The Daily Edit – Angie Smith Launches Confidante

Lead photo by Joao Canziani Confidante Angie Smith Heidi: After 25 years working in photography, what inspired you to launch Confidante, and what gap did you see in the way creative teams find images? Tell us about the name, too. Angie: I moved to Mexico City in late 2022 and that set off a number of monumental life changes. I moved to an entirely different country, got married and then helped my husband beat cancer. Before moving to Mexico, I had been an editorial photographer for about 20 years in the States but was starting to feel this inner desire to explore my talents outside of photography. I didn’t want to stop being a photographer; I never will, but I felt the industry slowly crumbling beneath me. Coupled with moving to another country, I questioned how sustainable the career would continue to be. When I moved to Mexico, my husband and I doubled down on the food tour company that he started in 2019 called Taco Mensch. I helped him take that business from a single Airbnb…