B&H Photography Podcast

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 list...

Is the light in Chicago different than the light in New York?  Can "street photography" set the subjects and control the scene?  And just how long should you follow people carrying balloons in order to get a photograph?  These are some of the questions we answer in this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . We welcome to the program photographers Nina Welch Kling and Clarissa Bonet . Kli...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we take a deep dive into the technical, legal, and even theoretical topics surrounding Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and their growing place in the art and photography worlds. To take on this subject, we welcome cryptocurrency expert and past guest of the show, Drew Hinkes . Hinkes is an attorney and professor, and in 2017 was nominated as one of...

Every now and again there are conversations that flow and sparkle; they seem laden with professional insights and creative gems. Our chat with photographer Mona Kuhn is one, and perhaps it's Kuhn's self-awareness, her quiet confidence, and an ability to articulate her motivations that make it so. There are few who will disagree that her visual stories, her portraits, nudes, landscapes, and photo e...

Not quite three-years old and the L-mount Alliance has already proven successful for its signatory companies --Leica, Sigma, and Panasonic.  Built upon the foundation of the Leica L lens mount, the three makers have put out a total of nine cameras and a range of lenses , all compatible with each other. On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome Marc Farb, Technical Rep from...

Making photographs regarding the important social issues of our day should not only be in the hands of photojournalists working for large news organizations. Greg Constantine and Monica Lozano, our guests on this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast as well as past guests of our program,  distribute and exhibit their work outside the familiar "news" outlets. Both use their photographic wo...

This week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is an old-fashioned hands-on review, but in this case, made with six hands.  Allan, Jason and I were fortunate to be loaned the Leica Q2 Digital Camera and the Leica Q2 Monochrom Digital Camera and we use our consideration of these 47MP cameras as a springboard to talk about camera grips, and point-and-shoot cameras , and value. We also talk about...

This is one of the most enjoyable chats on photography we've had in­ a while, and our subject is the history of amateur and popular photography as understood through photography how-to books and manuals. Joining us on the B&H Photography Podcast is Dr. Kim Beil , professor at Stanford University and author of Good Pictures: The History of Popular Photography , and with Beil we not only speak about...

It's macro week at the Explora blog and you'll find many helpful articles and videos about the tools, techniques, and practitioners of macro photography. On the podcast , however, we go deeper than macro, like 1000x deeper—our conversation is with geologist, gemologist, and microscopist Nathan Renfro , of the Gemological Institute of America . Renfro is a renowned photomicrographer, and his images...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we focus on the work of photographer Todd Webb and, specifically, the series of images he created in Africa in 1958, while on assignment for the United Nations. We are joined by Betsy Evans Hunt, the Executive Director of the Todd Webb Archive , and by Aimée Bessire and Erin Hyde Nolan, coauthors of the new book, Todd Webb in Africa —Outside...

When you have had as momentous a year as our guest, photographer Misan Harriman , had in 2020, you should shout it from the rooftops. However, on this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , Harriman offers us nothing but humility and gratitude for the work he has done, including creating the September 2020 cover photographs for British Vogue and the powerful images he made at Black Lives Matter...

On today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome back to the program B&H Senior Sales Trainer Kevin Rickert to discuss the latest cameras and lenses released over the past few months. For today's episode, we have the support of Audio-Technica and are using its BP40 Large Diaphragm Dynamic Broadcast Microphone . We start with Sony's new flagship camera, the Alpha A1 Mirrorless Digital...

This episode was first published in January 2018. The Canon sweepstakes mentioned in the episode has long since ended and is no longer valid. For some photographers, the phrase "run and gun" has a negative connotation, but when you're Norman Reedus , that description takes on a much cooler meaning, one that is accurate to his style and a compliment to his ability to "sense a moment." Reedus, most...

What is street photography? Is it an urban exercise? Is it black-and-white or color? Is it collaborative or solitary? Can it be an intimate portrait or a long-term project? These are some of the questions we ask of our guest on today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . And Gulnara Samoilova does not take the bait. Samoilova is interested in expanding street photography, not limiting it with...

Eye-catching and grotesque are words not often placed together, but those descriptors are part of the charm and beauty in the still life and food photography of Emma Ressel . Ressel joins us on this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast to discuss her practice, which takes inspiration from, among other things, Dutch Master paintings and her own upbringing in Maine. We talk with Ressel about the e...

This is the second episode of the B&H Photography Podcast produced with the collaboration of Leica Camera , and we are pleased to welcome photographer Stella Johnson to the show.  It is the "in-between moments of life" that Johnson describes as the subject of her work; work that includes books and documentary series made in Cameroon, Greece, Nicaragua, and Mexico. In this easy-going conversation,...

On today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome wedding and portrait photographer Kesha Lambert . We are excited to speak with Lambert about her approach to wedding photography on today's show, but she is also speaking at the upcoming 4th annual Depth of Field Portrait, Wedding, and Event Photography Conference , which is a free virtual event to be held on March 7 – 8, 2021. The con...

Live event and concert photography have obviously been drastically impacted by the global pandemic and related shutdowns. Let's give a shout-out to all the photographers, musicians, technicians, and crew who have struggled with the loss of that part of their income and craft, but also make time on the B&H Photography Podcast to talk about concert photography as we inch toward a hopeful return to l...

Has the Canon EOS R5 changed the conversation about using mirrorless cameras for bird and wildlife photography? This is the position of our guest, David Speiser who, this summer, traded his Canon 1D X Mark III for the R system camera and lenses. But his colleague, fellow bird photographer and—for now—DSLR stalwart Grace Scalzo , is not quite ready to make that switch. Today's episode of the B&H Ph...

When we started the B&H Photography Podcast more than six years ago, the concept was "watercooler conversations" with photographers, about gear. Well, honestly, it hasn't always turned out that way, but this episode with famed photojournalist David Burnett comes as close to that idea as any we have done; there's barely an edit in the whole episode. Burnett joins us, and we just talk. We start with...

Its hard to imagine a more ideal guest for a photography podcast than the wonderful Ralph Gibson .  Gibson checks all the boxes—a straight-up master of the medium, a man of insights and tales, with a comprehensive understanding of photography from the nuts and bolts to the conceptual rigors. After training in the Navy, he assisted the great Dorothea Lange in the darkroom, but found his calling as...

Photography has long been used as a tool to explore and analyze history, but in the hands of an artist, that same tool is not asked to be exacting or accurate to the historical record. If anything, artists challenge this idea of photography as fact. And for this reason, it is such a pleasure to welcome artist and photographer Barbara Mensch to the B&H Photography Podcast . Mensch has created a boo...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome Malike Sidibe to the show. With just 23 years under his belt, Sidibe has accomplished a lot in his relatively short time on planet Earth, and not just photographically. But 2020 has been quite a busy year, even for him.  His photography has generally been in the realm of editorial, fashion, and personal projects, and he has a lengt...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , photographer Matt Price describes skate photography as the "perfect blend between studio and sports photography" and, from our engaging conversation, this idea will be made clear. Price knows of what he speaks—in addition to an acclaimed freelance career, he has been a staff photographer and editor for The Skateboard Mag and is currently Bran...

I don't think I've ever seen Allan Weitz as happy as he was during our recording of this episode and, if you are into vintage cameras, lenses, and all things film photography, just sit back and enjoy our conversation with Bellamy Hunt, aka the  Japan Camera Hunter . The palpable enthusiasm between these two camera lovers cannot be feigned, and they talked like old friends about Nikon SP, Canon ran...