FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILM MAKER DAVID WRIGHT

What do you do if a black bear wants a word with you, and all you’ve got for protection is a jacket? No handbook for that. The same goes for being miles from anti-venom after a snake bite or realizing a polar bear thinks you’re lunch. For National Geographic photographer and filmmaker David Wright, this isn’t fiction, it’s just another day at work. He’s got the dream job if you don’t mind bears, snakes, and the occasional impalement. We talk about David’s incredible career, laced with adventure and the occasional serving of chance!

Also, on the show, Reid Naaykens shares how creating stock images has brought his work to life in ways Instagram hasn’t lately. Kyle Attwood is back with more tales of photographing rafts, the ones made from milk cartons. Meanwhile, Hegaard the Dane faces an unexpected challenge from swan song and Valérie Jardin joins us for the very first TEACH ME STREET segment. Looking ahead to next week, we meet a photographer who turned The Séance into a best-selling photobook, plus, a reminder of this month’s ONE WORD ASSIGNMENT, set by today’s guest, David Wright.

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MORE ABOUT names, words, THE MUSIC and places FROM TODAY’S SHOW

Unsplash is a website dedicated to proprietary stock photography. Since 2021, it has been owned by Getty Images.

Reid Naaykens’ Unsplash portfolio.

The Masters Milk Carton Regatta is a Western Australian event where teams race boats made from milk cartons. The event includes carnival rides, face painting, and giveaways.

The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper's Hill, at Brockworth near Gloucester, England. Participants race down the 200-yard (180 m) long hill chasing a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. It is uncertain when the tradition first began and is possibly much older than its earliest known written attestation in 1826.

Frans Lanting is a Dutch National Geographic photographer, author and speaker.

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

The ENCOUNTERS workshop in April.

MUSIC LINKS: Anthony Lazaro sang and wrote today's playout song Yadda Yadda Ya. Music on the show is sourced primarily from Artlist and also features in Michael Brennan’s Spotify playlist GoFoto.

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DAVID WRIGHT

Photographs made around the world by David Wright. Photographs copyright. Not to be reproduced or used without express permission from the photographer.