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"Life will teach you to be a good teacher. If you care, life will show you many, many examples. It will lay all the lessons right before you and all you have to do is bend over and collect these lessons and put them in some order and fashion and you can teach anybody." - Dave LaBelle

This video is an excerpt from my Ohio University masters project on Dave LaBelle, one of my teachers from Western Kentucky University. It features interviews with LaBelle and several of his students. The project also includes another 8 sections which go into further detail about Dave and his life as a photographer and a teacher.
  • Heather Stone 2 years ago
    nice work!
  • Francis Gardler 2 years ago
    Thanks Heather! How are things going for you?
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  • Sandy McLaughlin 2 years ago
    I am filled with emotion absorbing this embrace of humanity! It is more than ‘watching,’ or ‘listening,’ or viewing a multimedia piece. It is being enveloped by the rawness of humanity in which we all just tread water. I needed to play it twice just to center myself again. Dave LaBelle touches the heart of being human.
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  • Eell 2 years ago
    This is beautiful... thank you very much!
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  • david 2 years ago
    Great work Francis..interesting man...thanks for posting
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  • Drew Jaynes 2 years ago
    This is really a cool project. Nice work. Now I'm looking for the other eight sections
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  • robin o'shaughnessy 2 years ago
    hi Francis - really like this. i am working on my mp at Ohio as well.
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  • Steve Marshall 2 years ago
    Francis, this is an extraordinary piece of work - I'm working on a PhD in how we might use visual technologies to generate the awareness to change organizations - Dave Labelle is a master of the dialogic approach.

    I've embedded your video at photo-dialogue.com - with credits etc - hope that is OK. Shame about the copyright on the other sections....

    All the best,

    Steve M
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  • Francis Gardler 2 years ago
    Thanks for the comments everyone. Keep an eye on the page in the near future. I'm working to add a few more shorter pieces of Dave LaBelle talking about storytelling and other things.
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  • Patrick Multani 2 years ago
    thank you for sharing!
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  • Angela Wilhelm 2 years ago
    This is great. I was able to learn something by watching this while my Final Cut was rendering! ;)

    Very insightful and inspiring. I'm excited to see more.
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  • Nice piece of work, Fran. Hope the outtakes made it on to the DVD! In any event, thanks for giving me a chance to contribute to your project/tribute to Dave.
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  • Amy Deputy 2 years ago
    Beautiful work Fran. Dave Labelle believed in me long before I did. Without his compassion, teaching and heart I would have never found my own. And the journey here continues...

    love,
    Amy
  • Francis Gardler 2 years ago
    Thanks Amy! I'd like to reshoot this in the future and I hope I can talk to you about Dave.
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  • Amy Deputy 2 years ago
    hi francis, feel free to call anytime.
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  • John W. MacDonald 2 years ago
    Thank you.
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  • Colour Craft Media plus 2 years ago
    Could you please make this available to download? I would love to be able to watch this when I'm not online as it is VERY inspirational. I'd love to have it as an archive. Such depth and emotion. Thanks for the piece.
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  • gary s chapman plus 2 years ago
    Outstanding work on your part and on Dave's. I wrote about it here: garyschapman.com/blog/?p=940
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  • Neil Vidyarthi 2 years ago
    This was very inspirational, it takes photography and film to a new level for me, and raises that difficult question, of how art can help raise awareness and help promote love/charity. Thanks for making this.
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  • Greg Jordan 1 year ago
    Extraordinary work! You inspired me to embed your fine video on my blog: gregjordandesign.com/blog/portrait-picture-stories/

    I think LaBelle is spot on, and is certainly an excellent teacher.

    Thanks for making such a high quality video.
  • Francis Gardler 1 year ago
    Cool! Thanks for writing, Greg.
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