The Photowalk

The only photowalk show like it in the Podcast Universe, we take our cameras together with a mailbag of your thoughts, walk and talk. This week, celebrating and photographing everyday items discarded on the streets, forest walks in Virginia, misty Danish nights, Summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the importance of family photos, we hear how a New York writer's strike left an important photo legacy...

American photographer Nancy Floyd talks of 'Weathering Time,' a special self portrait project spanning almost four decades featured in international press as the book is launched. We also address how street photography helps one photographer to find his peace in a world gone mad and learn about a 365 project taking flight. Comment on the show by writing to: studio@photographydaily.show and visit s...

An important question today for photographers; have you or do you feel you have in any way failed? As jobs dry up, as opportunities for many to just get out and make pictures falter or become harder, the philosophical YouTuber Sean Tucker with our Patrons discuss a text I received from a good friend who has had me thinking about this subject for close on a week now. We try to unpick the mental sta...

Just you, me, our cameras, a microphone and a walk together to make pictures and look into the show's weekly digital mailbag. The only weekly photowalk show in the Podcast Universe. This week we reflect on two weeks in Washington, the strangest Christmas shoot, how photography helped one listener battle Ménières and the strangest items photographed and found in waste skips. Your mails matter to th...

On the day the States welcomes in a new President, I have two stories, one of a photograph that became the favourite Inauguration Day picture for Barack Obama and then we talk music and how a science lesson helped a photography student become one of the leading lights of hip hop in its golden period; Anderson Ballantyne is my guest. Links to the pictures and sites discussed can be found HERE .

American photojournalist Raquel Natalicchio, in Washington this week for the Inauguration of the 46th President of the United States of America, talks of the stop the steal rally in LA outside City Hall, where she trained her camera on the plight of a woman called Berlinda Nibo, attacked by a mob of protestors, set upon, beaten, maced and racially assaulted. Raquel made a record as the ordeal took...

The mailbag show; today we talk monochromatic sensors, shooting style, Berlin sights and capturing the stars as I walk once more closer to home, a result of pandemic restrictions. Snelsmore Common; dry heath, birch woods and a 5000 year old layer of peat, a military depot during WW2, now a rambler's paradise and home to wild ponies. The signs say don't feed and don't pet. I'm not sure that applies...

Renowned Danish portrait photographer Søren Solkær is back for the second concluding part to his story and we talk about two very different projects, both however involve a lot of flight in their own ways and both are the result of inspiration while growing up. In the first, a project that followed street artists twice around the planet, and the second; his incredible Black Sun project about Starl...

I am in a philosophically reminiscent, nostalgic mood with a very different story of photographic life from the news photojournalism, sports shooting, exploration, wildlife and world events mode that I'm often in during these show. Meet Vanessa Simpson, a portrait photographer at the start of her professional foray into making pictures and equally nearer the start of one particular project that in...

A Saturday extra edition today talking to DC photojournalist David Butow. He came to Washington at the start of the Trump presidency to see how the story might play out. And as the last days of President Trump's residence within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue do exactly that, David found himself on Wednesday afternoon at yet another rally, but one that was to take an ugly turn. For links in today's show...

It's the mailbag show, featuring your feedback and photo plans for 2021. We play photo ping pong, pick up our film cameras, try to reboot our photographic dynamism, talk portraits, the power of propaganda in still imagery, and ponder a world minus creatives. Also some news of a special Saturday edition covering The Capitol riots. Be sure to email the show: studio@photographydaily.show   For links...

A two-parter across today and next Wednesday; Danish photographer Søren Solkær known for his creative portraits of music stars, celebs and more latterly his incredible artistic studies of Starling murmurations across Europe talks about finding your photographic roots, which for him was travelling on a budget! We talk of first breaks and how his approach to portraiture has undoubtedly been shaped b...

Today, PA Media photojournalist Stefan Rousseau on two decades spent photographing every British Prime Minister as they take power, leave power, and prepare themselves for power in the case of the latest PM. Many stories to share including what to do if asked to delete pictures on the street and what to take from Air Force One if travelling as a guest. For supporter links and all show notes click...

It's the Megasode for Patrons and this is the free preview. I talk with established London portrait photographer Neale Haynes who has photographed A lister celebs, sports stars, politicians and experienced assignments in nuclear submarines! NYC photographer Bill Wadman shares a workshop on conceptual picture making. In Patreon David Fettes talks about a Landrover adventure across South America and...

It's the first show of 2021; the mailbag show and if you're new to this podcast, during the week, I talk with photographers from all backgrounds and genres. So sport, fine art, portraits, wildlife, conflict, landscape, weddings and social, street, mindful photography too, because that played a strong lead at times last year. Then on Fridays we go walk about, with your feedback from the shows, alth...

A New Year's Eve special where we listen back to the words, advice and inspiration of some of 2020's most popular guests. From photographing presidents, starting out, getting arrested making pictures, finding reason and purpose for your photography during a global pandemic, to the most personal story a father could make. Just ten moments from the one hundred photographers I have spoken with during...

Today, 'embracing opportunity,' meet Ian Forsythe, former army photographer now news, social, commercial and even events photographer whose story telling skills have been working overtime in 2020. We talk about what part 'the stringer' plays in creating news photo stories for Getty, why being able to photograph a variety of subjects and genres may be the best way ahead professionally in 2021 and a...

For those a little sluggish from the rich holiday banquets, left overs and reheated left overs of left overs, plus of course the mountains of chocolate or candy, we commence our lead up to a new year with plenty of energy, and who better to do that, than LA portrait, actor and celeb photographer Bjoern Kommerell, the self titled 'Mad German' for the concluding part of his story on photographing an...

'Twas the show before Christmas, a time to reflect a little and look forward too. Last week I introduced you to the YouTube photo philosophiser, photo essayist and photo historian, Jamie Windsor and he returns for a more casual chat about the platform today to talk about the nuts and bolts of running your own channel; the finances, the comments, the reason he become a film maker on the world's lar...

"Ah, Neale has gone and found himself three very travelled seasoned known names who are about to impart wisdom gathered from their combined 14 decades of experience in the business. Let me grab a cuppa, put my feet up and prepare to soak in all they have." Well no, not exactly. I thought we'd take a different path and chat with three wise photographers who are nearer the start of their journeys, w...

Meet the photographer Bjoern Kommerell who travelled from Germany to the States to find his creative fortune and I think you can safely say he found it. An energetic, enthusiastic, committed man of photographic experiment, the type of creative who embraces throwing off the shackles of procrastination. Musicians, actors and movie stars regularly grace Bjoern's LA studio and often alone, minus their...

In today's mail time show and photowalk, Matt Hardwick shares leaving a nine to five job to pursue his real passion; automobile photography , your thoughts on wildlife photography and hunting, John O Brien shares why he takes to the streets to make his pictures, what brutalist architectural photography is and we make some pictures together as a storm closes in. If you're a regular photowalk editio...

With help from the mailbag, today; what makes you a better photographer? It seems that it's a mix of fun, deliberate practise, varying how you work, research and learning to embrace being uncomfortable as you move your existing genre skills into another perhaps. Today is a shorter snapshot episode and we're thankful to Mike Miller whose photo essay on this subject inspired the episode. This show i...

With video titles like, 'How portraits lie, Why BAD photographers THINK they're good,' and 'Are these photographers cheating,' today's guest Jamie Windsor has earned a reputation on the YouTube platform for creating passionate photographic debate. He's a philosophiser, a photo essayist, a photo historian even, he's certainly not just another 'unboxer.' As always your comments on the show are welco...

PA Media Photographer Owen Humphreys shares his story of a career highlight; photographing the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle, high in the organ loft, one of the only photographers allowed in to St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. Also today, news of Christmas 'opening hours' with thanks to another of our patrons, Alison Barclay for sharing her pictures of brutalist architecture...