#168 TEN INSPIRING PHOTOGRAPHER STORIES
A New Year's Eve special where we listen back to the words, advice and inspiration of some of 2020's most popular guests. From photographing presidents, starting out, getting arrested making pictures, finding reason and purpose for your photography during a global pandemic, to the most personal photo story a father could make. Just ten moments from the one hundred photographers I have spoken with during 2020 in this and other podcast/film projects; inspiration for a new year making pictures.
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Links to all today’s guests, their personal/business websites and accompanying full episodes on Photography Daily below. Episode photography by Joshua Earle.
Links to all featured episodes:
Chris Orwig, photographer, TEDx speaker, trainer, teacher and mentor in episode 119.
Carolyn Mendelsohn in episode 91 on her incredibly powerful photography project for teenagers in Bradford during lockdown called Through Our Lens, a grass roots photographic self-isolation project that brought young people together to express their honest feelings pictorially during this time and rebuilt a photographer's belief in her business.
Adam Gray, a British photojournalist working and living in New York talks in episode 12 about the night he was arrested for covering the growing national unrest following the death of George Floyd in police custody.
DC based photojournalist David Butow talks of photographing the American President in episode 145.
Maltese and Reuters photojournalist Darrin Zammit Lupi talks of making a personal photo story of his daughter Rebecca’s fight with cancer in episode 128, concluding in episode 129.
London based portrait photographer Charlie Clift talked of having ideas to help us fly creatively and mental health in episode 82.
The year of a world pandemic for photographers was certainly not a comfortable one, personally or commercially. Could we have taken the wrong path? Sean Tucker, photographer and respected philosophical YouTuber took up the debate in episode 130.
Former Times Pictures Editor Paul Sanders talks of pulling his life back from the brink in episode 43 to build a new photographic vision called Discover Still.
Life is on our doorstep. It has been in 2020, it will be in 2021, so suggests Hailey Sadler in episode 58. Hailey had been talking about her photographic NGO work and the question came up about working in that field.
In episode 59 Ian Treherne, ‘The Blind Photographer’ talked about opportunity. ‘Tunnel vision’ of the most extreme kind and profound deafness hasn’t stopped Ian from pursuing his life goal.
As always any feedback to the shows is appreciated so that we may feature your thoughts on the Friday Photowalk show.
