If you don’t know the name Glen E Friedman, you’ll almost certainly know his work, and if you don’t know the work you’ve not had your eyes open for the last 40 years. Glen is responsible for some of the most iconic imagery of the skateboarding, punk and hip hop scenes, and someone I've been a big fan of for a long time.

I first encountered Glen’s work when I picked up Keep Your Eyes Open off my brother’s bookshelf when I was about 15 - a collection of Glen’s work with the band Fugazi. At this stage I was shooting live music around Leeds and Bradford, and in keeping with the title of the book had my eyes opened by the intimacy and energy within the work, and the relationship that was there between photographer and band.

As someone who has been pretty well interviewed in the past, I didn’t want to ask Glen too much that he’d been asked already, and I think the result is a great chat. Hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!

You should find him on Instagram @glenefriedman, where you can see a host of his archive images, and also keep up to date with whatever he has in the works for the future.

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Nick Guttridge is primarily an architectural photographer, though in recent years has also started producing performance and portrait work in collaboration with dance artists. In the chat we talk about how Nick balances these two worlds. Nick started out as a product design student before getting started and building up his photography career, and we dig into where his sensibility for architectural photography came from, and how he's maintained his client relationships over the years. Of course, there's a bit of nerding out over gear as well.

You should check Nick's work out at www.nickguttridge.com and follow him on instagram @nickguttridge.

Great to spend the time chatting with Nick, and I hope you enjoy the conversation!

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Benji Reid is a photographer based in Manchester working on what he self-terms Choreophotlism, which blends dance choreography and physical theatre with his photography practice. We chatted about why Benji turned to photography about 15 yeas ago, and how his career and unfolded since then, and the challenges he’s faced along the way. We talk about moving from a world in which he was directing live productions within a team, to producing still imagery - often self portraits - within a 5x4 foot home studio.

You should check Benji’s work out at www.benjireid.com and follow him on instagram @benjireid.

I really enjoyed getting to know Benji in this chat, and I hope you dig the conversation!

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Yang Wang Preston is a landscape photographer based in West Yorkshire. Yan’s professional photography career started relatively recently, having previously worked in medicine, and this change in direction coincided with her moving from China to West Yorkshire. We chat about how her projects have found a balance between the artistic and academic worlds, particularly her projects Mother River and Forest which are both beautiful aesthetic works, while also being close cultural research studies of the changing Chinese natural and urban landscapes. It was great to hear also what Yan is working on at the moment to unpack her own sense of home in the post-industrial Northern English landscape she now calls home.

You should check out Yan’s work at www.yanwangpreston.com and find her on instagram @yanwangpreston.

Really Nice chat, I hope you enjoy it!

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Alex Ingram is an advertising and editorial photographer based in London. This conversation was recorded back in March, with Alex back at home in Pembrokeshire escaping the spread of Coronavirus in the Big Smoke. We talk about some bodies of work that Alex has produced over the years about his hometown (or very small city) of St Davids, and also his experience of leaving and moving to London to get started in the industry, after leaving an Architecture degree to follow a photography career instead. This career started with him assisting photographers full time, before picking up his own commissions, and also keeping busy with ongoing personal projects, which you can check out at www.alexingramphoto.com. You can also find Alex on Instagram @alexingramphoto, and Neutral Exposure @neutral.exposure. I hope you enjoy!

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