The Photowalk

By Neale James

What's The Photowalk about?

The Photowalk is a mailbag-driven podcast where we walk and make pictures together, and meet with special guests along the trail. For anyone who likes to take pictures. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Photowalk episodes:

04.26.2024
#430 Whatever you do, don't look away!
Stephen Dupont is an Australian photographer recognised around the world for his concerned photography on the human condition, war and climate, earning him dozens of prizes including the W. Eugene Smith Grant, and a Robert Capa Gold Medal Citation. Today he...
04.19.2024
#429 Photography reset my life: two powerful stories
As we walk today, two guests feature in the show. Photographer and creative retreat mentor Margaret Soraya from the Isle of Harris shares how the arts have helped her mental health immeasurably during a period of grief following the passing...
04.12.2024
#428 The truth of a perfect imperfect photograph
Welcome to a photography podcast where we walk together with a mailbag of stories and pictures. My guest today, John Dolan, understands and completely embraces the importance of the photographic moment over photographic perfection. The second edition of his best-selling...
04.05.2024
#427 Photowalk: 24 hours on EARTH in just ONE picture!
Today, a holiday-special interview with the iconic fine art photographer Stephen Wilkes. Since opening his studio in New York City in 1983, he's built an unprecedented body of work and a reputation as one of America’s most iconic photographers, widely...
03.29.2024
#426 Photowalk: A beautiful way to live
Mary Jo Hoffman is an aeronautical engineer-turned-artist. Twelve years ago she began a daily practice of photographing found nature, no subject too small or ordinary. Now, Phaidon has published her first book Still: The Art of Noticing. This is a...
03.22.2024
#425 Photowalk Announcement: The Great Indian Railway Adventure
I'm joined on Surrey's Chobham Common for a photo walk with award-winning photojournalist Jason Florio to announce 2025's Photowalk Show Adventure, which is going to be in India, photographing and riding the urban-suburban and rural countryside trains in and out...
03.15.2024
#424 Photowalk: Random encounters with strangers
Photographer Daniel Meadows has spent his life documenting British society, using photographs, audio recordings, and short movies. He is the creative architect of a sublime idea: putting a bed, a darkroom, and a photographic studio into a 1940s double-decker bus,...
03.08.2024
#423 Photowalk: ICEBERG right ahead!
As I walk with your letters and inspirational stories, I'm joined on the show by studio guest Michelle Valberg, the Canadian Geographic Photographer, Nikon ambassador, and international fellow of the Explorers Club. Michelle has just returned from an adventure voyage...
03.01.2024
#422 Photowalk: The Secrets of Soviet Bus Stops!
On a long-distance bike adventure from London to St. Petersburg, an 'accidental' photographic find led photographer Christopher Herwig to subsequently cover tens of thousands of miles by car, bike, bus and taxi in 14 former Soviet countries, documenting unexpected treasures...
02.23.2024
#421 Photowalk: The soundtrack for HOPE and PEACE
Hans Johnson is an international award-winning film and television composer. He records and collects sounds from the cultures and people he spends time with, celebrating diversity and encouraging harmony and togetherness through his music. His videos and pictures often lead...
02.16.2024
#420 Photowalk: The Gambian Photowalk Retreat SPECIAL
This week, join me, Neale James on the show in West Africa and journey with our Photowalk team as we explore The Gambia with those attending this special Photowalk Retreat; Mat Bobby, Lynn Fraser, Michael Assmann and Shannon Coppin, guided...
02.09.2024
#419 Photowalk: Do SOMETHING for NOTHING
In 2015, Joshua Coombes, a British hairstylist, took his scissors to the street to cut the hair of the homeless community in a story that is as much about hope and humanity as it is about hair. He's now the...
02.02.2024
#418 Photowalk: Leaps of faith and finding balance
Retreating home to the shires from another day working in the city of London seventeen years ago, Kevin Mullins announced to his wife, "I'm becoming a wedding photographer." What followed is quite the adventure, including almost quitting on day one...
01.26.2024
#417 Photowalk: What's missing from my life?
It's a very cryptic show title, I grant you, but the question is answered by my good friend, documentary photographer Giles Penfound, a former British army photographer who has found that the story he wishes to dedicate his life to,...
01.19.2024
#416 Photowalk: My pictures don't need to be good, just HONEST
In the 'niche' of photography podcasts, there are a handful of names who stand out as pioneers of the genre. One of those is my guest today, Jeffery Saddoris, a multi-disciplinary audio and visual artist based in Washington DC. He...
01.12.2024
#415 Photowalk: SOS! Trapped within an iceberg!
Canadian explorer, photographer, filmmaker and international speaker Jill Heinerth joins me today for a bumper edition of The Photowalk podcast. We talk about the medical importance of our oceans, cave diving, incredible creatures beneath the waves, swimming with Polar bears...
01.05.2024
#414 Photowalk: The power to make people feel
Today's guest is the celebrated Canadian wildlife photographer Michelle Valberg, who shares stories of her photographic adventures at the two poles and the incredible animals she observes as she creates emotional imagery that has the power to make viewers feel....
12.22.2023
#413 Photowalk: A beautiful photographic detective story
The final Photowalk edition of 2023 takes me to Oxford to visit Tony Lorenzo, who, in the early part of this century, found two fading 1930s photographs in a box on the floor of a shop in London featuring a...
12.15.2023
#412 Photowalk: Having the 'Steele' to change your life
Nine years in the US Navy, Rachelle Steele learned her photographic craft the hard way in operations that tested her resolve. She laid down the camera for five years before rediscovering a love for black and white photography, studying at...
12.08.2023
#411 Photowalk: How to become an adventurer
Alastair Humphreys is a man who has the word adventurer on his business card. He's adventured to the most incredible remote places, cycled across the world on a modest budget, crossed the ocean in a rowing boat, run across a...
12.01.2023
#410 Photowalk: Empathy and a fascination for people
Roger Hutchings is an award-winning British documentary photographer who was mentored by the Magnum photographer David Hurn. Today he talks of a life spent making pictures about people and how they navigate their lives in the most extraordinary of situations....
11.24.2023
#409 Photowalk: You'll never walk alone
I'm walking this week with photographer Mali Davies in cultural Liverpool, birthplace of The Beatles, looking for the city's famous Liver Birds and challenging ourselves with low-light street photography, and as we're focusing on street photography, mentor Valérie Jardin returns...
11.17.2023
#408 Photowalk: We're not photographers, we're therapists with a camera
Today, we walk part of England's oldest road, the 5000-year-old Ridgeway, with the mailbag for a special letters edition. In the show, teaching photography to young creative minds, road trips in paradise, photo projects for the new year ahead, the...
11.10.2023
#407 Photowalk: A near death experience and photographic epiphany
Aged 31, Australian Police Officer Duade Paton's sudden surprise heart attack and near-death experience introduced him to a new life, walking and making photographs of the birdlife of his extraordinary country. Moving out of the city to a small cottage...
11.03.2023
#406 Photowalk: Walking Japan and the joy of pizza bread
For a show made out in nature with a microphone, camera and mailbag, today's guest fits like a well-loved and fitted favourite walking boot. Craig Mod is a walker, author, prolific maker of books and photographer. We discuss his long...
10.20.2023
#405 Photowalk: Your style, your genre, your brand, is YOU
Today's guest Karin Majoka is a visual artist, photographer, YouTube content creator and psychotherapist based in Germany. Her short films bring tuition, travel and personal stories together with an underlying love for film photography. Letters and stories today from the mailbag...
10.13.2023
#404 Photowalk: The Voice of Peace
Can art and the spoken word be a voice for peace? Today, following the appalling events of a violent week in the Middle East, I discuss the "Greatest communicator you've never heard of," Abie Nathan; an Israeli humanitarian and peace...
10.06.2023
#403 Photowalk: In space, no one can hear you click!
Kamal X is an astronaut with a camera, though the missions he flies, the planets he visits, are both familiar and alien. Today he talks of friendship, healing, and his latest book; Black Astronaut, The Stars Belong to the People....
09.29.2023
#402 Photowalk: The art of togetherness
Today, documentary photographer David Wright talks about his life behind a lens, making stories about the British, his fascination for modern tribes, the f8 documentary community and why photography is so precious to him. From the mailbag, a whirlwind pictorial trip...
09.22.2023
#401 Photowalk: Still haven't found what I'm looking for
Is the joy of what we do about the answer, or the search? I find upon the shore of Loch Ness, Steve Feltham, the Nessie Hunter, convinced that there is 'something' beneath the surface of Scotland's most famous loch. In...
09.15.2023
#400 Photowalk: Find your heart and soul in Scotland, THE RETREAT
This week, you're invited to join our Extra Milers in beautiful, majestic, enchanting Scotland. Join us on this year's Photowalk Retreat in the Highlands. We walk the cairns, the battlefields, the moors, the lochs and mountains, learn how to shoot...
09.11.2023
#399 Photowalk: 9/11 Remembered
We walk together on a Monday, a special programme today to commemorate 9/11, the date in September that changed the course of history forever, socially and geopolitically. The commemoration includes archive interview material with photographer Joel Meyerowitz and photojournalist Jason...
09.08.2023
#398 Photowalk: The photographer who never sleeps
Phil Penman is my guest today, the British-born, New York-based celebrated street photographer. He’s documented the ever-changing scene of New York City’s streets approaching three decades and we talk about photojournalism, confidence, making news pictures and the rich exciting nonstop...
09.01.2023
#397 Photowalk: How telling stories transforms lives!
VII Agency Photojournalist and award-winning storyteller in stills, video and sound, Ilvy Njiokiktjien joins me to talk about personal risk-taking, documenting the social and political issues that continue to shape our world. Also today, perfection; is it really necessary when...
08.25.2023
#396 Photowalk: Seven creative LIFE CHANGING chats #2
The second of two Friday Summer Specials featuring seven former guests from our three-year archive sharing photographic and LIFE wisdom. In this second show, photographer and social activist Misan Harriman, the bush-firefighter and photographer Cam Neville, the mindful landscape photographer...
08.21.2023
#395 Photowalk: The photo app to change ALL apps!
A special pop-up episode today of The Photowalk as I trek along an old disused railway path with social photographer Tom Humble who is looking to launch PhoToCo, a photography app to cut through the noise of movies, adverts 'every...
08.18.2023
#394 Photowalk: Seven creative LIFE CHANGING chats #1
Across the next two weeks, a brace of Friday Summer Specials featuring seven former guests from our three-year archive sharing important life learnings from their careers about photography, about creativity, about LIFE. In this first show, former army photographer and...
08.11.2023
#393 Photowalk: Curiosity does not kill the cat!
Documentary photographer Ian Howorth talks about identity, curiosity and his latest book, A Country Kind of Silence. Also today, the wonder in the ordinary, we visit a tree of life on two continents and there are WISH YOU WERE HEREs...
08.04.2023
#392 Extra Mile Special: Finding my Mum and other stories
A special edition this week as I vacation in Wales, walking the rugged Pembrokeshire coastline, not with your letters this time, but a selection of recordings that have featured in Extra Mile editions, our Patreon-supported shows which follow the Friday...
07.28.2023
#391 Photowalk: Learn to read people!
Celebrated American sports photographer Jean Fruth joins us while we walk today, to talk about how to 'read the game' for better pictures on the field and in life. Jean is known for her love and photography of baseball, plus...
07.21.2023
#390 Photowalk: The strangers I meet
Portrait, celebrity, fashion and theatre photographer, Craig Fleming shares his story from being a roadworker, to photographing Hollywood's finest for the LA Times, though it seems everybody is a portrait opportunity, frequently visiting air and country shows to make personal...
07.14.2023
#389 Photowalk: Find beauty in the detail of life
Author, mentor, and photographer Gill Moon talks of her love for calmer landscapes finding beauty in the detail, giving others a voice within her books about nature and the environment. Also today, Valérie Jardin returns for part 2 of her...
07.07.2023
#388 Photowalk: The 'secret' word of trust
A podcast that takes a mailbag, a camera, your thoughts (and a dog) out into nature, spending time together making pictures and sharing inspirational stories. Today's guest, documentary photographer Paul Choy from Mauritius shares what he's found to be the...
06.30.2023
#387 Photowalk: 50 Shades of a Photo Fantasy!
Meeting a stranger along a path leads one special listener to make his first 'street portrait' and unwittingly introduces us to an adventuring hiker who has changed his life, leaving the corporate hamster wheel to become a 'professional' walker. Also...
06.23.2023
#386 Photowalk: HELP! My photographic eye has stopped working?
We use photography and taking pictures to help with a myriad of positive mindful pursuits, but what happens when the enjoyment of picture-making starts to challenge our creative self-belief, leading us to doubt our work and achievements? My multi-disciplinarian guest...
06.16.2023
#385 Photowalk SPECIAL: Conquering life's mountains
An extended show this week as I journey to North Wales, to Eryri (formerly Snowdonia) to speak, hike and climb with photographer, teacher, mentor, wild camper and outward-bound survival skills trainer, Andy Fisher. We talk about the majesty of the...
06.09.2023
#384 Photowalk: Freedom from the noise
The only walking photography podcast of its kind, from the Netherlands, Loek van Vliet talks today about his long-term photography project Earthly Windows, a trip through time and space in Europe. Valerie Jardin begins a new monthly series of Visual...
06.02.2023
#383 Photowalk: Quit. Start again.
Scott Chouciño changed his photographic career direction completely during and following the pandemic. He embraced quitting at a time many creatives were clinging to whatever social or financial life raft made available. It was a 'plan' that worked. From portraits...
05.26.2023
#382 Photowalk: And your SUPERPOWER is...
Viktor Hübner spent two years hitchhiking across America photographing and interviewing the people he met by chance during a time of political confusion and upheaval. He seems to have found a superpower, and he shares it today. Also, a film about...
05.19.2023
#381 Photowalk: Prototype your life and the hat of kindness
Writer, photographer, TEDx speaker, and the author of the 1,000 True Fans essay, Kevin Kelly talks about his new book 'Excellent Advice for Living, Wisdom I wish I'd known earlier,' 450 wisdom tweets. Also on the show today, the lights...

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The Photowalk episodes:

#430 Whatever you do, don't look away!

#429 Photography reset my life: two powerful stories

#428 The truth of a perfect imperfect photograph

#427 Photowalk: 24 hours on EARTH in just ONE picture!

#426 Photowalk: A beautiful way to live

#425 Photowalk Announcement: The Great Indian Railway Adventure

#424 Photowalk: Random encounters with strangers

#423 Photowalk: ICEBERG right ahead!

#422 Photowalk: The Secrets of Soviet Bus Stops!

#421 Photowalk: The soundtrack for HOPE and PEACE

#420 Photowalk: The Gambian Photowalk Retreat SPECIAL

#419 Photowalk: Do SOMETHING for NOTHING

#418 Photowalk: Leaps of faith and finding balance

#417 Photowalk: What's missing from my life?

#416 Photowalk: My pictures don't need to be good, just HONEST

#415 Photowalk: SOS! Trapped within an iceberg!

#414 Photowalk: The power to make people feel

#413 Photowalk: A beautiful photographic detective story

#412 Photowalk: Having the 'Steele' to change your life

#411 Photowalk: How to become an adventurer

#410 Photowalk: Empathy and a fascination for people

#409 Photowalk: You'll never walk alone

#408 Photowalk: We're not photographers, we're therapists with a camera

#407 Photowalk: A near death experience and photographic epiphany

#406 Photowalk: Walking Japan and the joy of pizza bread

#405 Photowalk: Your style, your genre, your brand, is YOU

#404 Photowalk: The Voice of Peace

#403 Photowalk: In space, no one can hear you click!

#402 Photowalk: The art of togetherness

#401 Photowalk: Still haven't found what I'm looking for

#400 Photowalk: Find your heart and soul in Scotland, THE RETREAT

#399 Photowalk: 9/11 Remembered

#398 Photowalk: The photographer who never sleeps

#397 Photowalk: How telling stories transforms lives!

#396 Photowalk: Seven creative LIFE CHANGING chats #2

#395 Photowalk: The photo app to change ALL apps!

#394 Photowalk: Seven creative LIFE CHANGING chats #1

#393 Photowalk: Curiosity does not kill the cat!

#392 Extra Mile Special: Finding my Mum and other stories

#391 Photowalk: Learn to read people!

#390 Photowalk: The strangers I meet

#389 Photowalk: Find beauty in the detail of life

#388 Photowalk: The 'secret' word of trust

#387 Photowalk: 50 Shades of a Photo Fantasy!

#386 Photowalk: HELP! My photographic eye has stopped working?

#385 Photowalk SPECIAL: Conquering life's mountains

#384 Photowalk: Freedom from the noise

#383 Photowalk: Quit. Start again.

#382 Photowalk: And your SUPERPOWER is...

#381 Photowalk: Prototype your life and the hat of kindness