Prime Lenses

This week in a special episode I speak to Dan Rubin about his beta testing of the new software by Affinity and what a powerful and free. creative suite of tools means for the next generation of creatives. More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small fast prime that they ha...

My guest today is Ted Forbes. A photographer and educator from the US who has made videos online for over 16 years. He released a book last year summarising his thoughts and feeling about the art form and spends much of his time on workshops traveling the world and sharing knowledge. I’ve watched Ted’s videos for pretty much all of those 16 years so the opportunity to spend a hour speaking with hi...

In this special episode I speak with AJ Woomer and Dan Rubin about AJ’s first book of photography, It Feels Like The Beginning Again . More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small fast prime that they had in their youth. Prime Lenses is a series of interviews with pho togr...

Davide De Martis is an Italian photographer known for his portraiture of cars and people. He is a student of the visual arts and a treat to spend time with. I tracked Davide down because when I was in Germany at the Leica event, someone had driven there in a very fancy Lamborghini with Italian plates. I posted a picture to socials and was challenged by a listener to find the owner of the vehicle a...

This week, a special extra episode with Phil Penman to talk about his new book, Street Scenes . More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small fast prime that they had in their youth. Prime Lenses is a series of interviews with pho tographers talking about their photography...

Jasper Fforde is a writer based in Wales. He writes absurdist fiction which I love, but I only recently discovered after 20 years of reading his books, that he’s also a photographer. Shooting film pretty much exclusively he has a collection of amazing vintage film cameras that rivals any selection I’ve ever come across. In the episode we talk about Alice Longstaff’s photos and you can find out mor...

This week I was able to sit down with friend of the show Brandon Ruffin to talk about his new book, Migration Patterns . In this first book, Brandon shares images that help us to understand his family journey, his heritage and will encourage readers to reflect on where we come from and where we’re going. We also discuss Rahim Fortune’s book Hard Tack, Jamel Shabazz’s A Time Before Crack and Shin N...

Ellie Rothnie is an award winning wildlife photographer based in the UK but as you’ll hear spends more time on the road than at home. A passionate photographer, she picked up a camera along side a “real job” before ditching the nine to five of agency life for one making photos, leading workshops and experiencing the incredible beauty that our natural world has to offer. More about this show: A cam...

This week I’m in London to speak to Mathieu Bitton, a photographer I’ve admired for some time and was lucky enough to meet in Germany earlier this year. He took time out from his work on tour with Dave Chappelle to talk to me about his love of vintage lenses and his home city of Paris as depicted in his new book, Paris Blues . More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time wit...

This week I was able to sneak in an extra episode, talking about the new Hektor lenses from Leitz Cine . Seth was gracious enough to sit down with me for a little bonus episode. More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small fast prime that they had in their youth. Prime Len...

Like many folks I like to talk to on the show, Bil Brown is a multi-media artist. He studied writing and poetry but things changed for him when he saw a Leica round Allen Ginsberg’s neck. I was initially interested in how Bil’s commercial and political work coexisted but as you’ll hear, like me he loves to just dive in and our conversation is very wide ranging covering composition, motivation, gea...

This week my guest is Laurence Bouchard, a British photo grapher based in Tokyo. He captures the rain soaked streets in incredible detail, his images are also most graphic illustration as much as they are photos and I wanted to speak to him about he approaches the futuristic city he calls home, what it was like to be in a short film shot on vintage glass, and whether he’s fully acclimatised now he...

Pete Souza is a former Whitehouse photographer, serving during the latter part of the Reagan Presidency, but was better known to me as the head of photography for the Obama Whitehouse where he and his team made an archive of almost two million images, made history by capturing the first official presidential portrait on a digital camera, and captured moments big and small for posterity. Pete has a...

My guest today is Goughie , a phot ographe r and YouTuber in the UK who shoots a variety of photo projects on his various systems to share with his audience online. From posting to a small number of folks back in 2019, he has grown his following and as you’ll hear, I think has a healthy balance to his work online. It’s in service of the photos he wants to make, not the other way around. More about...

My guests today are Charys Schuler and Marwan El Mozayen from Silvergrain Classics. In an age of AI an d digital consumption on ever increasing numbers of screens, they are charting a path in the opposite direction. Analogue photography of all kinds is celebrated every quarter in their beautiful magazine which they produce in Germany and send around the world. They are also half of a new company S...

This is a midweek mini episode to go along with the newsletter this week. I’m speaking with a few friends about upcoming projects. Hope you enjoy it! Guests - Tom Oldham & @hann_onfilm More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small fast prime that they had in their youth...

Welcome to a slightly different format this week as my guests are Joel Meyerowitz , Maggie Barrett , Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter . They are the creative team behind Two Strangers Trying not to Kill Each Other , a documentary following the life of Maggie and Joel, two artists reckoning with aging, their relationship with one another and their work. A chance encounter with Jacob and Manon in t...

Mynxxi White is a photographer and filmmaker from New York City. Specialising in celebrity portrait and commercial work she started out as a makeup artist and then creative director but was frustrated by some of her collaborators to the point that nearly 10 years ago she picked up the camera herself and hasn’t looked back. We missed each other in Germany earlier this year so I’m thrilled that we g...

Jack Lodge is a land scape and wildlife photographer based in the south of England. This conversation is well timed as he’s gradually moving from purely landscape to wildlife with a little bit of astral in there for good measure, and if I had to guess I wouldn’t be surprised if film showed up at some point in the not too distant future. He was lovely company, I hope you enjoy this chat with Jack....

This week on the show I spoke with Sam aka 2bitboy, the c reator of the 2bittoy, a mod ification kit for the gameboy camera. You can 3D print this add on kit, take the innards of your Gameboy Camera out, put them in this shell and then use the camera with a variety of lenses. This was exactly the sort of madness I wanted to delve into and Sam was kind enough to give up some of his weekend to talk...

For the next four weeks, in addition to the regular Sunday episode, I’ll be dropping a special episode with interviews from a recent event I attended. Leica invited me to their centenary celebrations at the end of June, they were celebrating 100 years on continuous camera manufacture and they invited a few of their closest friends to attend and celebrate with them. I was invited to interview a num...

Marcus Haslam is a photogr apher from the south of England who has retraced his roots in the north to make pictures of his hometown. Blackpool has changed a lot over the years and you’ll hear about his motivation to make the project, what he found and what he’s doing with the images now that he has them. It was wonderful to catch up with a friend and former colleague. More about this show: A camer...

This is the third episode in a special series of interviews from a recent event I attended. This episode features my conversation with Inas Fayed and Sarah M. Lee. Leica invited me to their centenary celebrations at the end of June, they were celebrating 100 years of continuous camera manufacture and they invited a few of their closest friends to attend and celebrate with them. I was invited to in...

Scott Toepfer is part of a proud tradition of folks who drop out of what they were doing to drop in on their calling. He has worked as a microbiologist, photographer, producer, director, I’d say triple threat but I’m not sure that covers it all. I first discovered him through his 2011 book It’s better in the Wind. The book accompanied a short film and when I started the podcast I realised I should...

For the next four weeks, in addition to the regular Sunday episode, I’ll be dropping a special episode with interviews from a recent event I attended. Leica invited me to their centenary celebrations at the end of June, they were celebrating 100 years on continuous camera manufacture and they invited a few of their closest friends to attend and celebrate with them. I was invited to interview a num...