The Photowalk

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#270 Photowalk: National Geo's Best Pics! & the Extraordinary Tom Stoddart Nov 26, 2021

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This week we're walking in Sherwood Forest, the legendary woodland 'belonging' to Robin Hood, making our pictures together and reading listener letters. National Geographic's Editor in Chief Susan Goldberg is my guest and we celebrate Tom Stoddart, the British photojournalist who passed away last week. Your letters include making photographs to celebrate a win over adversity, making ultra long exposure pictures from a tin can, Christmas in Copenhagen and dream photo retirements. The show is supported by MPB.com and our wonderful Patrons. See the SHOW NOTES.

#269 Photowalk: Fighting for our planet, self belief & other stories Nov 19, 2021

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Nick Brandt is our special guest on this Photowalk edition, one of photography's great environmental champions, showing how deeply our fates are intertwined, portraying people and animals together, causing us to reflect on the real-life consequences of climate change. From your letters we talk career starts, tackle self doubt, visit a German forest with a dark history, have news about the first Photowalk Retreat and reflect upon the loss of Tom Stoddart, one of the UK's most respected photojournalists. Supported by MPB.com, see the SHOW NOTES for pictures.

#268 Photowalk: Polaroid portraits of the stars, van-lifing, mushrooms & other stories Nov 11, 2021

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We're walking together on Brighton's famous seaside beach with your photo letters, talking with an artist who makes Polaroid portraits with international trailblazing women, a photographer who's said, "&*%$ this, I'm going on a photo adventure in my van," and making beach portraits with swimmers who brave the 'icy' Brighton sea waters daily. Also how a mushroom changed one photographer's life forever, the beauty of 'random' and light in street work, Photocycles and 'forbidden pictures'. The show is supported by our Patrons and MPB.com - see the SHOW NOTES for all links.

#267 Photowalk: Rankin, photographing The Queen & other stories Nov 05, 2021

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British photographer Rankin is our guest; co-founder behind Dazed and Confused, celebrated for his international portraiture of leaders and celebrities. We talk about his rise to fame and that four minutes shoot with The Queen; a nod to an infamous Sex Pistols record cover. We're also Photowalking on the Isle of Wight with your letters talking about the quiet of nature photography, how photography heals, animal photojournalism and we revisit the subject of photographing children in street photography. Supported by MPB.com and our Patrons. Visit the SHOW PAGE.

#266 Photowalk: The photographic secret to finding calm Oct 29, 2021

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We photowalk together, making pictures, answering questions and sharing inspiration from Paul Sanders who helps you to 'Discover Still,' how this former Times pictures desk editor found his calm and Sandra Cattaneo Adorno returns to talk of starting pro photography in your 60s. We also talk about recording sound with your stills, the names we give our cameras, 'break our bones' making pictures, a street photographer who became an NYC cabbie for the pictures and Thomas Heaton has a bucket list landscape view. Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW NOTES.

#265 Photowalk: Age is but a number. Let's go get published! Oct 22, 2021

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The only photowalk show like it in the podcast world. This week two photographers prove that starting afresh with a camera aged 50+ is an excellent time to start. For one of our guests, Sandra Cattaneo Adorno, it's the start of an international publishing deal. We celebrate good news in our community, talk about street pictures featuring children, how to ask for street portraits and Insta posting dilemmas, plus the word 'story' - is it overused? Also introducing Miranda Remington. Our thanks to MPB.com and our patrons for supporting the show. See the SHOW NOTES.

#264 Photowalk: Adventures at sea, projects and making stories?! Oct 15, 2021

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This week the show is not so much on the road, but out at sea! We take your letters and inspirational thoughts to the east coast of England to make a walk in sea fog, before climbing aboard the X-Pilot service vessel navigating ten miles out to photograph a cluster of seven sea forts from WWII, where the Thames Estuary meets the North Sea. Our special guest, environmental portrait and advertising photographer Phil Melia talks about making projects. We discuss the fashionable word 'story', introduce the world's most famous darkroom, talk happy accidents and more. Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW PAGE.

#263 Photowalk: Can I take your picture, please? Confidence Oct 08, 2021

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Inspired perhaps by the latest Bond event, we have an epic length episode where we talk respectful street photography, using a rare lens, the joy of photographing in unfamiliar places, asking for a picture, Japanese bathtime and poetry, surviving crowd busy Ikea trips and 80s TV. We hear from previous inspirational guests about potent story telling and relaunching your style. Plus our special guest, street documentary photographer, mentor and author Valerie Jardin returns for the concluding part of her interview. Supported by MPB and our patrons. See the SHOW PAGE for links.

#262 Photowalk: Mindfulness, street, film & other stories Oct 01, 2021

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We take a walk with our cameras and two special guests; Valérie Jardin, documentary photographer/international mentor and Keith Moss, street shooter and tutor with a love of film. Your letters into the show talk about the pleasure of owning and using a real camera, how what we make pictures of helps us find mindfulness, we talk about positivity, learn from a photographer about how cracks in the wall might just become his fine art future, I have a warning about keeping your camera bags zipped up and there's inspiration from former guests, including YouTuber Sean Tucker. Supported by MPB.com - see the show notes HERE.

#261 Photowalk: An accident, a photo love affair and a dog called Meg Sep 24, 2021

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We're in wonderful woodland for the only weekly Photowalk in podcastsphere. Your letters and messages whilst we make pictures together, plus inspirational thoughts from past guests. This week embracing fear in your picture making, street rage, finding film again, Insta-frustration, rural UrbEX, story-exhaustion, beautiful mailruns, wrong eyed shooting and finding physical strength to photograph once more. Special guest Simon Baxter invites us to explore our local woodland to find photographic peace and beauty. Supported by MPB.com and our Patrons. See the SHOW NOTES for pictures.

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