On today’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we are pleased to welcome Peter Cohen and Bill Shapiro to discuss “vernacular” photography and the historical and cultural significance of snapshots and other images that fall outside the realms of fine-art and commercial photography. Peter J. Cohen is recognized as one of the country’s foremost collectors of vernacular photography and portions of his collections are now included in institutions such as Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, MFA...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 5 min
We want to celebrate our guest Alexis Cuarezma in this encore presentation and also note what great info this episode offers for those interested in portrait lighting, especially for dance and sports photography. Alexis' career has been growing steadily since he joined us in 2019, he recently presented at the Eddie Adams Workshop and will be speaking at ImagingUSA in January 2022 and at the very interesting Pas de Deux Dance Photography Conference in Austin, Texas in February, 2022. Enjoy. On to...
Nov 09, 2021•59 min
Today’s episode is an encore presentation of the show originally published on March 19, 2020. If you were otherwise preoccupied that week, we recommend you take a listen to this conversation about photographer Jim Marshall and the film “Show Me the Picture”, a documentary on his life and work as a rock-n-roll photographer. The film is now streaming on AppleTV/iTunes and if you are in Boston, MA on November 13, The Leica Store Boston is hosting a special screening of the film, followed by a conve...
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 10 min
We were expecting this episode to be a great one and it did not disappoint. The B&H Photography Podcast team welcomes photographer Lester Sloan and his daughter, author Aisha Sabatini Sloan, to discuss their new book, Captioning the Archive: A Conversation in Photographs and Text . The book is a conversation about photography and photojournalism, but more a conversation between father and daughter, one that had been taking place for years, for a lifetime, and finally put to print. Selecting ...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 10 min
A listicle is an article comprising a list. A listicle is any piece of digital content that’s formatted as a list. A listicle is an article comprising a list, usually with some kind of extra detail added to each item. What we have here, then, is a podsticle . Today on the B&H Photography Podcast , we catch up with the new photography gear that has been announced over the past few months. Attention goes to the Canon EOS R3 and Nikon Z 9 as big deal mirrorless reveals, the Nikon still scant on...
Oct 22, 2021•42 min
To create a “collective portrait” of any set of people is difficult, but to do so with twenty-five world-renown women artists is a monumental challenge―one that our guests have undertaken and, based on their wonderful book, Portrait of an Artist: Conversations with Trailblazing Creative Women , have accomplished. Equally as impressive is that the book’s author, Hugo Huerta Marin, weaved a personal narrative into this series of interviews and photographs he made of artists he admired, such as Yok...
Oct 14, 2021•59 min
This week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast provides a lesson we all can use: how to be better businesspeople while we are being better photographers. Much of this advice comes from our intriguing guest, photographer and educator Todd Bigelow . A longtime pro, Bigelow has freelanced for the likes of Sports Illustrated and The Los Angeles Times , among many other editorial and commercial clients, and he is a contributing photographer to the prestigious agency Contact Press Images. He i...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 10 min
This week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is a wonderful way to usher in autumn and we hope it inspires our listeners to get out into the forests, fields, and streams to photograph what they love. It is also an episode that hits all the marks, as we talk about the gear, technique, science, ethics, and passion of photography―in this case, centered on fly fishing photography. Our guests, Jess McGlothlin and Toby Nolan bring all of the above, and a ton of experience, as we flow like a ...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 7 min
On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome the founder and Executive Director of the Social Documentary Network, Glen Ruga, and photographer Sofia Aldinio , who is the recipient of the 2021 ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography, presented by the Social Documentary Network. As should be clear, our conversation today revolves around the Social Documentary Network , or “SDN,” and we learn about this community of documentary photographers and its website on which more th...
Sep 17, 2021•56 min
What do the films Goodfellas, The Devil Wears Prada, Creed, Ocean’s 8, and Die Hard with a Vengeance have in common? The poster art, publicity, and behind-the-scenes photography for these and about one hundred other feature films were made by photographer Barry Wetcher , and we welcome Wetcher to this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . On-set still photography or, simply, “still photography” is one of the more unique jobs found under the big tent that is photography. The skills ...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr
There is a vibrance, a joy, and a love for photography that one feels when speaking with Meryl Meisler . It’s also very cool that by day she was a high school art teacher in Brooklyn and, by night, dancing and photographing at legendary clubs like Studio 54. Anyway, that’s just how I see it. Of course, there’s a lot more to Meisler’s photography than just 1970s disco and 1980s Bushwick, and we talk about a wide range of subjects on this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . Meisler’s late...
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr
Even if you are not currently on your beach vacation, let’s take a little trip to Hawaii’s shores for today’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . Joining us is photographer Zak Noyle , who was born and raised in Hawaii and began publishing his surf photography while still in high school. Noyle has photographed the sport’s top surfers and events, has been published in Sports Illustrated and National Geographic, and has traveled the world for brands such as Billabong, Stussy, and Chanel. ...
Aug 26, 2021•50 min
We have been looking forward to this conversation for weeks. On today’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we sit down with retired Detective 1st Grade Michael Cunningham , of the New York City Police Department, to talk about crime-scene unit photography. Cunningham is an expert on crime scene photography and forensics—in addition to his twenty-seven years with the NYPD, he has worked as a trainer for the Department of Homeland Security, authored a book on crime-scene management, and ...
Aug 19, 2021•59 min
On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome back an old friend of the show, photographer Mark Mann . Mann is known for a catalogue of portrait work that includes celebrities, musicians, and politicians of the highest regard. In our previous episode with Mann, we discussed photographing Bill Murray, Jennifer Aniston, and President Obama, but like many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying quarantine not only put a halt to our normal photo routines, but forced us...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr
The photos of David Rothenberg are some of the most exciting that we have seen in a while. Condensed and entangled compositions of airplanes over urban housing and portraits of travelers, through plane windows or bathed in a holy light at a train station. His work is provocative, playful, and compassionate and asks us to look at compositions and subjects carefully, addressing issues of isolation and hope. On this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we will ask how a fine-art photographe...
Aug 05, 2021•50 min
Photographer Sally Davies embodies a beautiful creative spirit, and I think that spirit also resides in the homes of the 72 New Yorkers she photographed, and who are included in her wonderful portrait book, appropriately titled, New Yorkers . If this spirit does not exist and Davies is not in tune with it, how could she have captured such wonderful stories of people and their places and done it so efficiently, in some cases in just minutes? We will answer that question and many others as we welc...
Jul 29, 2021•54 min
On this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we discuss food photography and ask our two guests to create their vision of the ideal spread for a summer food photography shoot. In the first half of the show, we welcome photographer Meika Ejiasi , who is a food, lifestyle, and portrait photographer from Oakland, California. With Ejiasi we discuss how she would photograph ice cream and popsicles, but also about tips and tricks for keeping pizza looking hot after many takes. We talk about ut...
Jul 22, 2021•58 min
On this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we are thrilled to help celebrate the first anniversary of Black Women Photographers . Founded in July 2020 by Polly Irungu, the mission of Black Women Photographers is to “disrupt the notion that it is difficult to discover and commission Black creatives.” And toward that goal, BWP is now a global organization of more than 600 members, and as an online directory, has become a home for Black women and non-binary photographers to receive proper...
Jul 15, 2021•54 min
In support of the 2021 OPTIC Outdoor, Photo/Video, Travel Imaging Conference , to be held online July 11-12, 2021, the B&H Photography Podcast team conducted our own photo walk, much like they do as part of the OPTIC Conference events. For this episode, we took our cameras and microphones to the beautiful Elizabeth Park Rose Garden in West Hartford, Connecticut and with Allan as the group’s leader and Jason and I as participants, we completed several photo challenges and practiced our photog...
Jul 08, 2021•31 min
Beginning with an iPhone and an “a-ha moment” in the beautiful San Francisco City Hall, photographer Arthur Drooker began a project that would last five years and take him across the United States to photograph the most impressive and interesting city halls in the nation. The project culminated with his wonderful book, City Hall: Masterpieces of American Civic Architecture , from Schiffer Publishing, and it brings him to the B&H Photography Podcast to discuss photographing architecture, civi...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr
This week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is produced in collaboration with Leica Camera , and we are pleased to welcome photographer and journalist Cheriss May to the program. One of the qualities needed to tell good stories is an ability to listen and, in conversation with May, it becomes clear that her skill for framing and capturing an image with her camera begins with her skill for listening and for engaging with people and their stories. As a freelance editorial and portrait p...
Jun 24, 2021•56 min
Is the light in Chicago different than the light in New York? Can “street photography” set the subjects and control the scene? And just how long should you follow people carrying balloons in order to get a photograph? These are some of the questions we answer in this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . We welcome to the program photographers Nina Welch Kling and Clarissa Bonet . Kling lives in New York and Bonet in Chicago, although both are from other places entirely. We talk a ...
Jun 17, 2021•58 min
On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we take a deep dive into the technical, legal, and even theoretical topics surrounding Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and their growing place in the art and photography worlds. To take on this subject, we welcome cryptocurrency expert and past guest of the show, Drew Hinkes . Hinkes is an attorney and professor, and in 2017 was nominated as one of Coindesk’s Most Influential People in Blockchain. He is also co-founder and General Counsel of A...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Every now and again there are conversations that flow and sparkle; they seem laden with professional insights and creative gems. Our chat with photographer Mona Kuhn is one, and perhaps it’s Kuhn’s self-awareness, her quiet confidence, and an ability to articulate her motivations that make it so. There are few who will disagree that her visual stories, her portraits, nudes, landscapes, and photo essays are among the most assured in contemporary photography, and on this episode of the B&H Pho...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Not quite three-years old and the L-mount Alliance has already proven successful for its signatory companies --Leica, Sigma, and Panasonic. Built upon the foundation of the Leica L lens mount, the three makers have put out a total of nine cameras and a range of lenses , all compatible with each other. On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome Marc Farb, Technical Rep from Sigma , John Kreidler, Product Specialist from Leica , and Sean Robinson, Marketing Specialist f...
May 27, 2021•51 min
Making photographs regarding the important social issues of our day should not only be in the hands of photojournalists working for large news organizations. Greg Constantine and Monica Lozano, our guests on this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast as well as past guests of our program, distribute and exhibit their work outside the familiar “news” outlets. Both use their photographic work to address the stories of migrants, and both have spent the last two years documenting the hum...
May 20, 2021•45 min
This week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is an old-fashioned hands-on review, but in this case, made with six hands. Allan, Jason and I were fortunate to be loaned the Leica Q2 Digital Camera and the Leica Q2 Monochrom Digital Camera and we use our consideration of these 47MP cameras as a springboard to talk about camera grips, and point-and-shoot cameras , and value. We also talk about macro photography and cropping and about how to create black and white images from color files. ...
May 13, 2021•43 min
This is one of the most enjoyable chats on photography we’ve had in a while, and our subject is the history of amateur and popular photography as understood through photography how-to books and manuals. Joining us on the B&H Photography Podcast is Dr. Kim Beil , professor at Stanford University and author of Good Pictures: The History of Popular Photography , and with Beil we not only speak about what is and has been considered a “good photo,” we specifically talk about her collection of ph...
May 06, 2021•52 min
It’s macro week at the Explora blog and you’ll find many helpful articles and videos about the tools, techniques, and practitioners of macro photography. On the podcast , however, we go deeper than macro, like 1000x deeper—our conversation is with geologist, gemologist, and microscopist Nathan Renfro , of the Gemological Institute of America . Renfro is a renowned photomicrographer, and his images of the interiors of gems, with their unique inclusions and imperfect perfections, are stunning colo...
Apr 29, 2021•52 min
On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we focus on the work of photographer Todd Webb and, specifically, the series of images he created in Africa in 1958, while on assignment for the United Nations. We are joined by Betsy Evans Hunt, the Executive Director of the Todd Webb Archive , and by Aimée Bessire and Erin Hyde Nolan, coauthors of the new book, Todd Webb in Africa —Outside the Frame . With our guests, we discuss the photographic career of Todd Webb, including his work...
Apr 22, 2021•58 min
