The Photowalk

A photography podcast that is all about the creation and emotion of making photographs. Today I talk with photojournalist Jason Florio about photo projects in Africa which reveals a greater podcast plan for 2023 and Ronald Turnbull about sleeping with your camera under the stars in a Bivvy Bag. Also; does documentary photography have the power to change opinion, a relationship with trees, sending messages by accident and pictures from the highest privy on earth? See the SHOW NOTES for links and pictures, supported by MPB.com and our Patrons.

Seeing double this week, well sort of. Jason Florio, photojournalist and African picture correspondent sets you a challenge for the next seven days with his first assignment. It's been wonderful to see the pictures you have been making from the assignments set so far, so please keep sending your photographs for inclusion on today's show page. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our patrons and MPB.com

The spirit of community, that's what this podcast is about. We walk, we talk, we make pictures. Stories of Life told by photographers and today those stories come from Grant Scott who answers the question he posed; is documentary photography obsessed with sad? Mandy Burton talks about her personal Instagram project. In the mailbag; are we about to upset our French neighbours? We're talking about the freedom to roam once more, what photography has enabled us to do, a story of an affair, listening to your pictures and news of the Scottish Photowalk Retreat in September. See the SHOW NOTES, with our thanks to MPB.com and our patrons.

In touch with nature this week, Mali Davies sets you a challenge for the next seven days with his first assignment. We're in search of what we know on our Photowalk edition as 'Mali's Tree'. It's been wonderful to see the pictures you have been making from the assignments set so far, so please keep sending your photographs for inclusion on today's show page. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our patrons and MPB.com

A podcast made on a photowalk with your letters, your pictures and a special guest who is an explorer, photographer, international speaker, and author who photographs the farthest expanses of Earth, Chris Burkard. In the mailbag today, the tonic that is nature and the landscape, the extreme healing photography brought one of our contributors on life support, the strange picture finds in wales, an introduction to a new feature about the stranger corners of Insta and falling in love with photography again. See the SHOW PAGE for links, with our thanks to MPB.com and our patrons.

Giles Penfound sets you a challenge for the next seven days with his first assignment. An invite to slow down and think about your picture-making for this one. It's been wonderful to see the pictures you have been making from the assignments set so far, so please keep sending your photographs for inclusion on today's show page. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our patrons and MPB.com

The only photowalk show in the podcastsphere, made by your letters, your own walks with a camera and our special guests. Today photographer Ondrej Vachek talks about his return to Ukraine having been on the front line originally in 2019, Matt Dolinski finds wildlife photography changes his life plans, dealing with angry tire changers, pictures in the mist, photographing strangers and other stories. See the SHOW NOTES. With thanks to MPB.com and our patrons.

Sean Tucker returns to challenge you for the next seven days with his second assignment. It's a gentle observational one today we feel that will suit photographers of all levels and interests. It's been wonderful to see the pictures you have been making from the assignments set so far, so please keep sending your photographs for inclusion on today's show page. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our patrons and MPB.com

It's a bumper episode this week on our photowalk together. We talk minimalist camping adventures with a camera, finding your creative mojo again having almost lost it, moose encounters, the love of trees, and we pay respects to the late Australian celebrity photographer Gina Milicia. My special guest this week is Canon ambassador Laura El-Tantawy, a masterful multi-media artist who talks about finding your photographic voice. See the SHOW NOTES on the website page. With thanks to our patrons and MPB.com for supporting the show.

It's assignment day where our special guest sets a photography challenge or a way to think about your picture-making for the next week. It's a challenge for everybody, whatever interests you have, whatever camera you hold, film, larger format, DLSR, mirrorless, compact, or smartphone – it's all about the picture you see. I would love to share the pictures you make for this challenge here, so please send them in to [email protected] - 2000 pixels on the long side, any orientation you prefer; square, portrait, or landscape.

It's the only podcast to take a photowalk each week with your thoughts and feelings about what photography means to you. My special guest, Magnum's Alec Soth talks about his latest book, 'A Pound of Pictures' and how a camera gifts wonderful access into peoples' lives, Joel Meyerowitz on how he made pictures post 9/11 in NYC, how photography helps mental health, a day in the life of a photographer in Ukraine and mindfulness in life and your picture making. See the SHOW NOTES. Supported by our patrons and MPB.com.

NEW! Monday is assignment day where our special guest sets a photography challenge or a way to think about your picture-making for the next week. It's a challenge for everybody, whatever interests you have, whatever camera you hold, film, larger format, DLSR, mirrorless, compact or smartphone – it's all about the picture you see. I would love to share the pictures you make for this challenge here, so please send them into [email protected] - 2000 pixels on the long side, any orientation you prefer; square, portrait or landscape. My thanks to our wonderful patrons and MPB.com who sponsor this show; the number one company in the UK, the US and Europe when it comes to buying, selling and trading used camera kit online – it's a safe place to do business, with guarantees upon what you buy.

John Maher guests today on the only Photowalk show in the podcastsphere. The former Buzzcocks punk rock star talks about his move to a remote Scottish island and how he finds photographic solace in finding the forgotten buildings of the Hebrides in his 'Nobody's Home' project. Also today, burn out, finding a photo project, a life lesson, photographing 'aliens' and the best mail run in the world. The show is supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW PAGE for links.

Joel Meyerowitz returns to talk about the new '22 edition of his 1991 book Redheads and Kieran Dodds introduces his book Gingers, celebrating the flow of DNA across cultures; the rare and beautiful. Two different works, two distinctive voices. Also, we talk projects, making photography a daily habit, punk rock, pictorial 'everdayness', your castaway photobook and Stopping Tanks with Books. Supported by MPB and our patrons. See the SHOW NOTES.

Today, a photo project that is as deeply personal as it has been long in the making. François Brunelle is looking for your double! There's show news about a new weekly programme, we talk about humour and frivolity in a world that doesn't seem to match. Also, professional burnout, dogs and politics. With inspiration from Joel Meyerowitz, Chris Orwig, Valerie Jardin and Andrew Higgins, this is the Photowalk. See the SHOW NOTES. Brought to you by MPB.com and our Patrons.

This week Daniel Bergeron, an LA celebrity, music and people photographer shares how he approaches the genre of portraiture. On the photowalk we're talking bugs and looking over our shoulders for the rattlesnakes and bears! We hear how macro has become an unexpected passion project, find peace on walks in Japan, receive feedback on the Ukraine special and go in search of a rare phenomenon under the ice in Canada. The show is supported by MPB.com, our patrons and see the SHOW NOTES for links.

A photowalk episode reflecting upon the situation and feeling in Ukraine aided by three photographers from Lviv and Kyiv; artist and photographer Mark Neville who adopted Ukraine as his home, a celebrated Ukrainian documentarian and street photographer Mikhail Palinchak and an American photographer Wolfgang Schwan, who is photographing his first conflict. Also, we ask; "What is success?" A question answered by Joel Meyerowitz. Your letters, thoughts and pictures as you make your own walks. Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW NOTES.

Joel Meyerowitz is my special guest on the Photowalk which this week comes from snow blessed Gålå in Norway. Walking with our cameras, making our pictures, I share your letters about photo projects, curing PTSD through a lens on long photowalks with 'a Ghost', the 10,000 nautical miles unexpected documentary, plus I'm hoping you can assist the printing of an exhibition for a very special contributor. Also inspirational words from former guests including the late revered British photojournalist, Tom Stoddart. Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW NOTES. This edition has strong language.

Today, the story of making ONE very important picture. Astro photographer Jon Carmichael talks about a photograph that has changed his life; one that had everything conspiring against it. Also this week, the advice you'd give your younger photographic self, a new photowalk retreat for September, 80 year old mirrorless cameras, achieving against all odds, celebrating courage and other stories. The only photo podcast that takes a photowalk. My thanks to our Patrons and MPB.com for supporting the show. See the SHOW NOTES.

This week I'm photowalking with five other photographers for the very first Photography Daily Photowalk Retreat; a week spent on the Isle of Wight, on the south coast of the UK - and you're invited to join us! We walk, talk and share our individual passions for this thing we love; photography. Also, letters today about recent shows, including the mental benefits picture-making brings, recording audio and PhotoRuns? Join us as the seventh member of our retreat house for this first special remote location broadcast event. Brought to you by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW NOTES for pictures.

My guest Annette Lang photographs those walking the Côte d'Azur, a photographic project that grew wings from strict French lockdowns. It's the photowalk show where I take your letters and thoughts about photography into the wilds. This week alongside Annette in France, we talk about 360s, uninvited critique, seeing the world through a tourist's eye and '5 Things' you love about photography. Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW NOTES.

Photowalking with your stories about making pictures and what difference it brings to your life. Today a very potent and inspirational story recounted by my guest Nils Amelinckx, who aged 30 was told he had five years to live. Rekindling his love for photography, he decided to make pictures of his mountainous cycle rides as a legacy for his young family. Also today, quitting pro to take pictures only for you, chasing fog, photo plans for '22, shooting architecture and drone landscapes. Supported by MPB.com and our Patrons. See the SHOW NOTES.

The landscape legend Charlie Waite is our Photowalk guest this week answering your questions. It's the only photo podcast like it; your letters plus guests Thomas Heaton and Henrik Saxgren with words of inspiration as we walk together, sharing stories and pictures on a photowalk. This week we talk imposter syndrome, photographic prompt jars, 2022 photo plans, introversion and we have the best idea to keep tripods steady in the wind. This and other stories as we make pictures together. Brought to you by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW NOTES.

After seeing a sign held aloft at a 2020 protest calling for the state to 'Sacrifice the weak,' Madison Thorn embarked on a photo and interview project to document the stories of those considered 'High Risk Humans.' Also, Dennis Skyum on producing your first self published book plus letters from the mailbag on having faith in your work, cycling and photographing to find inner peace, making your first 365 and how vintage cameras are conversation magnets. Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW NOTES for links.

Back for 2022, the Photowalk. Heading out into the cold from his desk in the warm, photographic adventurer Adrian Vila couldn't be more delighted about his work and life change. Also this week, fighting ignorance with photography, making pictures with an iron lady, images in the mist, the longest 365 journey, booking Devil's Tower, embracing introversion, raging against mortality with pictures and other stories. Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW PAGE.

The last Photowalk of the year and this week a medley of guests to inspire your 2022 photographic plans. Also photographing in Storm Barra, creative pressures, the labels we give ourselves, calming the mind with each click, kippers!, mentoring new young photographers, recording audio to go with your still pictures, bucket list locations, social media noise plus a heart felt thank you and why I think photography is the best gift we can give to ourselves. The show is brought to you by MPB.com and our Patrons. See the SHOW PAGE for pictures.

San Francisco based documentary photographer Robert Gumpert joins me today on the Photowalk edition. He has produced a body of work highlighting the plight of those living on the same streets we were told to stay off during lockdown, with a new book coming called Division Street. Also we talk about Instagram fatigue, your photographic plans for 2022, the subjects that choose us, 365 magic, photowalks in the rain and fog and being a Nemophilist with a camera! Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the pictures and SHOW NOTES.

It's an episode with a difference today. I'm embracing an opportunity to thank MPB for supporting and partnering this show and channel during 2021. As COP 26 closed in mid November, sustainability was an important topic being discussed. I found myself in Brighton on a Photowalk, the city that is home to MPB, a company who recirculate more than 300,000 items of used kit every year, extending the life and creative potential of photo and video equipment for creators around the world. So join me as I visit the UK HQ of MPB. Meet the man who founded the company from a back room in 2011, and hear from photographers and creatives who have a passion for my and your kit needs. See pictures referenced on the SHOW NOTES page.

Mark Power talks about his seminal work 'The Shipping Forecast' and his latest work shooting in America and Guernsey. It's the only podcast to take a photowalk making pictures together and reading from the mailbag, with letters this week about imposter syndrome, fighting off GAS, finding the joy of film, leaving photography to fall in love with it again, working with one camera and embracing sound. See the SHOW NOTES for all pictures. With thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

Considered one of the world's best darkroom printers, Robin Bell is my guest on the Photowalk this week. For the walk I'm in Berkshire, England with your letters about what photography means to you. Today, photography as a healing force, the Photowalk Retreat 2022 officially opens to all listeners, Christmas gift ideas that won't require you to sell Granny, photos from around the globe from your own adventures and inspirational words from former guests including YouTuber and landscaper photographer Thomas Heaton. Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the pictures on the SHOWNOTES PAGE.

This week we're walking in Sherwood Forest, the legendary woodland 'belonging' to Robin Hood, making our pictures together and reading listener letters. National Geographic's Editor in Chief Susan Goldberg is my guest and we celebrate Tom Stoddart, the British photojournalist who passed away last week. Your letters include making photographs to celebrate a win over adversity, making ultra long exposure pictures from a tin can, Christmas in Copenhagen and dream photo retirements. The show is supported by MPB.com and our wonderful Patrons. See the SHOW NOTES.

Nick Brandt is our special guest on this Photowalk edition, one of photography's great environmental champions, showing how deeply our fates are intertwined, portraying people and animals together, causing us to reflect on the real-life consequences of climate change. From your letters we talk career starts, tackle self doubt, visit a German forest with a dark history, have news about the first Photowalk Retreat and reflect upon the loss of Tom Stoddart, one of the UK's most respected photojournalists. Supported by MPB.com, see the SHOW NOTES for pictures.

We're walking together on Brighton's famous seaside beach with your photo letters, talking with an artist who makes Polaroid portraits with international trailblazing women, a photographer who's said, "&*%$ this, I'm going on a photo adventure in my van," and making beach portraits with swimmers who brave the 'icy' Brighton sea waters daily. Also how a mushroom changed one photographer's life forever, the beauty of 'random' and light in street work, Photocycles and 'forbidden pictures'. The show is supported by our Patrons and MPB.com - see the SHOW NOTES for all links.

British photographer Rankin is our guest; co-founder behind Dazed and Confused, celebrated for his international portraiture of leaders and celebrities. We talk about his rise to fame and that four minutes shoot with The Queen; a nod to an infamous Sex Pistols record cover. We're also Photowalking on the Isle of Wight with your letters talking about the quiet of nature photography, how photography heals, animal photojournalism and we revisit the subject of photographing children in street photography. Supported by MPB.com and our Patrons. Visit the SHOW PAGE.

We photowalk together, making pictures, answering questions and sharing inspiration from Paul Sanders who helps you to 'Discover Still,' how this former Times pictures desk editor found his calm and Sandra Cattaneo Adorno returns to talk of starting pro photography in your 60s. We also talk about recording sound with your stills, the names we give our cameras, 'break our bones' making pictures, a street photographer who became an NYC cabbie for the pictures and Thomas Heaton has a bucket list landscape view. Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW NOTES.

The only photowalk show like it in the podcast world. This week two photographers prove that starting afresh with a camera aged 50+ is an excellent time to start. For one of our guests, Sandra Cattaneo Adorno, it's the start of an international publishing deal. We celebrate good news in our community, talk about street pictures featuring children, how to ask for street portraits and Insta posting dilemmas, plus the word 'story' - is it overused? Also introducing Miranda Remington. Our thanks to MPB.com and our patrons for supporting the show. See the SHOW NOTES.

This week the show is not so much on the road, but out at sea! We take your letters and inspirational thoughts to the east coast of England to make a walk in sea fog, before climbing aboard the X-Pilot service vessel navigating ten miles out to photograph a cluster of seven sea forts from WWII, where the Thames Estuary meets the North Sea. Our special guest, environmental portrait and advertising photographer Phil Melia talks about making projects. We discuss the fashionable word 'story', introduce the world's most famous darkroom, talk happy accidents and more. Supported by MPB.com and our patrons. See the SHOW PAGE.

Inspired perhaps by the latest Bond event, we have an epic length episode where we talk respectful street photography, using a rare lens, the joy of photographing in unfamiliar places, asking for a picture, Japanese bathtime and poetry, surviving crowd busy Ikea trips and 80s TV. We hear from previous inspirational guests about potent story telling and relaunching your style. Plus our special guest, street documentary photographer, mentor and author Valerie Jardin returns for the concluding part of her interview. Supported by MPB and our patrons. See the SHOW PAGE for links.

We take a walk with our cameras and two special guests; Valérie Jardin, documentary photographer/international mentor and Keith Moss, street shooter and tutor with a love of film. Your letters into the show talk about the pleasure of owning and using a real camera, how what we make pictures of helps us find mindfulness, we talk about positivity, learn from a photographer about how cracks in the wall might just become his fine art future, I have a warning about keeping your camera bags zipped up and there's inspiration from former guests, including YouTuber Sean Tucker. Supported by MPB.com - see the show notes HERE.

We're in wonderful woodland for the only weekly Photowalk in podcastsphere. Your letters and messages whilst we make pictures together, plus inspirational thoughts from past guests. This week embracing fear in your picture making, street rage, finding film again, Insta-frustration, rural UrbEX, story-exhaustion, beautiful mailruns, wrong eyed shooting and finding physical strength to photograph once more. Special guest Simon Baxter invites us to explore our local woodland to find photographic peace and beauty. Supported by MPB.com and our Patrons. See the SHOW NOTES for pictures.

One of our most inspirational shows yet with many ideas, guest quotes, photographic thoughts and a guest, Simon Buckley who makes his pictures during the quite literal dead of night! It's the only photowalking mailbag podcast where your messages drive the show. This week, how do your pictures sound? We talk self publishing, making photo still life, whether the camera or photographer makes the pictures, we launch 'Bokehsia,' the island, talk vintage camera finds and there's more on the photo charity RMB which we're proud to champion. Supported by MPB.com and see all the SHOW NOTES.

Where once 70,000 protestors looped arms to protest against the siting of nuclear missiles, we're walking with our cameras and your letters, talking about making photographs; this thing we love. Greenham Common, former USAF base an hour west of London, now beautiful free common land. This week we talk about legacy, photo memorabilia, making emotional pictures and hear from former guests about photographing Suburbia in the American 50s, favourite street pictures and our special guest Belgian portrait photographer and storyteller Bert Stephani talks about the day he decided to become a 'professional amateur.' Supported by MPB.com and see the SHOW NOTES for all links.

It's the photography show that takes a walk with the mailbag and makes photos. This week urban exploration! We reveal the lowest trick in advertising photography, we remember our parents' cameras, we launch the new 365 feature, hear about a photographer who has been exploring a part of China that was raised to the ground during the 2008 earthquake, tackle imposter syndrome and ask why do we place so many walls around us when it comes to challenges as photographers. So many other stories, your mails and special guests Kimmo and Tanja from Abandoned Nordic. Supported by our patrons, mpb.com and usbmemorydirect.com. See the SHOW NOTES for all pictures and links.

If ever you have thought; "How can I make a real difference to people with my photography," I think this episode is for you and I sense you'll be moved by this special midweek edition. It's a very personal story at times, yet equally an appeal by one of the original co-founders of Remember My Baby, a registered charity which offers a free gift of baby remembrance photography to parents experiencing the loss of their baby before, during or shortly after birth. The show is supported by our patrons, MPB.com and usbmemorydirect.com. See the SHOW NOTES for all links today.

Walking a short slither of the Trans Pennine Trail today through Leeds with your mails, thoughts and pictures that you've been making. This week we talk about virtual gallery experiences, Australian photo lockdowns, inspiring young picture makers, making better portraits and dealing with tricky sitters! We also talk about adding sound to your pictures and hear part 2 of an inspirational chat with photojournalist Edmond Terakopian back to discuss photographic passion. Supported by MPB.com and usbmemorydirect.com. Click HERE to see pictures and links featured on the show.

The new Friday Photowalk season starts complete with guest Edmond Terakopian, one of the UK's most respected photojournalists talking about photographic passion. Also this week, shoot without pressure, long exposures, to mask or not to mask on photographic commissions, showing the real you on social media and can you make a best selling photobook with just an iPhone? Inspirational guest appearances by Jason P. Howe and Tim Johnston. Supported by mpb.com and our patrons. See links and photos on the SHOW PAGE.

BIG changes announced today with a new show and new website feature for the next year! Well, 365 days at least; that's a clue. Also, do you use Affinity to edit? What do you think about Insta, really!?! The best inspiration to start your new photo project, photographing in sub zero temperatures where your fingers will freeze, the choir stops Neale in his tracks and street photographers helping each other. Guest appearances by Sean Tucker, Gulnara Samoilova, Jonny Keely and Henrik Saxgren. Supported by MPB.com and see the SHOW PAGE for pictures and links.

Commercial documentary photographer Finn Beales lives the photographic life of dreams. He has a wondrous inquiring eye wherever he is in the world whether he's shooting work for Cartier, Omega or photographing his own life and passions, a potent reminder that there is story in everything you do and everywhere you go. "Always have your camera with you," as a sentiment screams at me as I look through his Instagram feed, which has amassed half a million like minded followers. The show is supported by MPB.com and our Patrons. See the SHOW PAGE.

It's the show of the week where we walk together with our cameras and I'll bring a microphone and mailbag too. Today we talk passion projects, what conflict photography has achieved, setting out on a new photography journey whatever your age, we're on the final leg of the Camino trail in Spain, go for a walk along Liverpool's old docks and pier head and talk about the power of sound. Inspirational words too from former and future show guests. Supported by MPB.com also see the SHOW NOTES.

Since Instagram made the 'announcement' they would no longer solely be a photo sharing app, many creators and photographers have been running in all directions not sure whether their Insta experience is about to implode. Two guests today to talk about IG; Jonny Keely who has been studying the platform for a series of films and Helen Jones-Florio who uses the platform to show works from her African and Maltese passion project, plus contributors from the Facebook group asked for their thoughts prior to the show. The show is supported by MPB.com and see the SHOW PAGE for links.