Today we’d like to introduce you to Caleb Madl
Hi Caleb, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I started recording tapes with my family’s camcorder as a kid. Eventually graduating to making my own home videos, music videos and sketches with my first camera and siblings as my actors. I was homeschooled my entire childhood, with all six of my siblings.
Immediately following high school graduation, I moved to work at a non-profit that double and tripled as a recording studio and small indie record label and church.
I spent a number of years there working with Artists to build branding portfolios, capture live stream concert series, and anything else in between vacuuming studio floors to acting as HR between between the organization and the validated Artists.
Since then, I’ve worked with hundreds of Artists, and musicians. Working to capture their story with photo and video, through the eyes of my lens.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Working in creative media isn’t always easy, or fun.
Lack of consistent clients through the winter can definitely be discouraging at times and lead to hard winters.
But when the sun comes back again, and I’m ready to shoot- it’s not uncommon to have an ‘off’ day. And if i don’t capture what I thought I would- that day- it can sometimes make me want to leave the camera on the shelf for a few days.
With absolutely no formal training in any sense of the word, I sometimes am left blocked; simply by what I don’t know.
Fortunately that has left me with an insatiable desire to learn and grow.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I consider myself a Visual Producer. With whatever means, photo, video or graphic design- my goal is always to hear each client I work with and produce and bring to life the artistic vision they saw in their head.
If I’m not working directly with a client, I am constantly making art for myself.
At the very least- everything I make feels like a self-reflection and some version of myself. And it’s only a matter of time before each side has been revealed.
There’s a phrase I heard a lot when I was just a kid with a sh*tty camera,
“I love the way you see things.”
I couldn’t tell you what “way” that is, but that encouragement lead me to believe that whatever “way” I did see the world was special point of view and I shouldn’t stop sharing it.
Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
Just fail. I can’t tell you how much better of mentally I’d be if I allowed myself to take more risks, and fail more, without fear of wanting to give up.
Fear of failure will you hold you back from exactly that.
I don’t think I believe that any one person on earth has learned more from succeeding, than from failing.
Fear of failure feeds falsified thoughts that little change isn’t important- but it is.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://536studios.wixsite.com/calebmadl
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calebmadl/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CalebMadl
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/calebmadl
