Everyday Photography, Every Day

Part Two of our chatting before the next guest arrives. I road-tripped to LA and had a number of photographic moments...

I think this is my favorite episode. Is that nuts?

Suzanne and I look at themes running through our last four episodes in the conversations with four very different photographers: Russell Brown, Doug Menuez, Kris Sanford and Nigel Barker.

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

There are a lot of important reasons to print your pictures, it being Ansel Adams' birthday isn't one of them...

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...