#259 PHOTOWALK: LEAVING PHOTOGRAPHY TO LOVE IT AGAIN!
Where once 70,000 protestors looped arms to protest against the siting of nuclear missiles, we're walking with our cameras and your letters, talking about making photographs; this thing we love. I’m on Greenham Common once again, a favourite place of mine, a former USAF base an hour west of London, now beautiful free common land, difficult to believe that once it was home to 96 destructive Cruise Missiles.
This week we talk about legacy, photo memorabilia, making emotional pictures, the first frames from a new camera and hear from former guests, Bill Owens about photographing Suburbia in the American 50s, celebrated street photographer Nick Turpin on his favourite street picture made by Joel Meyerowitz and our special guest Belgian portrait photographer and storyteller Bert Stephani talks about the day he decided to become a 'professional amateur.'
Our thanks to MPB.com who support all our shows, the number one people for buying, selling and trading used camera gear in the US, the UK and Europe with warehouses in Brooklyn, Brighton and Berlin. In the next month I’m making a trip to Brighton to record some interviews with some special guests from that part of the world and I’ll be dropping in to MPB talking with the founder Matt Barker about the circular economy of cameras and why over a quarter million creatives in the UK, Europe and the US trust MPB.com for their kit needs.
Further reference: Bert Stephani’s Dunkirk story, Joel Meyerowitz’s Fallen Man picture, the Photography Daily Facebook page, Patreon support page, Remember My Baby and Photo Swindon. This week’s Patrons of the Day are Sue Sayer and Dan Phillips with their pictures referenced below. Send your pictures, stories and thoughts to studio@photographydaily.show
Examples of the intimate and dramatic photographic style of today’s guest Bert Stephani. Photographs copyright. Not to be reproduced or used without express permission of the photographer.
Sue Sayer in Weston-super-Mare in the south west of England, studying the ‘Old pier,’ or the abandoned Birnbeck Pier.
Dan Phillips is in Yorkshire, trying some street photography for the first time.
Marius Henning takes his first shots with his new X100F.
Edmond Terakopian’s idea for a police station ‘canvas’ as part of ‘Unlocked.’
My own images from the Greenham Common walk this week. Discovering hidden secrets within the woodland. Made on an X100V.
