Podcasts by Outerfocus

Outerfocus 25 - Margaret Bourke-White (Ross Harvey) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand’’ Margaret Bourke-WhiteWelcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!Joining us on our 25th episode this week, we speak wi...

Outerfocus 24 - Dorothea Lange (Gonçalo Delgado) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera” Dorothea Lange Welcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!Joining us after a 2 minute photoshoot earlier in the day, we are pleased to be speaki...

Outerfocus 23 - Walker Evans (Martin Parr) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler” Walker EvansWelcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!This week we are delighted to welcome British document...

Outerfocus 22 - Jacob Riis (Gina Milicia) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“When nothing seems to help I go look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps 100 times without so much as a crack showing in it, yet at the 101st blow it will split in two and I know...

Outerfocus 21 - Lewis Hine (Jonathan Higbee) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“Photography can light up darkness and expose ignorance” - Lewis HineThis week we are joined by New York based photographer, Jonathan Higbee. We hear how Jonathan started his photography journey as...

Outerfocus 20 - Eugene Atget (Charles Peterson) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent” Eugene AtgetWelcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!As we hit our 20th episode! we are joined this week by American photographer Charles P...

Outerfocus 19 - Alfred Stieglitz (Julia Coddington) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

‘When I photograph I make love’ Alfred Stieglitz This week we welcome street photographer, Julia Coddington. Currently living in Sydney, Julia is a self taught photographer who takes a lot of her i...

Outerfocus 18 - Edward Steichen-fo realsies (Melissa Breyer) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

’When I first became interested in photography I thought it was the whole cheese, my idea was to have it recognised as one of the fine arts. Today I don’t give a hoot in hell about it, the mission ...

Outerfocus 17 - Edward Steichen-ish (David Carol) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can’t get inside and know the subject.” – Edward SteichenWelcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!A...

Outerfocus 16 - Robert Demachy (Facundo Santana) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"There is still a misunderstanding on the subject of the straight print, as opposed to the modified print. Some champions of pure photography, as it is called, will even deny that a modified print ...

Outerfocus 15 - Henry Peach Robinson (Jordi Cervera) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind on his own work he must arrange, modify and dispose of his materials so that they may appear in a more agree...

Outerfocus 14 - Eadweard Muybridge (Kym Skiles) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

‘’Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence’’ Eadweard MuybridgeWelcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!Joining us t...

Outerfocus 13 - Mathew Brady (Just the two of us) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“I had to go, a spirit in my feet said go and I went” Mathew B. BradyWelcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!This week we grace you with a full episode of Ian Weldon and Bradley Hanson. With no guest thi...

Outerfocus 12 - Carleton Watkins (Paul Rogers) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept” Ansel AdamsWelcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!Joining us this week we have British photographer Paul Rogers. During his time studying p...

Outerfocus 11 - Gertrude Käsebier (Nima Taradji) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonised. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will...

Outerfocus 10 - Roger Fenton (Kirra Cheers) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Our 10th episode, yes we’ve made it to 10! features Kirra Cheers a photo-based artist originally from Australia, but now residing in the US. We learn a little about Kirra's ‘accidental’ start in ph...

Outerfocus 09 - Felice Beato (Spencer Lum) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!I'm still loaded with cold, but I have been very brave and have soldiered on as to not disrupt your listening pleasure. I know, right?  Please forgive my sniffling...

Outerfocus 08 - Francis Frith (Niki Boon) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

©Francis Frith Collection“Every stone, every little perfection, or dilapidation, the most minute detail, which, on an ordinary drawing would merit no special attention becomes, on a photograph, wor...

Outerfocus 07 - Maxime Du Champ (Edoardo Morina) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Maxime Du Champ - Le Sphinx, Egypt Moyenne 1849Welcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!This week’s episode we welcome Edoardo Morina from Italy he talks to us about how and why he went from finance gradu...

Outerfocus 06 - Oscar Rejlander (Cameron Neville) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Two Ways of Life - Oscar Rejlander 1857Welcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!Joining us from Australia this week we have documentary photographer Cam Neville, an it’s early in the morning. Because he’s...

Outerfocus 05 - Gustave le Gray (Gisele Duprez) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!I'm working on a new, dedicated, Outerfocus website. We'll have the podcast, library, news and education all in one place. I'm just figuring out the details and h...

Outerfocus 04 - Julia Margaret Cameron (Kirk Mastin) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!Ok, so I'm in a hotel room in London with a terrible cold, full of lemsip, painkillers and red wine trying not to die. I apologise for the coughs and sniffles. I w...

Outerfocus 03 - Southworth & Hawes (Steven Bollman) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!This week things seem to be coming along nicely, so nicely in fact that we could talk all day with our episode 3 guest! Joining us from San Francisco we have Steve...

Outerfocus 02 - William Henry Fox Talbot (Joao De Medeiros) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!So this week we seem to have resolved recording issues from last week - hooray! We also have a guest joining us for the ride so a warm welcome to Joao de Medeiros ...

Outerfocus 01 - Daguerre & Niépce from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!The recording of this episode is a bit odd, mostly because I have no idea what I’m doing, yet. If you are listening through headphones, I’m in one ear and Bradley ...

Outerfocus 60 - Jane Baldwin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Outerfocus turns 60. I hope that you are all well during what is becoming a very troubled time, on a global scale. I believe that there is a different future on the other side and this ‘down time’ ...

Outerfocus 59 - Lauren Maccabee from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

You made through another two weeks. That means we’re two weeks closer to things getting back to normal. I hope you are all doing well and finding your own methods for not going completely mad. I th...

Outerfocus 58 - Norma I. Quintana from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Hello again! Another two weeks passes……I hope that you are all doing well and are still coping during this very peculiar time. I think it’s a real struggle for people to get a grasp of what they sh...

Outerfocus 57 - David Gibson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Outerfocus 56 - Czes?aw Siegieda from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Still on lockdown-ish and enjoying getting back to recording conversations. It’s surprising easy to pin people down when they have to stay home!This time we talk with, Czes?aw Siegieda (Jan) about ...

Outerfocus 55 - Polly Rusyn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

There is global pandemic, which means I have a little more time on my hands to get some conversations recorded. Every cloud…..Welcome to Outerfocus 55 with Poly Rusyn©Polly RusynPolly  is a London-...

Outerfocus 54 - Reuben Radding from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Happy Friday! Welcome to March’s instalment of Outerfocus to sooth your coronavirus blues. Today we welcome the very wonderful, Reuben Radding, a photographer and musician living in Brooklyn, NY.© ...

Outerfocus 53 - Iain McKell from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome back to the Outerfocus podcast!I did say that you could expect a new one early March but I thought it fitting to get this one out today. Especially as Iain has a book signing at the Photogr...

Outerfocus 52 - OF Live! with Stephen Leslie from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Welcome back!I trust  that you have all eaten your weight in cheese, drank copious amounts of alcohol and have had a bit of a rest. I have, but without the rest part. Anyway, I hope that you are al...

Outerfocus 51 - Melissa O'Shaughnessy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Before we get started, I have an announcement! Outerfocus Live!On 17th December 2019 we will be hosting an Outerfocus meet-up at the The Wanstead Tap east London.Print Swap!You bring a print, you t...

Outerfocus 50 - Cole Roberts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We made it to 50! Which is not really any more important than 49, or 51, but here we are. It’s been a blast and we’ve been incredibly lucky with the quality of guests over the past year and a half ...

Outerfocus 49 - Ashly Stohl from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We’re back! It has been a busy few weeks over here and the podcast, unfortunately, has taken a bit of a back seat. I’m on it, though, and normal service is resumed. If not a little rusty!So welcome...

Outerfocus 48 - Mahesh Shantaram from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mahesh Shantaram is also not a wedding photographer. And I like that. © Mahesh Shantaram - from MatrimaniaWell, I liked it after I got over the fact that my own book, about weddings, wasn’t the fir...

Outerfocus 47 - Zalmy Berkowitz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

So, in between all of my fancy pants exhibition and talk and book signing and tequila drinking shenanigans I managed to get a conversation recorded with, Zalmy Berkowitz. I asked about interesting ...

Outerfocus 46 - Jason Baron from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The photography industry is more than just the genre that we work in. It’s a multifaceted thing that reaches into all aspects of society, wether we notice it or not, and it’s more than just photogr...

Outerfocus 45 - Ian Weldon, presented by Martin Parr from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Martin Parr presents this very special episode of Outerfocus. Yes, you read that right. © Ian WeldonWith my exhibition, I Am Not A Wedding Photographer, opening today - 26th June 2019 - we thought ...

Outerfocus 44 - Kathryn Mayo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week we welcome Kathryn Mayo to the Outerfocus Podcast. Not content with what could be described as ‘straight’ photography Kathryn’s work utilises antique processes and often incorporates foun...

Outerfocus 43 - Chris Suspect from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

I’m trying to move away from long drawn out show notes that explain everything we cover in these conversations. The whole point of the podcast is to listen and make up your own mind.  The fun, for ...

Outerfocus 42 - Graeme Oxby from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

I always like the conversations I have for the podcast to sound like just that, conversations. Sometimes it’s difficult to relax into it because of nerves, from myself and from the guest, but overa...

Outerfocus 41 - Agnieszka Sosnowska from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week I’m joined by, Agnieszka Sosnowska, from her bed. Polish born and raised in Massachusetts, Agnieszka now lives and works in the rural east of Iceland. We talk broken feet, education, some...

Outerfocus 40 - Hélène Binet from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

We’re 40! How did that happen?

Outerfocus 39 - Niall McDiarmid from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week Outerfocus welcomes the very excellent, Niall McDiarmid.Born in Scotland, now living in London, Niall is a documentary photographer focusing on the people and landscape of Britain. I firs...

Outerfocus 38 - Barbara Peacock from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week Outerfocus welcomes, Barbara Peacock.Barb is a commercial & documentary photographer living in Portland, Maine. In September 2017 she received the Getty editorial grant for her project, A...

Outerfocus 37 - Jens Olof Lasthein from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ok, a couple of things before we get started.Outerfocus has its first sponsor! Big news, I know. PicDrop contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I’d be interested in them sponsoring the podcast. ...

Outerfocus 36 - Vinca Petersen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

I recently came across Vinca’s photography (No System) and was instantly connected to a time, and a scene, that I was almost part of. Our conversation cements the fact that Vinca is as genuine as h...

Outerfocus 35 - Ben Smith (Robert Capa) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.” - Robert CapaFalling Soldier, Spain - 1936 Robert CapaThis week we are joined by, Ben Smith. Some of you may know Ben from the Small ...

Outerfocus 34 - Gerard Uferas (Willy Ronis) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread” - Willy Ronis"Le Bioule", Paris (1957) - Willy RonisWelcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!This week we are joined the very wonderful, Gerar...

Outerfocus 33 - Richard Kalvar (Lee Miller) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“The personality of the photographer, his approach, is really more important than his technical genius” - Lee MillerRichard Kalvar. London - 2015Happy New year to you all. I hope you had a wonderfu...

Outerfocus 32 - Paris Visone (Man Ray) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an original is motivated by necessity. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.” - Man RaySleeping Woman 1929 - Man RayThe amaz...

Outerfocus 31 - Matt Stuart (Berenice Abbott) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That’s the only way they are going to find themselves. They can’t do it in their heads – they have to go out and do it in th...

Outerfocus 30 - Pedro Vilela (Paul Strand) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will wa...

Outerfocus 29 - Ask us Anything from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week we open up the floor to your questions, which we haphazardly, and long windedly, try to answer. And to be fair, this is only our opinion based on the experience we have. Some of you might...

Outerfocus 28 - Imogen Cunningham (Fadi BouKaram) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent”  - Imogen Cunni...

Outerfocus 27 - Edward Weston (Ed Templeton) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“Don’t be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.” – Edward WestonWelcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!Episode 27. I can’t quite believe we...

Outerfocus 26 - Ansel Adams (Jillian Edelstein) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“I believe there is nothing more disturbing than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept’’ - Ansel Adams Welcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!We are back with a bang this week with South African born photojo...