"When I play music, I see images. When I make images, I often hear music."

"Wonder is not a property of childhood but a function of attention.”

-- Gavin Libotte

In this episode, Antonio and Ward mark their 250th show by talking with Australian photographer Gavin Libotte, whose path back into photography took a long detour through graphic design, music, teaching, and family life before street photography pulled him in for good. Gavin talks about losing his camera gear when he was young, rediscovering image-making through the iPhone and Hipstamatic, and then finding a deeper creative groove through daily shooting, books, zines, and long-term projects. What comes through most is how photography, for him, is tied to rhythm, intuition, and being fully present in the moment, with music and visual composition feeding each other in a very personal way. 

The conversation also gets into the way Gavin works: his graphic sense of color and design, his experiments with off-camera flash, his water photography, and the making of his book Symphony Number Five. Along the way, Antonio and Ward respond to the emotional pull of Gavin’s pictures, especially one Sydney Opera House image that sends the discussion into ideas about wonder, timing, and why certain photographs hit so deeply. It ends up being one of those episodes that is partly about technique, partly about books and process, and partly about what photography can do for a person when it becomes a way of staying awake to the world.

Note: Gavin mentioned Melissa "O'Doherty" by mistake but actually meant Melissa O'Shaughnessy.

Gavin Libotte - Website, Instagram. Purchase his book "Symphony No 5" here.

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