The Photowalk

It's the photography podcast edition where we escape together like the end scene from The graduate. Just us, our cameras, earbuds and the mailbag; walking and sharing inspirational stories from photographers around the world. This week we hear from a photographer who chooses to photowalk around Chernobyl, we talk reunions, hear about photographic life in Indonesia right now, think about legacy, em...

Pulitzer prize winner Marissa Roth returns to chat with me about a photographic trip to Tibet that changed her life and 'saved her photography.' If you've thought about making a journey like this, today is an episode peppered with creative, mental and practical advice on how to go about making your BIG life changing photo project. We talk about making pictures in a country where the average elevat...

It's black and white week on the Friday Photowalk as I read and answer your mails you send into the show. We talk about embracing the world that is on your doorstep, the wonderful trinkets and details of our life we should be photographing, leaving an 18 year career to pursue a dream job making pictures, we make photos of the cherry blossom in Boston and a windswept coast in England, plus I'm on t...

Photojournalist Rick Findler's work focuses on both domestic features as well as travelling to some of the most dangerous places on Earth, to shine a light on other people's stories and tales. The Afghan female ski team, autism, escaping from Syria, the Beirut blast, mentoring children and helping corporate execs understand stress and fear; the wide gamut of stories today. See Rick's work in the S...

Today Karah Mew, AKA The Glass Narrator talks about how launching a career in documentary portrait photography during a difficult pregnancy that then became a pandemic business drought has helped her re-evaluate life and her love of making pictures, which starts with the most wonderful serendipitous house clearance, where she discovered a chest of photographs belonging to a lady who'd worked as a...

The Friday edition of the show is our mailbag episode; you, your questions and thoughts about the guests you have heard and the photo projects you're working on. This week, farewell portraits, a cold Canadian walk with one eye out for the bears, picturing litter, photo ping pong revisited, underwater in Jamaica, taking a degree in photography and more. Send your pictures and stories for next week'...

If you're wondering about the title today, it's a quote from a Time Out special feature when they highlighted the historically important work of a photographer who with a Kodak camera he came about from an American GI, grew up in late 50s and 60s London, documenting life in the city, a viewpoint from a young man who had arrived from Jamaica with his family in '56. This docu-interview was recorded...

Barry Butler in our Monday FOCUS edition on business talks about the incredible work he has been doing photographing each sunrise and sunset in Chicago, but his story starts at a 'friendly' hockey game, a 'fortuitous' accident leading to a life and career making photographs that he calls landscape journalism. He talks of how this became his obsession and livelihood and his love of the homeland; Ir...

It's the mailbag podcast of the week from Oxford this time. Joined by a friend of the show, Steve Vaughan who takes us on a short Morse walk within the programme to celebrate the city's famous TV sleuth. Today we talk community, van life, setting up studios, the calm of photography, taking risks and making pictures in a jail. There's inspirational clips from past guests and we invite you to send u...

Gulnara Samoilova, a photojournalist, a documentarian, a curator, a street photographer and now an editor with a Wednesday Photostory edition about a new book featuring 100 international Women Street Photographers. We talk about what the street genre means to her, how she curated this collection and the runaway success of the organisation created to promote the work of women street photographers w...

A new month, a new season of the show begins; on Mondays we talk with photographers worldwide, digging a little deeper into their business stories, a FOCUS on how they work and what they did to launch, where they are now, and what the future holds. Michael Quelch decided to set up shop in a city where he knew nobody and in three years has made a real success of building a portrait and headshot bus...

The 'end of the week show,' taking your emails and DMs on a photowalk; us with our cameras, me with my microphone. Today we're 'climbing' Watership Down, a little square of England that inspired author Richard Adams to write the book of the same name, that became a 70s blockbuster animated movie. We talk photographic therapy, 365s, sunken villages, van-life, creative drift, the peace of the sea, '...

'Take a Picture, Tell a Story' is American photojournalist Robert Gumpert's thirteen and a half year project in County Jails where he makes a portrait, then sits with each inmate to audio record the sound of them talking about life, their experiences in prison, family and whatever else they should want to say. The conversations were always conducted in private away from Deputy's ears. The idea was...

Photographer and National Geographic contributor Roff Smith is more used to being on an airliner travelling to his next international story, than working within a ten mile radius of his home on the south coast of England. Featured recently by the New York Times for a wonderful lockdown enforced project where the lanes around his home became his muse, every day he'd cycle for hours to make self por...

It's the end of the week show where you're invited to join me on a photowalk, just you, me, our cameras and the mailbag. This week basketball memories, genre dilemmas, daily dawn and dusk diaries, moving home in New Zealand, and walking in all seasons weather upon the Isle of Skye. Inspiration from Albert Watson, Paul Sanders, NBA legend Andrew D. Bernstein and landscape photographer Nick Page. Be...

Albert Watson, OBE is our guest. It's a story of moving from Scotland to America, to the bright lights of LA, which must have been very dazzling and exciting for a young photographer loaded with creative ideas, ready to take on the photographic world. We talk about first breaks, self belief, the fashion industry and some of his most famous portraits with Kate Moss, Hitchcock and the dead Goose , p...

Like many good stories, this starts with an element of sliding doors circumstance, a fitting movie reference. A sucker for tales of the unexpected, those things that happen which persuade your life to take a different path; the red or blue pill, one more movie reference. Today, photographer Dodd Vickers gives a fascinating glimpse into the world of film making and the job that can literally shape...

The Photowalk edition is the show where I take your emails and DMs on a photowalk to end the week. We make some pictures and have a chat. Your thoughts about photography, what you've heard on the weekday shows, what you're working on and what it means to be a photographer. This week, the healing effect of photography, using film, walks in Rome and Norway, imposter syndrome and going pro. Inspirati...

Guest Andrew D. Bernstein is a legend in American sports photography, involved in the creation of NBA Photos in 1986, responsible for helping archive the history of professional basketball. His photos have featured on thousands of magazine covers plus newspaper leads worldwide and his enduring professional and personal friendship with the late five time NBA Champion Kobe Bryant led to their global...

Roy Tyson creates witty and intriguing imagery with customised miniature figures in photographs and art installations. The former car mechanic and pharma sales rep is a self taught photographer and artist with works and representation by Saatchi Arts. T his is a classic story of trusting instinct, feeling your way, making that leap of faith as a creative. For links to pictures, supporters and subj...

The mailbag walkabout edition of the week where I take the show out with you and our cameras, some 'us time' to make pictures and chat about photography, whatever kind of photographer you are; pro, amateur or even iPhonographer, it all counts. This week vintage cameras, ideas for projects, children's books, a walk in Ottawa to clear the mind and even Dr. Who! I'd love to receive your pictures from...

Snowboarder turned photographer Mike Kelley shares a story of his entirely unplanned journey into the world of international architectural photography. He also talks of the project made with a Canon 6D and cheap 50mm lens that saw him travel to twenty airports around the world to photograph an inventive viral campaign called Airportraits, proof that you simply never know what is around the corner...

Today the extraordinary Kickstarter book project by a British commercial photographer, Marc Wilson; A Wounded Landscape, Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, based around 22 Holocaust survivor stories, a project that has a most gentle nature and revealing serendipity at times. For many photographers, Kickstarter is a route to publish and I also talk with Marc about his experience using this method. S...

The Photowalk edition of the week is a chance to escape into ourselves with earbuds charged, you and I, chatting about what went on during the week with our guests, a revisit to some of the interview archives and an opportunity to find out what's going on with your photography; ideas you've had and projects you'd like to share. This week, words that spell trouble for good reason, a white out, we d...

Joe Pugliese, or 'Joepug' as you'll find him online, is an LA based photographer, travelling the world, who photographs celebs and celeb culture, but to quote from his bio; "He's also had the privilege to meet and photograph scientists, authors, performers of every type, creative geniuses, and everyday people who have something fascinating to say." Meet one of the most in demand photographers in a...