Everyday Photography, Every Day

A conversation that will change the way you think about your pictures.

About the show

Everyday Photography (Every Day)" is a weekly podcast where you get to listen in on a chat between a photographer (Rubin) and a regular human (Suzanne Fritz-Hanson) with an eye on making your pictures amazing and helping you enjoy your photography more. No technical stuff. No talk of gear or software. Just photography for the fun of it.

  • Rubin brings a unique perspective to consumer media: a student of Jerry Uelsmann; an amateur photographer for 40 years; formerly of Lucasfilm, Netflix and Adobe; director of The Rubin Collection of Photography; and founder of Neomodern, he's long been passionate about advancing the language of photography.

** Enjoy show notes at www.neomodern.com/podcast

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Episodes

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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).