The Photowalk

With a love for photographing the people and streets of New York, this week's guest Reuben Radding talks of fragility, character and emotion in black and white. Also today, as we walk together, powerful simple creative ideas, taking a break from social, family candids and I share inspiring books, films and photographers worth exploring. It being the first Friday of the month, the new monthly assignment welcomes back former guest Alexander Ward with a project to work on across the next three weeks. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Alexander Ward talks of his wild water photographic swimming project that persuaded him to take to the river too, something that landed him a stay in hospital. Also today, poetry, photography and the mental fight against chronic illness, sublime pictures from the humble smartphone, gratitude and hiking, 'that was 22' and movie homework for the holidays. We end with inspirational guests from the year in a special 'And Finally'. Friday's Photowalk returns on January 6th. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Former Pulitzer prize winner with the LA Times Marissa Roth sets the third of her three in a series of photographic challenges that will have you looking for trees and people! The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Photojournalist Erin Trieb talks of her time in Ukraine as the year anniversary of Russia's invasion approaches. We also discuss identity, trauma and mental well-being. Also today, gratitude, special family projects, finding photographic gold on our home turf, looking back at '22, and raising a glass to those we meet who share their stories for our lens. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

With 2022 drawing to a close, and 'The Assignment' taking up residence within the Friday Photowalk show for the next and new season, I thought I should like to set a challenge as the penultimate one in the Monday series. Today, I'm setting a challenge that doesn't actually require you to make a new picture, moreover a request for you to look back at your work from the last year. The full assignment is within the show and I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page remembering that today, I also need some words to go alongside your photograph/s.

Photographic adventurer Andy Mumford talks of his love for exotic faraway lands, working with and teaching photographers to find their creative peace in the landscapes they find. Also today, making legacy films and stories in pictures and sound, saving Toy Story, bucket list photographs in Colorado, sharing your art on a postcard and poetic inspiration. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Today, Johan Otterdahl Edfeldt introduces you to Project OCOLOY; One camera, One lens, One year and sets a challenge where you condense the theory of that into just one week, with a side challenge within. The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

The photographers' photographer Nils Jorgensen talks this week about street, the "purest form of photography, stripped to its barest minimum; you, a camera and what you see." Also today, making pictures of the every day away from the Metropole, poetry and photography, trying intentional camera movement, finding a photo theme and venturing into the historical dark. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Former Pulitzer prize winner with the LA Times Marissa Roth sets the second of three in a series of photographic challenges that will have you today looking for a story in the people you meet. The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

The World Cup that launched a photo career and a lion that captured the hearts of a nation. My guest Derek Cattani talks about Fleet Street, lucky breaks and big cats. Also, the dentist drill smashing hobby, the snow storms arrive, riots that spark a photographic love affair, simplicity; the answer to everything and other stories. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Friday's guest rejoins me, to set a photo assignment for a new week and if you listened to the previous Photowalk (episode 352) you may be expecting a particular style of creative camera use. The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Today, you and I walk with TV, film and stage actor Bill Ward. A multi-award winner for his challenging role as Charlie Stubbs in Coronation Street, one of the globe's biggest soaps, playing Britain's 'vilest villain,' he is also a highly regarded decorated photographer who savours time making pictures in nature, in particular adopting ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) as his channel to mindful connection with Mother Earth. Bill shares advice on how to shoot ICM and revisits his time on set playing Charlie. We talk about landscape photography, always saying yes to opportunity and how picture-making with a camera is a tonic in a highly charged world. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

In this challenge, my guest, landscape and commercial photographer Chris Orange is going to call upon your inventive nature, asking you to step into his photographic and creative shoes. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

A childhood journey across America inspires guest Anne-Marie Michel to make Sisters of the Road, a book about forty female American truckers, an adventure that doesn't come without risks. We walk together with a mailbag making pictures and sharing ideas with letters today about 'that first photo,' the tonic of photography, old cars and haunting melodies, fierce skies, being immersed in nature and befriending those you make portraits of. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Former Pulitzer prize winner with the LA Times Marissa Roth sets the first of three in a series of photographic challenges that will have you today reaching for a camera and a pen! The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

"Finding Faith" is a photographic journey through central Alabama's smallest towns. Over four years Jerimiah Smith photographed and interviewed countless men and women living above and below the poverty line for whom faith is the cornerstone of their day-to-day. Also today, recording nature in a unique way, a Jack of all trades, street exhibitions, walking in Berlin, the enduring importance of the still image, news of the next Photowalk retreat and other stories. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Documenter of life, Karah Mew sets the third and final assignment in her first series for us and asks you to break the popular photographic rules - in fact, break them all! The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Award-winning wildlife and travel photographer, filmmaker and author Sue Flood talks of her sincere love for the Arctic and photographing in the World's harshest yet most beautiful places. Also today in the mailbag, a love for graffiti part 2, British pleasure piers, photographing with your 'wrong' hand and navigating through and out of a world pandemic. The show is recorded this week walking and photographing on the Isle of Wight. We're helped by inspirational special guests who have appeared on our shows. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Street and London-based commercial photographer Nick Turpin joins me today with thoughts about story-telling before setting an assignment that will have you observing the world in which you live for the next seven days. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Investigative journalist and photographer Lynzy Billing talks about her work in Afghanistan; the people, the stories, the difficulty and the beauty of this much-misunderstood land. Also, be a potentialite, what's important in life, faith in the deep south, bitten by the bug, swimming into portraits, looking v seeing, castles in Sweden and is there hope for our Earth? We're helped by inspirational special guests who have appeared on our shows. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

A little courage is required for this challenge perhaps as food, interiors, commercial and landscape photographer Chris Orange sets his second assignment for the show. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

In 84 days, across 48 states, photographer Imran Nuri made portraits of 1000 strangers on his 50-year-old camera and asked them for one piece of life advice. He tells his story alongside Extra Miler Jon Buscall who shares why the still image is still so important. We discuss being a Jack-of-all-trades, how we fell in love with making pictures, the most unlikely imposter syndrome, not playing by the rules, ancient 'urban art' and rugged landscapes. We're helped by inspirational special guests who have appeared on our shows. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Documenter of life, Karah Mew sets her second assignment for us and asks you to consider a photograph so precious, you may not have a second chance tomorrow to capture it. The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Today, the renowned artist duo Alexandrov Klum talk of their love affair with nature and share how they use photographs, music, sound and film to make their art installations and stories. Also from the mailbag why a surfboard is like a camera, going on a software diet, letting go of Adobe, free carousel templates, imposter syndrome today, inspirational books you must have, courtesy of our Extra Milers and when is a photo not a photo? We're helped by inspirational special guests who have appeared on our shows. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Food and interiors specialist Chris Orange sets his first assignment for the show, though you'll not be necessarily photographing inside! It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

All aboard the Eurotunnel train to France this week for a walk in southern France. As always your letters direct le travel and this week's topics include moving to France, pictures you can fall into, remembering 'The Queue', the country where a train company leads you to a photowalk, printing pictures, folklore, making pictures of things you don't usually, countries you've never heard of and more. We're helped by inspirational special guests who have appeared on our shows. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Australian Leica ambassador Russell Shakespeare invites you to go back to basics today for an assignment inspired by one of his early mentors/trainers. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

What is VERO? Is it the Insta replacement, or does it fulfill a very different personal and social role? It's co-founder Ayman Hariri is on the show to talk about this app 'everyone' is talking about. Also today, what's in the box, the mental health benefits of walking, a language of photography, success later on in life, walking in Taiwan and citizen photojournalism. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

A special short Photowalk edition on the morning of the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, also featuring Rankin's experience of photographing the Monarch, recorded earlier this year. See the SHOW NOTES for the photographs referenced at the start of the programme.

I talk with street art and graffiti historian Roger Gastman about photographer Martha Cooper's pictures of NYC's subway art of the 80s, featured in her new book Spray Nation. Also, I 'doorstep' a special photography friend in England's Lake District and there are letters on making the last pictures of life next to the first pictures of a new life, getting up at silly o clock to make friends with the best light of the day, and the punk rocker who has swapped drum sticks for long exposure photography on a Scottish remote island. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

An assignment today that will have you thinking on two creative levels; photographing and writing. Plus, this forms part of an announcement with regard to a new feature coming to the photowalk edition of a Friday. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

We're in Scotland for the Photowalk retreat; seven photographers on the road, immersed in the most beautiful landscapes, walking by familiar and famous lochs, enjoying some photographic challenges - and you, have an open invitation to come along with us. Grab your walking boots and come for a 'wee amble' in the Highlands. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Today's assignment is the fourth set by, as I describe her within the show, most prolific assignment setter so far of this series, Valerie Jardin. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Australian Leica ambassador Russell Shakespeare talks about the importance of clicking with people before you even start clicking with the camera and how special India has been as his photo project muse across three decades. Also, getting creative with a drone, respects paid to Tim Page, photographing Rhino, a misty Swiss walk and being grateful despite the cancellation of a round the world trip of a lifetime. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Today's assignment is set by Pulitzer prize-winning photographer Marissa Roth. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up so email what you make to [email protected] The show is supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

SHOW NEWS: Photography Daily is now THE PHOTOWALK officially and we walk in Lillehammer, Norway, with our mailbag including letters today on empathy, legacy, Ukraine, the arts in Russia, Bullet Ants and giving a written narrative to your pictures. Special guest and Pulitzer prize winner Marissa Roth returns to talk about a forthcoming storytelling adventure to Nepal and we reveal the winners of MPB.com's Photo and Video Kit Hall of Fame for '22. See the SHOWPAGE for links, with thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons; the 'Extra Milers'.

Gabrielle Motola sets the third of her four assignments and this one is one of her more straightforward challenges or is it? Of course, as always, it's what you make it. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

Back from our two-week break, the second part of my walking conversation with the award-winning photojournalist Kieran Doherty. This week we talk together about his most potent and personal project about his parents, plus the power of the project being all around us and often when we least expect it. Your letters on the lifeline that is photography, scenes at the end of a tunnel and legacy film projects we can all aspire to make. It's an episode with much light and shade as I discover how empathy plays an important role in storytelling. See the SHOWPAGE for links, with thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

Karah Mew sets a challenge that will have you digging a little deep, because you're being asked this week to do something as photographers, we're not quite used to, or at least comfortable doing! All will be revealed, and we'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

Kevin Mullins returns for a second assignment, Fujifilm X-Photographer and my co-host on The FujiCast setting you a challenge that he uses as an exercise within his street photography workshops. This is one that will engage a further sense. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

Gabrielle Motola sets the second of her four assignments across the coming months and this one will have you photographing for the actual seven days, from whenever you listen to this episode! We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Also today, a final call to vote in this year's MPB.com Photo and Video Kit Hall of Fame for 2022. Email your assignments through the SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

I walk this week in Farnborough, England, home of British aviation, with award-winning photojournalist Kieran Doherty for part one of his powerful life story behind the lens. Fired and importantly re-hired in one day by the global powerhouse of news agencies, Reuters, he went on to tell some of the most potent stories with his cameras across three decades of world events. It's an episode with much light and shade as I discover how empathy plays an important role in storytelling. See the SHOWPAGE for links, with thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

Ed Kashi, fresh from his appearance on Friday's Photowalk show returns to set an assignment and I feel honoured that this is one he hasn't set his international students, yet. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with following today's challenge, so please be sure to send your photographs to the show through the SHOW PAGE and I'll share the pictures you make for this challenge. My thanks to our Patrons and MPB.com who sponsor this show.

Ed Kashi's Abandoned Moments, a Love Letter to Photography is our companion conversation as we walk with our cameras and from the show's mailbag, we're getting spooked in a German forest, wonder what the animals whose home is the ocean think about us as visiting photographers, we ponder some international photowalk retreats, talk about taking up photography full time, swim in the surf, plus something strange happened with the recording this week! All will be revealed. See the SHOW NOTES for links, with thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons for their support.

Gabrielle Motola sets her first of four assignments across the coming months and this initial one will have you reaching for a rather different piece of kit, one that will most likely be analogue and one which may even have you leave your camera behind! We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

Four words to remember, that give the freedom to create when voices or life conspire to try and persuade us to take another path. Hannah Gimblett launches her first photo exhibition and refuses to let M.E. stop the show and Chris Harrison is shooting 1000 street portraits despite suffering anxiety. Also from the mailbag, what does a mundane picture actually mean, handling rejection, covered in coloured powders in India, forgetting about likes and algorithms and other stories. See the SHOW PAGE. With thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

Kevin Mullins, Fujifilm X-Photographer and my co-host on The FujiCast sets this week's assignment and it's one that will have you photographing literally from the moment you wake up. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

Digging deep to make challenging pictures, I talk with Simon Townsley, twice winner of British Press Photographer of the Year about his recent assignments in Ukraine, and Afghanistan and trust in photojournalism. In the mailbag, climbing mountains to get fit and find mental well-being, three patrons who dug deep for their own picture-making experiences and is getting angry a positive way to make your photographic imprint? See the SHOW NOTES. With thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

Jim Sollows, for decades, mentoring and training new and established photographers to work with film. Today though, we ask, what are you not so confident with photographing? It's a mental as well as physical or technical challenge. We talk comfort zones and I'll be fascinated to see what you come up in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our patrons and MPB.com

Today Alex Kilbee changes direction after decades in portrait photography to become a YouTuber. We talk about imposter syndrome and suggest a way to tackle it, I'm getting excited about van life, we talk about projects and first books, rediscovering a love for photo taking and making and the first pictures you made and processed. See the SHOW PAGE for links referenced and my thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.