Photography Insights - important industry interviews by Phlogger

We are fast approaching Christmas 2020 everyone, so merry Christmas and happy holidays to all!

Recently I came across some lovely portraiture work using large format through Instagram.  After commenting on a few and scrolling through their work I realised how much it inspired me.  Shooting large format with family is now mean fete!  I then looked for contact details and realised it was AJ Holmes the co-founder of Negative Supply!  So this got me thinking it would be nice to talk to them about their products and ethos.

It was really nice to engage with AJ, you can hear the passion he has for this large medium.  But not only that, you can tell from his tone, he truly cares about his family and the film community.  AJ originates from Tennesse, in the south of USA. He's been shooting film for over 14 years now, which started with his Canon Rebel - a sensible present from his parents.   Though he started university with business, he soon found his passion for photography!

AJ talks to us very openly about this body of work, his travels, and running Negative supply.  Since it's near christmas we go through a few of my xmas themed random questions too.

So watch out for these talking points:

Mentioned

Of course being in the industry of making products, we had to talk about the other amazing brands including Cameradactyl, Chroma Camera and pixl-latr.

We also discuss my friend Mark Stein and his lovely work with neon signs.

Links

A J instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ajholmesphoto/

Negative supply website - https://www.negative.supply/

Friends of the show

For all your c41 developing needs - https://filmdev.co.uk/

Large format cameras, medium format & accessories - https://chroma.camera/

Great and affordable zines from Static Age - https://www.staticage.co.uk/

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Today I'm really honored and pleased to bring you a different episode of photography insights.  After speaking with Sheri Behr recently she put me in contact with this amazing project called the yellow rose project.  It’s run by 2 lovely people Meg Griffiths and Frances Jakubek.  When I researched their work I felt very privileged to talk to them as it's all about the right for women to vote in America with the 19thamendment.  The link to photography is that it was 100 years, so they’ve put together a collective of female artists.  The 105 ladies have made something that symbolizes the movement, the suffrages, and yellow rose elements.  This type of history is something to talk about and learn from.

Meg herself is a fine art photographer and educator at Texas woman’s university. Frances is head of exhibitions at Bruce Silverstein gallery in New york.  We manage to talk about Meg's book - looking at this from a non-gendered perspective and not labeled.  It was nice to talk about Frances's self-portrait project too.

Personally, I hope you enjoy this podcast as much I did it making it, Frances and Meg were full of smiles.  You can see they are friends too as they rarely interrupted each other.

In this one we discuss:

Discussed

Paula Riff - https://www.paulariff.com/

Eliot Dudik - https://www.eliotdudik.com/

Recommended

Frances and Meg provide their pay it forward as Marina Font and Jeanine Michna-Bales

Links

Frances website - https://www.francesjakubek.com/about

Meg's website - http://www.meggriffithsphotography.com/about

Friends of the show

For all your c41 developing needs - https://filmdev.co.uk/

Large format cameras, medium format & accessories - https://chroma.camera/

Great and affordable zines from Static Age - https://www.staticage.co.uk/

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Welcome to episode 113 everybody, hope you are coping well.  for those outside the UK, we have come out of the current lockdown. We are now in a tier system that allows different measures and freedoms.

To carry on our journey towards learning and education, I wanted to try and get a few people on together.  The idea was to talk about some artists and their influences on life and maybe their self too.  I’m lucky to have such a kaleidoscope of people I can call on – so this time we have David Collyer and Tobias Beach-Wlyd.  Both fabulous people and photographers in their own rights.

We have a discussion on a few artists, projects, and photos.  What I will do is put these all in the show notes for you, so you can visualise what we are talking about.  Everyone did their best to be descriptive as possible anyway so it will be interesting to hear if you follow on.  The artists covered in this podcast are Black Star, Don Mccullin, Philip Jones Griffiths, Kate Bellis and Nick Waplington.

I’m continually trying to improve my knowledge of the arts and sessions like this are really useful.  It’s always good to see a new project and find a new artist to follow.  This time of knowledge may help you in your own work in the future.

In this one we discuss:

Mentioned

Point 51 Magazine - https://point51magazine.com/

British Journal of Photography - https://www.1854.photography/

Artists

Nick Waplington - http://www.nickwaplington.org/

Don Mccullin - https://donmccullin.com/don-mccullin/

Kate Bellis - http://www.katebellis.com/

Black Star - https://www.blackstar.com/services/index.html

Philip Jones Griffiths - https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/philip-jones-griffiths/

Podcaster guests

David website - https://davidcollyer.wordpress.com/

David Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/david_collyer_photographer/

Tobias Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tobiasbeachwyld/

Friends

For all your c41 developing needs - https://filmdev.co.uk/

Large format cameras, medium format & accessories - https://chroma.camera/

Great and affordable zines from Static Age - https://www.staticage.co.uk/

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Episode 112 - Noah Berger

Noah has been described as “The California Photographer Who Has Shot More Than 100 Wildfires.”  He talks to us about his experience with taking photographs with fires.  Although he is a freelancer with corporate and news work, Noah talks about why he works with other photographers.  It’s a fascinating topic and gives you some idea about his preparations too.  He was kind enough to tell you about the photography kit too.

Although Noah has shot this sort of news work for a long time, he talks about how it's changing and why it's worrying him.  We do go through a couple of his images which I will add to the website because they were making me very emotional.  You may notice my tone change when we discuss them as I believe Noah captures the devastation of people, animals, and not just the landscape.  We also move on to his press work with protests too, which is quite worrying – especially getting shot!

In this one we discuss:

Links

Noah website - https://noahbergerphoto.com

Noah press article - https://www.propublica.org/article/what-the-photos-of-wildfires-and-smoke-dont-show-you

Noah article - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/california-wildfire-photos

Friends

For all your c41 developing needs - https://filmdev.co.uk/

Large format cameras, medium format & accessories - https://chroma.camera/

Great and affordable zines from Static Age - https://www.staticage.co.uk/

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Welcome to today’s show everyone, another guest from the big apple.  This photographer has 2 sides to her story, and we are concentrating on her ongoing project work.  Sheri Lynn Behr is a lovely lady who grew up in the Bronx.  Originally trained in film analog and printing too, but moved quite early to digital.  We even talk about why you may want to shoot digital or film.

I have to thank both the Michael's at Analog Forever magazine for introducing me to Sheri too. It was only through their ongoing work did I notice her unique photography.  We soon get in touch and boy did we hit it off, like old friends.  Just like in life it’s not every week you really connect with someone.  But Sheri was really different, we enjoy a mutual hobby (you will hear about it) and it’s so nice to continue messaging each other.  So who knows for the future!

From her interview you will realise her work is about trial and error, Sheri looks at her edits and can throw them out.  It’s about going back over your work until you like it.  We even discuss it's not just about looking at single images but a body of work.  Sheri has been in a few shows including the polaroid collection.

So in this one we discuss:

Article

Before we move on I would like to thank my friends of the show.  For those who follow my writing, you will notice a recent article about Steve at Chroma camera.  Recently he sent me his “snapshot” camera to try out.  My article is all about a moron trying to work large format and not just produce multiple exposure shows!  Yes, thats right i made a few mistakes, but i’ve included my thoughts on the camera and also some shots that did come out, home developed by me too.

Links

Sheri Website - https://www.sherilynnbehr.com/

Sheri Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/photographywithoutpermission/

Friends

For all your c41 developing needs - https://filmdev.co.uk/

Great and affordable zines from Static Age - https://www.staticage.co.uk/

Interviewing my next guest was really easy, well that's how it felt.  Alejandro or “Alex” as he calls himself was born in Venezuela but has also lived in Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and now Romania.  Along these travels, he has fallen in love with street portraiture and has a great way of showing the culture.  As he says, there is no point going to the pretty and boring places in the city, as they are the same everywhere.  So he travels into the villages and neighborhoods, which has found him in some interesting situations.  Alex describes these to us and I think he’s underplaying how scary the situations were, especially the prison story!

Alex has used film in some of his works but is predominantly a digital shooter.  He has experience of shooting events like baptisms, weddings, and even concerts in his earlier life but loves his street work.  He’s a kind and good human who signed up for my secret project.  Alex was unfortunate as the camera was sent to Romania but didn’t make it to his office!

He has some lovely feedback from people so find out:

Links

Alex Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ailukewitsch/

Alex website -  https://ilukewitsch.blog

Friends Links

This week I have chosen to quickly provide an update on Steve from Chroma Camera, who has been tinkering away again.  He's made a new modular medium format camera - called the #Chroma679.  More details coming soon on pricing and availability.

Film Dev - https://filmdev.co.uk/

Static Age - https://www.staticage.co.uk/

Chroma Camera -  https://chroma.camera/

Phlogger

Follow my work - https://phlogger.co.uk/

My Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/phlogger.co.uk/

Although I really enjoyed my small break in the hills of England with my family it's time to get back to podcasting.  This was an unusual one for me, as it was first thing in the morning but it was really nice to speak with my guest.  Tomasz is a talented classical pianist, photographer, and editor of Frames magazine!  It’s unfair how talented people like Tomasz are, the way they can work across music and photography.  This can be seen in his personal work where he shoots concerts, musicians, and portraits.

Tomasz has editorial and podcasting experience too, as he has run Fujifilm online magazine for 5? years too.  Recently he has been working hard behind the scenes to raise awareness about his latest project – FRAMES MAGAZINE.  This idea was a beautiful printed magazine that should “wow” people.  So he’s been creating a fabulous group on Facebook, there are a youtube channel and newsletters.  It’s just getting printed in the UK now so definitely work checking it out.

One difference about the magazine is Frames is based on a monthly subscription service with online content.  For more information check the link in the show notes or my website.

In this one we talk about:

- covid & printed

- mobile photography

- traditional photography

- frames Facebook group

- inspiration from different genres

- positives of lockdown

- photography bucket lists

- finding your film

- scanning film

- the printed medium

- the personal connection

- importance of sleep

Links

Frames website - https://readframes.com/

Frames FB group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/framesmagazine

Frames youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC51qboBiDgcK6YdQ6GB9-0g

Tomasz website - http://www.tomash.photography/

Friends Links

I have discussed David from FilmDev in this show and how he's developed all my 120 colour work for a few years.  Great work guaranteed and as an example, he only charges £4 for small files with delivery & TIFF's!  Large scans are £8 compared to.

Do check them out - https://filmdev.co.uk/

Other friends are:

Static Age - https://www.staticage.co.uk/

Chroma Camera -  https://chroma.camera/

So it's a quieter week for you all for a change.

COVID caused some last-minute issues for this week, so we've had to change the lineup.  In this episode, you get to listen to me all the way through!  

I'm talking to you about projects - why you should participate, why you should create one, some of the steps involved, and lessons I have learned.  In this one, I'm going to quickly talk about changes made with my social media work.

It's quite confusing to see yourself putting time and effort into media with so-called "activity" according to statistics, but when viewing/listeners figures don't increase it's pointless.  So I'm talking to you about what I have done instead and why.

In this one we all discuss:

James Lane at Zone Imaging lab

Secret Project (completed)

Negative Journey project (completed)

Retro 72 project (running)

Hey everybody, welcome to this week's podcast with me your host the Phlogger.  As I explore this medium of photography and play around I become interested in many areas.  One of these that always springs to mind is a double exposure.  I remember when running my competitions with Kodak Alaris that there was a few multi-exposure entries.  In fact, one of them by Ben Felten won a memorable mention and obviously stuck in my conscious mind.  So I thought hell I had not interviewed someone who does this consistently with film so let’s get him on the show.  Ben was very willing and I couldn’t wait to talk with him.

Now bear in mind Ben is from France, but has lived in a few countries and currently living in Hong Kong.  So if you are expecting a heavy French accent you might be surprised.

Anyway, Ben’s a family man like myself and a very decent guy.  After speaking with Ben I’ve come up with the idea of an act of random kindness every day.  So you search for someone on Instagram and share their picture on your story - simple.  it would be great to hear of you doing this too.  Remember karma everyone, do something nice for someone and feel positive.

So this podcast is all about Ben’s pursuit of happiness with multi-exposure and his human nature project.  It’s a learning journey and he talks to us about the technical and conceptual aspects too, so very useful.

So in this one we discuss:

Other Links

We discuss the beginning of cyanotypes with (botanist) Anna Atkins with her book on plant life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins

Chris Relander - www.christofferrelander.com

Ben Links

Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/shop/WideWorldPhotography

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/benfelten/

Friends of the show

I have discussed David from FilmDev in this show and how he's developed all my 120 colour work for a few years.  Great work guaranteed and as an example, he only charges £4 for small files with delivery & TIFF's!  Large scans are £8 compared to.

Do check them out - https://filmdev.co.uk/

Other friends are:

Static Age - https://www.staticage.co.uk/

Chroma Camera -  https://chroma.camera/