Recorded live within the fashion district at NYFW Sept ‘25
This is the FCB Podcast Network. 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 Fashion Week show debut. How does it feel? Oh man, this is a dream. I can't believe we actually did it. 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. The ideation of doing this to actually. Getting out there and putting books on the ground, casting seventy plus models, having seven designers, one of them being my own designs. It was I was phenomenon. 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? That's a tough question, the debut of I caam. 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. Only lives for the people who saw it, but for years and years to come. So the idea of I CAAM was born from that taking time and stopping it. I've been doing this now for six years and in the past. Wow, I think four years, we've blown up from selling out shows in Philadelphia and selling out. Show in Long Island. 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. What the adoptor ordered. So do you know it was really awesome? 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. They listen to me, that's the big one. They you know, they're a big part of it. 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? Why don't we try that? What a what if we went out. 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 things that I wanted to improve on, and the minute Gotham Glamour closed up and we left and I said goodbye to you. That night I sat down and I said, Okay, what's next. How do we make this bigger? How do we make this better? And I think tonight was the culmination of that process, the culmination of the want from February and. The clothes, so to speak, of this big idea that I've had for the last couple of months. Of course, what do you feel is the biggest misconception from the outside about this industry. It's easy. Yeah, right, easy. No, putting on shows is not easy. Being a model is not easy. 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. 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, the new faces out there who want to do great things, the people out there who want to be event. Runners and event organizers and events, just people who do things. I want to inspire that generation. 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? Yeah? So that is House Baharas three. 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. Gonna be great. That's gonna be really good. You can definitely follow along on ICAM photos, IKAM dot. Events on Instagram. We'll be posting stuff regularly there over the next couple of weeks. To get that ball over. 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.