Street Photography Magazine Podcast

Stephen McLaren, editor of Magnum Streetwise , is a freelance photographer, author, curator, former TV Producer and aspiring script writer. Born and raised in Scotland, he now resides in Los Angles, California. In addition to being a very talented writer Stephen is also a highly accomplished street photographer himself. Some of his personal street photography is displayed in this article. Magnum S...

Blogging about your street photography carries with it some huge benefits. You’ll see traffic to your website increase and you’ll notice the people who come stay longer as they get to know your work on a new level. In a world flooded with street photography images, writing about your photography will make your images stand out as unique. Your images will carry more weight as you shed l...

Michael Stern is Los Angeles based commercial photographer who specializes in construction and industrial still photography and timelapse photography. But he’s much more than that. Michael leverages his artistic and technical skills to become a storyteller of his clients’ projects. His motto is: Think like an artist. Shoot like a director. Edit like a storyteller. These words of wisdom...

Alex Casares spends most of his workday driving throughout his vast rural Arizona county.  He loves it because it gives him the ability to take his camera to pursue his passion for street photography while he works. Because he visits open desert, small towns and urban areas through the day results in a an eclectic style making photos of a wide variety of subjects.  In any single say he can make im...

©David Ingraham I started publishing Street Photography Magazine almost by accident. For the past 10 years I’ve owned a web development business that specializes in creating online training websites. Back in 2013 I was researching some new iPad magazine technology that looked like a good application to be used for courses to be delivered over time. After purchasing a license to create a magazine a...

Last December I had the pleasure of finally meeting New York photographer Lauren Welles at the Miami Street Photography Festival. I’ve been a big fan of her work ever since we featured her in Street Photography Magazine in our January 2016 issue . It’s one thing to meet someone through our virtual world and it’s another sit down and bread bread with them. This week Lauren stopped...

Mermaid As a long time actor, Maria Ricossa knows people. You could say she’s an expert on human behavior. She has spent a considerable amount of time thinking about what makes different kinds of people and characters tick, and she uses this ability to her advantage when she hits the streets of Toronto where she now resides. Interestingly enough, Maria doesn’t spend much of her time sh...

Craig Strong, photojournalist, commercial photographer, founder of Lensbaby and its Chief Creative Officer has mastered the art of reinventing himself over the years. Along the way he has pushed the envelope in both his businesss and personal creativity. As a wedding photographer in the early 2000s Craig create the original Lensbaby to give his photos a more organic look to the images created by s...

Typically we publish our podcast every other Thursday, but I’m adding a special one this week because I am so take with the work of today’s guest Meryl Meisler who I had the pleasure of meeting in person at the Miami Street Photography Festival back in December. Meryl is a native of new York City is a photographer, teacher and author who has been recording her life and the world around her with a...

The Street Shooters of the Month feature has been going strong in Street Photography Magazine since our second issue, which was published in June of 2013. Our setup was a little different in those first few issues, but these days we get heaps of submissions through our website each month. So many of them come from such talented street photographers that it is often hard to choose which ones to pub...

Just this week, Bob and I had the pleasure of speaking with Carmine Groe, a Toronto based street photographer. Carmine is not only a talented street shooter with some wicked post processing skills, he’s also become quite adept at YouTubing over the past couple of years. Carmine’s YouTube channel is called Groe Photography and regarding his videos he says the goal is to communicate &#82...

While many people are saying “good riddance” to 2018, for Street Photography Magazine we’re sad to see it go. 2018 was a great year for the magazine, which saw a spectacular line up of street photographers and images. In fact, I’d wager this year we had some of our best content to-date. In this episode of the Street Photography Magazine podcast, we look back on last year an...

Earlier this month, Bob talked about  Why it’s Important to Have Your Own Online Photography Portfolio  on the podcast. He discussed some of the reasons why creating an online portfolio is vital if you want your work to be discovered and appreciated by others. While you may understand the reasons having an online portfolio is important, you may not feel equipped to take on the task. After all, for...

  Growing up in the 50s and 60s I was taught to think of Cuba as an enemy state full of communists and Russians threatening our security and way of life. With no contact between our countries it remained an enigma to me most of my life. But I was also very curious about this place and was interested in seeing what it’s like for myself. Fast forward several years, it finally became possible fo...

Welcome back to the Street Photography Magazine podcast. It’s really good to be back I apologize for publishing this two days late. Normally republish every other Thursday, but due to a freakish winter storm in the Carolinas I got stuck in Miami (if there is such a thing) for two extra days after the Miami Street Photography Festival. Miami Street Photography Festival I just returned form the Miam...

Today we discuss the importance of having your own photography web presence (a portfolio), the pitfalls of relying on “free” services like Facebook and Flickr as a portfolio, the best practices for creating and managing you online portfolio, common mistakes and the most common obstacles to making a personal photography website. I’m also pleased to welcome Portfoliobox as our spon...

Here’s a quick reminder about our Facebook group. It’s still small and very active with some very talented and passionate street photographers. You can join it by visiting talkstreetphotography.com. That link will take you straight to the join page. If you tried to join over the last 2 weeks please accept my apologies for any delays. I didn’t realize it, but I was logged in as myself instead of th...

Can you believe it’s November already?   It seems like summer just started and now we’re heading back into winter…at least up here in the norther hemisphere. First I’d like to give a plug to our Facebook   group called the   The Street Photography Community. It’s a small but mighty and very active group of highly motivated street photographers who are there to help each other in all areas of stree...

The subject of our episode today is what I call the three P’s. Project, Passion, and Persistence. It’s really The hero of our story is Andy Hann, a creative director with Sony Studios in the Los Angeles area. Andy decided one day that he wanted to create a photo project about the people who frequent Hollywood Boulevard. If you’ve never been there it’s probably one of the quirkiest places in Americ...

Our guest today is Kerry Faulkner, an Australian journalist / photojournalist and educator based in the city of Perth.   Her work has been published in The Walkley Magazine, The Australian Travel and Indulgence, Scoop Magazines, R.M. Williams Outback Magazine, The Sunday Times and too many others to list here.   Needless to say she’s quite busy. Kerry tells us that in today’s market journalists no...

© Copyright – Harvey Stein Our guest today is Harvey Stein. He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography, (ICP) in New York and teaches a series of photography workshops around the world. His work is been exhibited around the world and is the recipient of numerous awards. Also he’s been published in dozens of magazines like the New Yorker, Time Magazine, life Magazin...

This is a special edition of the podcast all about the upcoming Miami Street Photography Festival coming soon in December. I’m writing this on Friday, September 14 as hurricane Florence is just making landfall in North Carolina. Earlier this week it looked like we were going to be overtaken by insanely heavy rain here in Central Virginia, so we scrambled to finish the magazine early…just in case w...

I’m finally settling in from our epic move to beautiful Central Virginia. A few times I was beginning to feel like Moses, but things are beginning to get back to normal. Except for the hurricane of course. That’s something I never had to think about in the great white north. September Issue of SPM scheduled to publish on Saturday, September 15 Last month we switched up our publishing s...

It’s been a few weeks since our last podcast and that’s because my schedule has been absolutely crazy. Or preparing to move out of state and just a few weeks and I didn’t realize how disruptive this whole process would be. But once we settle into our new home thing should really settle down and will be able to get back on a regular schedule. By the way we typically publish the podcast twice a mont...

Copyright Matt Jerrams   In case you didn’t know it, the June issue of Street Photography Magazine issue is out…in fact we released it a little early this month due to our travel schedules. Ashley was in LA with her husband enjoying the sites and improving her Vietnamese skills.   She has a natural affinity for languages and I’m sure she’ll have it mastered in no time. Me, I’ve been all over...