#269 PHOTOWALK: FIGHTING FOR OUR PLANET, SELF BELIEF & OTHER STORIES
Nick Brandt is our special guest on this Photowalk edition, one of photography’s great environmental champions, showing how deeply our fates are intertwined, portraying people and animals together, causing us to reflect on the real-life consequences of climate change. See examples of Nick’s work below.
From your letters we talk career starts, tackle self doubt, visit a German forest with a dark history, have news about the first Photowalk Retreat and reflect upon the loss of Tom Stoddart, one of the UK's most respected photojournalists.
The show is supported by our wonderful team of Patrons, plus MPB.com who help you buy, sell and trade used camera gear in the US, the UK and Europe. Today we reveal how MPB is helping to drive the circular economy and we’re talking ‘change’. As we discuss today, it’s true that a picture, a moment can change the way we feel. It can change how we see ourselves. It can change our understanding and change the rules. It can even provoke and change history. MPB.com puts photo and video kit into more hands, more sustainably, helping you to change kit to tell YOUR stories. Sell the kit you’re not using, trade it in for the kit you need to create. Buy used, spend less and get more. Go to MPB.com and… Buy. Sell. Trade. Create.
FURTHER REFERENCE: The Guardian article on West African fishing and the New Yorker’s article on fishmeal production, Ollie Barker-Jones’ Instagram and the show’s Facebook group, Anna Hardy, Tim Johnston’s episode and Hailey Sadler.
Underpass with Elephants. Photograph copyright Nick Brandt. Not to be reproduced or used without express permission of the photographer.
James and Fatu, Kenya 2020. Photograph copyright Nick Brandt. Not to be reproduced or used without express permission of the photographer.
The Gathering. Photograph copyright Nick Brandt. Not to be reproduced or used without express permission of the photographer.
A ‘portrait’ of Don McCullin, by the late Tom Stoddart, who passed away this week. He instinctively knew where to focus for a story.
Matthias Focks shares pictures from his walk in Hürtgen Forest.
Photographer Helen Fennell’s husband receives full marks for his ingenious wrapping paper when he gifted his wife with a photographic pressie. What’s under the wrapping though?
Jeremy Baker takes the opportunity of a dog walk for his photo making.
My sktechbook images today from the walk, early winter sun streams through the trees, and an inviting place to decant the coffee.
The story of Hürtgen Forest, the location of Matthias Focks’ photowalk.
