The Photowalk

Photographic adventurer Andy Mumford talks of his love for exotic faraway lands, working with and teaching photographers to find their creative peace in the landscapes they find. Also today, making legacy films and stories in pictures and sound, saving Toy Story, bucket list photographs in Colorado, sharing your art on a postcard and poetic inspiration. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extr...

Today, Johan Otterdahl Edfeldt introduces you to Project OCOLOY; One camera, One lens, One year and sets a challenge where you condense the theory of that into just one week, with a side challenge within. The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what...

The photographers' photographer Nils Jorgensen talks this week about street, the "purest form of photography, stripped to its barest minimum; you, a camera and what you see." Also today, making pictures of the every day away from the Metropole, poetry and photography, trying intentional camera movement, finding a photo theme and venturing into the historical dark. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks...

Former Pulitzer prize winner with the LA Times Marissa Roth sets the second of three in a series of photographic challenges that will have you today looking for a story in the people you meet. The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to...

The World Cup that launched a photo career and a lion that captured the hearts of a nation. My guest Derek Cattani talks about Fleet Street, lucky breaks and big cats. Also, the dentist drill smashing hobby, the snow storms arrive, riots that spark a photographic love affair, simplicity; the answer to everything and other stories. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com .

Friday's guest rejoins me, to set a photo assignment for a new week and if you listened to the previous Photowalk (episode 352) you may be expecting a particular style of creative camera use. The assignment is 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 mak...

Today, you and I walk with TV, film and stage actor Bill Ward. A multi-award winner for his challenging role as Charlie Stubbs in Coronation Street, one of the globe's biggest soaps, playing Britain's 'vilest villain,' he is also a highly regarded decorated photographer who savours time making pictures in nature, in particular adopting ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) as his channel to mindful co...

In this challenge, my guest, landscape and commercial photographer Chris Orange is going to call upon your inventive nature, asking you to step into his photographic and creative shoes. 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 to the show via t...

A childhood journey across America inspires guest Anne-Marie Michel to make Sisters of the Road, a book about forty female American truckers, an adventure that doesn't come without risks. We walk together with a mailbag making pictures and sharing ideas with letters today about 'that first photo,' the tonic of photography, old cars and haunting melodies, fierce skies, being immersed in nature and...

Former Pulitzer prize winner with the LA Times Marissa Roth sets the first of three in a series of photographic challenges that will have you today reaching for a camera and a pen! The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via...

"Finding Faith" is a photographic journey through central Alabama's smallest towns. Over four years Jerimiah Smith photographed and interviewed countless men and women living above and below the poverty line for whom faith is the cornerstone of their day-to-day. Also today, recording nature in a unique way, a Jack of all trades, street exhibitions, walking in Berlin, the enduring importance of the...

Documenter of life, Karah Mew sets the third and final assignment in her first series for us and asks you to break the popular photographic rules - in fact, break them all! The assignment is 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 make to the show via the cont...

Award-winning wildlife and travel photographer, filmmaker and author Sue Flood talks of her sincere love for the Arctic and photographing in the World's harshest yet most beautiful places.  Also today in the mailbag, a love for graffiti part 2, British pleasure piers, photographing with your 'wrong' hand and navigating through and out of a world pandemic. The show is recorded this week walking and...

Street and London-based commercial photographer Nick Turpin joins me today with thoughts about story-telling before setting an assignment that will have you observing the world in which you live for the next seven days. We'll both  be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page . Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Investigative journalist and photographer Lynzy Billing talks about her work in Afghanistan; the people, the stories, the difficulty and the beauty of this much-misunderstood land. Also, be a potentialite, what's important in life, faith in the deep south, bitten by the bug, swimming into portraits, looking v seeing, castles in Sweden and is there hope for our Earth? We're helped by inspirational...

A little courage is required for this challenge perhaps as food, interiors, commercial and landscape photographer Chris Orange sets his second assignment for the show. 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 to the show via the contact page ....

In 84 days, across 48 states, photographer Imran Nuri made portraits of 1000 strangers on his 50-year-old camera and asked them for one piece of life advice. He tells his story alongside Extra Miler Jon Buscall who shares why the still image is still so important. We discuss being a Jack-of-all-trades, how we fell in love with making pictures, the most unlikely imposter syndrome, not playing by th...

Documenter of life, Karah Mew sets her second assignment for us and asks you to consider a photograph so precious, you may not have a second chance tomorrow to capture it. The assignment is 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 make to the show via the conta...

Today, the renowned artist duo Alexandrov Klum talk of their love affair with nature and share how they use photographs, music, sound and film to make their art installations and stories. Also from the mailbag why a surfboard is like a camera, going on a software diet, letting go of Adobe, free carousel templates, imposter syndrome today, inspirational books you must have, courtesy of our Extra Mi...

Food and interiors specialist Chris Orange sets his first assignment for the show, though you'll not be necessarily photographing inside! 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 make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers a...

All aboard the Eurotunnel train to France this week for a walk in southern France. As always your letters direct le travel and this week's topics include moving to France, pictures you can fall into, remembering 'The Queue', the country where a train company leads you to a photowalk, printing pictures, folklore, making pictures of things you don't usually, countries you've never heard of and more....

Australian Leica ambassador Russell Shakespeare invites you to go back to basics today for an assignment inspired by one of his early mentors/trainers. 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 make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron...

What is VERO? Is it the Insta replacement, or does it fulfill a very different personal and social role? It's co-founder Ayman Hariri is on the show to talk about this app 'everyone' is talking about. Also today, what's in the box, the mental health benefits of walking, a language of photography, success later on in life, walking in Taiwan and citizen photojournalism. See the SHOW PAGE and our tha...

A special short Photowalk edition on the morning of the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, also featuring Rankin's experience of photographing the Monarch, recorded earlier this year. See the SHOW NOTES for the photographs referenced at the start of the programme.

I talk with street art and graffiti historian Roger Gastman about photographer Martha Cooper's pictures of NYC's subway art of the 80s, featured in her new book Spray Nation. Also, I 'doorstep' a special photography friend in England's Lake District and there are letters on making the last pictures of life next to the first pictures of a new life, getting up at silly o clock to make friends with t...