Ready for Mistakes

Kaitlyn Jo Smith’s interdisciplinary studio practice investigates the socioeconomic impact of emerging technologies on America’s working class. Through her work, Smith pays homage to laborers by revealing the ways technology renders invisible the labor that produces it. Informed by her upbringing in rural Ohio, Smith’s practice explores the intersections of work and worship, as well as the ways in...

Richard Dachtera is a fourth-generation New Yorker who grew up two blocks from the ocean in Rockaway, Queens. His photographs concern dislocation and the way perception shifts under pressure. The moment when a familiar place tips a few degrees and becomes something else. He believes some images exist before they are taken, that arriving at a specific time and place is less an act of creation than...

Kelly Burgess is a project-based and editorial photographer based in rural Vermont. Emotional narratives and personal experiences form the thematic core of her photographic work. She specializes in portrait and road trip photography. Kelly is a regular editorial contributor to several publications worldwide, including Architectural Digest, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wildsam Magaz...

Vann Thomas Powell (MFA, Duke University) is a documentary artist whose visual practice incorporates an array of photographic mediums in concert with historical and philosophical research to investigate how past, place, and memory construct identity with particular focus on American identities. He is increasingly interested in investigating subjects related to foundation narratives, myths, tall ta...

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains conversations about miscarriage and death, listener discretion is advised. Katelynn M. Rogers was born and raised in Northeast Ohio. Her photographs explore the crossroads of maternal loss, mental illness, and environmental decay. Inspired by the women and trees of her life, Rogers’ haunting images formulate mythologies around oral storytelling. Roger’s work...

Micah McCoy is a photographer, curator, and poet based in Northwest Arkansas and currently teaches at The University of Arkansas. He received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2022) and has exhibited work in solo and group exhibitions both in the United States and abroad. His work explores issues of religiosity, anxiety, and social detachment. Micah’s editorial photography has...

It's been 84 years... Welcome back after a far-too-long hiatus from the show. Today's conversation was actually recorded in 2024, and was intended to be released after the conversation with Lindsay Godin (go give it a listen, it was a great chat!). Alas, better late than never! About Lewis: Lewis Ableidinger (b. 1983) is from the small town of Kensal (pop. 163), located in the east-central part of...

A very quick note to get the ball rolling again -- I'm looking for folks to submit their work to be potential guests on the show. This will serve both as a way to get a lineup of guests to interview, as well as introduce me to work I haven't necessarily seen yet! No genre limits, just has to be work related to photography. Use the form here to submit your work: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Lindsay Godin is a graduate from the University of Iowa MA/MFA Dual Degree Program in 2018 with a primary concentration in Photography, with a minor concentration in Graphic Design. Lindsay is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography and Design and Photography Area Coordinator at Valdosta State University in Georgia. Lindsay researches photography curriculum and creates photo documentaries...

Ben Ward (b. 1994) is a Colorado-based American photographer and cinematographer. Ben’s photography focuses on a documentary approach to the human experience and the changing social and environmental landscape of the American West. In 2021, he published his book I Dream of Dust with Temper Books and in 2018 he published Clay during the production of the short film ‘Clay’ by Holocene Studios. He ha...

Meggan Gould lives and works in the mountains outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is a Professor of Art at the University of New Mexico. She received an MFA from the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, and is included in many private and corpora...

Vincent Glielmi is a photographer from the suburbs of Chicago and received his BFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been published in Subjectively Objective in their books Everything is Narrative and Investigations in Infrastructure, booooooom, and Zone Magazine Volume 1, Aint Bad Volume 14, has been exhibited at the South East Center for Photography, PhotoPlace Ga...

Levi Garfield Hemphill (b. 1987, Canada) is a documentary photographer from the Rainy River District of Ontario and is currently based in Atlantic Canada. His work focuses on the constructs and relationships of social and physical environments. Work from Friday Nights, Monday Blues was featured in Sola Journal issue no. 1 ’The land from which we come’ and ‘Where do we go from here?’ Analog Forever...

Nathan Pearce (born 1986) is an artist based in Southern Illinois. Pearce works in book and zine making and photography. Pearce’s publications are held in several artists' book and library collections including those at MoMA, The Met, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Center for Creative Photography. His work has been exhibited in solo shows at the PhotoNola festival, Cedarhurst Center f...

Bailey Quinlan (she/her, b. 1991) uses photography as a tool for activism and connection, sharing vulnerable stories and highlighting injustices with compassion and urgency. She strives to create ethical portraits, and resonant landscapes, that show the interconnectedness of all people with each other, nature, and the infinite cosmos.  Quinlan is a winner of the Female in Focus award by the Britis...

In the first interview episode in over 2 years, I talk with my friend Epiphany Knedler about her work and collaborative projects with her partner. She focuses on the political and romanticized nature of the Midwest and the American road trip in photography, installations and multimedia works. Epiphany’s work: https://www.epiphanyknedler.com/ instagram.com/epiphanysk https://www.midwestnice.art/ ht...

Six months later, I finally finished my podcast series about my time at the Chico Review held by Charcoal Book Club. It was an incredible experience filled with amazing insight, wonderful people, great food and an memories that will last a lifetime. You can apply to the Chico Review for 2024 now: https://www.chicoreview.com/2024Thanks to everyone at Charcoal Book Club and the reviewers, presenters...

Six months later, I finally finished my podcast series about my time at the Chico Review held by Charcoal Book Club. It was an incredible experience filled with amazing insight, wonderful people, great food and an memories that will last a lifetime. You can apply to the Chico Review for 2024 now: https://www.chicoreview.com/2024Thanks to everyone at Charcoal Book Club and the reviewers, presenters...

Six months later, I finally finished my podcast series about my time at the Chico Review held by Charcoal Book Club. It was an incredible experience filled with amazing insight, wonderful people, great food and an memories that will last a lifetime. You can apply to the Chico Review for 2024 now: https://www.chicoreview.com/2024Thanks to everyone at Charcoal Book Club and the reviewers, presenters...

Six months later, I finally finished my podcast series about my time at the Chico Review held by Charcoal Book Club. It was an incredible experience filled with amazing insight, wonderful people, great food and an memories that will last a lifetime. You can apply to the Chico Review for 2024 now: https://www.chicoreview.com/2024Thanks to everyone at Charcoal Book Club and the reviewers, presenters...

Six months later, I finally finished my podcast series about my time at the Chico Review held by Charcoal Book Club. It was an incredible experience filled with amazing insight, wonderful people, great food and an memories that will last a lifetime. You can apply to the Chico Review for 2024 now: https://www.chicoreview.com/2024Thanks to everyone at Charcoal Book Club and the reviewers, presenters...

Six months later, I finally finished my podcast series about my time at the Chico Review held by Charcoal Book Club. It was an incredible experience filled with amazing insight, wonderful people, great food and an memories that will last a lifetime. You can apply to the Chico Review for 2024 now: https://www.chicoreview.com/2024Thanks to everyone at Charcoal Book Club and the reviewers, presenters...

Follow Brendon:Twitter: https://twitter.com/burtoo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/burtoo/ Web: https://www.brendonburton.com/ Brendon Burton is a photographer from Oregon making work around themes of Americana, decay and the road trip. Burton's first photobook, "American Poetry," was self-published in 2020, has been exhibited internationally including Catch Gallery in Paris, Odd B Contempora...

In this episode of Ready for Mistakes, I speak with Tristan Martinez, who’s originally a Chicago-based photographer originally from Los Angeles. Tristan’s work dominantly uses flash and rich color to make his subjects pop in the image, but also add a candid yet larger-than-life feeling to his imagery. Tristan graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in December 2020, has self-published a few bo...

Danny DeRusso is a photographer based in northern New York, or upstate, but that often gets perceived as anything north of NYC. Danny is a music photographer primarily, and does personal work on the road with bands and in his free time when he's not, well, with bands. Danny has done work for Hot Mulligan, Boston Manor, Jetty Bones, Knuckle Puck, and, of course, his hometown heroes, Young Culture