Recorded live within the fashion district at NYFW Sept ‘25
Episode Transcript
This is the FCB Podcast Network.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is Species Pass. Hi everyone, and welcome into another
episode of Backstage Pass on iHeartRadio and FCB Radio Network.
I am your host, Victoria Elizabeth. We are here with
Daniel of IICAM Photography, fresh after his solo New York
(00:37):
Fashion Week show debut. How does it feel?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh man, this is a dream. I can't believe we
actually did it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Honestly speaking, it's been along road this particular show to wow.
I think six and a half months of planning and
well over five thousand dollars of putting it together and
getting us from.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
The ideation of doing this to actually.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Getting out there and putting books on the ground, casting
seventy plus models, having seven designers, one of them being
my own designs.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It was I was phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So you're quite a renaissance man. I mean, you do this,
you do that, you do photography, design. Take us back
to the origins of this. What got you into this business?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's a tough question, the debut of I caam.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Honestly, I am a big wrestling fan and I love
the glitz and glamour of wrestling. I love watching people
come out and perform and seeing how they can craft
these characters. But alongside that, I love the process of
capturing that, the process of taking time and stopping it
and turning it into a moment that not.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Only lives for the people who saw it, but for
years and years to come.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So the idea of I CAAM was born from that
taking time and stopping it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I've been doing this now for six years and in
the past.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Wow, I think four years, we've blown up from selling
out shows in Philadelphia and selling out.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Show in Long Island.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
We're heading to Connecticut next year to hopefully sell that
event as well. In April and a sold out crowd
tonight and advice was is exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
What the adoptor ordered. So do you know it was
really awesome?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That's awesome. So you are very open about the fact
that your dad, your girlfriend, you know, your team really
propels you forward. So tell me a little bit about
that and what ways do they really support you and
drive you forward.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
They listen to me, that's the big one. They you know,
they're a big part of it.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I think my brain runs around more than it should,
and you know, I have all these ideas that start
as just crazy thoughts. Just listening to music in the
in the in my drive home, and they turn into
you know, why don't we do this?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Why don't we try that? What a what if we
went out.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Here and we tried this and I usually I passed
it through my girlfriend, and then for my girlfriend, I
passed it to my best friend. For my best friend,
I passed it through Alyssa and Athena, and then from
there we sit down and we'd say, okay, how can
we turn this into reality? And just like what we
saw today advice. This is exactly how this process started.
We did Gotham Glamour in February and there were some
(03:11):
things that I wanted to improve on, and the minute
Gotham Glamour closed up and we left and I said
goodbye to you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That night I sat down and I said, Okay, what's next.
How do we make this bigger? How do we make
this better?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And I think tonight was the culmination of that process,
the culmination of the want from February and.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The clothes, so to speak, of this big idea that
I've had for the last couple of months.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Of course, what do you feel is the biggest misconception
from the outside about this industry.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's easy.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, right, easy.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, putting on shows is not easy.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Being a model is not easy.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Of course, Being a photographer is not easy. Being a
DJ is not easy. Being a model coordinator is not easy.
Being a human is not easy.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You wrap all these things up into a bow and
you put it out there and people just say, oh,
I can do that until they see and then they realize,
oh no, I can't do that. But kudos to those
who can because we paid the way for them to
learn and inspire. And I think that's what my legacy
should be as I get older and I eventually hang
up the I cam boots, just to inspire, you know,
(04:18):
the new faces out there who want to do great things,
the people out there who want to be event.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Runners and event organizers and events, just people who do things.
I want to inspire that generation.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Of course. So you gave an epic teaser of a
horror event that's coming up. What is it? October fifth? Yes,
So tell us more about that. How can we follow
along in support?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah? So that is House Baharas three.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That is my third annual Halloween event where I bring
out photographers and models and we all come into one
big space and we shoot cosplay from anime to actually
scary things and everything in between. One of my most
popular shows of the year for sure, right behind my
fashion shows now and Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Gonna be great. That's gonna be really good.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
You can definitely follow along on ICAM photos, IKAM dot.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Events on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We'll be posting stuff regularly there over the next couple
of weeks.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
To get that ball over.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
That's amazing, I love it well. We are going to
be sharing all of these links so you can follow
along and you can join the next events. Daniel, thank
you so much for joining us. Thank you, thank you
as always for listening in to Backstage Pass. We'll see
you next time.
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