FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHER CATHAL MCNAUGHTON

This week, I speak with Cathal McNaughton, a well-respected international photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner. We discuss his biographical film I Dream in Photos, his recent photography in Ukraine that focuses on ordinary life continuing alongside the war brought to their country, and the role family plays in shaping how and why he photographs. Along the way, Cathal shares a personal discovery that has refocused attention on him, after a career spent observing others. It becomes a conversation about self-understanding and what it means to keep making photographs when the relationship with the camera itself is being questioned.

From the mailbag, Richard Rawlings pairs photographs with prose as walking helps him appreciate nature, Marilyn Davies nudges anyone still circling a 365 feature, to just start, even if February becomes the starting line, and Jaki G heads celebrates Lisbon’s street photo festival, and walking with the celebrated Phil Penman, who swapped his adopted New York for the Portuguese capital.

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Join us on the Black Isle near Inverness, for the Scotland ‘26 retreat, staying on a working soft-fruit farm with Highland views. The retreat includes small creative workshops, from photogravure printing to sound and writing sessions, plus plenty of time to walk, talk and make photographs together.

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See Richard Rawlings’ Insta feed, which includes the poetry he writes inspired by his walks.

View more of Dennis Lee’s photographic work on his website and Instagram.

Phil Penman is a New York–based street photographer whose work is rooted in long-term observation, patience, and an instinct for human moments that sit just below the surface of city life.

Annie Dillard was born in 1945 in Pittsburgh and became widely known in the 1970s with Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a book that grew out of her habit of walking the same patch of land in Virginia and noticing what most of us walk straight past.

Portuguese photography links to enjoy from Jaki G: Teresa Freitas, Gil Ribeiro, and Anna Paganini.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a game that challenges you to link any actor to Kevin Bacon through shared film appearances, usually in six steps or fewer, and it says more about how connected cinema really is than it does about Bacon himself.

Kelvin Brown’s flickr Photowalk inspired group - join by invite by clicking on to THIS LINK.

MUSIC LINKS: Roie Shpigler and Flint wrote today's playout song There’s a place for me. Music on the show is sourced primarily from Artlist and also features in Michael Brennan’s Spotify playlist GoFoto. For Apple Music users, follow this playlist.