Breathe Pictures Podcast | Photography And Film Making

Todays’s Photography Daily features this month’s focus guest, Daniel Milnor and today’s photo essay asks a question; should I print or post? Dan has been on a mission of digital detox and is convinced his photography is all the better for it.  Email the show with your stories of photography: studio@photographydaily.show

I find myself in photographic awe of anyone who can commit to a single brand as if they’ve found their image making lobster. But is it important what camera you shoot with? Is it about you? Or is it really a long standing relationship with that silvery black box? Write to the show: studio@photographydaily.show

First editions are tricky aren’t they? There’s no flow yet, there’s a relationship to build. In photography terms, it’s like the first time you pick up a new camera; you know what the buttons do, but they’re in slightly different places, and the strap doesn’t feel comfortable quite yet. Welcome to the first snapshot edition of Photography Daily. Contact the show: studio@photographydaily.show

Jason Florio’s focus has been towards under-reported stories about people living on the margins of society and human rights. His work has been recognised with a number of awards, including The Magnum Photography Award 2017 for his raw pictorial stories on migration. Today's episode follows Jason Florio from New York to Africa. Jason's site: https://www.floriophoto.com/  Helen's site: https://www.helenjonesflorio.com/  Fishers of Men: http://www.fishersofmenfilm.com/

Small Town Inertia is a photographic social documentary long tail project dealing with loneliness, poverty, neglect and mental illness. The photographer Jim Mortram makes these pictures within a three mile radius of his home in the English market town of Dereham, Norfolk. Jim talks of how and why he makes these pictures and stories and how many of his subjects or contributors have become friends.

YouTube. That's where I turn for this episode. It's tentacular nature is fantastical, photography and film making being a subject matter that is popular on the platform. One of the UK's rising YouTubers in this genre is a talented photographer called Sean Tucker. I find out what makes his channel so different and how he has succeeded, retaining his integrity and making unique philosophical photographic film content.

Today’s guest is a special breed of photojournalist. Though he’d be brisk to point out he’s no hero; that those he photographs and the conditions he makes photographs in is what should draw you to his work, Australian photographer Cam Neville has been making news of late for the very real and stark pictures he presents of those in the front line fighting the continent’s ferocious bush fires.

In today's FOCUS EDITION, meet Giles Penfound, former head of press photography for the British Army. Early in 2017 I made a film with Giles and during the cast you’ll hear him make reference to the photographs that he shows within that film. If it weren’t for his graphic description of the images, this episode may just have resided as that film, but the ability to transpose this to sound only is testament to how Giles describes his life as a photographer.

I first met the photographer Steve Shipman in 2013. He was attending a photography workshop I was hosting about still images and sound combined, ironically. I’d been shooting professionally less than a decade. He’d been photographing for considerably more time. He was the ninth name to book on and I made a note about him; ‘Very proficient photographer, really nice chap too.' Meet Steve Shipman, one of the most generous photographers I have had the pleasure to know.

Tom Stoddart is my guest in this first Focus Edition for Photography Daily. Known and respected widely as one of the world’s most respected photojournalists, his photographs of conflict and unrest, famine and pivotal historical moments such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of President Mandela, and the siege of Sarajevo undeniably shaped and still form public opinion. The documentary opens, and closes in fact, where it all began for him decades ago; a small fishing village in Northumberland, an unlikely and very peaceful part of the country to inspire such a rich photographic career when you consider the places my guest has travelled and the scenes he has witnessed before his lens. If photojournalism is a genre that inspires you, then this episode unravels some of the skills and attributes believed to be paramount to assume such an important legacy career in photographic story making.