Hit The Streets 13: Landing the Dream Assignment with Angie McMonigal
This week on Hit The Streets, Chicago based photographer Angie McMonigal tells us how she went from being a hobbyist photographer to landing the dream assignment for a big client.
Bio:
Angie moved to Chicago more than 15 years ago and has been exploring the city with her camera ever since. Raised in a small town in Wisconsin, she approaches the urban environment with the spirit of someone who grew up surrounded by nature, finding moments of meditative calm in terrain that is always transforming. Focusing more frequently on bold architectural details rather than sweeping cityscapes, her photographs celebrate those unexpectedly iconic elements hiding in plain sight.
Links:
www.angiemcmonigal.com
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
Snapchat - @angiemcmonigal
Workshop: Architecture Photography Unfolded: Los Angeles New book: "Daring to See More..."
Hit The Streets 12: Tomash ~ Fueled by Passion
This week Tomash, the man behind the Fujilove community, talks about his life as a musician, his passion for photography and so much more!
Bio
Tomash is a photographer and classical pianist. Husband and father. Founder and editor of the FujiLove Magazine. He really enjoys black and white photography, shooting street, minimalistic landscapes and abstract images. Being a musician himself, he also regularly photographs other musicians, orchestras and chamber music ensembles.
Links
fujilove.com
fujilove.com/live
tomash.photography
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Hit The Streets 11: Focus on Creativity with Monika Andrae
Today my guest is German photographer and author Monika Andrae. Monika loves to experiment with all types of vintage cameras and expired rolls of film. We talk about the importance of creativity in camera and in the field versus in the digital darkroom and many other things. Take a listen!
Bio:
Monika Andrae has dedicated herself to photography since the early 90s. As a student she has spent (too) much time in the dark in order to document the results of their photographic adventures in silver gelatin prints. After her late switch to digital photography in 2005 she spent five years working exclusively in ones and 0s, until she fell back in love with film in 2010.
Monika is also on a mission: to make the more and more technical photography world a little more creative. Andrae’s podcast Monis Motivklingel has a large number of followers and her blog is a mix of everyday and creative topics. Together with Chris Marquardt she co-hosts the Absolut Analog film photography workshops.
Links:
Flickr Stream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nahlinse twitter: twitter.com/nahlinse G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/111622998392424193652
Website: http://monikaandrae.com
Podcast: monismotivklingel.de, absolutanalog.de
Book: filmphotographyhandbook.com
Below is a collection of photographs by Monika captured with a Pentax 57, some expired film, a Diana F toy camera, a box camera and a pinhole camera.
Some of Monika's vintage cameras
Hit The Streets 10: Second Time Around with Susan and Joel
Today I have my friend and NY photographer Susan Rosenberg Jones on the show. Her latest project titled Second Time Around, has been getting quite a bit of attention lately, I wanted to approach it from a different angle by also inviting the subject of that project, her husband Joel.
Susan Rosenberg Jones ~ Bio
Susan Rosenberg Jones was born and raised in Boston, and moved to New York City in 1976. In 1978, she began working at a lab in Manhattan as a custom black and white printer. A few years later, she started working as a photo researcher for a stock photo agency, and began a long career in stock photography, licensing images to various publishing and advertising clients.
In 2008, Susan’s husband passed away after a long illness. She felt the need to photograph seriously again and purchased her first digital camera. Feeling rusty, she took a course at ICP just to re-connect with the camera controls and practice with editing software. She worked on various portrait projects, and in 2011 began work on Building 1, a series about her neighbors in the apartment complex in Tribeca where she’d lived since 1984.
In 2012 she married her second husband, Joel. As a tangent to her photographs of her neighbors, she began shooting in her own home, and Joel was a willing subject. He was a bit skittish at first but he became more comfortable as she kept photographing. From this practice, Susan’s body of work, titled Second Time Around emerged.
Susan explores her feelings about growing older, family and community connections, through photography.
Visit her website: http://www.susanrosenbergjones.com/
The Project ~ Second Time Around
After having been married for 32 years my husband passed away in 2008, after a long illness. Once widowed, I experienced the confusing and mixed feelings of grief: guilt, loneliness, regrets, indelible memories of loving glances, hugs, and laughs. In 2009 I decided to try online dating because I wanted to meet a man for an occasional movie or dinner date.
The second man I met online was Joel, and we felt a bond right away. Soon after, I closed my account on JDate. We married in January of 2012 in a lovely ceremony at home. I hadn’t expected to fall in love, but I did. To my surprise and delight, I found that I could deeply love this wonderful man who entered my life, while holding dear the memories of my first husband.
Having been in a long-term marriage, I came to this new relationship with the tools in place to be a good wife. We quickly fell into the routine and ease of being a stable married couple, except that we were newlyweds in our 60's. There is humor in that. For one thing, our bodies are not supple and streamlined the way they were when we were young. We both come with a lot of baggage, and at our ages, it’s no big deal, nothing to get excited about. We’ve both seen a lot, done a lot, and have higher thresholds for idiosyncratic behavior than in our 20’s and 30’s.
In this series, Second Time Around, I delight in observing my new husband as he goes about living day to day. We both know that life is short, and perhaps because of our new found love and comfort, can journey through this life with a certain enthusiasm. We feel secure, yet we know we’re lucky.
Hit The Streets 09: Q&A and Photo Challenge
This week is a new Q&A and Photo challenge episode and I invited a former student and one of the admins of the new FB group page, Ryan Katsanes, to co-host with me.
Who is Ryan Katsanes?
Ryan is a Vancouver, Washington based street photographer who shoots mostly just across the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon. When Ryan’s not on the streets of Portland, he’s busy with his young family, or his day job as a technology consultant, and helping admin the Hit The Streets Facebook group. You can find his portfolio and links to his social media at www.katsanes.com
Q&A:
Ryan and I answer the following questions:
Jens Krauer: "As street photography is to a degree a game of luck, how do you get yourself trough phases in which the luck or the eye is not on your side and you struggle to keep going despite not getting what you are searching for? What are your experiences with these situations?"
Ned Permadi: "I’ve heard many stories about photographers having hard times, feeling down, hitting rock bottom. Stories of photographers feeling inadequacy, doubt, and confusion about the art he used to be passionate about because of external factors such as: harsh criticism, judgmental peers who may or may not understand about photography (in this case: street), and many more. In my case: daily overtimes that drain the willpower to carry on. How do you keep the passion burning against all odds?"
Steve Brokaw: "What is your most memorable street photography experience?"
Photo challenge
The winners of the last Photo Challenge, LIGHT, were Scott Johnston, Ed Walker and Pierre Pichot
NEXT CHALLENGE: Low Angle Point of View, Rat's eye view.
Deadline Dec. 22 at 8 am US central time, upload one photograph in the comment section below.
Samples of low angle shots by ©Valerie Jardin for inspiration:
Ryan's favorite Photography Book:
Hit The Streets 08: Photo Faves with RE Casper and Jim Watkins
This is fun Photo Faves segment of Hit the Streets with Valerie Jardin, San Francisco based photographer RE Caster and Jim Watkins share their favorite photography books, source of inspiration, piece of gear, accessories, etc. Enjoy our conversation!
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My friend Chris Marquardt, the guy behind Tips From The Top Floor, joins me this week from Hannover, Germany to talk about the ins and outs of film photography for photographers today.
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This week on Hit The Streets with Valerie Jardin, Grabriel Hill talks about his project titled ImPortraits. For several months Gabriel photographed refugees in his studio and each of them brought their most prized procession. I hope you enjoy this important conversation.
Read MoreHit The Streets 05: Live Your Dream with Corwin Hiebert
In this episode of Hit The Streets with Valerie Jardin, business manager Corwin Hiebert and I discuss how to leverage your visual story telling skills to land some clients or sell your work.
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