Newton & Coe on Eye for the Light

Krystal Chryssomallis is one of the world's most positive people and she fines the pluses in everything.

She uses her camera as a passport into the hidden and untold lives of people and cultures around the world. Beginning her photojournalistic career through her work as a global music executive, Krystal has worked in over 60 countries, capturing the spirit, emotion, and human stories behind each moment. 

Her passion for photography as a form of storytelling drives her to create images that remind us of our interconnectivity and the common threads that unite us all, transcending language, culture, and geography.

Krystal's images shine a light on the joy and positivity that can be found around the world. Her work been featured in galleries, hotels, palaces, and private collections worldwide, reflecting her commitment to using her lens as a tool to inspire positive change and foster global connectivity.

Krystal also works with several charities and Krystal also works with several charities and volunteers regularly for UNICEF, donating the proceeds from image sales to charity.

Here she talks to &Coe about her life, her photography and much more.

Pippa Ehrlich is passionate about our oceans and their conservation. She is the multi award-winning director of My Octopus Teacher and story-teller.

She is very active in conservation, especially in the oceans, and has a particular passion for protecting the Kelp Forests and the wildlife which inhabits it. She works for Sea Change, documenting and exploring the underwater forests of Cape Town to capture stories that will assist in its long term protection

Here she talks about her life, her work, her film making and her passion for the oceans with Chris

With vast experience, Mark Edward Harris has photographed all around the world, including countries which are hard to access, such as North Korea and Iran. He's a travel and documentary photographer with an impressive list of publications and clients, from Conde Nast and the New York Times to Coca Cola and The Gap.

Here Mark chats about his life, his photography career including photographing the Olympics, his awards and books, and his love of photography.

The world needs people like Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen. She's a visual story teller who tells the stories which no one wants told to bring them to wider attention and affect social change.

Alex Outhwaite is a travel presenter, travel show host and adventurer. She's visited, lived & worked in nearly 90 countries and the list is ever growing. But there's much more to Alex than this. She has an adventurous heart and spirit for sure, but she's also highly intelligent and engaging.

"Have camera, will travel" - pretty much says it all! Tyson's early childhood was spent growing up in jungles and on the coast of Papua New Guinea, before moving back to Australia where I trained and launched a successful photographic career.

His story is fascinating, taking him around the world and working with the world’s best photographers, directors, editors and publishers. He primarily shoots lifestyle stills and video imagery for advertising campaigns with many leading hotels as his clients.

For Tyson life is truly what you make of it, and his passion for travel, hospitality and the corporate world have taken him across the globe to shoot for a wide variety of clients and meet so many interesting people. He loves to create powerful and emotive images and this podcast is littered with gems to help any photographer to realise their potential.

Charlie Hamilton James is a world renowned photographer and wildlife filmmaker. His work fuses emotion with technical complexity, as a tool for evocative storytelling.

Here he talks to Chris and David about how it all began with kingfishers and otter, working with National Geographic, his conservation work and how this fits with the lives of indigenous peoples.

As photographers go, Ellie Rothnie is one of the more creative ones. She's a wildlife photographer who uses her camera skills to create beautiful images in-camera, rather than relying on the computer afterwards. She explains these techniques during the podcast.

Find out how she started, her career in marketing and how that has has proved useful in her photography career in this wonderfully enthusiastic chat with Newton & Coe

Karim Iliya is a photographer, filmmaker, whale swimming guide, and soon to be space explorer based in Iceland and Hawaii. His journeys have taken him into the depths of the oceans. Next destination – the moon! Karim will be on the up-and-comng Space X ‘Dear Moon’ rocket, adding to the list of only 24 people have flown to the moon.

He has a passion for the natural world from the smallest creatures to the biggest mammals. His photography and film making have taken him on some amazing adventures, but here, in his conversation with Newton & Coe you find out all about even more amazing ones still to come.

At only 30, Jack Lodge is relatively new to photography but he's already carving himself a career in one of the toughest genres - landscape. In a very interesting chat with Newton and Coe, we discover how a young photographer have worked his way from architect to a new career which is flourishing through his contemporary approach to building his brand.