The Photowalk

Niall Carson a respected Press Association photojournalist returns for part two in his Tuesday series of making stories without fear. We talk about why the attitude towards photojournalists worldwide has hardened and what may be behind it. We discuss the risks he has personally taken to deliver news pictures, including being attacked in his car, and shot by a dissident republican. Today's show is...

New York City portrait photographer Bill Wadman is back for the final time today in his three parter. We talk invention and how for some photographers, like Bill, it's the unknown, it's the learning, that keeps you creatively fresh. The story also of how Richard Avedon approached his studio portrait work and how he captured a particular infamous portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in an un...

It's the show where we walk, make some pictures and talk about what's capturing your photographic imagination. Today the photographer who asked to kiss her subjects, calming your anxiety by shooting landscapes, 500+ days in a tent and other stories. There's also a chance to win yourself some Lowa Renegade boots, perfect for making those photowalks of your own. And we thank MPB.com for their suppor...

October 1st, 2020. It's an important date for the show. Exactly four months since launch, well over the 100K download target and we welcome aboard a new supporter; MPB, which trades thousands of cameras and lenses every week, across Europe and the US. Matt Barker founded the company eleven years ago, an enthusiastic amateur photographer who saw a gap in the market for a company specialising in onl...

Today's photo story is about an Australian electrician, a café and restaurant owner, a gold miner, (albeit for a short while) a wedding shooter, and now educator, possibly in the future a pilot too as you'll hear. Jai Long, has an entrepreneurial spirit to him and a never say never edge. Some may say pivoting is the new constant in business, that being able to change it up is how we succeed in fas...

The multi award winning photojournalist Niall Carson based in Northern Ireland is my guest for the first part of a new mini Tuesday edition mini-series where we find out what it's like to be literally in the line of fire as a news photojournalist. Today we learn about Niall's upbringing and early career, son to a catholic family living in West Belfast, where divide in the 70s and 80s was a way of...

Super inventive, super enthusiastic, super passionate New York City portrait photographer Bill Wadman is back for part two of his Monday three parter and i t's a cornucopia of photography nuggets today from a photographer and artist who likes to know how everything ticks, both technically and creatively. Plus an A-Z of how he pieced together his 'Corners project' backdrop in his metro loft apartme...

Award winning photojournalist Paul Rogers takes you on a journey from finding news photography to risking his life, to making news style pictures at weddings. It's the end of the month, the weekend, meaning it's time for the member's area extra additional show, although you can still hear a preview here including one of Paul's more concerning moments covering world events. If you'd like to join Ac...

With Lowa Boots, it's the Friday Photowalk edition; your emails that you've sent in about the photographers you've heard speak on the show. This week we talk aviation photography, whether a dog would be good for the show and we draw a winner for the monthly competition to win Lowa Renegade walking boots. It's also a week to try something new photographically, the use of a vintage Yashica lens to b...

Today with the help of two guests, London fashion photographer Max Lacome and photography mentor Anna Hardy, I'm keen to discuss confidence. Max unpicks the genre of fashion for all its drama, glamour and bravado and also reveals a little of his anxieties despite his status as an established and respected photographer in the capital. And Anna will raise the spectre of a prize hike and why now coul...

Going into hiding for making photo stories about protest is not something photographer Ryan Vizzions expected to need to do. Today the story of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and a battle to protect sacred lands from a re-routed oil pipe project. Ryan talks about being an active participant in the protests, photographing events you are genuinely and passionately a...

Today, a project that changed many young peoples' lives, 'Being In-between', a photographic series of portraits with recorded interviews of girls aged between ten and twelve – it's a project that explores going from childhood to young adulthood, a study if you will of cause and effect too; how sensitive we are growing up to what we see, hear and experience. And it's a project that seems very perso...

In 2007 Bill Wadman started posting one portrait per day to a blog, three years before Instagram even existed for this now popular challenge. 173 days later, USA Today and The Times in London ran a feature on this unique project. Soon, 20,000 site visitors would show up each day to find out who Bill might photograph next. It was the project that unexpectedly launched this now respected New York Ci...

With Lowa Boots, I take your emailed thoughts and feedback from the episodes you've recently heard. A chance to make some pictures and reflect on the words we've heard from the incredible photographers who talk on these shows. Today we're walking a little of the path we've taken before, a former nuclear weapons airbase in the south of England, Greenham Common, once home to 96 lethal cruise missile...

During a week where we've talked about aerial shooting, teenage lockdown, social unrest and protest photography, I'm ending the interview portion of the week before the Friday Photowalk in contemplative chat with Max Lacome, London based portrait, celebrity and fashion photographer. He's successfully created a business with a client list keen to commission him and as the doors begin to open again...

Meet Ryan Vizzions, a photographer who started making pictures at the most difficult time of his life after losing his father to suicide. He quit his job at a Fortune 500 company, travelled half way across the world to a place chosen randomly with friends to find himself alone in the midst of civil unrest in Thailand during the 'Red shirt protests' of 2010. It was to be a trip that shaped his phot...

Today a photographer who has been making the news on the BBC and the Huffington Post of late, Carolyn Mendelsohn on her incredibly powerful photography project for teenagers in Bradford during lockdown called Through Our Lens, a grass roots photographic self-isolation project that brought young people together to express their honest feelings pictorially during this time and rebuilt a photographer...

Vincent Laforet is back for his third and final part and he's in the air, for an ambitious photo project that almost didn't get off the ground at all. Project Air pushes the boundaries of aerial photography in an unimaginable way working at the very limits of camera and gimbal technology and in helicopters working at their ceiling limitations too! For links and images see today's show page: www.ph...

Chris Orange has changed his business and life quite considerably since finding food photography, quite by accident commercially. Today he talks about the how and why, a preview introduction to the longer hour long special in the weekend member's area, where there is a comprehensive story episode on everything from the technical side, to styling to pay. You can join the member's area and gain acce...

It's the Photowalk Edition brought to you with help from Lowa boots, World class outdoor footware, and we're closer to home having spent the last month travelling a little more than lockdown allowed earlier in the year. There's BIG news about the show's member's area, emails about YouTube, 365 and printing, plus possibly the best photo essay ever.  Send your feedback and questions for all the show...

London portrait and celebrity photographer Charlie Clift is back for the final part of his mini series on making creative portraits. And if you're intrigued by the title, this is the man who did indeed shove a carrot in Jeremy Clarkson's mouth mid session, listen on to hear what happened. Charlie talks about working with politicians, celeb chefs, actors, expectations and creating original photo st...

Today for some, this is a tutorial on how to build your YouTube channel, perhaps a new one if you've thought; "Why not, I'd like to have a go at running a channel?" For others it'll be a chance to go behind the scenes; a day in the life of a landscape YouTuber, but also I think it's an opportunity to hear the truly passionate engagement of a photographer who loves what he does, although you're abo...

Travel and an ingeniously creative way to teach landscape photography skills is today's inspiration for an episode about taking to the open road. American photographer and YouTuber Nick Page shares some behind the scenes secrets about the F4 Road Trip, 'a landscape photography course like no other.' Also we talk about being in the wilds and find out what floats Nick's boat when it comes to making...

There are moments in your life, where you make decisions that change just about everything; sliding door moments. If today's guest Vincent Laforet hadn't seen a white boxed package on a desk during a visit to Canon that held a particular brand and model of camera, if he hadn't then essentially begged for an opportunity, if he hadn't proposed his audacious plan quite so passionately, perhaps he wou...

Walk with me on the south coast of England in Swanage, in the rain with soggy fish 'n' chips, your emails and our cameras for the Friday Photowalk edition, brought to you with those nice people at Lowa , who have been making the best quality walking and hiking boots for 90 years and this month you can WIN a pair! You make this show what it is with your emails and today there are questions about ph...