B&H Photography Podcast

Our conversation on this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is with the fabulous and innovative Duane Michals . Of the many comments he made about his photography practice, a practice that has been commercially and artistically successful for almost sixty years, one that stood out was his aside that "photography has failed [him] as an art form." The comment comes late in our conversatio...

This week on the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome two old friends of the podcast to talk about the latest gear from their respective companies. First up is Rudy Winston, Technical Advisor at Canon USA, and then we welcome Marc Farb, Technical Rep from Sigma. Both Winston and Farb are breaking records with this, their fifth visit to our show. With Rudy Winston, we discuss a few cameras that wer...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome Margit Erb and Michael Parillo, of the Saul Leiter Foundation , to discuss Saul Leiter's career and their work preserving the art and the legacy of this pioneer of color photography. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Leiter veered from the traditional religious path his parents desired for him and moved to New York City to follow his...

Today on the B&H Photography Podcast we are joined by Craig Semetko , a documentary and street photographer who is much more than those two descriptors. He came to photography from a career in performance and comedy and that makes a lot of sense, noting the observational skill and humor found in his compositions. His first book, UNPOSED , published in 2010, with a forward by Elliott Erwitt, was fo...

We encourage all of our listeners to register for the free digital online edition of the Outdoor Photo/Video Travel Imaging Conference (OPTIC) 2020 hosted by B&H and sponsored by Panasonic, Sony, Nikon, Canon, FUJIFILM, Godox, and many others. As most of you know, the B&H Photography Podcast has regularly attended this annual conference, in New York, and recorded wonderful interviews with the like...

Today we welcome a special guest to the B&H Photography Podcast: actor and comedian Jeff Garlin .   Jeff Garlin is well-known as a stand-up comedian and, of course, as a star of the hit television shows, The Goldbergs and Curb Your Enthusiam . About fifteen years ago, he turned a love for photography, for the work of the masters—Alfred Eisenstadt, Jim Marshall, Mary Ellen Mark, to name a few—into...

As an industry and as a hobby, the numbers indicate that drone flying and drone photography are still primarily the domain of men, but sustaining this disparity is ridiculous and it should and will change. Our two guests today are part of bringing about that change, and they do so by being good at their craft, by spreading the joy of flying, and teaching drone operation and photography to women an...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we talk about food photography with photographer Chelsea Kyle and food stylist Drew Aichele . There are few photography disciplines that are as complicated as food photography. With the pressure of time, heat, cold, color, and light, a small team must work together to create an image that realistically illustrates the sumptuousness of a dish,...

Ray Collins's portraits of waves are hard to describe because you don't want to describe them. Like the wave itself, the photographic abstraction refuses words; indescribable and amorphous become unique and powerful in his hands. One look at his work and it's clear that he is in his element in the surf, transforming what he knows so well into a profound and universal statement.  We have been looki...

This week on the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome journalist, curator, and author Ekow Eshun to discuss his incredible new book, Africa State of Mind .    With more than 250 photographs by fifty photographers, the book is a gorgeous collection of contemporary art photography from throughout Africa. Established artists such as Pieter Hugo and Zanele Muholi are profiled, along with many lesser-k...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome National Geographic photographer Steve Winter back to the program. Winter joined us, in 2016, to discuss his wildlife photography, specifically his work photographing cougars in the hills of Los Angeles, California, and today we will be discussing tigers. Over the past several years, Winter has been working on stories about tigers,...

This episode was originally published on March 14, 2019.  It's pretty funny. Enjoy this encore presentation and we'll be back with a new episode next week.  Thanks so much for listening! -------------------------------------------------- Today, we welcome portrait photographer  Mark Mann  to the  B&H Photography Podcast  and, as Allan notes at the top of the show, if you name a celebrity or famous...

Ike & Tash are a husband-and-wife photography team. You know what? They tell it better than I can. "We are a FAMILY business, a LEGACY business, a husband-wife team that found our dream and our FUTURE behind the lens. With our 3-year-old daughter, Wisdom, we travel around the country teaching photographers, taking pictures and making memories... all the while helping others to keep theirs, forever...

Flying in directly from a post-Oscar party in Hollywood, Greg Gorman joined us for a conversation at the 2020 Depth of Field Photo Conference this past February, where he was the key-note speaker. Given all that has happened since, it seems like a long time ago, but this is the type of chat we wish would have just kept going, so enjoyable was Gorman and his tales of Hollywood then and now. Still i...

Today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast hosts a compelling conversation with four photojournalists who are covering stories related to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York. We discuss the stories they have been photographing, the precautions they are taking, how they've adjusted their shooting styles, and about the assignments they are willing to accept and those they would like to pitch. Join...

Today, we discuss some of the most recognized images of rock-n-roll history and those that made them. Our first guest is photographer Amelia Davis , who is the owner of Jim Marshall LLC , the living archive of the prolific photographer Jim Marshall, most known for his images of jazz and rock musicians of the 1950s through the 1970s. If you are familiar with photos of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Mi...

It's easy to admire Sebastian Meyer , not simply because he's a talented photographer who also co-founded the first photojournalism agency in Iraq, but because he is confident enough to speak of his shortcomings, his naiveté, and of tragedy, and not forget the importance of humor.  On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome Meyer to discuss his "love at first sight" for pho...

Today's guest, Shari Belafonte knows cameras from both sides and she brings an understanding to the medium that is as palpable as her sense of humor. It was a pleasure to welcome her to the B&H Photography Podcast . Of course, we knew of Shari as the face from so many magazine covers in the 1980s and '90s—no kidding, every other face at the check-out line melted away when you saw that smile. Of co...

What obstacles have gotten in the way of your photography? When life's troubles arise, where do you point your camera? Or do you set it down? Photography can be a weekend hobby or it can be a life's calling and, for our guests on today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , there is no doubt that photography is part of their very being, and meshed into the most intimate aspects of their lives....

This week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is a healthy set of conversations with gear representatives and camera experts from several of the major camera and lighting companies that we  recorded at the 2020 Depth of Field Conference . First we speak with Steve Heiner, of Nikon, discussing that company's new DSLRs, including the flagship D6 and the D780 . We also ask about the mirrorless Z...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome back to the program intellectual property attorney David Deal to discuss issues regarding copyright infringement, particularly as they involve three high-profile cases in which he is involved. Deal spoke with us last year about a case he had just litigated, Brammer vs Violent Hues Productions, in which he successfully argued to rev...

On the suggestion of a listener, we contacted a few Australian photographers to get their take on the devastating bushfire season that has burned more than 18 million hectares and taken thirty-four lives, since June 2019. We were fortunate to connect with Nick Moir , self-described storm-chaser, wildfire photographer, and current chief photographer at the Sydney Morning Herald . On this week's epi...

I don't know if we've ever had two photographers with such divergent styles on the same episode.  It would make little sense to even have them on together, except that their individual work is exceptional, and they are married to each other. This week on the B&H Photography Podcast , we return to a format that has served us well in the past —speaking with a couple who both work in photography. We...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome editorial, fashion, art, and music photographer Olivia Bee. That's a lot of tags and she's earned them all in a relatively short time span. Her "origin story" is well-documented in photo circles, so we won't go into that much, but in a career now a decade old, we discuss where those early successes have brought her, what she enjoys...

Imagine the privilege of being present at the creation of one of the "wonders of the world," and then imagine being asked to document the magnitude—and the details—of that creation. Our guest on today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast has just that privilege and that responsibility and, as he puts it, this telescope may "change the way we understand our universe."   Chris Gunn has been a NA...