Chinelle Rojas has been a self portrait photographer, among other niche specialties like birth and boudoir, since 2010, and logo designer who loves to challenge her creativity with her personal work with her passion project “My Black Self” when she isn’t helping her fellow entrepreneurs make a magical first impression. Chinelle has dreams of being a world traveler alongside her family. Speaking of family, she is a wife and homeschooling (before COVID) mother of three creative souls. Websites Chi...
Feb 16, 2021•47 min•Ep. 552
Anna Gunn is co-director of McGunnMedia, a photography and multimedia company based in Maia, Portugal. Born in Birmingham, UK, Anna moved to Portugal in 2009 and has been enjoying the sunny weather ever since. Along with being the founder of the Porto Photo Festival, Anna teaches photography, film, as well as lighting and sound. Her online classrooms are currently filled with over 900 students. Her latest project, Womansion is an international collection of thirteen female photographers who each...
Feb 09, 2021•48 min•Ep. 551
American photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957) is widely acclaimed for his photographic series, usually taken over many years, which record the effect of time on the natural and built landscape. These series include work made in Cuba, Russia, Bosnia, Times Square, Detroit, The Great Plains, and most recently, the American South. His most recent book, Blue Alabama, with a preface by Imani Perry and story by Madison Smartt Bell was released in the fall of 2019. His previous work on the lands and p...
Feb 02, 2021•56 min•Ep. 550
Steve Eichner’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Women's Wear Daily, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, People, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, GQ, W, and Details. For the past 20 years, Steve has been a staff photographer for Women's Wear Daily and shot over 40 New York Fashion Weeks, inside the MET GALA every year, the Victoria Secret Show, and the CFDA awards. His work is diverse, ranging from celebrity portraiture and fashion photography to concerts, extreme sports, and...
Jan 26, 2021•56 min•Ep. 549
Michael Clark is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, big-wave surfers and mountain bikers in remote locations around the world. He uses unique angles, bold colors, strong graphics and dramatic lighting to captu...
Jan 19, 2021•49 min•Ep. 548
Matthew Jordan Smith is an American photographer based in Tokyo, Japan and working between Tokyo, New York City and Los Angeles. He has photographed some of the worlds most famous celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Queen Latifah, Angela Bassett, Tyra Banks and more. His advertising clients include Olay, Pantene, Revlon, Showtime and HBO. In his spare time Matthew focuses on personal projects, photo exhibits and book projects. To date, Smith has published three books, Sepia Dreams, Lost & F...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 547
Jeffery Saddoris often refers to himself as a “serial conversationalist” and podcasting has become an increasingly important platform for his lifelong interest in learning, exploring, communicating, and sharing about art and artists – between more than 5 years talking about photography on On Taking Pictures, hosting the 12-episode Craft & Vision Podcast, and Process Driven, his ongoing podcast of long-form conversations about creativity and how the creative process manifests itself across a ...
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 546
Lucas Foglia is a fine-art photographer who examines the intersections between humans and wild spaces. His recent book and traveling exhibition, Human Nature, focuses on people in diverse ecosystems who rely on nature in the context of climate change. Foglia exhibits his work internationally, and his prints are in notable collections including the International Center of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Victoria and Albert Museum. His images have appeared in National Geograph...
Dec 29, 2020•49 min•Ep. 545
Shane Balkowitsch (born January 24, 1969) is an American wet plate photographer from Bismarck, North Dakota. The subject of his photos is the human condition. Since 2012 he has photographed over 4,000 individuals, including various celebrities and historical figures. On October 20, 2016, the Smithsonian Institution acquired The Real Deal, A wet plate collodion photograph of American former professional boxer Evander Holyfield taken by Balkowitch on February 28, 2015. Balkowitsch is a self-taught...
Dec 22, 2020•57 min•Ep. 544
Valerie Jardin is a popular street and travel photographer, educator, and host of the Hit the Street podcast. After leaving a successful career as a professional commercial photographer, she dedicated herself to her personal photography and conducting photo experiences both in the United States and Europe. She has recently turned her lens to more personal projects including a series of environmental portraits of artists that live and work in her community. Valerie’s latest book Street Photograph...
Dec 15, 2020•52 min•Ep. 543
Carissa Dorson is a fine art photographer and cinematographer originally from Silver Spring, Maryland. She graduated with a BFA from Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts in 2011 and then moved to Los Angeles. Carissa's first book of photos, “Conversations with Dad,” a visual conversation with her father, is being published by Kehrer Verlag. Her photography has also appeared on the front cover of “Like Brothers” by Mark and Jay Duplass, as well as in the photo book, “Home” by...
Dec 08, 2020•46 min•Ep. 542
In 2015 Dotan Saguy decided to focus on his lifelong passion for photography after a successful career as a high-tech entrepreneur. Since then Dotan attended the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop, Missouri Photo Workshop, and studied photojournalism at Santa Monica College. Dotan's award-winning photographs have been published by National Geographic, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, and many others. Dotan teaches street photography and documentary workshops for Leica Akademie and Momenta Work...
Dec 02, 2020•52 min•Ep. 541
Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author, and curator based in New York City. He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography. Stein is a frequent lecturer on photography both in the United States and abroad. He is the Director of Photography at Umbrella Arts Gallery, located in the East Village of Manhattan. He has also been a member of the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New School University, Drew University, Rochester Institute of Technolog...
Nov 23, 2020•52 min•Ep. 540
Hunter Barnes is a documentary photographer whose work captures aspects of culture and communities ignored by the mainstream and often misrepresented in the modern American narrative. Hunter trained in photochemistry and traditional photographic techniques. At a young age, he began a nomadic life on the road. In his early twenties, Hunter self-published his first book, Redneck Roundup, documenting the dying communities of the Old West. Other projects followed: four years spent with the Nez Perce...
Nov 17, 2020•45 min•Ep. 539
For over four decades, Greg Gorman has continued to master the art of photography. From celebrity portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine artwork, Greg has developed and showcased a discriminating and unique style in his profession. Over the past 20 years, Greg Gorman’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world. When not shooting famous faces, Greg travels for specialized photographic projects and is one of the most sought after speakers in th...
Nov 10, 2020•55 min•Ep. 538
Melissa O’Shaughnessy was born in 1960 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and studied at Georgetown University and the University of St. Thomas, graduating with a degree in journalism. She is now a photographer based in New York City. Her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and publications, and her work is included in the book Bystander: A History of Street Photography. She is a member of UP Photographers, a collective of 27 international street photographers. Her first monogra...
Nov 03, 2020•51 min•Ep. 537
Glenn Ruga is a graphic designer, photographer, and a life-long human rights activist. He is the founder of the Social Documentary Network who through its website, magazine, and contest showcase the documentary work of photographers from all over the world. Ruga has created traveling and online documentary exhibits on the struggle for a multicultural future in Bosnia, the war and aftermath in Kosovo, and on an immigrant community in Holyoke, Mass. In February 2010, Ruga curated SDN's first exhib...
Oct 28, 2020•39 min•Ep. 536
Amy Toensing is a documentary photographer committed to telling stories with sensitivity and depth and known for her intimate stories about the lives of ordinary people. Toensing has been a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine for over two decades. She has photographed cultures around the world including the last cave-dwelling tribe of Papua New Guinea, remote Aboriginal Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, and the Kingdom of Tonga. She has also covered issues such as food insecur...
Oct 21, 2020•48 min•Ep. 535
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers, and animals in a series called Small Deaths published in 2001 by University of Texas Press. Her other monographs include Painted Light, the University of Texas in 2010, a career retrospective that encompasses a quarter-century of prolific image-making. Her collection of photograms, entitled 'Las Sombras / The shadows' was published by ...
Oct 13, 2020•58 min•Ep. 534
Michael M. Santiago (b. 1980) is a staff news photojournalist with Getty Images. His work has focused on issues ranging from health, race and identity, family relationships, youth empowerment, and more. Michael is a member of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the shooting deaths of 11 people and the wounding of seven others on Oct. 27 at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The...
Oct 06, 2020•47 min•Ep. 533
Tomasz Trzebiatowski is a Polish fine art photographer living and working in Switzerland. He is the founder of the FujiLove website and magazine. He has become a new-generation publisher leveraging the power of digital photography, the internet, and social media. His latest effort is Frames, an online community that includes a high-quality quarterly magazine that showcases great photography from photographers regardless of brand loyalty. Websites FujiLove Frames Michael Kenna Education Resources...
Sep 29, 2020•52 min•Ep. 532
Brooke Schultz is a family portrait and wedding photographer based in Southern California. Her fascination with photography was sparked with the work of the photographer that documented Brooke’s wedding. She pursued her new creative outlet that eventually led her to begin her own career as a professional photographer. As she’s grown as a photographer and a businesswoman, she has helped others pursuing similar dreams through her workshops and her podcast, Heartful with Brooke Schultz Websites Bro...
Sep 21, 2020•52 min•Ep. 531
Brandon Thibodeaux is a photographer and educator based in Houston, TX, who creates portraits in the documentary tradition. In addition to his assignment work and creative commissions, he explores life in the American South. He is a guest instructor with the Santa Fe Photographic and Maine Media Workshops, as well as both the Houston and Los Angeles Centers of Photography. His work has been recognized by American Photo Magazine, Photo District News, and the Oxford American lists him as one of th...
Sep 08, 2020•45 min•Ep. 530
Rob Feakins has spent his career as a writer, executive creative director, and chief creative officer at some of the most respected advertising agencies in America. He has creatively led and won awards on some of the most recognized global brands in the world including Target, Citibank, P&G, BMW, Porsche, Four Seasons, Volvo, Hilton, and Goldman Sachs to name a few. He is now taking his skills and applying it where it is needed most, helping brands, NGOs and charities activate their cause ma...
Aug 31, 2020•51 min•Ep. 529
With 30 years of experience, Sue Bryce is one of the most recognizable photographers in the imaging industry. New Zealand born and raised Bryce now lives and works in Los Angeles. Her contemporary glamour portrait style transcends past stereotypes and has changed the face of portrait photography. “I have seen this industry grow and change so fast, moving from manual dye retouching and analog cameras to Photoshop and digital was not only challenging and frightening but also an inspirational exper...
Aug 24, 2020•53 min•Ep. 528
Multimedia journalist, digital editor, and self-taught photographer Polly Irungu is the founder of Black Women Photographers, a global community and online database of Black women and non-binary photographers. Polly is a Digital Content Editor at New York Public Radio (WYNC), where she is responsible for managing social media for WNYC and PRX’s ‘The Takeaway’, a national NPR show with over 2 million listeners, pitching news stories and features for The Takeaway and her podcast is ranked the 4th ...
Aug 17, 2020•51 min•Ep. 527
UK-born, NY-based photographer Phil Penman has documented the rapid flux of New York City's streets for over 25 years. With clients ranging from People Magazine to The Daily Telegraph, he has photographed celebrated living legends, including Jennifer Lopez and Bill Gates, and captured historical moments such as the September 11th Terrorist Attacks. Penman's distinctive style, versatility, and dedication to his craft has won him prestigious awards and exhibitions and distinction as one of the "52...
Aug 10, 2020•43 min•Ep. 526
Duane Michals (b. 1932, McKeesport, PA) is one of the great photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text. Michals first made significant, creative strides in the field of photography during the 1960s. In an era heavily influenced by photojournalism, Michals manipulated the medium to communicate narratives. The sequences, for which he is widely known, appropriate cinema’s frame-by-frame format. Michals has also incorporated text ...
Aug 03, 2020•50 min•Ep. 525
Andrew Bernstein’s photography has appeared in thousands of newspapers and magazine covers worldwide, as well as major advertising campaigns for over 30 years. The unique personal rapport Bernstein has developed with athletes over the years allows him exclusive access to special behind-the-scenes moments, some of which were showcased in the 2010 book he co-authored with legendary Hall of Fame NBA coach Phil Jackson, “Journey to the Ring”, documenting the 2009-10 Lakers championship season. In 20...
Jul 28, 2020•57 min•Ep. 524
Hernan Rodriguez is the recipient of over 30 international photography awards for his work as a portrait, commercial, product, and fashion photographer. These include a prestigious Black and White Spider Award in fashion as well as two nominations, Hernan Rodriguez operates a successful studio in the heart of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. There, he juggles a steady roster of commercial, product, and celebrity photography, along with corporate photography, and portraiture for families. Hernan...
Jul 19, 2020•54 min•Ep. 523
