B&H Photography Podcast

For our final episode of 2020, we look back at the year that was—and what a year it was. We learned new remote recording skills and virtual conversation styles, but the B&H Photography Podcast never missed a beat; we recorded an episode the very first week of quarantine and have continued recording throughout this unprecedented time. Many aspects of this production were made significantly more dif...

I think most photographers have tried to document their experience during the COVID-19 shutdown, but none have done it quite like Neil Kramer . Kramer is riding out the pandemic in a two-bedroom apartment in Queens, New York, with his 86-year-old mother and his ex-wife. Did I mention that this is the apartment in which he grew up… and that he is living with his mother and his ex-wife?  Kramer has...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome photographer Matthew Franklin Carter to the program.  Like many photographers, Matt Carter wears a lot of hats. In his case, literally and figuratively, but his photography work blends documentary, editorial, and portrait work and reflects the place he calls home—Greenville, South Carolina. He shoots for regional and specialty maga...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we offer an insightful overview of the best cameras released in 2020 and discuss significant trends in the photography industries. Our guest is Kevin Rickert, Senior Sales Trainer for B&H Photo. Rickert is often the first person at B&H to get new cameras in his hands and is responsible for training our staff on the features of a wide variety...

Today we welcome back to the B&H Photography Podcast , Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and friend to the show, Salwan Georges . Georges joined us four years ago to talk about his documentary project centered around the Arabic communities in Michigan, but a lot has changed since then, and today he joins us to discuss his work covering the 2020 presidential campaigns for the Washington Post ....

What a treat to welcome photographer Ami Vitale to the B&H Photography Podcast . Vitale is mustering her high profile as a National Geographic photographer, as well as the talents of eighty-nine other incredible photographers, to raise funds for Conservation International. The Prints for Nature Sale runs until December 10, 2020 and offers gorgeous gallery-quality prints at a very affordable price....

On November 22 and 23, B&H will host the 2020 OPTIC All-Stars Conference , with a stellar list of outdoor, travel, and adventure photographers giving online presentations and, on this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we are pleased to welcome one of those photographers: Rachel Jones Ross . Ross is landscape and night sky photographer based near Banff, in the Canadian Rockies, and ou...

Eight months ago, on the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcomed four photojournalists who were covering the beginning stages of the COVID-19 crisis in New York . We discussed their fears and the stories they hoped to cover; we also discussed safety precautions, limited access to subjects, and altered workflows. It was the beginning of a new reality. On today's episode, we welcome back two of those...

Our guest on this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is Sam Hurd. While he is primarily a wedding photographer , I have no doubt that he could photograph anything and make it look interesting. Hurd is also a portrait photographer; he dabbles in landscape work; and is a passionate photo educator. A few minutes listening to this episode and it becomes clear that he can articulate his proc...

In the 1970s, under the aegis of the Great Society's Model Cities Program, photographer Earlie Hudnall, Jr. began to document the predominantly African American neighborhoods of Houston's 3rd, 4th, and 5th wards, and for more than forty years he has continued to create an indelible portrait of life in these neighborhoods. To be sure, Hudnall has photographed all around the world, and worked for ye...

Recognized as a premier headshot and portrait photographer, Peter Hurley has quite the tale to tell. His work is known for the genuine expressions he captures, and he has grown his business into an international organization. He is also an in-demand speaker and photo educator, but Hurley has an interesting "origin story" when it comes to photography, and we will discuss how he went from being a co...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome collector, curator, author, and educator W.M. Hunt . Part of the incredible photography collection Hunt has acquired over the years is being auctioned by the famed Christies auction house, and Hunt joins us to chat about the genesis of his collection, that hard-to-define attraction to an image that inspires a purchase, and his hope...

This is an encore episode, originally published in 2018, before the death of basketball player, Kobe Bryant.  Today we welcome two of professional basketball's best photographers, and that's not just me talking. Nat Butler is Senior Photographer for NBA Entertainment and has worked the last thirty-three NBA Finals. He is also the official photographer for the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets. And...

It is important to be reminded of the power of photography to educate and explore, and to be a vehicle of self-expression, even self-realization. Equally crucial—through process and through memory—photography's ability to bring people together, to share and to collaborate, is vital.  On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome a photographer who has built her life's work aro...

For the headline of this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we lifted a line from our guest's own Instagram bio. It would have been too easy to title a show with Walter Iooss, Jr . "Sports Photography Legend" or some such, but that pigeonholes Iooss too easily, and does not recognize the scope of his engagement with photography and with the creative process. Yes, Walter Iooss, Jr. is...

As museums in New York and around the world begin to reopen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a brand-new museum is facing the challenge of its grand reopening in the competitive New York City art and culture world. We welcome to the B&H Photography Podcast the inaugural Director of Exhibitions of Fotografiska, Amanda Hajjar, to discuss the unique model of this for-profit arts center and their...

This is a wonderful conversation for fans of mirrorless cameras, of classic lens design, of the venerable M-mount, and, really, of photography. The joy that our host Allan Weitz exudes while discussing a few of his current favorite lenses is as contagious as it is educational. And I feel that this episode provides a bolt of creative curiosity that might infuse my own photography. For this week's e...

On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome editor, educator, and photographer Joan Liftin and Michelle Dunn Marsh, founder and publisher at Minor Matters . In the first half of the show, we speak with Liftin about her latest book, Water for Tears , and then we focus on Minor Matters and the unique business model this publishing house utilizes. We also discuss the person who...

One of the remarks that stuck with me from this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast was Alison Rossiter's casual mention, "I know how to rock a tray." Rossiter is noted for her cameraless fine art photo prints, often made on expired photographic paper, some sheets dating back one hundred years or more. Her comment was a simple reference to how she guides developing solution over paper in...

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...