WTF-Stop Podcast - Photo Talk

Sheila Hardy: Preserving the Legacy of Bert Hardy and Grove Hardy In 2007, as the long-running photographic lab Grove Hardy prepared to close after nearly fifty years in business, Martin Reed—owner of photographic supplier Silverprint—recorded a rare and insightful interview with Sheila Hardy, widow of Picture Post photographer Bert Hardy. Joined by his wife Janice and Grove Hardy’s last printer,...

Christopher Morris is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century and one of the most celebrated visual chroniclers of war. Morris re-invented and reimagined what was possible with the language of political photography for a generation of photographers and editors while working for TIME magazine during the George W. Bush Administration in the United States. His career, however, h...

Mark Cohen is an American photographer best known for his innovative close-up street photography. Cohen's major books of photography are Grim Street (2005), True Color (2007), and Mexico (2016). Shooting in the gritty environs of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Cohen’s literal and innovative closeness came from his method of holding the camera at arm's length just a few feet away from his subjects.  H...

Boogie was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia and began photographing rebellion and unrest during the civil war that ravaged his country during the 1990s. Growing up in a war-torn country defined Boogie’s style and attraction to the darker side of human existence. He moved to New York in 1998, and turned his camera on the cities housing projects, unlocking the heart-stopping world of gangs and dr...

Greg Marinovich is co-author of The Bang Bang Club, a nonfiction book on South Africa’s transition to democracy that has been translated into six languages. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and filmmaker. Greg spent 25 years covering conflict around the globe, with his writing and photographs appearing in magazines and newspapers worldwide. His 2012 award-winning investigations into the...

As a photographer for more than 50 years, Tony Othen has observed the social, educational, economic, and physical conditions of people in a number of countries around the world and has created and archived a unique collection of images. He believes that these sets of images create an experience for the viewer and hopes that this experience is a catalyst for something greater and relevant for today...

Syd Shelton is a photographer and graphic designer. He studied fine art at Wakefield College of Art. In the early 1970s, he began his photography practice after moving to Australia. In Sydney, Syd worked as a freelance photojournalist for newspapers such as Nation Review, Tribune, and Digger. In 1975 he had his first solo photographic exhibition ‘Working Class Heroes’ at the Sydney Film-makers Coo...

Ed Kashi is a renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker, and educator who has been making images and telling stories for 40 years. His restless creativity has continually placed him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling. Dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times, a sensitive eye and an intimate and compassionate relationship with his subj...

Richard Baker has worked on commissioned editorial photography, corporate assignments, personal reportage projects, and several collaborations with authors. and for a book about His book, The Red Arrows, covers the 40th display season of Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the Red Arrows. Following Red Arrows came four commissioned books: 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' (Hamish Hamilton)...

Patrick Ward has photographed in Britain for the Sunday Times, Observer, and Telegraph Magazines, in Europe for French and German Geo, and in America for The Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and Time Life Books. Books published include "Being English", "Essentially English", "Wish You Were Here, the English at Play", "The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst", "The Bike Riders" and...

Janine Wiedel is a New York-born documentary photographer and visual anthropologist based in London since 1970. She has been covering issues of social concern since the late 1960s. Her career has mainly focused on groups struggling to survive on the edges of mainstream society. These projects have become significant studies, books, and exhibitions, and have fed into Wiedel’s extensive archive and...

David Hoffman has worked as an independent photojournalist since the 1970s. It didn’t take long for him to discover that documenting the increasingly overt control of the state over our lives was what motivated him. He soon decided to run his own photo library, giving him the freedom to choose his own subject matter. His work sheds what some might see as an unforgiving light across racial and soci...

Frontline Reporting: 'Intersections' Barry Lewis is a London-based photographer and filmmaker, founder of Network Photographers, who has worked internationally for books and magazines from Life magazine to National Geographic.  As well as photojournalism and portraiture, he has directed over 20 documentaries, commercials, and art films. His work has been exhibited at the V&A, The Museum of Lon...

Photographer, documentarian, and digital storyteller Daniel Meadows (b. 1952) has spent a lifetime recording British society, challenging the status quo by working in a collaborative way to capture extraordinary aspects of ordinary life through pictures, audio recordings, and short movies. He is best known for his 1973-74 journey around England in the Free Photographic Omnibus when he traveled 10,...

Denis Thorpe joined his local newspaper with the ambition of becoming a reporter. Circumstances dictated that he was assigned to the photography department and immediately became enamoured with that medium’s creative possibilities. For Denis, photography became his passport to another world. After National Service with the Royal Air Force, he pursued photojournalism, inspired by Picture Post and t...

John Walmsley has been a freelance documentary photographer since leaving Art School in 1968. His final year project was on A.S. Neill and his democratic school, Summerhill, was published by Penguin Books in 1969 (updated edition planned for March/May 2021). His work has been published in 1,000+ books worldwide (He is the author or joint-author of 15 of them). In one form or another, his work is a...

The late Marilyn Stafford was given a Rolleiflex camera by a friend in New York in 1947, which first piqued her interest in photography, and to support herself in between acting roles, she found work assisting US fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo. Her photographic career was formally launched in autumn 1948 when she took her first portrait of Albert Einstein for friends who were making a doc...

Frontline Reporting - Ukraine In this episode, I talk to Daily Mail photographer Jamie Wiseman who is on the frontline documenting the unfolding events of the war in Ukraine. Jamie Wiseman is a London-based news photographer working for The Daily Mail Newspaper. He began his career at the highly respected National Newspaper Agency in York under the guidance of the late industry giant John Pick, he...

Roger Hutchings is an award-winning British documentary photographer who studied at Newport School of Art in Wales mentored by the Magnum photographer David Hurn. Thereafter he worked with the London Observer Newspaper as a roving photojournalist covering British and World affairs. Subsequently, he joined the photographic agency Network Photographers undertaking assignments for many of the World's...

John Bulmer was a pioneer of colour photography in the early 1960s working for the Sunday Times Magazine from the very first issue till the 1970s. He was brought up in Herefordshire, became a passionate photographer, and when he went to study engineering at Cambridge continued taking photographs- first for the University newspaper Varsity and then for Image, a picture magazine that he co-founded....

Geoff Howard, documentary and reportage photographer, based in London. His archives cover commissioned editorial photography, personal and self-assigned work, and architectural photographs taken for publishers. The files contain many thousands of images, taken over five decades. His photographs are in the National Portrait Gallery collection in London, the Museum of London collection, the London G...

Documentary photographer Nick Hedges talks about his life and his connection with the world as a photographer over the last 50 years. Nick Hedges (1943 - 2025) was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He studied photography at Birmingham College of Art 1965-1968, and as a final project, he worked with Birmingham Housing Trust on an exhibition about the city’s badly housed. On leaving college he bec...

Magnum Photos photographer Ian Berry talks about his time working in South Africa and in England, while we look through his favorite photos both from his lifes work and from his book on South Africa entitled 'Living Apart'. Originally recorded in the Print Room at Magnum Photos in London on Feb 28th, 2019. Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photogra... Ian Berry was born in Lancashire, En...

Vegas-based American artist and photographer Diane Bush talks about her time as part of the Exit Photography Group in the 70s and her life connection with the world as a photographer. Diane Bush is an American activist artist and photographer, who trained in the U.K. In her later years, Bush has embraced public art through public participation projects using fiber art (Yarn Bombing) and performanc...

Bolton-based photographer Don Tonge talks about his life, growing up in Bolton, and his connection with the world as a photographer over the last 50 years. Don Tonge has worked as a freelance photographer for many years shooting Press PR and Portraits. Don has a lifelong passion for Documentary Photography and has an extensive archive dating back to the 1970s. Don’s archive heavily features the da...