This week, a discussion around the historic worldwide Women’s March on Washington has us wondering “are we so used to things ‘being Photoshopped’ that we ignore actual photographic evidence?” Also, Jeffery gets a faux secret service detail. Plus, getting “the shot” in three minutes — what do you do if you didn’t get it? Has Fuji gotten the feel right with the new X100F and XT-20? Rusty Fox is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #wornout
  
• Louis Mendes - Wikipedia
  
• Jeffery Saddoris on Instagram: “That day when #LouisMendes took my photo in front of the Capitol. So cool. Thank you sir for your time and your energy. #streetphotography…”
  
• Tony Mobley (@tmo365) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• "Humanist/Activist." (@ruddyroye) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Amazon.com : Leica M (Typ 262) Digital Rangefinder Camera (Black Body Only) : Camera & Photo
  
• What it’s like to have under three minutes to photograph president-elect Trump - The Washington Post
  
• Here's what the 2007 iPhone's photos look like - CNET - Page 14
  
• Saving you bandwidth on Google+ through machine learning
  
• Overview of the REDCODE File Format
  
• Amazon.com : Fujifilm X100F 24.3 MP APS-C Digital Camera - Silver (X100F - Silver) : Camera & Photo
  
• Amazon.com : Fujifilm X-T20 Mirrorless Digital Camera - Black (X-T20 Body - Black) : Camera & Photo
  
• Lord Snowdon: more than just a flatterer of the fashionable and famous | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Rusty Fox Photography
  

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This week, we discuss the connection between purpose and happiness. Are they connected? Does one precede the other? What happens to our work when we no longer feel any purpose in engaging in it? Does it merely become practice? If so, to what end? Also, a reflection on the life of Gene Cernan and men like him, who dared to leave their home behind “just to see if they could do it.” Luigi Ghirri is our Photographer of the week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #bookCover
  
• 2017 Presidential Inauguration
  
• Getting Tickets to the 2017 Inauguration
  
• Studs Terkel "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do"
  
• I Earned More From Photo Gigs in 2016 With My iPhone Than My DSLRs
  
• Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader — Apple - Apple
  
• Download Lightroom for mobile | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile
  
• Home | The Last Man on the Moon
  
• Luigi Ghirri - Wikipedia
  
• Luigi Ghirri - Selected Works - Matthew Marks Gallery
  
• Luigi Ghirri | Dazed
  
• MACK - Luigi Ghirri - Kodachrome
  
• Luigi Ghirri’s Kodachromes Revisited | TIME
  

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Sometimes, you need to take stock of the path you’re on to make sure you get where you’re trying to go. Other times, you may need to change the destination entirely. This week, we’re talking about looking at where we are and what to do if it’s just a little off. We’re also talking about new projects and how sometimes just rolling up your sleeves and doing the work is all that matters. Jerry Schatzberg is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Webinar001 – 5by5 | Karl Taylor's Photography Blog
  
• The Barnes Foundation - Live and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography, 1890–1950?
  
• The Dell Canvas is the Latest Smart Workspace Touchscreen Display Device | Fstoppers
  
• Amazon.com : Yongnuo YN560-TX LCD Wireless Flash Controller + YN-560 III Manual Flash Speedlite Light
  
• Amazon.com: Audio-Technica ATH-M50x Professional Studio Monitor Headphones
  
• Amazon.com: Etymotic Research ER4XR Extended Range In-Ear Monitors
  
• EXCLUSIVE: Kodak Ektachrome 100 is Coming Back in 35mm Format
  
• Luminous Landscape Speculates DJI Bought Hasselblad
  
• Ep 241 #DecisiveMoment - OTP Podcast Weekly Photo Challenge - YouTube
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #skylight
  
• jerry schatzberg
  
• Interview with Jerry Schatzberg / Rozhovor s Jerrym Schatzbergem - YouTube
  
• Q&A: Jerry Schatzberg | Dazed
  
• Women Then: Photographs 1954-1969 - Jerry Schatzberg on Amazon
  

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We’re starting out the new year discussing transformation — specifically, the transformation that seems to be an essential component to making art with a capital ‘A.’ To help with the discussion, we’re using a terrific Netflix documentary series that traces the foundations and evolution of Hip Hop that brilliantly exemplifies transformation at work. Through interviews and archival footage, we see the origin story that took hip hop from back alleys and front rooms in the Bronx to stadiums all over the world. Kurt William Kamka is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• epson p800 | B&H Photo Video
  
• Pete Souza (@petesouza) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Behind the Lens: 2016 Year in Photographs – The White House – Medium
  
• Depeche Mode Return With Anton Corbijn, New ‘Spirit’ Record And 2017 Tour
  
• anton corbijn
  
• Hip-Hop Evolution
  
• Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock - YouTube
  
• Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message - YouTube
  
• Patti Smith Never Wanted to Be Famous - Here's The Thing - WNYC
  
• La La Land retro poster
  
• Denon Wood Headphones on Amazon
  
• Kurt William Kamka
  
• What's in the Bag of Kurt Kamka? - YouTube
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #beginning
  

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This week, trying to reconcile the highs and lows of the past year and how for some of us, when an artist dies, a little piece of our history or even the personal identity that we have associated with the person (or their body of work) dies as well. It’s as if our potential, whether realized or not is inexorably tied to their energy. Also, a little about what’s next for each of us in 2017. Rodney Smith is our Photographer of the Week. Happy New Year everyone.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #2016
  
• On the Music Dying, and Making it Matter - Chris Osmond
  
• Billy Squier - Christmas Is The Time To Say "I Love You" - YouTube
  
• Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra - YouTube
  
• Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes - The New Yorker
  
• R3 Monobath Developer Lets You Process Your Film with One Chemical Bath
  
• Mamiya 7
  
• Pentax 6×7 - Wikipedia
  
• Photographer recounts moment Russian envoy was assassinated - CNN.com
  
• Freedom of Press Foundation Asks Canon, Nikon, and Other Camera Manufacturers to Sell Encrypted Cameras | WIRED
  
• Wired Magazine for $5 on Amazon Prime
  
• Rodney Smith
  
• Rodney Smith (photographer) - Wikipedia
  
• Rodney Smith, Whimsical Photographer, Dies at 68 - The New York Times
  
• Narrative Portraiture: On Location in New York with Rodney Smith
  

This week, we’re starting off with a little about gear, specifically the new Microsoft Surface Studio and the uncertain future of desktop Macs. From there it’s on to David Hockney and a somewhat relativistic view of the “good” of art and whether or not one piece of art is really any better than another. Also, are bigger prints always better? Plus, we take a trip to the Crit Wall. Lori Vrba is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #isolation
  
• Saul Leiter in Conversation with Vince Aletti - YouTube
  
• A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen
  
• Hip-Hop Evolution
  
• Inside the Mind of Martha Cooper, Iconic NY Street Photographer & Graffiti Documentarian | The Hundreds
  
• The Genius of Photography - Episode 02: Documents for Artists - Watch Free Documentary Online - BBC, Tim Kirby, Denis Lawson (narrator)
  
• MTA - Arts & Design | NYCT Permanent Art
  
• Union Square 'Subway Therapy' Post-It Note Wall Moving to Upper West Side - Upper West Side, NY Patch
  
• Crit Wall: Josh Eikenberry
  
• Lori Vrba
  
• lori vrba (@lorivrba) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Kirsty Mitchell Photography
  
• dr5 Film Lab - dr5-B&W-slide - B&W-negative - C41 - E6 - Film Processing World Wide
  
• Edward Snowden tells Jack Dorsey Twitter's features are 'painful' and 'terrible'
  

This week, we discuss TIME’s Person of the Year cover and portfolio, made by Nadav Kandar. Specifically, we unpack questions raised by the potentially subversive nature of the work and whether or not an artist has a responsibility to art before personal belief. As part of the discussion, we also reference a collection of Dorothea Lange’s previously censored photographs of FDR’s Japanese concentration camps. Jack Davison is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #framewithinaframe
  
• A Look Into Time Magazine’s Latest Image of ‘Person of the Year’ Donald Trump – Resource Magazine
  
• See Portraits of Donald Trump’s Most Trusted Advisers | TIME
  
• Behind TIME’s Donald Trump Person of the Year Cover | TIME
  
• Platon Tells the Story Behind His Portrait of Vladimir Putin
  
• Green Day are selling all of their albums on cassette with an old school boombox - NME
  
• Jon Wilkening
  
• Nnadav Kander portrait of Scorsese
  
• Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps — Anchor Editions
  
• First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber
  
• National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe: Roy A. Gallant, Margaret Sedeen, Michael Collins: 9780792227311: Amazon.com: Books
  
• A rare half-male, half-female butterfly — and other photos of evolutionary wonders - The Washington Post
  
• Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II Hands-on Review - YouTube
  
• 2016 MKBHD Studio Tour in 360°! - YouTube
  
• Affinity Photo 1.5 - our biggest update yet
  
• (@billwadman) • Instagram Red Camera
  
• (@billwadman) • Instagram Dead Enigma
  
• Henri Cartier Bresson frame within a frame shot
  
• JACK DAVISON
  
• Great Performers: The Portraits - The New York Times
  
• Jack Davison (@jackdavisonphoto) • Instagram photos and videos
  

This week, details about the OTP Gift Exchange and some of our book suggestions. Also, how would what you make and release into the world — your art — be different if there were negative consequences to showing it? Plus, is it worth it to print all of your photos? Danny Clinch is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #decisiveMoment
  
• OTP Gift Exchange Post on G+
  
• Canon EOS 5D Mark III - Wikipedia
  
• William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
  
• A Beautiful Anarchy, "David duChemin"
  
• Saul Leiter: Early Color
  
• Road to Seeing - Dan Winters
  
• Magnum Contact Sheets
  
• Annie Leibovitz at Work
  
• Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits
  
• An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson
  
• Regarding Heroes - Yousuf Karsh
  
• Churchill-ok.jpg (1939×2282)
  
• The Crown (TV series) - Wikipedia
  
• Donald Trump wants to 'close up' the Internet - Dec. 8, 2015
  
• The future president is blocking people on Twitter like there's no tomorrow
  
• What It Means To Be An Artist In The Time Of Trump | The Huffington Post
  
• FORSÅ Work lamp - IKEA
  
• fit (1400×700)
  
• Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Dies at 90 | TIME
  
• Graham Sutherland - Wikipedia
  
• The Last of Us: Part 2 Reveal Trailer - PSX 2016 - YouTube
  
• My Pentax 645z Medium Format Conversion in a Nutshell – Medium
  
• Danny Clinch
  
• Rock and Roll Photo GOD Danny Clinch the Interview: RAWtalk 138 - YouTube
  
• Anderson Cooper interviews photography "rock star" - CBS News
  
• who-shot-rock---roll-4-danny-clinch-tupac-shakur_2048.jpeg (800×1043)
  

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This week, making decisions. Sometimes moving through fear means letting go of the reigns — emotionally, creatively, maybe even geographically. But once you do, how much control do you actually have to change course? Are you at the whim of inertia, or do small moves open up new territories, whether you want them to or not? Plus, is monetization after the fact different or better than having it as a goal from the beginning? Frederick Sommer is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #onemile
  
• Court Dismisses $1 Billion Copyright Claim Against Getty | PDNPulse
  
• Casey Neistat and His Beme App Just Got Acquired by CNN for $25 Million
  
• Karl Taylor The Naked Camera #TheNakedCamera - Master Natural Light Portraiture Professional Photography Education
  
• Does Decision-Making Matter? - The New York Times
  
• Shirley Muldowney's Official Website
  
• 100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time
  
• The Unknown Berenice Abbott - Berenice Abbott - Steidl Verlag
  
• Frederick Sommer - Frederick & Frances Sommer Foundation
  
• Frederick Sommer - Wikipedia
  
• The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage
  
• Pentax 645Z bajo el agua - YouTube
  
• GeForce GTX 970 Memory Issue Fully Explained - Nvidia's Response
  

This week, what would you do as an artist without the right to express yourself freely? Do you censor your work or do you use your voice and push harder to make your point of view known? Also, what would you give up creatively in order to immerse yourself in something new? Plus, a couple entries from the Crit Wall. Ruth Gruber is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #provocative
  
• YouTube Casey Neistat Ending Daily Vlog | Mediaite
  
• Beme - Wikipedia
  
• Episode 751 - David Crosby — WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
  
• Taylor Wessing photographic Portrait Prize 2016 - Prize Winners
  
• Now your photos look better than ever – even those dusty old prints
  
• Shooting the Phase One XF 100MP Camera System on a Drone – Live View shooting in Iceland - YouTube
  
• 100MP Phase One Alpa Hands-on Review - YouTube
  
• Visiting Sir Elton John’s Dazzling Modernist Photography Collection | Fstoppers
  
• Crit Wall - Seth Wade
  
• Crit Wall - Johann Trojer
  
• Ruth Gruber, a Fearless Chronicler of the Jewish Struggle, Dies at 105 - The New York Times
  
• Ruth Gruber - Wikipedia
  
• A Woman Of Photos And Firsts, Ruth Gruber At 100 : The Picture Show : NPR
  
• Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist | International Center of Photography
  
• Ahead of Time:The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber