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On episode 18 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Jenny Toomey, Kristin Thomson, Derek Denckla, and Pat Graham. Many years ago we were all involved with Simple Machines Records. We did this interview while we were all in DC for the Positive Force DC 40th Anniversary activities in June. Because I recorded it on inferior equipment, the sound quality isn’t as good as usual. And due to time constraints the interview is shorter than previous Red Lens podcasts. Nevertheless, I think we covered some interesting ground. 

We talk about the recent box-set that Numero Records released of Jenny & Kristin’s band Tsunami, and their other recent efforts to better document the DIY punk and post-punk music scene. A lot of music from the 1990s has fallen into obscurity with vinyl, CD and cassette releases long out of print & because those bands and labels often closed up shop before digital file sharing or streaming services hit the scene. 

In the interview we talk about Simple Machines, Tsunami, the politically-tinged DC punk scene that birthed those things, and why it’s valuable to document and bring back to life some of the bands and records from the 1990s DIY music scene.

Some things mentioned in the episode: 

Simple Machines Records

Tsunami

Positive Force DC

Future of Music Coalition

Numero Records 

Tsunami box set on Numero Records

The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/rock-zapatista-garage-punk-instrumental-instrumental-201262/ 

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On episode 17 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Oakland-based movement photographer Brooke Anderson. Brooke is a freelance photographer and photojournalist based on unceded Ohlone land in Oakland, California covering movements for social, economic, racial, and climate justice. Brooke first fell in love with photography while documenting the struggles of the low-wage workers (hotel housekeepers, port truck drivers, recycling workers) she was working with as a union and community organizer. She is a proud union member of the Pacific Media Workers Guild CWA 39521 AFL-CIO.

In the interview we talk about how she got into movement photography, the work she does in Oakland, and more! 

Follow Brooke Anderson online: 

Instagram: @movementphotographer 

Bluesky & X: movementphotog

Website: movementphotographer.com

Some things mentioned in the episode: 

Check out Brooke’s podcast ‘That’s How the Light Gets In’: Instagram | Spotify

Check out the freelancers’ union Brooke is a member of, Pacific Media Workers Guild CWA 39521

Listen to episode 6 of Red Lens featuring my interview with David Bacon where he also talks about being part of the freelancers union among many other things. 

Brooke mentions Yesica Prado, a Bay Area photographer who documents police sweeps of encampments. Follow her work on Instagram at @yesicas.lens or on Twitter @prado_reports. 

The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it here.

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In the first episode of Red Lens Podcast, I interview Phil Ward. Phil is a Twin Cities-based photographer, and he is a co-founder of Move for Justice News. We talk about his movement photography, abandoned building photography & punk concert photography. We share stories and reflections from countless days in the streets dodging police tear gas & projectiles while documenting the powerful movement against police brutality that rocked the Twin Cities & the whole country after the police murdered George Floyd two years ago today, on May 25, 2020. 

Follow Phil's photography online at his website and on Instagram.

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NOTE: This episode was originally published on May 25, 2022. It was reposted April 6, 2025 to replace a music clip that Spotify claimed was copyrighted, but other than that the content of the episode has not changed. The new intro/outro song for this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by⁠⁠ Joshua Hudes⁠⁠. You can ⁠⁠find it here⁠⁠.

On episode 16 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Shawna Kenney. Shawna is co-author of the oral history⁠ Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998⁠’ and publisher of the photo zine ⁠All Access: Bands on Film⁠. She is also the author of the memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, editor of the anthology Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers, and co-author of Imposters. On her website Shawna says she was “raised in the Washington DC area on a steady diet of Fugazi, I’ve always been a radical grrrl living in a capitalist world, digging for story.”

We talk about all of the above and more in this interview! 

Shawna Kenney’s website

Shawna on Instagram

Shawna’s Substack

Buy Live at the Safari Club

Buy All Access: Bands on Film

Shawna’s collection at the University of Maryland punk archive

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The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it here.

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On episode 15 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Scott Crawford. Scott is a documentary filmmaker whose documentaries have focused on rebellious music and political activism. He’s produced Salad Days (2014), Creem: America’s Only Rock’n’Roll Magazine (2019), and his newest production, Something Better Change. And for those interested in photography, he also created a photography book called Spoke to accompany the film Salad Days.

The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it here.

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Scott Crawford on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saladdazed/ 

‘Something Better Change’ updates: https://www.instagram.com/somethingbetterchange_doc/ 

Trailer for ‘Something Better Change’: https://vimeo.com/802485222 

‘Salad Days’ website: https://www.saladdaysdc.com

Buy the photography book ‘Spoke’: https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/spoke/

Trailer for ‘Creem: America’s Only Rock & Roll Magazine’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcCMNRTZpI

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Some things referenced in the episode: 

University of Maryland punk archival collection: https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/4/resources/1748 

Metrozine, Scott’s 1980s fanzine: https://archives.lib.umd.edu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=metrozine&button= 

Video of Scott’s 1980s band Darkness at Noon performing in 1987 at DC Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-En2P1JDCos 

White Panther Party: https://crossculturalsolidarity.com/the-white-panther-party/ 

MC5: https://rockhall.com/inductees/mc5/ 

Lester Bangs: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lester-bangs-truth-teller 

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On episode 14 of Red Lens, I sat down for a conversation with Orin Langelle. Orin’s recently published photography book, Portraits of Struggle, highlights his photography going back to 1972. We talk about his book and his lifetime as a concerned photographer, highlighting and participating in struggles against war, and for indigenous, environmental, and economic justice.

The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/rock-zapatista-garage-punk-instrumental-instrumental-201262/

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You can find Orin’s work at langellephoto.org

Buy his book Portraits of Struggle: globaljusticeecology.org/portraits-of-struggle/

The organization Orin Langelle co-founded is the Global Justice Ecology Project: globaljusticeecology.org

Some people and things things mentioned in the episode:

International Center of Photography: icp.org

Cornell Capa: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/cornell-capa/

Robert Capa: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/robert-capa/

Vietnam Veterans Against the War: https://www.vvaw.org/

Sebastaio Salgado: https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgado

Peter Beard - The End of the Game: https://peterbeard.com/the-end-of-the-game-the-last-word-from-paradise-exhibition-revisited/

W. Eugene Smith: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/w-eugene-smith/

Studio 54: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/war-disco-glimpse-glamorous-world-studio-54/

CEPA Gallery - Buffalo, NY: https://www.cepagallery.org/

Henri Cartier-Bresson: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/henri-cartier-bresson/

Anne Petermann: https://x.com/AnneGJEP/

Landless Workers Movement (Brazil): https://www.mstbrazil.org/content/what-mst

Paolo Friere: https://freire.org/paulo-freire

Breaking Green podcast episode ‘Artificial Intelligence and Generative Biology with Jim Thomas’: https://globaljusticeecology.org/breaking-green-ai-and-generative-biology-with-jim-thomas/

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On episode 13 of Red Lens, I sat down for a conversation with long-time music photographer and an old friend, Pat Graham. In this episode, we cover a lot of ground from how Pat got started with photography, his punk photography in the late 1980s & 90s creating iconic images with bands like Bikini Kill, Fugazi, L7 and many more, through his tours as a photographer with Modest Mouse and his photographs of instruments, his approach to protest photography, his projects, books and more.

I hope you enjoy it!

You can find Pat’s work on Instagram at instapatgraham: https://www.instagram.com/instapatgraham/

Here are some things referenced in the episode: 

Kiss Alive record cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive(Kissalbum)#/media/File:Kiss_alive_album_cover.jpg 

Bob Gruen’s image of Tina Turner using the shutter drag method discussed in the episode: https://www.bobgruen.com/ike-tina-turner/?_gallery=gg-10-148 

Charles Peterson - photographer of the Seattle music scene in the late 1980s and 1990s with iconic photos of bands like Mudhoney and Nirvana who also used the shutter drag method discussed in the episode: https://linktr.ee/Charles_Peterson 

Pat Graham’s first photography book, Silent Pictures, published by Akashic Books: https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/silent-pictures/ 

Pat Graham’s second book, Instrument: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/instrument/author/graham-pat/ 

Johnny Marrs’s book Marr’s Guitars which is mostly photography by Pat Graham: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/marrs-guitars-johnny-marr?variant=41046832185378 

Tees for Togo, t-shirt company run by Kathleen Hanna that raises money for girls in Togo: https://tees4togo.com/ 

Pat Graham’s photo of Kathleen Hanna on a Tees for Togo shirt: https://tees4togo.com/products/rebel-girl-book-tour-black-t-shirt

Kathleen Hanna’s new memoir Rebel Girl: https://kathleenhannaofficial.com/book 

The intro/outro song in this episode is called Beautiful Boom Bap by Music Unlimited. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/beats-beautiful-boom-bap-113776/

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On episode 12 of Red Lens, I talked with Twin Cities-based movement photographer Andi Epperly. Andi runs Forward Photography and also takes photos for On Site Public Media. In this episode, we cover a lot of ground including shooting photos, shooting pool, and shooting guns. I hope you enjoy it! 

You can find Andi's work on Instagram at Forward Photography: https://www.instagram.com/forward_photos_minneapolis/

The intro/outro song in this episode is called 'Beautiful Boom Bap' by Music Unlimited. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/beats-beautiful-boom-bap-113776/ 

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On episode 11 of Red Lens, I round out 2022 with return guests Luis Sifuentes and Kim DeFranco talking about our experiences with protests, politics & photography in 2022.

We talk about political developments in 2022 that led to big protests, some memorable protests we were at in 2022, some notable people who died in 2022, and what we've been up to with our photography this year. 

Luis Sifuentes is a Los Angeles-based activist with Centro CSO and is a movement photographer.

You can find Luis on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/proleroid/

Kim DeFranco is a Saint Paul, MN-based activist with Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) and is a movement photographer.

You can find Kim DeFranco on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/kimdef65/

The intro/outro song in this episode is called 'Beautiful Boom Bap' by Music Unlimited. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/beats-beautiful-boom-bap-113776/

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On episode 10 of Red Lens, I talk with Sopo Japaridze.

Sopo is a union leader in the country of Georgia, and a co-founder of the Reimagining Soviet Georgia documentation project & podcast, looking at the history of Georgia when it was a socialist republic that was part of the Soviet Union.

On Twitter you can find Sopo at https://twitter.com/sopjap

She posts frequent engaging content so give her a follow!

Follow Reimagining Soviet Georgia on Twitter at https://twitter.com/reimaginingg

Listen to the podcast on major podcast platforms, which you can find from here: https://anchor.fm/sovietgeorgia

See the Reimagining Soviet Georgia facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/779433256001109

This episode is about historical documentation of Georgia's socialist period as part of the USSR. But for those looking for photography content, there is a little bit about photography from Georgia's soviet period toward the end of the episode!

The intro/outro song in this episode is called 'Beautiful Boom Bap' by Music Unlimited. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/beats-beautiful-boom-bap-113776/

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