram.com/cadenacollective
Jordan Crenshaw https://www.instagram.com/jcrenshighmaintenance/
Rosey Pears https://www.instagram.com/roseypears

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Cinthia Jaimes is a Portrait and Boudoir photographer based in Dallas, Texas. In this conversation Cinthia discusses her journey to Boudoir, her creative process and the effect that photographing women from a perspective of empowerment and body positivity had on her life. She is frank about her own struggles with mental health and how her mom encouraged her to live her life Sin Miedo, changing the trajectory of her journey. We talk about why the photography education world needs more diverse voices and her many collaborations with her local community.

Content Warning: we discuss the following in this episode

Gun violence 4:39-6:30

Thoughts of Suicide 32:47-34:42

If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, please contact the national Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988

Cinthia Jaimes

Website: https://www.cinphotos.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cinphotos/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cinphotos

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cinphotos?lang=en

Latina Businesses & Photographers Cin loves

Cadena Collective
https://www.instagram.com/cadenacollective

Luz y Tierra Artisanal Cazuelita Candles
https://www.instagram.com/luzytierra_

CocoAndré Chocolatier
https://www.instagram.com/cocoandre_chocolatier

Pinolo Blue- Tortillas
https://www.instagram.com/pinoleblue

Fresa Thrift
https://www.instagram.com/fresa_thrift

Photographers

Stephanie Rodriguez
https://www.instagram.com/stephsphotographytx

Ariana Rodriguez
https://www.instagram.com/arianarodriguezstudio/

Jude
https://www.instagram.com/divinebrujeria/

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Credits

Producer, editor and host: Monika Aldarondo-Lugo

Logo: Tumpa Mistry

Theme Song: Mattijs Muller