B&H Photography Podcast

To take photographs on ships or to work in ports and cover maritime transportation requires a full range of photographic know-how, including portraiture, landscape, product, aerial, architecture, corporate—even adventure-photography skills. And that's just on the first day!   On today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we discuss this type of industrial and corporate photography, which at it...

The title for this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is taken from a comment made by guest Tonika Johnson , describing the moment she recognized the effect her work could have on citizens of her hometown of Chicago. I'm certain that our other guests have had a similar moment when they see that their artistic work has gone beyond just the oohs and ahhs of aesthetes and afficionados and truly h...

Our guest on this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is physician and astrophotographer, Robert Gendler . The distinguished assignments, numerous international accolades, and five published books are an indication of the significance of the work of this self-described amateur. His mosaic of the Andromeda Galaxy has been used to create 3D IMAX films and is considered the largest image of...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we welcome the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Lensbaby , the special effects lens manufacturer. Lensbaby was started by Craig Strong in 2004 and quickly established a name for itself. Over the years, they have added lenses, optics systems, and accessories to grow their brand while maintaining their emphasis on creative expression and...

On today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we are pleased to welcome Peter Cohen and Bill Shapiro to discuss "vernacular" photography and the historical and cultural significance of snapshots and other images that fall outside the realms of fine-art and commercial photography.    Peter J. Cohen is recognized as one of the country's foremost collectors of vernacular photography and portion...

We want to celebrate our guest Alexis Cuarezma in this encore presentation and also note what great info this episode offers for those interested in portrait lighting, especially for dance and sports photography.  Alexis' career has been growing steadily  since he joined us in 2019, he recently presented at the Eddie Adams Workshop and will be speaking at ImagingUSA in January 2022 and at the very...

Today's episode is an encore presentation of the show originally published on March 19, 2020. If you were otherwise preoccupied that week, we recommend you take a listen to this conversation about photographer Jim Marshall and the film "Show Me the Picture", a documentary on his life and work as a rock-n-roll photographer.   The film is now streaming on AppleTV/iTunes and if you are in Boston, MA...

We were expecting this episode to be a great one and it did not disappoint.  The B&H Photography Podcast team welcomes photographer Lester Sloan and his daughter, author Aisha Sabatini Sloan, to discuss their new book, Captioning the Archive: A Conversation in Photographs and Text .  The book is a conversation about photography and photojournalism, but more a conversation between father and daught...

A listicle is an article comprising a list. A listicle is any piece of digital content that's formatted as a list. A listicle is an article comprising a list, usually with some kind of extra detail added to each item. What we have here, then, is a podsticle .   Today on the B&H Photography Podcast , we catch up with the new photography gear that has been announced over the past few months. Attenti...

To create a "collective portrait" of any set of people is difficult, but to do so with twenty-five world-renown women artists is a monumental challenge―one that our guests have undertaken and, based on their wonderful book, Portrait of an Artist: Conversations with Trailblazing Creative Women , have accomplished. Equally as impressive is that the book's author, Hugo Huerta Marin, weaved a personal...

This week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast provides a lesson we all can use: how to be better businesspeople while we are being better photographers. Much of this advice comes from our intriguing guest, photographer and educator Todd Bigelow .   A longtime pro, Bigelow has freelanced for the likes of Sports Illustrated and The Los Angeles Times , among many other editorial and commercial c...

This week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is a wonderful way to usher in autumn and we hope it inspires our listeners to get out into the forests, fields, and streams to photograph what they love. It is also an episode that hits all the marks, as we talk about the gear, technique, science, ethics, and passion of photography―in this case, centered on fly fishing photography. Our guests, Je...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome the founder and Executive Director of the Social Documentary Network, Glen Ruga, and photographer Sofia Aldinio , who is the recipient of the 2021 ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography, presented by the Social Documentary Network.   As should be clear, our conversation today revolves around the Social Documentary Network , or "SDN...

What do the films Goodfellas, The Devil Wears Prada, Creed, Ocean's 8, and Die Hard with a Vengeance have in common? The poster art, publicity, and behind-the-scenes photography for these and about one hundred other feature films were made by photographer Barry Wetcher , and we welcome Wetcher to this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast .   On-set still photography or, simply, "still pho...

There is a vibrance, a joy, and a love for photography that one feels when speaking with Meryl Meisler .  It's also very cool that by day she was a high school art teacher in Brooklyn and, by night, dancing and photographing at legendary clubs like Studio 54. Anyway, that's just how I see it. Of course, there's a lot more to Meisler's photography than just 1970s disco and 1980s Bushwick, and we ta...

Even if you are not currently on your beach vacation, let's take a little trip to Hawaii's shores for today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . Joining us is photographer Zak Noyle , who was born and raised in Hawaii and began publishing his surf photography while still in high school. Noyle has photographed the sport's top surfers and events, has been published in Sports Illustrated and Na...

We have been looking forward to this conversation for weeks. On today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we sit down with retired Detective 1st Grade Michael Cunningham , of the New York City Police Department, to talk about crime-scene unit photography. Cunningham is an expert on crime scene photography and forensics—in addition to his twenty-seven years with the NYPD, he has worked as a...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome back an old friend of the show, photographer Mark Mann . Mann is known for a catalogue of portrait work that includes celebrities, musicians, and politicians of the highest regard. In our previous episode with Mann, we discussed photographing Bill Murray, Jennifer Aniston, and President Obama, but like many of us, the COVID-19 pand...

The photos of David Rothenberg are some of the most exciting that we have seen in a while. Condensed and entangled compositions of airplanes over urban housing and portraits of travelers, through plane windows or bathed in a holy light at a train station. His work is provocative, playful, and compassionate and asks us to look at compositions and subjects carefully, addressing issues of isolation a...

Photographer Sally Davies embodies a beautiful creative spirit, and I think that spirit also resides in the homes of the 72 New Yorkers she photographed, and who are included in her wonderful portrait book, appropriately titled, New Yorkers .  If this spirit does not exist and Davies is not in tune with it, how could she have captured such wonderful stories of people and their places and done it s...

On this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we discuss food photography and ask our two guests to create their vision of the ideal spread for a summer food photography shoot. In the first half of the show, we welcome photographer Meika Ejiasi , who is a food, lifestyle, and portrait photographer from Oakland, California. With Ejiasi we discuss how she would photograph ice cream and popsicles,...

On this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we are thrilled to help celebrate the first anniversary of Black Women Photographers .  Founded in July 2020 by Polly Irungu, the mission of  Black Women Photographers is to "disrupt the notion that it is difficult to discover and commission Black creatives." And toward that goal, BWP is now a global organization of more than 600 members, and as an...

In support of the 2021 OPTIC Outdoor, Photo/Video, Travel Imaging Conference , to be held online July 11-12, 2021, the B&H Photography Podcast team conducted our own photo walk, much like they do as part of the OPTIC Conference events. For this episode, we took our cameras and microphones to the beautiful Elizabeth Park Rose Garden in West Hartford, Connecticut and with Allan as the group's leader...

Beginning with an iPhone and an "a-ha moment" in the beautiful San Francisco City Hall, photographer Arthur Drooker began a project that would last five years and take him across the United States to photograph the most impressive and interesting city halls in the nation. The project culminated with his wonderful book, City Hall: Masterpieces of American Civic Architecture , from Schiffer Publishi...

This week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is produced in collaboration with Leica Camera , and we are pleased to welcome photographer and journalist Cheriss May to the program. One of the qualities needed to tell good stories is an ability to listen and, in conversation with May, it becomes clear that her skill for framing and capturing an image with her camera begins with her skill for l...