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 133 Episodes.
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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.
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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...
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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).
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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...
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55: Visiting Monet
23 February 2019 | 17 mins 7 secs
art, crafts, creativity, photography
You'd think that an exhibit of Monet's paintings wouldn't have too much to say to a photographer, but you'd be wrong...
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54: Travel Pictures
17 February 2019 | 19 mins 1 sec
You're not a journalist covering your vacation, so you might want to relax a little when you're taking pictures on your trip. Pick a few moments to "cover". We also discuss the pros and cons of anonymous subjects in your pictures.