The Dead Pixels Society Podcast

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Chaos is expensive, and most business owners don’t see the bill until it’s too late. We sit down with Todd Krause of Silversun Consulting, a longtime operator who’s built and fixed businesses across finance and services, to talk about the unglamorous moves that quietly create real growth: standard operating procedures, clean customer intake, and consistent deli...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Your photos are better than a quick drugstore print, but what actually makes a premium print feel like art? We sit down with Petra Felgen , CEO of WhiteWall , to unpack how a high-end photo lab delivers gallery-grade wall art at scale without giving up the craftsmanship that photographers and design lovers care about. Felgen gets specific about what “premium” r...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Buying new equipment feels like progress, but it can also be the fastest way to trap your business. Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society talks with Adam Ward, a consultant and lean process expert, to unpack how photo labs, print shops, and photography retailers can make smarter moves when demand is uncertain and trends change direction fast, from EV hype to t...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Your computer is packed with stories you cannot find. Video clips named DJI003, endless B-roll, meeting recordings, marketing footage, client projects, school photography archives, and personal travel memories all pile up until searching feels impossible. Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Henry Kang, founder and CEO of Clipto. AI , to talk a...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Most businesses fail to grow for a simple reason: The owner is stuck selling the obvious thing, while the customer is buying something deeper. When Kenneth Kollasch tells us what it’s like to grow up inside a multi-generational ballroom and Latin dance studio, the lesson lands fast. Dance lessons were never just about steps. They were about confidence, relation...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Your customer doesn’t order a “file” they order a memory, and nothing kills that moment faster than a print that looks worse than the phone screen. We sit down with Servi Pieters , CEO of Viesus , to unpack why modern photo printing faces new traps: HDR smartphone displays, print workflows, heavy social media compression, and low-light computational photography...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Kodak didn’t “miss digital.” What really happened is more interesting and a lot more useful if you work in photo printing, photo labs, or photo software. Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society sits down with longtime marketing leader Rocky Bowles to trace the real arc from the film era to early online ordering, and then into the current moment where AI content,...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! You can ask a frontier model for marketing copy and get something polished, fast, and strangely not you. That gap between “correct” and “authentic” is where this conversation with Dr. Arshavir Blackwel l gets practical. Dr. Blackwell tells The Dead Pixels Society why large language models (LLMs) still behave like black boxes, why hallucinations happen, and what...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! AI can generate a believable image in seconds, so why does real photography still matter, and how do working photographers protect what they create? We’re joined by Angela Kurkian , CEO of Professional Photographers of America (PPA) , to talk about the parts of the job that don’t show up in a highlight reel: Building a sustainable photography business, finding...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Your business can be brilliant and still get wiped out by timing, regulation, or a technology shift you saw coming but didn’t act on. Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society sits down with six-time Silicon Valley CEO and author Mike Grossman to talk about the unglamorous reality of entrepreneurship: the wins that arrive late, the pivots that need full commitment...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! One screenshot can feel harmless, until you realize it might be happening at scale and quietly rewriting your sales numbers. Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Carl Bott , founder of SnapShield , to get practical about a problem volume photographers keep bumping into: parents screenshotting online proofs, using AI watermark removal tools, and...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Your camera roll isn’t a memory system, it’s a backlog, and the bigger it gets, the harder it is to turn real moments into something you can actually revisit. Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Mixbook CEO and co-founder Andrew Laffoon as Mixbook hits its 20th anniversary. We dig into a question that matters to anyone who cares about photogra...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Your camera roll is overflowing, your group chats are chaos, and the biggest platforms keep getting weirder about data, ads, and AI. So what would a modern photo sharing app look like if it started with privacy and still felt genuinely social? Gary Pageau from The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Darin Myman , CEO of Myseum.ai , to unpack Picture Party , a ne...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Most businesses don’t fail because the owner lacks talent. They stall because the owner becomes the product, the manager, the decision desk, and the emergency contact all at once. That’s when growth turns into stress, customers feel delays, and the company becomes impossible to sell. We’re joined by Brad Sugars , founder of ActionCOACH and author of " Pull...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Travel photography looks glamorous from the outside, but the business behind it has been quietly collapsing for years and the pandemic only sped it up. We sit down with award-winning travel photographer Gary Arndt, creator of Everything Everywhere Daily , to trace the real arc: Starting with a high-end Nikon he didn’t know how to use, improving through sheer vo...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Your camera can shoot 3,000 sharp photos in a day. So why does delivery still take a week? We sit down with Aayush Arora , CEO and founder of FilterPixel , to unpack the real “last mile” problem in professional photography: what happens after the shutter click. The bottleneck is not capture, it is the post-production workflow, especially photo culling and image...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Your customer starts a photo order on their phone, asks a question in store, pays at the counter, and expects everything to “just work.” Most retailers cannot deliver that simple experience because their POS, e-commerce site, kiosk, and lab workflow are stitched together from different systems, each with its own SKUs, pricing, and payment records. Gary Pageau o...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Spreadsheets, whiteboards, and “the one person who knows everything” can keep a volume photography studio running, right up until the moment they stop scaling. Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society is joined b y Seenu Yellapu (ScheduLink) and Michael Rak (Artona Group) to talk about the overlooked side of school and volume photography: the operational admin wo...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! You can put a famous face next to a brand and still end up with marketing that goes nowhere. What actually moves people is trust, specificity, and a story that feels human, especially in the photo imaging industry where the product is memory, emotion, and identity. Gary Pageau sits down with Katherine Tuominen from C atalyst Brand Strategy to unpack ethical mar...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! The Dead Pixels Society Podcast host Gary Pageau interviews Julia Bocchese of Julia Renee Consulting , an SEO, AI search, and Pinterest consultant in Philadelphia, about how she shifted from corporate publishing and a travel photography site (plus a Viking Age history master’s) into nine years of SEO and Pinterest work. She explains Pinterest is closer to Googl...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! The Dead Pixels Society host Gary Pageau interviews sports photographer Kirby Lee of USA Today Sports about his path from an electrical engineering student to covering major events including the NFL, Olympics, and upcoming FIFA World Cup matches in Los Angeles. Lee explains how a beginning photography class and constant shooting of high school sports led to new...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! A four-lens 3D camera lab. A crash course in corporate chaos. A front-row seat to the switch from film and chemicals to digital video and modern production. Gary Pageau interviews Bryan Wetzel about his path from photography school into Nishika Corp. ’s R&D lab, experimenting with lenticular 3D imaging, large-format printing, and early efforts toward comput...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau interviews Montauk-based photographer James Katsipis about his shift from self-taught surf photography—shooting New York winters and campaigns—to selling fine art through galleries and his own Montauk space. Katsipis describes learning to present work effectively, favoring large anti-glare acrylic prints for big installations and collaborating with...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Most businesses do not have a marketing problem. They have a clarity problem. If you cannot explain why customers choose you, what lever actually drives profit, and what you deliver that competitors cannot, no amount of digital marketing will save you for long. That is why The Dead PIxels Society sat down with Joel Miller , a business coach and marketing expert...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! The Dead Pixel Society host Gary Pageau interviews Andy Edwards , CEO and founder of GeoSnapshot , about the company’s origins and the overlooked privacy and governance risks in school photo workflows. Edwards explains GeoSnapshot began 12 years ago to centralize fragmented equestrian event photos and has since expanded to sports and education, now operating in...