Julianna Foster | Teaching & Geographical Lore from 2021-07-16T19:50:51

Julianna Foster is an artist and assistant professor and interim Program Director of Photography at the University of the Arts. We have a fantastic conversation about teaching and her latest wor...

Brendan Bannon | Teaching & Most Important Picture from 2021-07-02T13:00

Brendan Bannon is a photographer and teacher based between New York and Nairobi, Kenya. We talk about the work his students are showing at the JKC Gallery as part of The Mark and the Memory show...

Efrem Zelony-Mindell | Teaching & Primal Sight from 2021-06-18T21:22:54

Artist, critic, writer, curator, author, and workshop teacher, Efrem Zelony-Mindell and I talk about their book Primal Sight, pub by Gnomic Book, and how this book about a modern examination of ...

Elinor Carucci | Teaching & Midlife from 2021-06-04T23:47:28

Elinor Carucci and I talk about her book Midlife, an autobiographical exploration of life, ageing, mortality, and the challenges women face as they get older to not become invisible. We talk abo...

Cary Benbow | Teaching, Writing, & Textbooks from 2021-05-22T12:00

Cary and I reminisce a bit about our different experiences in the textbook world and the changes that occurred in the publishing and stock photography world that came about almost simultaneously...

Heather Palecek | Teaching & Historical Practice from 2021-05-08T17:34:33

Heather Palecek is an artist who uses historical photographic processes in experimental ways to explore our relationship with nature. She is also a high school photo teacher. We talk about her l...

Endia Beal | Teaching & Performance Review from 2021-04-24T20:30

This episode is the first in a series dedicated to talking about teaching art while still having some personal success as an artist. Everyone in this series will be asked

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Gulnara Samoilova | Women Street Photographers from 2021-03-21T15:00

Today's guest is Gulnara Samoilova and we talk about her book, Women Street Photographers published by Prestel Publishing. An amazing collection of work that showcases 100 contemporary women str...

Irina Rozovsky | In Plain Air from 2021-03-07T15:00

"I wish I had more time for my child, I wish I had more time for my work, I wish I had more time for the Humid…"

Irina Rozovsky and I talk about her work being included in MOMA's New ...

Aaron Turner | Photographers of Color - Episode 50 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"People know that there are black artists out there but it's just about why isn't that work included in the overall narrative…Let's know the history of photography and let's figure out how we can i...

Float Magazine | Yoav Friedlander & Dana Stirling - Episode 49 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"The feeling that you are opening a door for someone , what you always dreamt that someone would do for you…it's a very humbling experience." Float Magazine is the brainchild of Dana Stirling and Y...

Gary Schneider - Episode 48 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I realize I have a kind of self-consciousness about my history, about having grown up in Apartheid South Africa and mostly my work is outside of race…" Gary Schneider is the Director of the Gradua...

Stephen Hilger - Episode 47 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I think about that neighborhood that's been wiped away as a crime scene…" Stephen Hilger is the Photography Chair at Pratt Institute. His book Back of Town is a record of a transitional moment in ...

Michelle Leftheris - Episode 46 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Well I'm just going to work at this lab for the rest of my life, I'll be a lifer…because my life is over at the ripe old age of twenty four…and then I got a call from the Chair up at RISD…" Michel...

Niko J. Kallianiotis - Episode 45 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Oh you know, Robert Frank did this or you know Soth did this, it doesn't really matter who did it, it's what you are going to put into it. Are you passionate about it, and is this part of your lif...

Jen Davis - Episode 44 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"And I always kind of thought about myself in my role in the work as this otherness…it was me but it was a version of me.…" Jen Davis explores body image, identity, and relationships through the le...

Spring Cleaning | April Fools - Episode 43 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Our 1st April Fools Show - Hope you enjoyed it! - Kai and Michael respond to all of the great listener feedback on iTunes and start their spring with a new format and guest-free show. Check out our...

Geoffrey Berliner | Penumbra - Episode 42 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"As time marches on where we've become more of a technical society…we've become removed…alienated from making things, there's also a sense of a lack of community…and I think that's what we do at Pe...

Efrem Zelony-Mindell - Episode 41 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"That was my moment when I realized that it didn't just have to be about being the photographer, it's about photography." Photo Credit: © Landon Speers Efrem Zelony-Mindell is an artist, critic, an...

Jeff Mermelstein - Episode 40 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"We know how beautiful of a machine that is, but right now mine is at home and for me to get to that point or to that break, was not easy…the whole notion of that rangefinder and that 35mm - 1.4. T...

Lucas Thorpe | Libby Pratt - Baxter St - Episode 39 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"We spend a lot of time fundraising because a lot of this grant money goes directly to the artist so we need to make that up with…how do we pay for our rent, how do we pay for the lights, how do we...

Jeffrey Henson Scales - Episode 38 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I was sort of like the teenage cub photographer of the Black Panther paper. They let me move around with all of the leaders of the party, I would ride around with them and take pictures and work o...

Martin Bell - Episode 37 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I was in London, Mary Ellen was working there (in Seattle) and I think it was the first night she was there, she saw Tiny get out of a cab in the parking lot of the Monastery night club and she sa...

Pen + Brush - Tricia Wright - Episode 36 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"It's not always just the gender, it's the lives women lead and that makes it very difficult to be part of the commercial route…you don't fit the model of the young artist, in my case being deeply ...

Justin Waldinger - Tap and Dye - Episode 35 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I decided it was time to do something that I really love and that had to combine cameras and making things." Justin Waldinger founded Tap & Dye because he wanted to be able to use his design s...

Yola Monakhov Stockton - Episode 34 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"That very same day that I started I was shot by an Israeli soldier. I was shot with an…M6 or M16 rifle…and I almost certainly should have died..." Yola Monakhov Stockton has so many great stories ...

SPQR Editions - Thomas Roma / Susan Kismaric - Special from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Books make us feel less alone…That's why I make books." -Thomas Roma A special release from thePhotoShow without your co-hosts. Thomas Roma and Susan Kismaric held a conversation about publishing ...

Nat Ward & Ben Alper / A New Nothing - Episode 33 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"One of the big conversations that Ben and I have always had and always kind of bristled against together is this idea…that all potential is exhausted in photography, and so there is this sense tha...

Richard Bram - Episode 32 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Michael and Kai met up with Richard Bram while he was getting ready to move from New York to London. Richard's book, Richard Bram New York, had just been published and symbolically it had become Ri...

Leo Rubinfien - Episode 31 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"….the fact is most of how we understand life…we do in essentially narrative terms and the moment that you make a photograph you step outside of that. There's no before, there's no after, there's n...

Joe Aguirre - Kramer O'Neill - Episode 30 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Joe Aguirre and Kramer O'Neill join Kai and Michael for the first multi-guest show. Joe and Kramer both belong to different photo collectives. These modern day international photo clubs/societies h...

Preston Rescigno - Episode 29 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Preston Rescigno has straddled the worlds of photojournalism and fine art photography for all of his photographic life. When I spoke to Preston he was getting ready to drive his son to college and ...

Wendel White - Episode 28 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Even for my students that naturally have a lot of enthusiasm and interest in the natural landscape, we talk about the natural landscape in political terms because there's no part of the world, no ...

Sasha Wolf - Episode 27 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Right now I know that for me the gallery model isn't working and so I go into this new chapter with much more confidence in what I am going to be doing day to day than I actually do right now." Sa...

Elinor Carucci - Episode 26 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"It's almost the opposite of daring…I find life to be difficult sometimes, this is my way of dealing with it. I photograph the deepest fears, or happiness, or joys, or flaws or whatever, and I shar...

Greg Miller | Unto Dust - Episode 25 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"There's this idea for me of like time travel…the closest we get to time travel is this awareness that photographers have …that things will change…and also I've lived long enough that now I can loo...

Claudio Nolasco - Episode 24 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I left The Cooper Union completely kind of broken just because of the conversations that I was having in terms of things like race, in terms of things like who gets to make art…and I ended up work...

Louisa Marie Summer - Episode 23 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"It's always a balance you kind of have to have…being active and engaging and then stepping back…I reduce totally myself to the camera. Forget about me and how I look… I am really just there to tak...

André Liohn - Episode 22 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Do you come home like troubled in your head, yes, but you come back home, you have the comfort of home…but here Brazil is home and now I need to learn to leave it behind again…" André Liohn is an ...

Matt Stuart - Episode 21 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"What I tell my students is…the one thing we can not teach and they can not buy is time, and time is the key to it, you just have to keep going out there…you have to be extremely positive, you can’...

Giancarlo T. Roma - Episode 20 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"When you're essentially trying to get baseballs and magazines signed everyday for seven days, it does kind of become its own thing and takes on a life of its own. What you're doing more than anyth...

Susan Kismaric - Part 2 - Episode 19 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"We used to buy pictures and I'd say, well how much are your photographs, and they would say, um $25.00, and I'd say, why don't you make it $50.00…" We pickup with Susan on her point about still se...

Susan Kismaric - Part 1 - Episode 19 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"My sister and I would take our money [meant] for the collection box and drive downtown in Parkersburg West Virginia...and buy the New Yorker for that week and two candy bars and then we would driv...

Polina Shubkina - Episode 18 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"They didn't really care about communism at all, but they were just doing it because it was giving them an opportunity for better living, so they were just being smart about it. But they were athei...

Rachel Stern - Episode 17 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"...the piece I had there had a big pillow pile in the middle of the room and all of a sudden at a certain point I looked over and the pillow pile was filled with children like it had become like t...

Charles Traub - Part 2 - Episode 16 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"...as the hick from Louisville who went to Chicago I always wanted to be in New York and I was in fact doing my Lunchtime photographs in Chicago at that moment, I loved the idea of working on the ...

Charles Traub - Part 1 - Episode 16 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"My father would say, 'son you just don't see it.' What's to see, I would respond. 'It's in the horizon line.' Didn't get it. Flip forward 10 years...I'm a senior in the University of Illinois...an...

Jeff Hirsch - Foto Care - Episode 15 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"A lot of my thanks have to go to Bob (Fishkin) because he was in many ways a surrogate father figure to me besides my own dad, because he offered me opportunities that no one else had before." Kai...

Kathy Shorr | SHOT - Episode 14 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"...she has like her cheerleading jacket inside glass and kind of on an easel, and all kinds of pictures of her daughter, and a swing outside on the lawn that has a plaque on it..." Kathy Shorr sta...

Eileen Quinlan - Episode 13 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"So I was obsessed with smoke on a number of levels and I had to smoke like 20 cigarettes an hour in order to produce these pictures which was supposedly going to help me quit." Eileen Quinlan's ph...

Episode 12 Origins: Thomas Roma - Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I'm looking at my son's grandfather's pictures and...I felt like I was trying to explain to him who his grandfather [is.] I didn't mean to do it, I've never talked about Lee's pictures in front of...

Episode 12 Origins: Thomas Roma - Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"There's this expression, 'The Decisive Moment,' I'm sure it functioned for a while, but the question in a photograph isn't when, it's why...I want people to look at my photographs and the 'why' is...

Episode 11 Origins: Tony Chirinos from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"So when I found out that the flash didn't really affect the roosters at all, then that's when I started photographing." Tony Chirinos calls in to talk about how he got started in photography and h...

Episode 10 Origins: Sasha Waters - Freyer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"We had decided we were going to make a short documentary in 16mm, which I had never shot...and we decided we were going to make it about dominatrixes." Sasha Waters-Freyer is an experimental and d...

Episode 9 Origins: Laura Mircik-Sellers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"My father was an insurance person, a loss control specialist, and so he knew about Cooper Union because he inspected the building. So he found out that hey there's a thing that my daughter could g...

Episode 8 Origins: Jared Thorne from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Humble yourself, and let's talk about just how much you get rejected." Jared Thorne skypes in from his new home and new photo teaching job at Ohio State University at Columbus to talk about his ex...

Episode 7 Origins: Dennis Santella from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"You have a vacuum cleaner that's reversed, a couple of pipe fittings, and now an old barbecue that you cut the bottom out of and you have a forge that you can use...and we started making knives in...

Episode 6 Origins: Yoav Horesh from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"We used to go out to the woods and capture scorpions, spiders, and stuff like that." After 17 years away from home, Yoav has returned to Israel as a photographer who has been educated in the Unite...

Episode 5 Origins: Jeff Ladd from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Throughout my adolescence in high school years I was really only consumed with two things like skateboarding…and music and the music was all punk and hardcore…" Jeff Ladd collects, studies, review...

Episode 4 Origins: Inbal Abergil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“Memorial Day is a very sad day (in Israel), everyone stands still for one minute. We never go and do barbecue…we don’t have sales…and we don’t think about it as a day off…” Inbal's work involves m...

Episode 3 Origins: Patrice Helmar from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I’m not dumb, I like Europe" Patrice got her start in photography as a young camera tester for allegedly broken tourist cameras at her father’s photography store in Alaska. She holds two masters d...

Episode 2 Origins: Kai McBride from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Grad School, look I already dropped out of undergrad, why would I go to grad school, it's another waste of money. You want to be an artist, be an artist…" Kai had an interesting childhood as he an...

Episode 1 Origins: Anibal Pella-Woo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Everything in Cuba became sinister and funny." Frequent co-host Anibal and I met at his home in New Jersey during a coyote scare. Anibal’s life in photography very much tracks my own. We both atte...

Sasha Rudensky | Insider / Outsider - Ep.121 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Really my favorite thing about photography is walking around with my camera…If I could do only one kind of work for the rest of my life, I think that would unquestionably be what I would want t...

Duquann Sweeney | Counter Narrative -Ep.120 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I was thinking about that lately…as far as black photographers in general, will it always be a counter-narrative…"

Duquann Sweeney is a photographer and a community organizer in Jersey C...

Deborah Jack | Drawn by Memory - Ep.119 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"When the green comes in, the grass comes back first, and then the smaller shrubs. It's always this sort of hopeful space…I always feel that nature reminds us that after trauma there's regenerat...

PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - Teaser from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Here's an introduction and a short clip from PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, a new show that I am producing for Sasha about some of the more existential questions that artists think about but don't alwa...

Martin Bough | Curiosity & Music - Ep.117 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"You really have to understand the times we live in and…the things that you push against are the things that make you who you are." Martin Bough is a photographer, a teacher, and a Jazz musician. H...

Tamara Torres | Who Does Art Belong To - Ep.116 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I can't take that (art) with me when I am gone, but I can certainly pass the message and leave behind how important art is as a tool to get better from trauma in life and just move forward." Tamar...

Ross Kasovitz | K&M Camera Past, Present, & Future - Ep.115 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I can tell you stories upon stories about endless amounts of people who have come through from Roy DeCarava, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank, Larry Clark…all the icons of the fine art photo community...

Emily Hanako Momohara | Fruits of Labor - Ep.114 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"My grandmother's family were all incarcerated at Minidoka, one of the WWII Japanese-American camps, and I just felt like there were few communities that stood up for them at that time and with the...

Roula Seikaly I Photos without People - Ep.113 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"There is suddenly, in some ways, a whole new branch, a whole new subject for photography…How will notions of isolation, loneliness, communication…be addressed photographically and are those photog...

John D Freyer | Building Recovery Capital - Ep.112 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I say that as a person who shifted from being an artist/activist to someone who has really taken the activism part of my practice and my life and put it front and center." John Freyer is an artist...

Matthew Leifheit | Ocean Meets the Bay - Ep.111 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Matthew Leifheit | Ocean Meets the Bay "I think people are increasingly asked to choose many paths at once, so my professional practice class has been retitled, How to Become a Self-Cleaning Oven. ...

Paolo Morales | Blind Leading the Blind - Ep.110 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"When I would come up from Virginia I would go there and I would take pictures and I would be like, okay if I take a picture then he'll live until next time." Paolo Morales and I met to record at S...

John Sanderson | Carbon County - Ep.109 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I saw the sun coming over the east, over the landscape and the farmlands and I saw this hot air balloon that was coming up, this bright red…extremely saturated red hot air balloon…and behind it wa...

Andrew Cenci | Louisville - Ep.108 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Photography has been a really healing practice for me and a spiritual practice in terms of just going out and making work." Andrew Cenci is a photographer based in Louisville Kentucky. He was visi...

Amr Alfiky | Muslim in America Ep.107 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I think we are going to need these pictures in 10 years because everybody's talking about what happened in Egypt, but no one is talking to us about what happened to us after we were kicked out of ...

Mark Steinmetz | Carnival - Ep.106 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"That's the pleasure of photography, it's really just kind of daydreaming with these borders around the world and what's in and what's out." Mark Steinmetz was in town to talk about his new book Ca...

Sasha Wolf | PhotoWork - Ep.105 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I do think it's really important to help people out with as much information sharing as possible, especially when you get to a certain point in your career and you have information to share." Sash...

Madeline Djerejian | Double Portrait - Ep.104 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I looked at these images and I thought, what's this about? I had very faint memories about it and so in order to sort of fill in the gaps, I wrote to people and asked them what they remembered abo...

Matthew Abbott | Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards - Ep.103 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I had to mature to a place where I was interested in the stories…It's not just about pretty photographs…I think you need to come to a point where you have a genuine interest in what you are photog...

Ajuan Song - Kuzma Vostrikov | Absolutely Augmented Reality - Ep.102 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I think it's wonderland, It's a positive little bit melancholy land located nowhere. It's not political or psychological, it's more about some far, far away world in which you don't have the keys ...

Liz Zito | Mueller Report Fan Fiction - Ep.101 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Liz Zito | Mueller Report Fan Fiction "I felt the way to share it with adding the redactions in, it gives you at least a beat to laugh and to kind of take a break and also think about the absurdity...

Kai McBride | Different City - Half Frame - Ep.100 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Friend and former co-host Kai McBride calls in from New Mexico to talk about the big changes in his life and to help celebrate the 100th episode of the show. Kai was the manager of the photo facili...

Ann Lepore | Amulet for Introverts - Ep.99 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"My work is very much about physical places and landscapes but it's' maybe more about communities and social markers that you can see in landscapes. So I was like, what's something social or commun...

Ivan McClellan | Eight Seconds - Ep.98 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Rodeo is sort of this universal expression of rural culture and everybody owns it…Native Americans own it, Mexicans own it, Black folks own it, White people own it…these are American Cowboys." Iva...

Edwin J Torres | Trent-Towne -Ep.97 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I wasn't really a big fan of government when I was working as a freelancer, I was very skeptical, but when I stepped in I saw the incredible amount of work…and it was insane, and it was overwhelmi...

Victor J. Blue | Cities in Dust - Ep.96 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Our job is to keep making work that speaks both to the conflicts as they unfold and also what they are going to mean…our job is to hold our political and military leaders accountable for the decis...

SVA The Culture of Community: A Latinx Photo Symposium - Ep.95 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media, in collaboration with El Museo del Barrio, presents the final program in the Scheimpflug Lecture Series of the spring 2019 semester entitled The Culture o...

Stanley Greenberg | Codex New York - Ep.94 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I think that the early interest in infrastructure came from riding the subway to high school everyday and standing in the front car with my friends and watching the tunnel." Stanley Greenberg stop...

Michael Joseph | Travelers - Ep.93 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I think they see themselves as a second family, a found family, a supportive family and they're young in a way where they are exploring the world and seeing things for the first time, it's very ex...

Sasha Waters Freyer | Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable - Half Frame - Ep.92 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sasha Waters-Freyer is a documentary filmmaker and Chair of the Department of Photography and Film at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her film, Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable, has...

Rory Doyle | Delta Hill Riders - with Nicole Craine - Ep.91 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"…I'm able to share a story in a small part of American on a large scale and that's not me, per say, that's the story of this culture that's been so overlooked and I feel really thankful that…I've ...

Anja Hitzenberger | strudelmediaLive - Ep.90 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I feed off of other people, that's really how I teach, I love teaching this way. I like to improvise, I like to go by what is needed." Anja Hitzenberger and I talk about photography, food, Mozart ...

Aaron Turner | Center for Photographers of Color - Half Frame - Ep.89 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Aaron Turner started @photogsofcolor on Twitter to promote Photographers of Color and we talk about that back on episode 50, but now this social media idea is becoming an actual Center for Photogra...

Andrew L Moore | Learning by Inquiry - Ep.88 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"We spent a lot of time visiting architectural sites when I was a kid…I really grew up with a kind of 6th sense about buildings, about architecture, and about how architectural space creates a kind...

Rust Belt Biennial | Niko J. Kallianiotis - Yoav Friedlander - Half Frame Ep.87 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Yoav Friedlander and Niko J. Kallianiotis call in to talk about their open call exhibition, Rust Belt Biennial. We talk about the logistics of putting together this ambitious exhibition and the lea...

Lissa Rivera - BJ Lillis | History and Muse - Half Frame Ep.86 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this half frame episode I catch up with Lissa Rivera and BJ Lillis (ep.51) to talk about their successes with the Beautiful Boy exhibition and how there is more work to come, but there was so mu...

Katie Sadie | The Way South - Ep.85 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Ended up going on a six month road trip from Toronto to Los Angeles…all through the south…living in a van…lived in that total for a year, but six months on the road for a photo trip" Katie Sadie s...

Dana Stirling | Float Magazine - Half-Frame Ep.84 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this half-frame episode I catch up with Dana Stirling from Float Magazine. Dana and her partner in life and business, Yoav Friedlander, were guests back on episode 49. Dana and I talk about the ...

Kayla Coleman | Carrie Able Gallery - Ep.83 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I remember sitting in that art history class and loving it, but flipping through the textbook and not seeing myself in it. And so I was like, 'do black people not make art?' and I know they make a...

Charles Traub | Taradiddle - Half-Frame Ep.82 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Charles Traub is my first guest for the new half-frame episodes where I catch up with previous guests on what they have been up to. Charles and I talk about his new book, Taradiddle. We also get in...

Oliver Wasow & Mark Alice Durant | Friends Enemies Strangers - Ep.81 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"They are really poignant images and they really sort of resonated humanity, and because I didn't know the author, I didn't know the intent or anything, in some ways that allowed me to kind of enga...

Andy Dunn | Last Stop Coney Island - Harold Feinstein - Ep.80 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"This was all slow kind of going as well, an email here and there, and it wasn't until 2014 that Harold's health started to fail quite seriously…and Judith dropped me a line and said, 'if you are s...

Paul Kwiatkowski - Tom Griggs | Ghost Guessed - Ep.79 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I think the first thing that happened, which is the big overarching theme of the book, was the missing Malaysian plane…and all the kind of mythology and conspiracy that followed it, and that led t...

Noyes Arts Garage | RAW 2018 - Ep.78 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This episode was recorded with a live audience at the Noyes Arts Garage reception for the 2018 RAW exhibition that I juried. The episode is actually broken into three parts. The first two parts are...

Lynsey Weatherspoon | Portraits & Communication - Ep.77 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I left home because I was getting too comfortable. Comfortable with the type of work I was creating, comfortable around the people I had known for 29 years… " Lynsey Weatherspoon was in New York f...

Ryann Casey | Loss Event - Ep.76 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"My first trip after Sarah passed was to the Grand Canyon…so I think that trip and that sense of awe…felt like I was connected to something outside of myself." This episode was recorded during Ryan...

Melissa Bunni Elian | Afropunk x Ferguson - Ep.75 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"The analogy I always use is that we are on this table as a society, but we don't see that we are getting pushed closer and closer to the edge and we're comfortable because we are still on the tabl...

Nicole Craine | Everyday Rural America - Ep.74 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I was like, If I spend as much time working on my own stuff as I do working at this desk I could probably make just about anything happen, so goodbye." Nicole Craine's successes in the documentary...

Sarah Blesener | Beckon us from Home - Ep.73 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I want nuanced reflections and questions…that's why I like literature…if a book didn't do that you would not be interested and you would throw it away…so I think photography should beckon the same...

apexart | Steven Rand - Ep.72 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"As an artist I began to feel that I was making collectibles for wealthy people…with apex I turned into more of an educator…and the fellowship is the program that I would have liked, that I think I...

Reuben Radding | Humans and Music - Ep.71 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I looked back on my life and was like, I've done a lot of tearing down, a lot of dismantling of my life to move on to something else and grow, and I thought maybe I don't need to do that…" Reuben ...

Sara Hylton | Nobody Listened - Episode 70 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I think even in storytelling and making pictures there's so much noise and it's so busy and here's this conflict and this violence and for me it's just about people, I just want to see them." Sara...

Rola Khayyat | From Brooklyn to Beirut - Episode 68 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"When the shelling got too bad my mom would hide us in the bathroom and say it's just raining really hard and this is the safest spot in the house." Rola Khayyat grew up during the Lebanese Civil W...

Peter Kasovitz | K&M Camera - Episode 67 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"The people that I dealt with were quite fascinating to me because I came from a completely different perspective and I began following them and I said they support me there's no reason for me not ...

Gordon Stettinius | Candela Books + Gallery - Episode 66 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"There is sort of a desert in Richmond Virginia, there was no photo gallery, there are a couple of blue-chip galleries…but my feeling is I could talk circles around them…where photography is concer...

Andréanna Seymore - Episode 65 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I really wanted to kind of tackle women being empowered by physical fitness, and being empowered by sports, and what let me into that was discovering roller derby." Andréanna Seymore's interest in...

Andre D Wagner - Episode 64 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"It's just amazing how like when you kind of put energy out, like a certain type of energy that you want to be around and that you want to be a part of, how the world kind of brings that right back...

Joseph Michael Lopez - Episode 63 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I don't think I was really ready to break out as a photographer, but I was ready to break out as like my own spirit." Joseph Michael Lopez is a documentary photographer. His interest in photograph...

Wassaic Project | Eve Biddle | Jeff Barnett-Winsby - Episode 62 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"We talk to other community organizations all the time, they are like, oh how do you get such great community engagement, we do events all the time and the community doesn't come. Well, are you doi...

Nomi Ellenson | Boudoir by Nomi - Episode 61 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"When you're 3 or 5 years old and you're understanding that your grandma fits bras, you don't think about it in a sexual way…I just equated bras with, oh people go see grandma Selma feeling uncomfo...

Katie Kline - Episode 60 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"That's the thing I get most excited about with photography is what you can hide from the viewer and how you can frame your work to make it something that is very specific or might not be seen just...

Verónica Sanchis Bencomo | Foto-Féminas Episode 59 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"That's when I came to learn more about Graciela Iturbide, Tina Modotti, Lola Alvarez Bravo…that kicked in this interest or appetite in what else is going on in other places…" Verónica Sanchis Benc...

Jackie Battenfield | The Artist's Guide - Episode 58 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"If the bottom line isn't scaring you, you haven't thought of everything, and because of that we don't go after enough funding…" Jackie Battenfield is an artist and an entrepreneur, and that is a b...

Emile Askey - Episode 57 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"You know I had a meltdown and went to hang out in the desert for a couple weeks…came back…I talked to my brother and he's like, you say good things but you don't do anything good. You have all the...

Donato DiCamillo - Episode 56 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I was a criminal, I lived that criminal lifestyle, and I really didn't give a crap about anybody's feelings…but something changed in me and photography…brought me closer to people." Donato DiCamil...

Gabriela Herman | The Kids - Episode 55 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I literally went from, I wasn't able to say the words out loud…my mom is gay, to basically writing it in the Times and screaming it to the whole world." Gabriela Herman does something that is rare...

Amani Willett - Episode 54 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"…and to me that is the irony in all of this…In the act of wanting to be alone, and disappearing, he actually became famous." Amani Willett's new book, The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer, pieces t...

John Trotter - Episode 53 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I remember saying, 'That, that's it, I almost died for that…it's a nothing photograph.' That's how I would have been remembered, he died to make a really nothing photograph. " John Trotter is a fo...

Michael Kamber | Bronx Documentary Center - Episode 52 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Photography is magic…it has incredible and really unparalleled power to represent and define people, communities, and individuals...kids see that and they want to do that and they want to be part ...

Lissa Rivera - BJ Lillis | Beautiful Boy - Episode 51 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"It was about getting the opportunity as a woman to experience the beauty of my partner and also question beauty and how beauty is constructed and the language of beauty itself." Lissa Rivera and B...

Stephen Frailey | Looking at Photography from 2021-01-19T14:00

"In a way the book is almost a valentine to a group of pictures and also a group of people…a community of people who have been engaged in redefining photography."

Stephen Frailey and ...

David Alpert | What is your Reality -Ep.126 from 2020-12-16T17:00

"I'll go and hold their hand with my hand by following their cursor with my cursor."
 
David Alpert is an artist and curator living and working in Kansas City. His curatorial work involv...

Jesse Lenz | The Locusts -Ep.125 from 2020-12-04T20:20:34

"Like shooting in black and white it really is just trying to find a way to see all these tones of gray and to not see things so stark as good and bad or life and death…"
 
Jesse Lenz an...

Finbarr O'Reilly - Bernadette Vivuya | Congo in Conversation Ep.124 from 2020-11-18T13:35

Episode Notes

"What this project looks to do is go well beyond that with more nuance and more authentic voices from the community that is being reported on." -Finbarr O'Reilly
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Eric Kunsman | Fake News -Ep.122 from 2020-10-11T13:35:17

Eric Kunsman and I talk about his work, Fake News Archive Project: A Historical Archive of the Donald J. Trump Presidency. Eric is looking for people interested in the next election, and any arc...

Eric Kunsman | Fake News -Ep.122 from 2020-10-11T13:35:17

Eric Kunsman and I talk about his work, Fake News Archive Project: A Historical Archive of the Donald J. Trump Presidency. Eric is looking for people interested in the next election, and any arc...

Habiyb Ali Shu'Aib | Beloved Home - Ep.118 from 2020-07-25T23:44:19

"There's a small neighborhood that's called Wilbur Section…It's known for crime, gang activity, drug usage, murders, unsolved homicide, and this is where I am from and this is what formed and sh...

Episode 1 Origins: Anibal Pella-Woo from 2015-07-19T00:00

"Everything in Cuba became sinister and funny." Frequent co-host Anibal and I met at his home in New Jersey during a coyote scare. Anibal’s life in photography very much tracks my own. We both atte...

Episode 1 Origins: Anibal Pella-Woo from 2015-07-19T00:00

"Everything in Cuba became sinister and funny." Frequent co-host Anibal and I met at his home in New Jersey during a coyote scare. Anibal’s life in photography very much tracks my own. We both atte...