Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton

Photographer, RIT Professor, and owner of Booksmart Studio, Eric Kunsman talks about his ongoing multi-faceted and social activist project, Felicific Calculus, Technology as a Social Marker of Race, Class, & Economics in Rochester, NY. Eric discusses how the work started and was influenced by his experiences growing up in declining steel town and later, as an adult, his family faced a dire fin...

Photographer and curator, Anne Immelé and Michael have a fascinating coversation about curating shows that take into account both sight and sound. We also talk about Anne’s new book, Les Jardins De Riesthal or Riesthal Gardens, a series of poetic portraits of family and landscape within a community garden that Anne tended to with her family for a period of 15 years. http://www.anneimmele.fr https:...

In this episode of Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton, Michael and photographer, Vanessa Winship, have a wonderful conversation about two bodies of work she made in the United States, She Dances on Jackson, published by MACK, and her most recent book, SNOW, published by Deadbeat Club. Vanessa talks about how both of these books began, the former as a proposal and the latter as an assignmen...

Jennifer Cabral is an artist and Library Collection Photographer. Jennifer took part in a group show at the JKC Gallery, curated by me and Ryann Casey, titled The Road Home. Jennifer shared work that included the project, Mine_IRA which explored the trauma of the destruction of homeland caused by industrial mining as well as the trauma from experiencing sexual abuse. This work has continued in a t...

Ara Oshagan joined Michael in the JKC Gallery to talk about his work and his book, displaced, published by Kehrer Verlag. Ara is a descendant of family that was displaced by the Armenian Genocide and he was born in Beirut, Lebanon where his family was displaced again by the Lebanese Civil War. We talk about how his conceptual and documentary work about displacement and diaspora are so closely tied...

Pradip Malde joined Michael Chovan-Dalton and Ryann Casey for a live show at the JKC Gallery to talk about his book, From Where Loss Comes, published by Charcoal Books. From Where Loss Comes is an unblinking look at how sacrifice and belonging are deeply rooted in the human experience. Sixty photographs and close to 9,000 words consider pain and suffering that is private, sacrificial, and yet ratt...

MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowship awardee Wendy Ewald virtually visits with Michael Chovan-Dalton to talk about Wendy’s books, The Devil is Leaving His Cave, recently published by MACK and the expanded reissue of Portraits and Dreams, also published by MACK. We talk about Wendy’s interest in collaboration and how you have to let go of some of your expectations. Slideshow: https://youtu.be/h3roT2...

https://youtu.be/ee3QoKxI7Nw -------- This episode with Collette Fournier can only be released as a video because Collette presented her life's work with a slideshow presentation so head on over to the Photo Show Live YouTube channel to watch Collette talk about her life in photography. Collette V. Fournier has an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College and a BSfrom RIT in Communications and Photo...

Episode Notes Just a quick update about shows coming in September at the JKC Gallery.

Riley Goodman and Michael Chovan-Dalton talk about Riley’s first monograph, From Yonder Wooded Hill published by Fall Line Press. YouTube link for artist presentation: https://youtu.be/iZTxlEnHlzU?t=1140 _From Yonder Wooded Hill _investigates what we choose to remember versus what chooses to remember us. Based in the Patapsco River Valley of Maryland and expanding to his ancestral West Virginia an...

Rich-Joseph and Michael Chovan-Dalton talk about how he accidentally became a photographer and his two new books, Black Diamonds pub by Fall Line Press and Little Cities pub by Little Oak Press. See the slideshow of Rich-Joseph's work at: https://youtu.be/OcYXvfkshT8 https://facun.com Photo Show Live is sponsored by Charcoal Book Club https://charcoalbookclub.com Rich-Joseph Facun is a photographe...

Photographer and educator, Lois Conner and I talk about her amazing life in photography, her many influences, including working at the United Nations, love of art history, and of course, her work, including Lois' most recent show, Flat Earth. It was such a pleasure to have Lois on as my former thesis instructor, friend, and 150th guest on the show. This also marks that last regular episode for a w...

Part 2 of 2 of my conversations with presenters at the CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit April 19-20, 2022 at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. In this episode I speak with Dr. Tara Pixley. Tara and I talk about her presentation with Daniella Zalcman on the state of photography in 2022. We discuss the report and its findings, including the under-representation of historically ma...

Part 1 of 2 of my conversations with presenters at the CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit April 19-20, 2022 at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. In part 1 I speak with Mabel Jiménez and Josué Rivas about their then upcoming presentation on who gets to tell the story and how the story is made. We preview the talk and also speak about their own work and experiences in the documenta...

Photographer Alanna Airitam and I have a fabulous conversation about how she left the corporate world, taught herself photography, and how it may have saved her life. We talk about Alanna's breakout work, The Golden Age, and the process by which anger, frustration, and responding to injustice inspires her to make beautiful and important imagery.   The Golden Age is showing at the Center for Creati...

Photographer Rick Schatzberg and I talk about his book, The Boys published by powerHouse Books. It's a book about mortality, vulnerability, and resilience. It reminisces about the lives of 14 men now in their 60's who all grew up as friends on Long Island, including Rick, and the project started when two of the men died within a year of each other.   https://rickschatzberg.com   This episode is sp...

Photographer, Chrystofer Davis and I talk about the different decisions and influences in his life that lead him to photography and how he had to diverge from the family tradition of going into medicine. We also talk about the mission he is on to represent Newark, New Jersey in a way that shows the city is more than what we get reported by the media and Chrystofer previews a new book that he is wo...

Patrice Helmar and John O'Toole join me to talk about the Marble Hill Camera Club entering its sixth year. When the pandemic hit Patrice had to figure out how to keep the much beloved photography open mic night going. In collaboration with John M. O'Toole of Oranbeg Press, they landed on shorter virtual evenings with free e-zines for every guest available to everyone. We talk about the past, prese...

I catch up with photographer and professor, Tony Chirinos about his first monograph, The Precipice published by Gnomic Book.   https://www.tonychirinos.com https://gnomicbook.com/collections/books/products/the-precipice   This episode is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club, a monthly subscription service for photobook enthusiasts. Working with the most respected names in contemporary photography, ...

Thank you everyone for listening to the show and I hope we have a healthier New Year. -Michael (My apologies if this episode showed up twice. I had a corrupted audio file.)

Karen Marshall is a documentary photographer and Chair of the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program at ICP. We talk about her recent book, Between Girls published by Kehrer Verlag. The project started in 1985 when Karen began photographing a group of teenagers in New York City. A decade older than them, her intent was to look at the emotional bonding that happens between girls at age...

Chris Facey is a documentary and portrait photographer. We talk about his three current projects, #DadDutyProject, which focuses on debunking the myth of absentee fathers in the Black and Brown community, Being Careful: Carrying More Than A Burden, where he hopes to bring awareness and change to the safety concerns of women, and Tale of Two Pandemics: Racism and Covid-19 which has been published i...

Photographer and poet, Nat Ward returns to the show to talk about three of his latest projects. Nat created his first monograph in 2020 titled Big Throat, published by Kris Graves Projects. His web collaboration with Ben Alper, A New Nothing, was published as a three volume series each one curated by three different artists, John Pilson, Dan Paz, and S*ean D. Henry-Smith, published by Sleeper Stud...

Elodie Mailliet Storm is the CEO of CatchLight. Catchlight is a nonprofit media organization that discovers and develops visual storytellers through the practices of art, journalism, and social justice. Elodie and I talk about CatchLight's new California Visual News Desk which is an evolutionary next step in their goal of collaborating with local media outlets and areas that are in need of good vi...

Joe and I talk about his life in photography and his long tenure teaching photography at Fordham University. His current show Being and There is now up at Aurelia Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You can view the show at: https://www.aureliagallery.com/current-exhibition http://www.josephlawton.com https://www.instagram.com/joelawton_photography/ Joseph Lawton has taught photography at Fordham Uni...