Of course, there are several renowned photography book publishers, but if you know just one name in photo book publishing, it should be Aperture . Edward Weston, Diane Arbus, Stephen Shore, Sally Mann, Deana Lawson, and Martin Parr are just a few of the artists who have had at least one of their most significant books published by Aperture Publishing . Book publishing is just one of the ways that this non-profit organization, founded by Minor White and others, supports the art and craft of photo...
Nov 21, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast With an exhibition of his 40-year photographic career opening at the Rubin Museum of Art , in New York, photojournalist and social justice activist Shahidul Alam was kind enough to join us on the B&H Photography Podcast to discuss the current exhibit, his career, and the state of photojournalism around the world. Also joining us is scholar, archivist, and the author of Conversations on Conflict Photography , Dr. Lauren Walsh. Truth to Power is the name of the Alams exhibition and it is a tribute...
Nov 14, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast On todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome photojournalist and sports photographer Nick Didlick to our show. Didlick has been a freelance shooter, a staff photographer, an agency photographer for Reuters and UPI and, while covering the world news, was nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes. He also is an accomplished videographer, editor, and producer, and has served as Photo Chief for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and as Director of Photography at the Vancouver Sun, where he ...
Nov 07, 2019•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our offices are just a few blocks from the convention center where the annual PhotoPlus Expo is held, and each year we wander over with our portable recorders to chat with the exhibitors whose new gear catches our eye. We approach large vendors and small and try to give our listeners a peek into the the largest photography and imaging event in North America. This year, we spoke with representatives from Sky-Watcher regarding this companys motorized astro-photography mounts; Chimera about its new...
Oct 31, 2019•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Perhaps there is one thing that all photographers agree on: we love to photograph our pets. From amateur to professional, a simple photo of our dog, cat, or guinea pig making that face is almost irresistible and, based on the current exhibit at The Museum of the Dog , this fascination with photographing our pets reaches into the past for as long as the medium has existed. On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome author and vernacular photography collector Catherine Johns...
Oct 24, 2019•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast A wiser feller than myself once said, Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear, well, he eats you. A few of our listeners may recognize this quote from a certain 1998 movie but, for others, well, it may just be a confusing adage. For todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, however, we did indeed eat the bear and are very fortunate to welcome actor, musician, and photographer Jeff Bridges to our show. In addition to being an Academy Award-winning actor, Bridges photographs the be...
Oct 10, 2019•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast We welcome to the B&H Photography Podcast two photographers who have brought their talent and dedication to bear on the complex and beautiful lives that exist on the U.S.-Mexican border. Our first guest is photographer Stefan Falke , who is engaged in a 10-year portrait project called LA FRONTERA: Artists Along the US-Mexican Border , which is dedicated to documenting the influence that artists have on their community. He has photographed more than 200 artists, writers, singers, and photographer...
Oct 04, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast When one of the worlds most followed photographers is available for a conversation, you make the time to talk with him, and when that photographer is acclaimed adventure, landscape, travel, and surf photographer Chris Burkard , expect that conversation to include some serious insights into the passion and ambition that it takes to create the beautiful images he makes. On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we speak with Burkard about a range of subjectsand this conversation does ...
Sep 26, 2019•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast On todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we revisit our conversation with Stephen and Bette Wilkes in honor of the release of Wilkess great new book Day to Night , and the accompanying gallery show at the Bryce Wolkowitz gallery , in New York. We also spend a bit of time reflecting on a few of the legendary photographers who have died recently. The Day to Night series that Stephen Wilkes has been working on for ten years has received much-deserved attention and has grown from its New Yo...
Sep 19, 2019•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast On todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we take a deep dive into one bag and then into another one, and another. We welcome Jeannette Garcia and Yaakov Katz, two experts from the B&H SuperStore , to discuss the materials, capacities, features, and styles of camera bags and cases that are available today. We start with a simple question for each of them: what should one ask when purchasing a new camera bag? Both offer simple yet insightful answers to that question as they walk us down th...
Sep 12, 2019•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast With the anniversary of the September 11 attacks upon us again, those of us in New York City , particularly, think back to that terrible day with great sadness, but also with a certain resolve and a sense of pride for the way we handled this tragedy, how we came together to support each other while fear, confusion, and anger swarmed.Mostly , we remember the friends, neighbors, and co-workers who lost their lives , and the families forever broken. In September 2017 , we published an episode of th...
Sep 10, 2019•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast We have been hosting the B&H Photography Podcast Panasonic LUMIX S1 Sweepstakes for the past several weeks and, today, we are excited to announce the winners of the LUMIX DC-S1 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 24-105mm lens and the LUMIX DC-G95 Mirrorless Camera with a 12-60mm lens . With that in mind, wed like to thank all of our listeners who left ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts , and particularly those who subscribed to the podcast and mentioned a favorite episode. This kind of feedback i...
Sep 05, 2019•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we present two conversations from the 2019 OPTIC Photography Conference. Both chats are with photographers who understand the value of sharing their experiences and skills with other photographers and embracing the idea that to be a teacher is also a path for learning. Our first conversation is with travel and landscape photographer Elia Locardi , who is also well known for his photography tutorials with Fstoppers , photo tours, and YouTube ...
Aug 29, 2019•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shiv Verma is a Panasonic LUMIX Global Ambassador, so its no coincidence that he is joining us to discuss the LUMIX S1 Full-Frame Mirrorless Digital Camera which is part of our current sweepstakes and other cameras in the LUMIX line, but Verma is also a multi-talented photographer and educator who offers insight into the subtle aspects of light and narrative, as well as the technical know-how to achieve your desired photographic results. We start our conversation relating a William Faulkner quot...
Aug 22, 2019•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are in the midst of our B&H Photography Podcast Panasonic LUMIX S1 Sweepstakes and encourage you to check the link to enter to win a Panasonic LUMIX DC-S1 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 24-105mm Lens or a Panasonic LUMIX DC-G95 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 12-60mm Lens . For todays episode, we present encore conversations with photographers Sisse Brimberg and Xyza Cruz Bacani . Sisse Brimberg is a veteran adventure and travel photographer who has more than thirty stories for National Geogra...
Aug 15, 2019•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome a true photography legendcurator, critic, and author, Vince Aletti. Anyone who lived in New York in the 1980s and 90s, and is interested in photography, will know of Aletti as the photography critic at the Village Voice. He went on to review photo exhibitions at The New Yorker until 2016. He has also curated exhibitions at the International Center of Photography and White Columns gallery, and has authored many books, including his...
Aug 08, 2019•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, we welcome two photographers who know the joys of spending a late afternoon waiting for super cells to form, or that perfect lightning strike to appear, as well as the perils of rising waters, golf-ball-sized hail, and projectile debris in flight. Our topic today is extreme-weather photography, and we welcome photographers from two different continents to tell us about their shooting styles, safety precautions, gear, and their general thoughts on weather, social media, and the photogr...
Aug 01, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast For this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we took our portable recorders to an elegant mansion along Central Park, which had been decked out by Sony as a series of stylized photography sets, complete with full lighting, backdrops, and models. They also happened to have on hand many brand-new Sony Alpha a7R IV Mirrorless Digital Cameras and hundreds of lenses for the guests to shoot with in these mini studios. Lets not forget about the great music, delicious food, and open bar Sony provid...
Jul 25, 2019•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome photographer Ashok Sinha to talk about his forthcoming book Driver-full City: The Unique Architecture of Car Culture in Greater Los Angeles and to discuss the Cartwheel Initiative , a nonprofit that he founded, which works with displaced and refugee youth, using photography and multimedia tools to inspire these youth to find their voice through art and creative thinking. Before we get into our conversation with Sinha, however, we ...
Jul 18, 2019•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is Wildlife Week at B&H Explora , and for our contribution we offer this most excellent episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . Truth is, serendipity is a goddess, and our B&H colleagues made it easy for us to bring you such great gueststhe OPTIC Conference supplied a bevy of incredible wildlife photographers for our microphones and our friends at Explora created this beautiful and educational feature, please check it out, here . First on todays show is the one and only Ron Magill , photog...
Jul 11, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a conversation we wanted to last another hour. Talking with intellectual property attorney (and accomplished photographer) David Deal about copyright protection and fair use in the Instagram era was such an easy education and enjoyable to boot. We already ran long on this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , just scratching the surface of these topics, and we had to edit out a side conversation we had with Deal about his fascinating work regarding the estate of photographer Viv...
Jul 04, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Todays conversations address the challenges photographers encounter when real lifechildren, family, economic changes, even personal tragedyinterrupt the work we would like to be doing, namely taking pictures, and how we find our way back to the form of creative expression we all desire. We welcome four photographers who have overcome challenges or who have found ways to incorporate their own life and lifestyle into their professional work. First, we speak with photographer Erin Babnik , who prev...
Jun 27, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast B&H recently hosted the OPTIC Outdoor, Photo/Video, Travel Imaging Conference, which gave us an opportunity to sit with many wonderful photographers including Ron Magill, Frans Lanting, and Erin Babnik and we will be publishing these conversations over the next few weeks, but today we welcome representatives from Canon, Panasonic Lumix, and Sony to discuss their latest wares. First we speak with Ross Joseph from Canon about their photo printer options , specifically the imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 , a...
Jun 20, 2019•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast It has been a short but busy week at B&H Photo and we hosted several wonderful conversations at this years OPTIC Photography Conference , so todays episode is itself, wonderful but short. We will be presenting many of the recordings made at OPTIC over the coming weeks, but our chat with veteran B&H Photography Podcast guest Chris Nicholson surprised even the normally unflappable Allan Weitz. We have become familiar with Nicholsons professional tennis photography and his wonderful color night pho...
Jun 13, 2019•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you have undeveloped rolls of film that have been sitting around forever? Maybe you dont even realize that you have unprocessed rolls from the good ol days of analog in an old camera bag or a dresser drawer. Now is the time to look into this matter and have the chance to explore and share your memories, perhaps even rediscover events and people that memory has left behind. On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome the directors of Lost Rolls America , Ron Haviv and Lau...
Jun 06, 2019•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome four makers who have designed and built impressive imaging tools with their own vision. Their locations, the formats, the materials, and the final products all differ wildly, but the D.I.Y. spirit of the engineer, the tinkerer, the photographer, and the entrepreneur are shared by our four guests. We get a sense of how each came to their product, developed it, and are trying to market it. First, we speak with Sam Cornwell, inventor...
May 30, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Adriane Ohanesian has been on the B&H Photography Podcast in the past and we are very excited to welcome her back to discuss her photojournalistic work in Africa. As many of our listeners will recall, Ohanesian contributed to our podcast throughout 2017 in a serial segment we called Dispatch , in which she provided monthly reports on her freelance assignments covering conflict and climate change in Sudan and Somalia. She also narrated the story of a deadly attack she survived while covering a st...
May 23, 2019•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast I think its fair to say that animals, even more than cars, sunsets, and children, are the most photographed subject by listeners of the B&H Photography Podcast and, on this weeks episode, we speak with two photographers who not only have dedicated their craft to photographing animals, but bring to their process a compassion and advocacy that goes far beyond just a pretty picture. Our first guest, Steve Morello , is recognized for his whale and polar bear photographs, but he is also a founding pa...
May 16, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast As we prepare to celebrate Mothers Day, we welcome an artist to the B&H Photography Podcast who is using her camera to examine quotidian spaces and further a conversation about the deeply felt subjective experiences of motherhood, particularly as they are realized in the workplace. Joining us is photographer Corinne May Botz , whose current series is entitled Milk Factory, and it takes lactation rooms, the spaces where working mothers go to pump breast milk, as its subject. Also joining us as gu...
May 09, 2019•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast On May 10, 2019, the 150th anniversary of the golden spike,the ceremonial completion of The First Transcontinental Railroad, will be celebrated, and we at the B&H Photography Podcast are taking this opportunity to talk railroad photography. In the first half of the episode, we discuss the iconic image created by photographer A.J. Russell, at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869 of hundreds of workers gathered on and around two steam locomotives for this momentous occasion. We also touch upon the rel...
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