B&H Photography Podcast

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome photographer Ashok Sinha to talk about his forthcoming book Driver-full City: The Unique Architecture of Car Culture in Greater Los Angeles and to discuss the Cartwheel Initiative , a nonprofit that he founded, which works with displaced and refugee youth, using photography and multimedia tools to inspire these youth to find their...

This is "Wildlife Week" at B&H Explora , and for our contribution we offer this most excellent episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . Truth is, serendipity is a goddess, and our B&H colleagues made it easy for us to bring you such great guests—the OPTIC Conference supplied a bevy of incredible wildlife photographers for our microphones and our friends at Explora created this beautiful and educat...

This is a conversation we wanted to last another hour. Talking with intellectual property attorney (and accomplished photographer) David Deal about copyright protection and "fair use" in the Instagram era was such an easy education and enjoyable to boot. We already ran long on this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , just scratching the surface of these topics, and we had to edit out a...

Today's conversations address the challenges photographers encounter when "real life"—children, family, economic changes, even personal tragedy—interrupt the work we would like to be doing, namely taking pictures, and how we find our way back to the form of creative expression we all desire. We welcome four photographers who have overcome challenges or who have found ways to incorporate their own...

B&H recently hosted the OPTIC Outdoor, Photo/Video, Travel Imaging Conference, which gave us an opportunity to sit with many wonderful photographers including Ron Magill, Frans Lanting, and Erin Babnik and we will be publishing these conversations over the next few weeks, but today we welcome representatives from Canon, Panasonic Lumix, and Sony to discuss their latest wares. First we speak with R...

It has been a short but busy week at B&H Photo and we hosted several wonderful conversations at this year's OPTIC Photography Conference , so today's episode is itself, wonderful but short.  We will be presenting many of the recordings made at OPTIC over the coming weeks, but our chat with veteran B&H Photography Podcast guest Chris Nicholson surprised even the normally unflappable Allan Weitz. We...

Do you have undeveloped rolls of film that have been sitting around forever? Maybe you don't even realize that you have unprocessed rolls from the "good ol' days of analog" in an old camera bag or a dresser drawer. Now is the time to look into this matter and have the chance to explore and share your memories, perhaps even rediscover events and people that memory has left behind. On this week's ep...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome four "makers" who have designed and built impressive imaging tools with their own vision. Their locations, the formats, the materials, and the final products all differ wildly, but the D.I.Y. spirit of the engineer, the tinkerer, the photographer, and the entrepreneur are shared by our four guests. We get a sense of how each came t...

Adriane Ohanesian has been on the B&H Photography Podcast in the past and we are very excited to welcome her back to discuss her photojournalistic work in Africa. As many of our listeners will recall, Ohanesian contributed to our podcast throughout 2017 in a serial segment we called " Dispatch ," in which she provided monthly reports on her freelance assignments covering conflict and climate chang...

I think it's fair to say that animals, even more than cars, sunsets, and children, are the most photographed subject by listeners of the B&H Photography Podcast and, on this week's episode, we speak with two photographers who not only have dedicated their craft to photographing animals, but bring to their process a compassion and advocacy that goes far beyond just a pretty picture. Our first guest...

As we prepare to celebrate Mother's Day, we welcome an artist to the B&H Photography Podcast who is using her camera to examine quotidian spaces and further a conversation about the "deeply felt subjective experiences of motherhood," particularly as they are realized in the workplace. Joining us is photographer Corinne May Botz , whose current series is entitled "Milk Factory," and it takes lactat...

On May 10, 2019, the 150th anniversary of the "golden spike,"—the ceremonial completion of The First Transcontinental Railroad, will be celebrated, and we at the B&H Photography Podcast are taking this opportunity to talk railroad photography. In the first half of the episode, we discuss the iconic image created by photographer A.J. Russell, at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869 of hundreds of worke...

Today we present an encore episode of the B&H Photography Podcast and revisit our conversations with two incredible photographers, Christian Vizl and Hengki Koentjoro.  The timing is ideal as both photographers have new work to present -- Christian is debuting a new book, Silent Kingdom , with an introduction by Dr. Sylvia Earle, and Hengki is exhibiting work in Tokyo, Japan and at the Royal Alber...

The first amateur photographic entity in the United States was the Amateur Photographic Exchange Club, New York City, which existed from 1861–1863. The oldest continuously extant camera club in the United States founded, at least in part, by amateurs is the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, founded in 1862. On today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we will talk about camera clubs and,...

This is one of the more informative and hands-on practical episodes of the B&H Photography Podcast that we have produced in some time. Obviously, it helps if you are "practicing" car photography, but the insights provided in this episode are useful for a wide range of photo disciplines, and touch on techniques for making better images of moving objects, reflective and non-reflective products, tigh...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome two photographers who are part of the diverse and thriving cultural and artistic life of The Bronx. Rhynna Santos and Michael G. Young are also both members of the Bronx Documentary Center and, today, we discuss their individual bodies of work, the role the BDC plays in their lives and community, and we talk a bit about what makes...

Is it necessary to have fun to create work with humor, what is the line between humor and discomfort, can art that is funny have a serious message? How does Instagram success translate to the art world? These are some questions we address in this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , and while "humor in art" is our starting point, the conversation takes its own life and we touch on a ran...

This week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is a bit of a grab bag. We start with an update of our new B&H Photography Podcast Facebook group and announce the winners of the SanDisk 64GB memory card sweepstakes. We also discuss the enthusiastic support we received during the first week of the new group and give a shout out to some of the individuals who have submitted images and comments. W...

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 politician, Mann has probably photographed them. His body of work is incredible. As an example, in 2014, he was tapped by Esquire to photograph eighty boys and men, from age one to eighty, for its 80th anniversary issue. That "who's-who" li...

The B&H Photography Podcast Facebook Group is live and we encourage all our listeners to join.  The Facebook Group will be your way to engage with Allan, John, and Jason of the B&H Photography Podcast and to post photos, ask questions, make suggestions, and comment on our show. It is also a way to interact with other listeners, learn more about our guests, and get feedback on your own work.  As an...

The name does kinda say it all, doesn't it? On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we speak with legendary rock 'n' roll photographer Mick Rock . Despite his incredible body of work and numerous iconic photos, Rock's philosophy on photography might best be summed up with a comment from this episode, "The reality is, it's not that complicated." For this episode we traveled to Rock'...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome representatives from SanDisk, Lexar, and B&H writer John-Paul Palescandolo to discuss memory cards, storage solutions, and best practices for capturing and storing digital images. We have also officially launched our B&H Photography Facebook Group and invite our listeners to join. Follow the link above to the group page and request...

We're not even two months into 2019 and there have already been several announcements for new cameras, lenses, and even a new format for a major camera manufacturer.  On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we will list the many new announcements and, along with our guests, Shawn Steiner and Andrea Ortado, offer any insights we have in terms of specs, hands-on comparisons, and genera...

The wedding-photography business is very competitive, so, to have a distinct client base and a way to stand out from the crowd is crucial—almost necessary. On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we discuss niche wedding photography with three photographers who have forged a career path by photographing the weddings of a specific niche demographic. To be clear, each of these photog...

At the B&H Depth of Field Wedding and Portrait Conference , being held this week in New York, we were fortunate to sit down with a straight-up legend— Albert Watson . It would be hard to overstate his accomplishments as a photographer, and his ability to master a range of photographic genres—from fashion and advertising to still life, fine art, and reportage—is uncanny. He has shot more than 100 V...