With much thanks for a listeners suggestion, we invited Pete Isgrigg back to the B&H Photography Podcast for an incredibly informative conversation about memory cards , external hard drives , and other digital image storage solutions. Isgrigg, who previously joined us in 2019 , is from the Channel Marketing team at Western Digital (WD), which is the parent company of SanDisk and G-Technology , all very well-recognized names in the digital storage field. Isgrigg brings a wealth of knowledge to th...
Mar 24, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast (This is an encore presentation of an episode first published in November, 2018.) When we finished recording this episode, Jay Maisel asked us which podcast episode was our favorite. It didnt take Allan a second to answer, This one! While we now have recorded more than three hundred, there is no doubt that this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is very memorable. Once we turned the mics on, nobody wanted this conversation to end and, indeed, it runs longer than 80 minutes, but it is worth e...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our guest on this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is food photographer Christina Peters , and we start with a discussion of Peters macro food photography. We learn about her work with medium and large format systems, including FUJIFILM cameras. We also explore focus stacking, tilt-shift lenses, and when and why she might choose her Canon full-frame system over larger formats. Peters work runs the gamut from large commercial jobs with major brands to editorial, portrait, and restaura...
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we talk to an old friend about a new book; two-time past guest Amy Touchette joins us to discuss her book of street portraits. She also brought a friend with her - none other than photographer , Larry Fink . Is it fair to call Fink a photo legend? We think so, and clearly the people at the Center for Creative Photography seem to think so, because they just acquired his complete archive of work including images from the 1950s to the present, f...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast On todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we welcome two members of the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographs, otherwise known as the ASMP-NY and we discuss their evolving role as a trade organization for photographers, as well as a recent photography exhibition they sponsored. Our guests are Liam Alexander , President of the New York chapter of ASMP, and Harper Bella , ASMP-NY board member and co-curator of the exhibition "Uncovering the Laws of Perseverance". Fro...
Feb 24, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Its worth the time to see the work of photographer Mandy Barker before listening to this episode. Take a glance at the B&H Photography Podcast homepage or Barkers website to get a sense of the simple but imaginative images she creates; it will certainly enrich the experience of hearing her speak about photographing plastic garbage, which is what she has found to be her calling. Of course, were being a bit facetious with that comment, but as we discover from our conversation with Barker, it reall...
Feb 17, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast This weekends football game is bigger and better than most gamesyou might even say that its a super game. It certainly is one of the most photographed sporting events of the year, and with that in mind, the B&H Photography Podcast welcomes two photographers who know their way around the sidelines. Our guests are football photographers Al Bello and Callena Williams . Al Bello is a veteran sports and news photographer who has covered countless football games, including previous big bowl games; he ...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast There are many talented people who work at B&H Photo, and the connections to photography and photo history run deep. We have welcomed many staffers to the B&H Photography Podcast over the years, and today we are particularly excited to speak with two members of our team on the B&H Explora blog. We start our conversation with Howard Gotfryd, Senior Copy Editor at Explora, and learn about the incredible photography career of his late father, Bernard Gotfryd . Gotfryd Sr. emigrated to New York afte...
Feb 03, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast We try to maintain a global perspective at the B&H Photography Podcast and speak with photographers from around the world, but we are New Yorkers at heart and its hard to deny the love we have for our city and its history. With that in mind, we are pleased to welcome photographers Anders Goldfarb and Larry Racioppo to the showtwo photographers, both born in Brooklyn, who have taken the face of our ever-changing city as their subject. Each photographer has extensive archives of New York neighborh...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Conflict photography of the past twenty years is a subject we have discussed in previous episodes with photographers , psychologists , and scholars , but our very welcomed guest, photographer Peter van Agtmael adds his well-articulated thoughts on the subject, including his own motivations and challenges while covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the ramifications of those wars here in the United States and elsewhere. On this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we reflect o...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast The B&H Photography Podcast is kicking off the new year hot. For our first episode of 2022, we welcome photographer Joe McNally to discuss his career, his working methods, and his exciting new book, The Real Deal: Field Notes from the Life of a Working Photographer . Joe McNally is known to many as a photographers photographer, skilled in many genres and able to work across the lines of photojournalism, long-form photo essays, portraiture, sports, dance, and even fashion photography. He has work...
Jan 13, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast The B&H Photography Podcast team sends a huge end-of-the-year thank you to our listeners around the world and to the many guests who joined us for our weekly conversations. Theres little need to overstate the difficulties of the past year, but were all still here, still taking pictures, and were still making this podcast week in, week out. It truly has been a gratifying and unflappable pleasure to produce this show and hopefully it continues to provide some insight, some inspiration, and a few g...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast We split our time on this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast between one book and many books. In the first half of the show we learn about an inspirational new book, Among Peers: The United States of Young Photographers , which profiles the work of student photographers from several workshop programs in the United States. We conclude the episode with an overview of the many wonderful books from 2021 that were featured on the podcast. To discuss Among Peers , we welcome the publisher Michelle...
Dec 23, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast With the launch of the incredible James Webb Space Telescope just hours away, we thought it a good time to republish our conversation with Chris Gunn, the official NASA photographer for this project. The original episode was published almost two years ago when the construction of the telescope was nearing completion. If you are intereted in space research and imaging, also check our episode from 2016 with a chief imaging expert from the Hubble Space Telescope mission . Imagine the privilege of b...
Dec 21, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast We return to our annual Cameras of the Year conversation for todays installment of the B&H Photography Podcast and, as usual, we welcome a member of the B&H staff who knows these cameras as well as anyone. In addition to being a pro photo sales specialist at the B&H SuperStore, Llinelva De Castro is a wedding and portrait photographer and former proprietor of a family photo studio, in Queens, NY. We are pleased to hear her insights on these featured cameras and to get her sense of the publics re...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast To take photographs on ships or to work in ports and cover maritime transportation requires a full range of photographic know-how, including portraiture, landscape, product, aerial, architecture, corporateeven adventure-photography skills. And thats just on the first day! On todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we discuss this type of industrial and corporate photography, which at its core is rooted in documentary and visual storytelling. We welcome to the program photographer Nick Souz...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast The title for this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is taken from a comment made by guest Tonika Johnson , describing the moment she recognized the effect her work could have on citizens of her hometown of Chicago. Im certain that our other guests have had a similar moment when they see that their artistic work has gone beyond just the oohs and ahhs of aesthetes and afficionados and truly helps to educate and change the world for the better. On todays program, we speak about photo projects...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our guest on this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is physician and astrophotographer, Robert Gendler . The distinguished assignments, numerous international accolades, and five published books are an indication of the significance of the work of this self-described amateur. His mosaic of the Andromeda Galaxy has been used to create 3D IMAX films and is considered the largest image of a spiral galaxy ever taken. With Gendler we discuss his craft and career. We talk of his early days ...
Nov 26, 2021•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we welcome the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Lensbaby , the special effects lens manufacturer. Lensbaby was started by Craig Strong in 2004 and quickly established a name for itself. Over the years, they have added lenses, optics systems, and accessories to grow their brand while maintaining their emphasis on creative expression and embracing imperfection. With Strong, who worked as a staff and freelance photographer before co-found...
Nov 18, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast On todays 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 countrys foremost collectors of vernacular photography and portions of his collections are now included in institutions such as Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, MFA Boston,...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast Todays 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 conversa...
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 imag...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast A listicle is an article comprising a list. A listicle is any piece of digital content thats 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 deta...
Oct 22, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 challengeone 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 books author, Hugo Huerta Marin, weaved a personal narrative into this series of interviews and photographs he made of artists he admired, such as Yoko On...
Oct 14, 2021•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast This weeks 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 is als...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast This weeks 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 photographyin 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 river ...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks 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 than thre...
Sep 17, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast What do the films Goodfellas, The Devil Wears Prada, Creed, Oceans 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 weeks 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 needed t...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast There is a vibrance, a joy, and a love for photography that one feels when speaking with Meryl Meisler . Its 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, thats just how I see it. Of course, theres a lot more to Meislers 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 . Meislers latest book, ...
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