Everyday Photography, Every Day

71: Both Sides of a Lens: Photographer and Model Ellian Raffoul

9 June 2019  |  Season 2  |  29 mins 21 secs

art, photography

Photographer-models are a special group, bringing a unique perspective to the ideas of seeing and being seen. Ellian begins our ongoing series of chatting with photographers who are also models.

70: Where the Photo Meets the Frame: The Art of Jefferson Hayman

1 June 2019  |  Season 2  |  49 mins 44 secs

art, photography

Jefferson Hayman's photography was already haunting, with images in the pictorialist style... but a few years ago he began finding antique frames and pairing them with his images to create beautiful and unique creations.

69: Telling Stories: Learnings from The New Republic Photo Director Stephanie Heimann

25 May 2019  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 25 secs

art, photography

Great pictures are just part of the art of photography; selecting a few to tell a story is a totally different skill and critically important, particularly for journalists (but really: for everyone). Meet The New Republic magazine's photo director Stephanie Heimann as we discuss telling stories.

68: Printing on Glass: Meet Fracture

18 May 2019  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 55 secs

art, photography

Neomodern isn't the only company with a passion for getting images off your phone and onto your wall: Fracture is a growing company that has tapped into the challenges of printing on glass, in the tradition of Ansel Adams and even back to the original Daguerreotypes, all photographic processes on glass.

67: The Life-Time Project

11 May 2019  |  Season 2  |  23 mins 36 secs

art, photography

Why does every wall-sign in the Neomodern gallery include the photographer's age? The answer was a long time in the making...

66: Are Still Images Enough? Chatting with Frederick Barnes

4 May 2019  |  Season 2  |  37 mins 19 secs

animation, art, photography

Photo manipulator Frederick Barnes mesmerizes his 100K followers on Instagram with his complex still-image animations, and his work begs the question whether a non-moving image is enough to capture the interest in the public.

65: The Zen Art of Photography, with Chris Lunt

27 April 2019  |  Season 2  |  51 mins 34 secs

art, photography

Chris Lunt and I discuss the zen arts and it's application in photography.

64: The Power of Scale: Meet Bryant Austin, Whale Photographer

20 April 2019  |  Season 2  |  34 mins 7 secs

art, photography

Where we talk about scale, and the power in size to communicate, in addition to an image. Bryant uses his photographs to connect, with nature and himself.

63: Los Angeles... and Sock Puppets

16 April 2019  |  Season 2  |  25 mins 19 secs

art, photography

Part Two of our chatting before the next guest arrives. I road-tripped to LA and had a number of photographic moments...

62: The Syntopicon: Russ, Doug, Kris and Nigel

13 April 2019  |  Season 2  |  39 mins 26 secs

art, photography

In which Suzanne and I look at themes running through our last four episodes (Russell Brown, Doug Menuez, Kris Sanford and Nigel Barker).

61: Meet Nigel Barker, Fashion Photographer and, well, Celebrity

6 April 2019  |  Season 2  |  45 mins 38 secs

After 17 seasons co-hosting America's Next Top Model, Nigel Barker is one of the most famous and recognizable photographers today. He has a wealth of great stories, inspiration, and experience to share!

60: Meet Kris Sanford, Artist and Educator

31 March 2019  |  Season 2  |  23 mins 52 secs

art, education., gay, lgbt, photography

Kris describes her work as exploring "intimate relationships, specifically queer desire, through the use of appropriated images, video, and text." But she's also a teacher of young photographers and her insights there are fascinating!

59: Meet Doug Menuez, Photojournalist and Creator of "Fearless Genius"

24 March 2019  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 58 secs

Doug Menuez is perhaps best known as the key documentarian of the '80s Silicon Valley, and particularly his work with Steve Jobs. His work is empathic and beautiful; he's balanced a career in both commercial and fine art.

58: Meet Russell Brown, Father of Photoshop and Madman...

16 March 2019  |  Season 2  |  43 mins 45 secs

art, crafts, creativity, photography

Our first guest is the ever-wacky Russell Brown, a super senior creative person at Adobe, and perhaps more interestingly, one of the founding team of Photoshop along with the Knoll Brothers. His observations about photography, Instagram, photo manipulation are fantastic. A joy!

57: Enter the Darkroom

10 March 2019  |  39 mins 43 secs

decor, frames, home, interior

In which we take a walk through the now-archaic process of silver printing, traditional darkroom work, and what can be gleaned from this background.

56: Why We Print (and Happy Birthday Ansel!)

3 March 2019  |  22 mins 45 secs

art, crafts, creativity, photography

There are a lot of important reasons to print your pictures, it being Ansel Adams' birthday isn't one of them...