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Brandon Talbot is a Photogra pher, videographer and YouTuber who has been sharing his photography journey for some time. He loves landscapes and has recently started to print his work with an eye on books and other physical media in the future. One of the things I really like about Brendon is his growth mindset. He has previously been an athlete and he applies this sensibility to his craft and I l...

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...

Gaston Shutters is a photograp her and entrepreneur. Like me he’s dabbled in a bunch of industries from tech to tattoos but as you’ll hear, the through line is a consistent love of making and tools. Now, at his company Owl Krown, he’s go t the band back together and is making a host of great looking straps. Gaston was in the office the day I spoke to him so there’s some coming and goings which I t...

My guest today is Brandon Ruffin. Brandon was Leica’s ambassador for the M11-D but as you’ll hear throughout the conversation he is a lover of image making on just about any type of digital or film camera. He understands the importance of experience and the impact that can then have on the things you make. He also works at Google on the camera team and I am so glad that someone with a real underst...

My guest this week is Amelia Le Brun . She’s a photographer b ased in the UK who shoots everything from cars to lifestyle and very occasionally her delicious VW camper van. She loves to shoot film as well as digital and we had a great talk about what she chooses to shoot and why. More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eye...

My guest today is Summer Murdock , a Utah b ased photograp her and photography educator who specialises in kids, lifestyle, and portraiture. She shoots everything, stills and motion, and my favourite images of hers are collections she’s made under water. You’ll hear in our conversation that she’s not stranger to a busy set but knows how to craft and find light for quieter sessions too. I love the...

My guest this week is Nick Rains. One of t he great perks of making this show is getting to sit down for a while with someone whose work you’ve enjoyed. Nick has had a long career that has seen his photographic horizons shift from small terraced houses in Manchester to broad landscapes in countries all over the world. I came across his videos on YouTube and his calm, methodical approach has introd...

Lucy Lumen is a Phot ographer, writer and YouTuber based in Australia. Like a number of recent guests, she shoots a great deal of film of her client and personal work. She’s got a really healthy attitude to gear, working closely with her husband to get the right tools for the job and her healthy approach to gear means she doesn’t obsess. What I do like is that she focuses her attention on the idea...

Dan Rubin is a pho tographer, creative director and designer based in the UK. His career has taken him around the world shooting campaigns with a variety of cameras and formats. As you’ll hear, I caught up with Dan ahead of Photo London to talk abo ut how he came back around to film, how Polaroid was instrumental in showing him something magical in analogue things and why he’s so excited by the Wi...

Michael is the founder of photo sharing app, Foto. He started the project with the goal of making a better place to share images. One that is designed to embrace photography and help you enjoy it in a human way as opposed to using our favourite art form to sell us bags and show us meme videos. We discuss where the idea came from, how he allowed it to develop slowly over time and what he and the sm...

Catriona is an a rtist who lives in the same village as me. She is primarily a photographer with a specialism in portraiture, weddings and brand photos. As you’ll hear from our conversation she’s worked hard to make sure the there work is satisfying to her creatively whatever the medium and I admire the way that she’s created space for her work around her family life and embraces the fact that her...

Craig Mod is a writer, walker and photographer based in Japan. He has lived there for over 20 years and I love this work. If anything the podcast is proof to me that if you follow folks for long enough you’ll eventually find a way to work together. Craig has a new book coming out next week so now seemed like the perfect time to sit down with him to discuss making images, leaning into limitations a...

Tom Oldham is a photographer specialising in portraits and he’s shot everyone. Athletes, olympians, footballers, models, everyone from Liam Gallagher and Jack White to Usain Bolt. His images are wonderful, he takes creative risks which I love and we also discuss work he does in education to get photography into schools. More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photo...

Amy Elizabeth is an entrepreneur, photographer and teacher from the USA. She develops film soup, makes self-portraits and her own podcast so is just the sort of busy creative person I like to have on the show. As you’ll hear, her creativity is also grounded in supporting her and her family practically as well as creatively. More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with p...

Henley Bailey is a photographer and entrepreneur based in the UK. His business, Akara Labs , makes accessories for Leica and Pixii rangefinder style cameras with more on the way, and we had a great chat about professional photography and making things as well as revealing an exciting new product idea! More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll...

Scott Evans is a photographer based in the Bay Area of the USA. His portrait and commercial work is fantastic and I loved talking to him about his start in photography, the lenses he loves his favourite photography podcast ;) 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 fa...

Chris Erickon is a YouTuber, Producer and photographer from the USA who taught me and thousands of others how to get cheap Polaroid film. He’s a passionate creator and came to the show with some great lenses we’ve never discussed before and a lovely story of his Grandfather’s car. More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty ey...

Phil Penman is a world renowned street photographer. An Englishman in New York for 25 years he’s shot major world events, chased weather across the globe and more recently turned his hand to books and workshops. 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...

Danny Bligh is a photographer and videographer based in the USA. He’s a dear friend and was my first guest on Prime Lenses so it seemed fitting to bring him back for the first episode of year 2. We talk all things Canon, Leica and even sneak in some instant film. 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...

Tommy Ga-Ken Wan , a Scottish photographer based in Glasgow who I struck up a conversation with on social media when he picked up a Ricoh GR a few years back. Over the years I’ve admired his work in the arts photographing theatre and dance and some comedy greats. He’s even recently featured in some work himself. Tommy speaks to me not only as a photographer but also as a person who is aware of wha...

Jess is a Canadian photographer , my second one of those in fact, whose work I came across via the brilliant I Dream of Cameras. She has shot Formula 1 on film and has a love of fixed lens medium format, something which if the rumours are true, could make a comeback some time this year. I was delighted to talk to someone who thinks carefully about documenting life through a lens as well as being h...

This week my guest is Joseph DiGiovanna , a creative director, filmmaker, photographer and composer based in New York City who is undertaking an amazing project to photograph the New York City skyline over a 30-year period . We meet him as he celebrates 10 years of the project and hopefully you’ll find this conversation to be is a lovely blend of art and science, and exactly the sorts of chats I w...

This week my guest is Ethan Swope . He’s a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles covering local and international news including the war in Ukraine, immigration in Mexico and Lebanon, wildfires in California, and civil unrest in the United States and the Middle East. I spoke to him to get an understanding of his work around the recent wildfires in California. If you’d like to do...

This week my guest is Alex Taylor of Pennine Heritage , a group who are caring for and celebrating the work of Alice Longstaff . Alice was a photographer who lived in the north of England and made photographs throughout her life. They’ve just released their first book titled End of the Roll . More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them...

George Holden is a Street Photographer and YouTuber who has been a regular poster since 2018. Based in Manchester he shoots digital and film and has as of 2025 decided to simplify his kit down to 2 cameras. For now. This was one camera adjacent enough for me to want to get him on the show, he said yes, and here we are :) More about this show: A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with phot...