The Photowalk

An assignment today that will have you thinking on two creative levels; photographing and writing. Plus, this forms part of an announcement with regard to a new feature coming to the photowalk edition of a Friday. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you m...

We're in Scotland for the Photowalk retreat; seven photographers on the road, immersed in the most beautiful landscapes, walking by familiar and famous lochs, enjoying some photographic challenges - and you, have an open invitation to come along with us. Grab your walking boots and come for a 'wee amble' in the Highlands. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com .

Today's assignment is the fourth set by, as I describe her within the show, most prolific assignment setter so far of this series, Valerie Jardin. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Ex...

Australian Leica ambassador Russell Shakespeare talks about the importance of clicking with people before you even start clicking with the camera and how special India has been as his photo project muse across three decades. Also, getting creative with a drone, respects paid to Tim Page, photographing Rhino, a misty Swiss walk and being grateful despite the cancellation of a round the world trip o...

Today's assignment is set by Pulitzer prize-winning photographer Marissa Roth. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up so email what you make to stories@photowalk.show The show is supported by our Patrons and MPB.com .

SHOW NEWS: Photography Daily is now THE PHOTOWALK officially and we walk in Lillehammer, Norway, with our mailbag including letters today on empathy, legacy, Ukraine, the arts in Russia, Bullet Ants and giving a written narrative to your pictures. Special guest and Pulitzer prize winner Marissa Roth returns to talk about a forthcoming storytelling adventure to Nepal and we reveal the winners of MP...

Gabrielle Motola sets the third of her four assignments and this one is one of her more straightforward challenges or is it? Of course, as always, it's what you make it. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE . Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com .

Back from our two-week break, the second part of my walking conversation with the award-winning photojournalist Kieran Doherty. This week we talk together about his most potent and personal project about his parents, plus the power of the project being all around us and often when we least expect it. Your letters on the lifeline that is photography, scenes at the end of a tunnel and legacy film pr...

Karah Mew sets a challenge that will have you digging a little deep, because you're being asked this week to do something as photographers, we're not quite used to, or at least comfortable doing! All will be revealed, and we'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE . Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com .

Kevin Mullins returns for a second assignment, Fujifilm X-Photographer and my co-host on The FujiCast setting you a challenge that he uses as an exercise within his street photography workshops. This is one that will engage a further sense. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE . Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com .

Gabrielle Motola sets the second of her four assignments across the coming months and this one will have you photographing for the actual seven days, from whenever you listen to this episode! We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Also today, a final call to vote in this year's MPB.com Photo and Video Kit Hall of Fame for 2022. Email your assignment...

I walk this week in Farnborough, England, home of British aviation, with award-winning photojournalist Kieran Doherty for part one of his powerful life story behind the lens. Fired and importantly re-hired in one day by the global powerhouse of news agencies, Reuters, he went on to tell some of the most potent stories with his cameras across three decades of world events. It's an episode with much...

Ed Kashi, fresh from his appearance on Friday's Photowalk show returns to set an assignment and I feel honoured that this is one he hasn't set his international students, yet. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with following today's challenge, so please be sure to send your photographs to the show through the SHOW PAGE and I'll share the pictures you make for this challenge. My than...

Ed Kashi's Abandoned Moments, a Love Letter to Photography is our companion conversation as we walk with our cameras and from the show's mailbag, we're getting spooked in a German forest, wonder what the animals whose home is the ocean think about us as visiting photographers, we ponder some international photowalk retreats, talk about taking up photography full time, swim in the surf, plus someth...

Gabrielle Motola sets her first of four assignments across the coming months and this initial one will have you reaching for a rather different piece of kit, one that will most likely be analogue and one which may even have you leave your camera behind! We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE . Supported by our Patrons and MPB...

Four words to remember, that give the freedom to create when voices or life conspire to try and persuade us to take another path. Hannah Gimblett launches her first photo exhibition and refuses to let M.E. stop the show and Chris Harrison is shooting 1000 street portraits despite suffering anxiety. Also from the mailbag, what does a mundane picture actually mean, handling rejection, covered in col...

Kevin Mullins, Fujifilm X-Photographer and my co-host on The FujiCast sets this week's assignment and it's one that will have you photographing literally from the moment you wake up. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE . Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com .

Digging deep to make challenging pictures, I talk with Simon Townsley, twice winner of British Press Photographer of the Year about his recent assignments in Ukraine, and Afghanistan and trust in photojournalism. In the mailbag, climbing mountains to get fit and find mental well-being, three patrons who dug deep for their own picture-making experiences and is getting angry a positive way to make y...

Jim Sollows, for decades, mentoring and training new and established photographers to work with film. Today though, we ask, what are you not so confident with photographing? It's a mental as well as physical or technical challenge. We talk comfort zones and I'll be fascinated to see what you come up in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE . Supported by our patrons and MPB.com

Today Alex Kilbee changes direction after decades in portrait photography to become a YouTuber. We talk about imposter syndrome and suggest a way to tackle it, I'm getting excited about van life, we talk about projects and first books, rediscovering a love for photo taking and making and the first pictures you made and processed. See the SHOW PAGE for links referenced and my thanks to MPB.com and...

Street photographer and mentor Valerie Jardin returns for a third time to set an exciting photography challenge, a way to think about your picture-making for the next week. It's a challenge for everybody, whatever interests you have, and today, we're talking filters, but all is not as it seems? I would love to share the pictures you make for this challenge on the SHOW PAGE  from where you can also...

The only photowalk podcast of its kind, led by your letters from a weekly mailbag, and the pictures you make as we walk together. This week Austrian photographer Alex Frederickson shares her personal story about finding the photo project that eventually became her first book. We also talk about lowering your heart rate taking pictures, pictures in the mist, sound recording your street portrait sub...

Monday means assignment day where my special guest, photographer and YouTuber Alex Kilbee sets a photography challenge or a way to think about your picture-making for the next week. It's a challenge for everybody, whatever interests you have and today, we're asking you to think about the every day; the mundane! I would love to share the pictures you make for this challenge on the SHOW PAGE from wh...

A special today, as we both photowalk together in Gloucestershire with my guest Grant Scott on the United Nations of Photography, art and creative director, editor, writer, photographer, producer and the podcaster behind A Photographic Life. He shares his thoughts about Bob Dylan, working with the greats, the photographic philosopher Bill Jay, mentoring new photographers, social media and many oth...

We're very lucky to have Nick Brandt, the internationally respected environmental photographer as my special guest to set a unique photography assignment and as you're about to find out, this one may well be a challenge on many levels; for its message, for its wider meaning, for perhaps some writing, for the fact that you have more than the usual week. See the SHOW NOTES and my thanks to MPB.com a...