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This week we talk with Magnum photographer and photobook publisher Peter van Agtmael about his new book Sorry for the War and his 2020 Yearbook. We also discuss issues facing Magnum in the future. Along with his ongoing personal projects, Van Agtmael has photographed for many leading publications including The New York Times Magazine, where … Continue reading "# 75 Peter van Agtmael"

We discuss all things 2020 with Corinne Perkins, including how a photo editor works, mental health on the job, the constant onslaught of events in 2020. Perkins, North America Editor for Reuters Pictures, is originally from the Australian mining town of Mount Isa, and began her career with Reuters as a freelance editorial assistant at … Continue reading "No. 74 Corinne Perkins"

Tony Mobley‘s recent focus has been on protest and documentary photography with his work being featured by AT&T, Black Entertainment Network for their “Content for Change” campaign, The Undefeated/ESPN, Vice News, Vogue and Weed maps, “Fighters for Change”, PSA. Mobley’s portrait series, “Surviving Summer” is scheduled to run at the New Mexico Museum of Art … Continue reading "No. 73 Tony Mobley"

We’re back after a long COVID hiatus. We’re kicking off a new season with Benjamin Chesterton, @duckrabbitblog on Twitter, and his open letter to Magnum concerning years of photographing child abuse and other controversies surrounding the iconic photo agency. Trigger Warning: sexual assault, child abuse. This is a harrowing episode. Read his letter to Magnum … Continue reading "No. 72 Benjamin Chesterton"

Roger May is an Appalachian American photographer and writer based in Charleston, West Virginia. He was born in the Tug River Valley on the West Virginia and Kentucky border, in the heart of Hatfield and McCoy country. His work explores the complicated history of place, faith, and identity in the coalfields. In 2014, he founded the crowdsourced Looking at Appalachia project. He lectures about his work and about the visual representation of Appalachia.

Jackie is the creator and facilitator of The Narrative Projects. The initiative uses documentary strategies and participatory media to illuminate the unknown stories of the refugee experience in the MENA region and North America.

Our year in Photobooks.

Shooting War contains 18 profiles of photographers exploring their lives as filters between conflict and the general population and the effect they have on us and themselves in this endeavor. Includes such luminaries as Don McCullin, Tim Page, and Ron Haviv.

Ben Brody is an independent photographer, educator, and picture editor working on long-form projects related to the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their aftermath. His first book, Attention Servicemember, published by Red Hook Editions and designed by Kummer & Herrman, has been shortlisted for the Aperture - Paris Photo First Book Award

Part one of our conversation on shooting war and conflict. Lauren Walsh, an expert on conflict photography, is a professor and writer. She teaches at The New School and New York University, where she is the director of the Gallatin Photojournalism Lab. She is also the director of Lost Rolls America, a national public archive … Continue reading "Shooting War Pt1: Lauren Walsh"

Born and raised in Chicago, Claire Beckett earned a BA in Anthropology at Kenyon College. She then worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa, before going on to earn an MFA in Photography at Mass College of Art. She is represented by Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston. Her photographs have been … Continue reading "Ep 64: Claire Beckett"

Photojournalist Paul Gillespie survived a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette‘s offices in Annapolis, Maryland in 2018. In the year since, he has been coping with depression by taking portraits of the surviving journalists at the newspaper while working full time at the paper. He talks about using photography as a coping mechanism and what … Continue reading "Ep 63: Capital Gazette Photojournalist Paul Gillespie"

From Vietnam to iPhones, David Hume Kennerly has been a photographer on the front lines of history for fifty years. At 25 he was one of the youngest winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.

Farrah Skeiky is the creative/culture manager for the LINE DC. A member of to the front, women photograph, women photojournalists of washington, and the contrario collective. She has been shooting music in DC and Baltimore for over a decade.

The UN of Photography, founded by Grant Scott and Sean Samuels, is what we consider the most important photo/resource podcast out there. We talk to Grant about his work on his show, the state of UK photography and his work on the Bill Jay doc, Do Not Bend.

This week we talk to UK photographer Alys Tomlinson about her Sony World Photography Awards winning series and book, Ex Voto.

“Lisa Richman considers the FSA-OWI Photographic Collection project within the historical moment in which it was created, with a specific focus on the influence of dominant constructions of race, motherhood, and poverty. Specifically, Richman looks at photos of Mexican-American mothers and families that were made but were left almost wholly unseen—invisible. She argues that representations … Continue reading "Ep 58: Lisa Richman on Race and the FSA"

This week we talk to the iconic photographer and chronicler of New York's punk scene for over 40 years. We caught up with him before his opening in The Bowery.

We kick off our three part music photography series with an interview with Roberta Bayley, who shot The Ramones, Deborah Harry, The Sex Pistols, and more when she worked at the legendary CBGB club in New York’s Bowery during the 70s. She abruptly quit photography in the early 80s.

Adriana Monsalve is a storyteller, visual communicator, and independent book publisher.  Her collaborative project and publishing company Homie House Press focuses on giving voices to underrepresented communities and marginalized groups, in the US and internationally.  As an immigrant herself, Adriana has been investigating and re-defining the concept of home, and collects voices from artists whose … Continue reading "Ep 55: Adriana Monsalve"