B&H Photography Podcast

We present a fun conversation on this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast ,, perhaps due to the midwestern charm of photographer Julie Blackmon and the matter-of-fact discussion of her wonderful tableau vivants of family life in middle America.  We also welcome back to the show gallery owner Robert Mann, who is currently hosting an exhibit of Blackmon's photographs titled Talent Show . M...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome Kevin Rickert, who is a camera and lighting sales trainer for B&H. In other words, he teaches and updates the Pro Photo staff on all the features and specs of new cameras and often gets these cameras in his hands well before anyone else. Could there be a better guest for this episode, in which we discuss the many recent camera and...

With great thanks to Vikki Tobak and the  Contact High Project , we welcome three photographers to our studio who are responsible for some of the most iconic images from the history of hip-hop. Janette Beckman, Eric Johnson, and Danny Hastings join us to tell the stories behind their photos of RUN-DMC, Wu Tang Clan, Lauryn Hill, and many others. We also speak about issues important to photographer...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we present a conversation with two photographers. We start with Aaron Turner , who is also a scholar, an archivist, and the host of the podcast "Photographers of Color." Turner will stay with us as we later speak with Laylah Amatullah Barrayn about her street portraiture during the COVID-19 outbreak in New York and  the recent uprising in Min...

Whether photographing your own garden or the sculpted acreage of the Rockefellers, following the light and finding infinite new angles to present the flora is time well spent. That is the clear takeaway from this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast with photographer Larry Lederman . However, we also discuss practical tips on bracketing, histograms, tripods, and zoom lenses for medium for...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we discuss lighting gear from the best, with the best, Shar Taylor and Cliff Hausner of Profoto . Taylor is a past guest on our show and Hausner is one of the most recognized people in the New York photo industry, having worked for a variety of companies and events, and being an established photographer in his own right. While we do talk spec...

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....