BUMPER-LENGTH SHOW WITH PHOTOGRAPHER/EXPLORER JILL HEINERTH

Canadian explorer, photographer, filmmaker and international speaker Jill Heinerth joins me today for a bumper edition of The Photowalk podcast. We talk about the medical importance of our oceans, cave diving, incredible creatures beneath the waves, swimming with Polar bears and the story of a sub-marine diving mission into and iceberg. Also today, the why of making sketchbook pictures, the nostalgia of vintage prints, plus mentor and street photographer Valérie Jardin returns to launch this year's monthly Visual Stories features, which in 2024 is all about photographic feature making, starting with ONE CENTURY.

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Jill Heinerth is a Canadian cave diver, speaker, photographer, filmmaker and underwater explorer. She has dived and made TV series for the National Geographic Channel and the BBC, plus consulted on movies for directors including James Cameron. Jill was inspired by the underwater explorations of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. Jill learned to dive in a national marine sanctuary in Canada, and for the start of her career used Nikonos specialist underwater cameras.

In today’s show we talk about amazing creatures and stories including the Giant Pacific Octopus, Bivalve Mollusk, My Octopus Teacher movie, the Ross Ice Shelf and touch on the story of Ben’s Vortex.

Also today from my conversation with Valérie Jardin, Joshua Coomb’s Do Something for Nothing project, which is also one of Valérie’s photo projects.

Link to Tony Lorenzo’s episode as he goes in search of June.

Marissa Roth is a photojournalist who has appeared on a few of our podcasts, and ‘we’ think responsible for the first mention of using a camera as a sketchbook of life.

JILL HEINERTH

VALÉRIE JARDIN

Project images from Valérie’s project, ONE CENTURY, photographs discussed in today’s show, plus further pictures and stories will be featured in the Extra Mile, episode 71.

NEALE JAMES

Along the beaten path for today’s photowalk.

VIDEO LIBRARY

The following videos/subjects are referenced within today’s show.

Jacques Cousteau was years ahead of his time in recognising the warming seas of our oceans, and what that might mean for life on Earth.

My Octopus Teacher was referenced on the show today when talking about a brush with the Giant Pacific Octopus.

#415 PHOTOWALK: SOS! TRAPPED WITHIN AN ICEBERG!