Photographers for Lunch: Recent Episodes
Photographers for Lunch
Creative ideas are plentiful, making them happen is the hard bit. Each podcasts is a conversation over lunch where photographers share how they make ideas and projects happen.
Rebecca Litchfield is an award winning photographer living in London. She regularly shoots editorial fashion and carries a number of commercial clients, however last year she put a lot of her commercial work on hold to pursue a personal project which combines her passion for photography and urban exploration (or urbex as it's sometimes called), an activity where groups of like minded people explore abandoned man-made structures.
I was interested to hear Rebecca's stories (like getting arrested on a secret Russian military base) and learn how she managed to build such an amazing following on facebook and flickr. With over 116,000 facebook likes, a million views on flickr (and counting), Rebecca has managed to build the key element which every photographer needs, an audience.
She has spent much of 2013 traveling and documenting many abandoned locations within 14 countries, which were either part of the Soviet Union or occupied, such as forgotten towns, factories, prisons, schools, monuments, hospitals, theatres, military complexes, asylums & death camps and has now built enough work to release a book titled 'The Soviet Union Abandoned, A Communist Empire in Decay', to be published by Carpet Bombing Culture in June 2014.
Learn more about this project on Rebecca's site.
Martin Usborne is a photographer and founder of Hoxton Mini Press, a publishing company producing books exclusively about East London.
We met at Stories on Broadway in East London and chatted about his books, success on Kickstarter, photographing Joseph (the subject of 'I lived in East London for 86.5 Years') and overcoming photographer's self doubt.
You can learn more about Martin and his projects here.
Order 'I lived in East London for 86.5 years'.
Antonio Zazueta Olmos and I sat down and talked about his recently published 'The Landscape of Murder'. The conversation covered a lot of ground, including setting project constraints, the process of publishing the book, promoting your work, and as always a little banter about food. 'The Landscape of Murder' documents all the sites where murders occurred in London between January 1st, 2011 and December 31st, 2012. In total 210 murders were committed over this two year period.
144 Pages. Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing The book can be bought in many good photography bookshops or online here.
Niall and I sat down over lunch and talked about making his Crossing Paths project happen.
This is the 'premier' episode of 'Photographers for Lunch' podcast, hope you enjoy it.
Crossing Paths – A Portrait of Britain By Niall McDiarmid.
Available from Nov 18th from the Crossing Paths website http://www.crossing-paths.co.uk/
272pp A5 cloth covered, paperback. 148 photos from around Britain