The Photowalk

It's the photography show that takes a walk with the mailbag and makes photos. This week urban exploration! We reveal the lowest trick in advertising photography, we remember our parents' cameras, we launch the new 365 feature, hear about a photographer who has been exploring a part of China that was raised to the ground during the 2008 earthquake, tackle imposter syndrome and ask why do we place...

If ever you have thought; "How can I make a real difference to people with my photography," I think this episode is for you and I sense you'll be moved by this special midweek edition. It's a very personal story at times, yet equally an appeal by one of the original co-founders of Remember My Baby, a registered charity which offers a free gift of baby remembrance photography to parents experiencin...

Walking a short slither of the Trans Pennine Trail today through Leeds with your mails, thoughts and pictures that you've been making. This week we talk about virtual gallery experiences, Australian photo lockdowns, inspiring young picture makers, making better portraits and dealing with tricky sitters! We also talk about adding sound to your pictures and hear part 2 of an inspirational chat with...

The new Friday Photowalk season starts complete with guest Edmond Terakopian, one of the UK's most respected photojournalists talking about photographic passion. Also this week, shoot without pressure, long exposures, to mask or not to mask on photographic commissions, showing the real you on social media and can you make a best selling photobook with just an iPhone? Inspirational guest appearance...

BIG changes announced today with a new show and new website feature for the next year! Well, 365 days at least; that's a clue. Also, do you use Affinity to edit? What do you think about Insta, really!?! The best inspiration to start your new photo project, photographing in sub zero temperatures where your fingers will freeze, the choir stops Neale in his tracks and street photographers helping eac...

Commercial documentary photographer Finn Beales lives the photographic life of dreams. He has a wondrous inquiring eye wherever he is in the world whether he's shooting work for Cartier, Omega or photographing his own life and passions, a potent reminder that there is story in everything you do and everywhere you go. "Always have your camera with you," as a sentiment screams at me as I look throug...

It's the show of the week where we walk together with our cameras and I'll bring a microphone and mailbag too. Today we talk passion projects, what conflict photography has achieved, setting out on a new photography journey whatever your age, we're on the final leg of the Camino trail in Spain, go for a walk along Liverpool's old docks and pier head and talk about the power of sound. Inspirational...

Since Instagram made the 'announcement' they would no longer solely be a photo sharing app, many creators and photographers have been running in all directions not sure whether their Insta experience is about to implode. Two guests today to talk about IG; Jonny Keely who has been studying the platform for a series of films and Helen Jones-Florio who uses the platform to show works from her African...

A photo podcast unlike any other; a walk with our cameras and a photo mailbag in 'the wilds,' which this week is a UNESCO world heritage site, the Avebury Stones with 5000 years of history. This week understanding monochrome cameras, street shooting in cities again, having confidence in our work, hearing our pictures 'talk', personal projects, the first thing you see feature, photo biking and late...

Tim Wallace 'rested' a blossoming career in newspaper photojournalism to work in an altogether more '9 to 5' environment. But picking up the camera again as he approached 40, he commented to his wife on holiday that he'd like to become a commercial photographer. He's now one of the most respected car photographers worldwide with a growing aviation and aerospace client portfolio too. Today is a sto...

A photo show that takes a camera and goes walking into the sounds of the countryside to make pictures and talk with you, hear from you and share with you, thoughts from photographers and anyone who just likes making pictures. This week we talk about Insta, share our vulnerability, seek travel adventures, try to cast aside imposter syndrome and hear from inspirational former guests about the quiet...

A gentle paced story today of a highly respected graphic designer who returned to photography after a move in retirement takes him from London to Brighton on the south coast of England. John Brockliss, an author of four books, a documentary photographer, John is known for his extraordinary images of Brighton on the coast and at play, but equally his stories of travel and his photographic pilgrimag...

Jason P. Howe returns for the second part of his two parter as we follow him from Colombia to the Middle East. He talks of a brutal step change and how he made photographs of conflicts across the region, from surviving a suicide bomb attack, an IED on patrol with the British Army to a film made about his life. We talk about the mental toll of being a witness to war and conflict, those who choose t...

This week on the mailbag show: we talk about making expeditions, shooting left or right eyed, creating your first expedition, finding confidence, making a 365+, we take a new FIRST THING YOU SEE picture, introduce you to camera ASMR and discuss the Instagram revolution. There's inspiration from former guests including Jason P. Howe on learning conflict photography on the fly, plus Jason Florio and...

Jason P. Howe did not go to college to study photojournalism, yet he has been widely recognised for his work covering conflict and civil war by peers at the highest level. Working in a photographic shop for the best part of a decade, he decided to sell everything he owned and departed for Colombia with fifty rolls of film and a Leica rangefinder camera to 'get stuck in and learn as he went along.'...

Each Friday we take a walk with our cameras, a microphone and a mailbag with your thoughts and ideas about photography and what making pictures means to you. It's the only location show of its kind and today we talk about our addiction to camera bags, how our lockdowns have inspired photo projects and skills, more van life, being a radio DJ, making random portraits, putting on a solo exhibition, n...

Making pictures at -35 degrees Celsius in Greenland. Your hands can freeze, long before you load a film chamber. Today, Henrik Saxgren, an internationally renowned photographer who has spent a lifetime making pictures of people who need a voice, talks about his latest book Ultima Thule. It's a story of life in Greenland, an account about the reality of living in a part of the world where the hunte...

The biggest photo mailbag show in podcastsphere; where you set the agenda with your thoughts and ideas about taking pictures. Today, make pictures before the bulldozers move in, the best URBEX guide, how to launch a portrait and wedding business on the side, a first thing you see photo moment, some very wise words if you're in a photographic or life fug, shedlife, is photography like a game of gol...

Photojournalist Ryan Vizzions excites us about being on the open road in a van, photographing every American state. We talk about escapism, freedom, mental health, the wonder of making photographs, solitude, social media, the human spirit and how being on the road 24/7 affects basic instincts such as sleep. The show is supported by MPB.com . If you're buying, selling or trading used camera equipme...

The podcastsphere photography mailbag show. Your ideas and thoughts about making photographs whilst we take in a countryside walk. It's a photowalk and you're invited to come along. This week, an invite to pothole, more abandoned buildings to photograph, exploring history, Belgian waffles in the sun, spiritual homes and close up wildlife. Our guest inspiration includes stories about Tibet, African...

British photojournalist Tom Stoddart on his new book Extraordinary Women, a photographic collection that salutes the resilience and courage of women through times of war, poverty and hardship. With fifty years behind the lens, Tom also shares some home truths about the business of photojournalism, why it's an exciting yet challenging time for picture makers, reinvention and the changing landscape....

The mailbag Photowalk show is from South Devon this week in the south west of England. A dawn chorus, returning to Chernobyl, how the 'Merikans fish, exploring abandoned buildings, making your own podcast, French photography, what makes a good street photo, photographing the first thing you see and I share a secret I didn't dare tell my late parents. Be a part of the Photowalk by sending your pict...

Today two stories featuring humanitarian photojournalist Jason Florio. In the first we talk about a photo expedition he took with his wife and business partner Helen Jones-Florio along the Gambia River, which sounds beautifully romantic and exotic in equal measure, but doesn't come without its wildlife challenges as you're about to find out. And then in part two of our conversation, we discuss mov...

The walking photography mailbag show of the week is truly international this week, with stories from the US about the tallest stainless steel monument in the world, 'Trigger's English lighthouse, beautiful waterfalls in Norway, a Scottish well that will cure your ills, an Iraqi pilgrimage, plus we talk creative block, stress and anxiety. A real mixed camera bag of thoughts, emotions and stories. A...

Philosophical YouTuber and photographer Sean Tucker returns to the show, this time to talk about his new book released this Summer; The Meaning in the Making. It's a read which contains personal stories interwoven with philosophical and spiritual practices that inspire and motivate him to remain a, "Maker of things." As Sean suggests, this book isn't just for photographers or filmmakers, but for m...