M.H. Rubin
Co-Host of Everyday Photography, Every Day
Rubin's pedigree swings wide: making movies with Bernardo Bertolluci; premastering CDs for the Grateful Dead; developing the “paint-your-own pottery” studio industry; years at Netflix... but through it all he’s been a passionate photographer and collector. A few years ago he left his Senior Innovator role at Adobe to focus on fine art photography. He's now dedicated to his own work as well as teaching and collecting. His philosophy and workshops can be found at www.neomodern.com
M.H. Rubin has hosted 143 Episodes.
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79: Death and Pictures
3 August 2019 | Season 2 | 21 mins 48 secs
art, death, photography
Where Suzanne and Rubin explore the painful conflict between processing grief and the desire to take photos.
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78: A Million Pictures with Thomas Hawk
28 July 2019 | Season 2 | 36 mins 59 secs
art, photography
Hawk is the quintessential passionate photographic hobbiest, with a goal on publishing a million images over the course of his life.
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77: "Take her picture. Let her see what you see."
21 July 2019 | Season 2 | 21 mins 42 secs
art, photography
Morning meandering thoughts on life with a camera and the lessons of using film, even if you've never used film. Many lessons for beginners here.
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76: Not Quite the Quote Show
14 July 2019 | Season 2 | 25 mins 25 secs
art, photography
When Suzanne and Rubin take a break from guests and dig into some of their favorite quotations about photography, and other meandering photographic thoughts.
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75: Risk, with Documentarian Andrea Pritchard
6 July 2019 | Season 2 | 39 mins 57 secs
art, metoo, photography, women
Pritchard's new award-winning documentary (Risk: Women on the Frontline) shines light on three remarkable photojournalists.
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74: Genuine, with Photojournalist David Burnett
29 June 2019 | Season 2 | 50 mins 44 secs
art, photography
Burnett's images have long been synonymous with Time magazine — his images of the Iranian Revolution, presidents, historical moments worldwide. Who is this real-life Sean O'Connell (the mysterious globe-trotting photographer in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty")?
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73: Seductive, with Rachael Dunville
23 June 2019 | Season 2 | 39 mins 37 secs
art, photography
Artist Rachael Dunville manages to mix her work with physical intimacy with her photographic portraits, producing wonderfully personal stories of her subjects.
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72: A Camera is not an Eye: Taking Better Pictures
13 June 2019 | Season 2 | 21 mins 6 secs
art, photography
Why can something LOOK cool, and you take a pic of it, but the picture is flat and dull?? What is that? Shouldn't the photo look as good as the way you see it -- and if not, what to do about it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.