The Photo Life - Pro Photography Podcast
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Podcast Description
The Photo Life was created to inspire and educate professional photographers by exploring creativity and business. It’s your destination for candid and informative conversations with leading photographers and creative professionals. Tune in, hear their stories and learn how they succeed.
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I Dwell in Possibility | In this week's episode we speak with Bay-area photographer and owner of Bliss Fotography, Ananda Shorey, about how she has spent life embracing her fears and charging into the future with trust in experience to deliver her to the place she belonged and how that trust brought her to a life-long dream of living by the shutter. | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hip to Be Square | In this week's episode we speak with photographer Brian Adams, about how listening to his intuition led him to medium format film photography and encouraged him to start a company of his own at a young age. This same intuition turned to action has carried him through a career with Getty Images and has informed his work bringing attention to the tragedy of the disappearing Alaskan Native coastal villages, being stolen by the erosion of global warming. | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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They Bailed But Now They're Back | In this week's episode, we speak with photographers Brody Dezember and David Solomone about their rollercoaster relationship with Pictage. We examine all the ups and downs of that relationship in our investigation of how a company can cast off past failings and regain the trust of it's displaced evangelists. | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Better Place to Be | In this week's episode we speak with photographer Kirstie Tweed, owner of Orange Girl Photographs, about how a small town can surprise you with a turn of events you couldn't have imagined. Kirstie shares the decisions that brought her to a small town in rural Canada and how following her heart and intuition has yielded far greater results than all the planning and logic in the world could have. | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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King Harvest Will Surely Come | In this week's episode, we continue our discussion with Founder and CEO of Blurb, Eileen Gittins about keeping a company forward-facing and embracing the future. We also examine why the printed page is far from obsolete and how the things that we move from the virtual to the tangible world matter more to us as a culture. | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sowing Seeds | In this week's episode, we speak with Founder and CEO of Blurb, Eileen Gittins about endeavoring to make a book of one and how this led her to create the company that is a true culmination of all her life's experiences. In the first of our two part conversation, we discuss the strategy and planning that led to the rise of Blurb and the importance for any fledgling company to find and answer that one question that will see you through to success. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learned the Hard Way | In this week's episode, we speak with Portland photographer Kevin Meyers about learning photography from a self-taught perspective and the difficult lessons that have helped to shape his business. He also shares insights into the future of the industry and his hope that photography doesn't ever lose the precision of craft it built itself upon. | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There is No Place Like Home | In this week's episode of The Photo Life, we speak with fine art photographer and professor Holly Andres, as she takes us behind the curtain of the often mysterious world of the professional fine art photographer and shares some of the stories and concepts that have motivated her work as well as her conviction that making art can bring pure joy to life. | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Seat at the Table | In this week's episode of The Photo Life, we continue our discussion with Palm Springs Photo Festival founder and veteran photographer Jeff Dunas about the increasing responsibilities of the photographer to create the future for our industry as well as methods for approaching our primary outlet: the photo book. | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Right of the People to Peaceably Assemble | In this week's episode of The Photo Life, founder of the Palm Springs Photo Festival and veteran photographer Jeff Dunas speaks about the power of sharing and finding a common voice in the photography industry and the efforts that the Palm Springs Photo Festival makes to provide a forward-thinking, professional platform for that voice to be forged. | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Silver Halides Know Best | In this week's episode of The Photo Life, we speak with San Francisco based photographer Lisa Lefkowitz, who shares her thoughts about the enduring beauty of an image captured on film as well as advice to help other professionals distinguish themselves from the ever-increasing industry pack. | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inside the Green Room | In this week's episode of The Photo Life, we speak with Hawaii photographer Mike Adrian about the challenges and rewards of building a community in a competitive industry as well as how he manages to balance a life devoted to family, work and personal reflection. | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peeling the Onion | In this episode of the Photo Life we speak with Mike Davis, former photo editor for The White House and National Geographic Magazine, about the role editing plays in making a powerful and cohesive story from a body of work. He also shares some of the secrets of the editing game that have kept his eyes in demand with award winning photographers for over 20 years. | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dash of the Millennium Falcon | In this episode of the Photo Life we speak with Craig Strong, photographer and co-founder of Lensbaby, about the photo gear that makes all of our art possible as well as the challenges and rewards of dreaming of tomorrow's photo industry. | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Black Hills Are Not For Sale | In this episode of the Photo Life we speak with photojournalist Aaron Huey about the lessons he learned during his coast-to-coast walk across America, about his mission to bring attention to the generational suffering of the Lakota people and his dream that America will finally cast apathy aside and begin amending the horrors of its history. To find out how you can help, visit his project on the Emphas.is site. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #154fae} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline} | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turn on the Magic of Colored Light | In this episode of the Photo Life we speak with Mukesh Patel, Director of Operations for the Pictage print lab and 20 year veteran of the photo printing community, about his faith in the power of the printed image and his excitement and enthusiasm for the future of photography. | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Family Guy | In this week's episode, we speak with Paul Gero about the importance of knowing yourself as a photographer before getting to know your client as well as his year-long project focusing on the the most important and often overlooked subjects in his life. | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One Woman Band | In this week's episode, we speak with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice about her experience documenting the Khalaf family tragedy of the two sons mistaking an undetonated bomb for a toy in their home country of Iraq. We also take a moment to examine the future of storytelling, with a discussion about the evolving world of multimedia communication. | 2/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Labours of Love | In this week's episode we meet Robert James Campbell. While documenting the New York City jazz scene in the 50's and 60's, he witnessed the birth of a new era from behind the lens. Despite his arresting photographs of people who would shape the American landscape, Robert Campbell passed away impoverished and alone. Until Jessica Ferber, the Hawaii based photographer who shares this story, stepped in to restore the boxes of photographs and negatives that were left behind and recover the story of an exceptional talent, crippled by circumstance and nearly forgotten. Here is the story of her ongoing struggle to bring Robert Campbell's life and work into the light of day. | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emotions Are Not Trendy | In this week's episode of The Photo Life, we speak with Eric Laurits about why music or theater classes might impact your images more than the next photography workshop to pass through town and how to go about breaking free from the boxes of your industry. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emerge From the Ether | This week we speak with New York photographer Parris Whittingham about his mission to create a new kind of love story, why it is vital to trust your client to help tell that story and how the struggles of our education system are too often mirrored in the industry of making images. | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dancing about Architecture | In this week's episode, photographer and director Alicia J. Rose shares stories from behind the lens that's aimed at the Indie sweethearts of the music industry. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Road Not Taken | In this week's episode, photographer Alan Weiner discusses stepping away from the big city, outlines the unique challenges of the photojournalist who turns to the world of weddings and reminds us how a single image can actually change the world. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Park That Car, Drop That Phone | In this week's episode, photographer and writer Matt Mendelsohn shares stories from his exciting personal portfolio and discusses why you should occasionally sweep "the bottom line" under the rug and embrace a project simply because you feel it needs to exist. | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Business End of Your Business | In this week’s episode we visit with Jared Platt, Phoenix Photographer and educator, and examine the new pressures that impact us in the digital age. Jared shares some practical workflow advice as well as some philosophical suggestions for keeping your feet on the ground in the modern world. | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You Are the Sum of Your Bytes | In this week's episode we visit with Miki Johnson, former editor of American Photo Magazine, and discuss ideas for mastering social media and her exciting Matchstick Workshops, a program encouraging multi-discipline collaboration between creative professionals. | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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History in Mirror May be Closer Than Appears | In this week's episode of The Photo Life, History in Mirror May be Closer than Appears, Travis speaks with Ralph Alswang and Paul Morse about the time they each spent documenting the First Family for the White House. | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 27 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
The Photo Life
A great first episode!
Thanks for bringing the story of such interesting photographers to our attention.
Good on ya', Pictage.
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