TWiP Street Focus: Recent Episodes
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In this show @Frederick Van Johnson @Steve Brazill and @PhotoJoseph briefly discuss TWiP’s hiatus, then tear into GoPro and the failure of their Karma Drone. Then we’ll discuss low-light photography tips and finally we’ll round things out with a panel discussion around their favorite cameras.
This week on Street Focus my good friend and photographer Ian MacDonald helps me answer a few questions about mirrorless technology, how to prevent photo theft and what photography resources we recommend for inspiration.
This week on Street Focus, Montreal based photographer Patrick La Roque gives us his top street tips.
This week on this episode of Street Focus, we are going to Detroit, Michigan and Andrew Shields is your local guide for this new adventure!
The Through Our Eyes Project hands out cameras to people who are living on the street, in a local shelter or are otherwise affected by homelessness. Through Our Eyes Project is bigger than a social experiment. It's greater than an art piece. It's more important than an outreach. This project is a lifeline.
This week my good friends and veteran podcasters Ibarionex Perello and Martin Bailey join me to celebrate 100 episodes of Street Focus and talk about what keeps us going week after week.
This week on Street Focus my guest is my good friend Alec Hosterman. Together we answer questions about photography education, workflow and editing time, give the winners of the Street Challenge, announce a new one and give our picks of the week!
Okay, this is not about street photography, but we all need a bit of video education. So I decided to invite Lee Herbet on the show to share some basic tips to get started. I hope you learn something new!
This week on Street Focus, my guest Jimmy Lee tells his story. After losing his job of 30 years, he decided to turn his passion for photography into something more than just a hobby.
In this Street of the World segment, we are going to Austin, Texas and your guide for this adventure is local photographer Dickie Bennett.
This week on Street Focus, street photographer Steve Simon talks about photographing the National Conventions and so much more. Enjoy!
This week on Street Focus, Chicago based street photographer Molly Porter shares her top 10 street tips.
Today on Street Focus, my friend Karen Hutton and I answer questions about tying shots together, Alternative photography sites and creative ways to show your work.
This week on Street Focus my guests and I discuss the advantages and disadvantages of being a street photographer in a small town. Ken Lyons from Kapunda, Southern Australia and Monty Montgomery from Oshkosh, Wisconsin share their stories.
This week on Street Focus, my guest is Jeff Harrington, the director and curator of the Mpls Photo Center. We discuss my experience jurying my first international call for entry Meet Me Downtown and also my solo exhibit Paris Je T'aime from idea to grand opening, and all the steps in between.
Please enjoy my conversation with German photographer Felix von der Osten who spent several weeks on a native american reservation and photographed daily life.
This week on Street Focus, my guest co-host is Susan Rosenberg Jones. Together we answer questions about promoting your street photography, how to put together a portfolio and more.
This week we are exploring the streets of Bangkok, Thailand and local photographer Rammy Narula is your local guide for this adventure.
This week on Street Focus, German street photographer Andreas Ott gives us is top 10 street tips.
My guest this week does not need an introduction. He has covered the world's most important events for the past 30 years. His images have appeared on the covers of the most prestigious news magazines. Please enjoy an hour with Peter Turnley!
This week my guest co-host is my friend and former student Ken Lyons. We answer questions regarding photo workshops both from a student's and instructor's perspectives.
Please enjoy my conversation with Montreal based photographer Patrick La Roque. We discuss how his street photography has changed his commercial work, working with a collective and many other things!
This week I sit down with LA based AP photo editor Richard Vogel, we talk about his career and the many challenges photo journalists face today.
Today my guest is photographer Matt Hart. He shares his top 10 street tips with you in a really fun conversation. I hope you enjoy it!
In this episode of Street Focus, my guest co-host, Nicholas Goodden and I answer questions about the social media platforms we use and why, how to deal with coming back empty from a photo walk and more.
I am honored to be the juror for a new Call for Entry titled Meet Me Downtown at the Minneapolis Photo Center this Spring. In this episode Jeff Harrington, the executive director at MPC, gives us information about calls for entry and tips on how to enter this one.
In this new Streets of the World segment on Street Focus, I am taking you to Dubai and your local guide for this adventure is Bjorn Moerman, a.k.a. The Flying Photographer.
A few months ago I received a touching email from Joshua Coombes in the UK. He was reaching out to me to ask if I could document his #DoSomethingForNothing project, cutting hair of the homeless on the streets of Paris
This week my guest co-host is travel photographer Rick Sammon. Together we answer questions about interacting with subjects on the streets, how to handle a complaint and whether or not we have an objective when we hit the streets with our camera and much more.
In this new Street Tips segment of Street Focus, my good friend and L.A. based Photographer Ibarionex Perello offers 10 tips inspired by quotes from great photographers he admires.
This week is a new Streets of the World segment on Street Focus and I'm taking you to Prague. Your guide for this adventure is local photographer Michal Fanta
We often talk about the importance of personal projects on this show and making the time to go out with the camera every day. Today my guest is UK photographer Michael Rammell. He embarked on a photographic journey during his daily commute to work and photographs sleeping commuters. In this episode we talk about his projects, the idea behind it and how much he’s learned so far.
This week my guest co-host is the new director of the Minneapolis Photo Center, Jeff Harrington. He gives advice to photographers interested in exhibiting their work in a gallery and much more. After the Q&A, we announce the winners of the last Street Challenge and announce a new one before giving our picks of the week. Enjoy!
This week my guest is Australian photographer Cherie McKay, she just completed a 6 week trip across the United States on her own and she talks about her adventure.
In this episode, Berlin street photographer Martin Waltz shares his top 10 street photography tips. We had a fun conversation, I hope you enjoy listening!
This is a new Streets of World episode on Street Focus and I'm taking you to London. Iwona Pinkowicz is your local guide for this adventure.
Street Focus 69: Q&A and Street Challenge This week my guest co-host is Bob Patterson, the publisher of Street Photography magazine. Together we answer questions about blogging, whether or not street photographers should only shoot street and if street photography can be considered dangerous. Thank you @MyStreetPix, @barrowlone and Andy Murdoch for sending in your questions! A few …
Today my guest is Glenn Ruga, the founder of The Social Documentary Network and ZEKE magazine.
Street Photographer Marco Larousse and I spend an hour talking about project ideas, tips and resolutions for 2016.
This week my good friend and acclaimed wildlife and nature photographer Martin Bailey joins me in a friendly nature versus street photography face off.
This week my guest co-host is my good friend, photographer, author and founder of the the Out of Chicago conference, Chris Smith. Together we answer questions about printing, being invisible and B&W vs. Color.
This week Dutch street photographer Willem Jonkers tells us how to get really close to your subjects on the streets with a fish eye lens...
Removed is a photographic series by Eric Pickersgill that explores the way personal devices play a role in society, relationships, and the body.
This week my guest co-host Marius Vieth and I discuss how to develop a style and how to get in the zone.
This week I sit down with documentary-style wedding photographer Kevin Mullins to talk about his work and the similarities in the way he approaches a wedding shoot and street photography.
This week is a new Streets of the world episode and we are going to Vancouver, Canada. Photographer Ian MacDonald is your guide for this new adventure.
There is never a dull moment on the streets with Levi Sim. In this episode of Street Focus we talk about his work as a commercial photographer and his passion for people and street portraits.
This week on Street Focus, my guest co-host Ken Lyons and I answer questions from about ways to offer a copy of the photo to the subject of a street portrait, how to protect our cameras from the elements and much more!
Photographer Alastair Arthur tells us how he set out on a street portrait marathon in his new home of Hoboken to meet the locals and get his name out.
This week on Street Focus my guest is French street photographer Marie Laigneau. Together we discuss her top 10 street photography tips.
On this episode of Street Focus, photo journalist Nicolas Enriquez takes us into everyday life of a New York City organized gang through his photo essay titled The Bloodline.
Street Focus is one year old! Thank you all for your support, it's been an amazing year and I have lots of exciting shows coming up. This week I'm excited to have award winning photojournalist and documentary photographer Steve Simon join me to answer questions and more! We delve into the differences between shooting street and photo journalism and much more.
In this new Streets of the World segment of Street Focus I take you to Cape Town in South Africa. Your local street photography guide for this trip is Leon Oosthuizen.
In this new Street Tips episode of Street Focus, Swiss photographer Thomas Leuthard shares his Top 10 Street Tips.
This week my guest Dutch photographer Maarten Rots talks about an exercise in photographic limitation that he recently completed in Amsterdam.
In this episode of Street Focus, my guest co-host and I answer questions about the number of keepers, how to start a street photography group and what is our preferred f/stop on the street.
In this new Streets of the world segment of the show, I take you to Sydney, Australia and street photographer Michael Jolliffe is your guide for this new adventure!
This week on Street Focus German street photographer Marius Vieth shares his top 10 photography tips.
In this new episode of Street Focus, I sit down with photographer and author Gordon Lewis as we discuss the topic of defining a style in street photography, which is the topic of one of the chapters of his book: Street Photography: The Art of Capturing the Candid Moment
Today my guest and I answer questions whether or not making eye contact is still street photography, how to gain more recognition and more!
In this Streets of the World episode of Street Focus, I'm taking you to Tokyo, Japan. Photographer Brian Wood-Koiwa is your local guide for this adventure.
On this new Street Tips episode of Street Focus, L.A. based photographer Rinzi Ruiz shares his top 10 street photography tips with the community.
My friend Karen Hutton shares her experience shooting street photography in Paris from a nature and landscape photographer's perspective.
Today my guest co-host is my good friend and photographer Paul Griffiths. Together we answer whether there is a difference between Street and Urban Photography, whether or not we use the in-camera filters and jpeg settings and if a prime lens is preferable to a zoom lens to shoot street.
In this Streets of the World segment of Street Focus I am taking to Kathmandu and your guide for this adventure is German photographer Chris Marquardt!
In this episode of Street Focus, an international panel of street photographers are discussing the pros and cons of shooting film.
In this episode of Street Focus, photographer Eric Kim shares his top 10 street photography tips
Today we answer a question about lens adapters and metadata in Lightroom, and also does bad weather affects our street photography? And finally a question about the Leica M mono camera.
This week I am taking you to Havana in Cuba, and your guide for this photo adventure in photographer Doug Kaye.
Street Tips with Valerie Jardin. Each month, you will hear the top tips from street photographers around the world. I decided to kick off the new series with my own street tips.
For several months Christopher Occhicone photographed a group of addicts living in the forrest encampment known as Tent City in New Jersey.
In this new Q&A my guest and I answer questions about what we think is the best lens for street photography and what is more important, the story or the light. We also announce the new street challenge.
For this new installment of Streets of the World, I'm taking you to Oslo, Norway and your guide for this special segment is Knut Arne Gjertsen.
Urbex photography requires some special care. Detroit photographer Mike Boening gives us tips on how to approach the exciting world of Urbex photography.
On this Street Legal Special Ed Greenberg and Jack Reznicki of The Copyright Zone answer legal questions on various aspects of street photography and more.
My guest co-host Fokko Muller and I answer questions about choosing your best shots and how often we go back to a location to get the shot we envision. We also give you tips to help you win the next Street Challenge
Please enjoy my conversation with Canadian photographer Mark Reierson who just completed a 100 Stranger Portrait project. We discuss the highlights and challenges of taking on such a project as well as the ways it can change your life.
For this new installment of Streets of the World, I'm taking you to Washington DC and your guide for this special segment is Lynford Morton
This week my guest co-host is Ibarionex Perello. We answer questions about how much is serendipity and how much is preparation in street photography and whether sharpness really matters.
Photographer Alastair Arthur tells us about his experience roaming the streets of London for 24 hours with his camera.
This week our Streets of the World segment takes us to Athens, Greece and our guide for this new street adventure is photographer Spyros Papaspyropoulos.
This week my guest and I answer questions about B&W processing and how we get over jet-lag and get motivated to go out and shoot in a new location.
Gail's photographs offer a rare look into personal spaces of Parisians as they are seen from their neighbors' across the street.
In this Streets Of the World segment of Street Focus, I am taking you to Rome, Italy. Roza Vulf will be your guide for this new adventure!
I am pleased to be joined by photo workshop participants and new friends, Alastair Arthur and Stefan Wulkan, to talk about their street photography experience in Paris.
Enjoy my conversation with Jamel Shabazz whose work spans decades and has received international recognition through exhibits, books and documentaries.
In this Streets Of the World segment of Street Focus, I am taking you to Berlin, Germany. Martin Waltz will be your guide for this adventure!
Guest host Thomas Leuthard and I answer questions about who inspires us and whether or not to ask for a model release when shooting street photography.
I am pleased to share with you a conversation with my good friends Chris Smith and Marie Laigneau about photographing Chicago and the 2015 Out of Chicago conference.
In this Streets Of the World segment of Street Focus, I am taking you to Amsterdam. Fokko Muller will be your guide for this adventure!
This week we talk about finding inspiration to photograph the same streets and how to make the decision on which shots to keep in a series of similar images.
I am pleased to share with you a conversation with my good friend and UK photographer Chris Porsz. Paramedic by night and a street photographer by day, Chris wanders tirelessly the streets of Peterborough, England with his camera in his quest to find familiar faces he photographed 30 years earlier in order to shoot a reunion.
In this Street Of the World segment of Street Focus, I am taking you to Madrid. Levi Shand will be your guide for this adventure!
On this episode of Street Focus, I answer questions about simplifying your gear and the impact it can have on your creativity and how to remain invisible.
I am pleased to share with you a conversation with NYC photographer Susan Rosenberg Jones. I became aware of Susan's work through social media. I was really intrigued by her on-going project titled Building 1 where she photographs her neighbors candidly in their own apartments.
In this Street Of the World segment of Street Focus, I am taking you to New York City. My good friend, street photographer and native New Yorker, James Maher, will be your guide for this adventure!
On this episode of Street Focus, I answer questions sent by Mark Reierson and Steve Brokaw about making money with your street photography. Also, what to do in a situation when someone confronts you on the street about taking their picture. And how to mix fashion and street photography. And there's a new Street Challenge! MOTION!
London based street photographer Walter Rothwell has a very unconventional way to shoot the streets of his city. For most of his work, he favors a panoramic format film camera, the Hasselblad Xpan.
This week, you're on a 48 hour layover in Hamburg, Germany and Marco Larousse is your guide. You're in for a treat! Discover the best spots to shoot street photography in Hamburg, the best times to be there as well as the safety and cultural considerations to keep in mind.
On this episode of Street Focus, I answer questions sent by Mark Reierson and Steve Brokaw about making money with your street photography. Also, what to do in a situation when someone confronts you on the street about taking their picture. And how to mix fashion and street photography. And there's a new Street Challenge! MOTION!
Elif Suyabatmaz shares her simple approach to create stunning images on the streets of Istanbul with her iPhone. We discuss how leaving the technical aspect of photography aside can enhance your creativity and vision when shooting on the street.
This is our first Streets of the World segment which will be on a rotation every third episode of the show. Our first major city featured is Los Angeles, and your guide is street photographer Rinzi Ruiz.
Welcome to episode two of Street Focus! Street Focus is the newest addition to the This Week in Photo family! This is my first “question and answer (Q&A)” episode, I’ll be doing these types of shows regularly — you know, to break things up a bit, and keep it interesting! If you’d like to submit …
In this episode of Street Focus, Valerie interviews Thomas Leuthard, a passionate photographer based in the heart of Switzerland who travels to the big cities of this world to witness and document on the street.
Introducing Street Focus! The newest addition to the TWiP Network. If only Henri Cartier-Bresson were around today to see the advances in photography and more specifically street photography! I’m confident he would be proud at how Valerie Jardin, the newest host to join the TWiP network, is spreading the good word about street centric photojournalism. Welcome …
I’m excited to let you know that very soon we will be launching the newest addition to the TWiP Network — Street Focus, a show “focused” on street photography and hosted by TWiP regular Valerie Jardin.