Hit The Streets 164: Quarantine in Queens with Neil Kramer

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This week my guest is Neil Kramer. We talk about his very touching self portrait/documentary project in which he included his ex-wife and his mother, all sharing a small apartment in Queens during the lockdown.

BIO

Neil Kramer is a New York-born photographer based in Queens, New York.  His passion for storytelling brought him to Los Angeles to study filmmaking at USC Film School, and he worked in Los Angeles for many years in writing and script development.  When he returned to his hometown of New York, he became active in street photography.  Through an unusual conversion of events, Neil recently found himself in a a pandemic lockdown with both his mother and his ex-wife, and has been using photography as a way of personal expression, using staged scenarios to recreate actual events, much like in a movie. 

LINKS

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/neilochka
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neil.kramer
Portfolio:  neilkramerphotography.com

Hit The Streets 163: Lockdown 2020 with Peter McConnochie

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This week my guest is Peter McConnochie, AKA. Urban Scot. We talk about his confinement project Lockdown 2020 and much more!

BIO

Peter is a Scottish-born photographer based in Nottingham, East Midlands. His passion for photography started as a teenager when his father bought him his first 35mm SLR camera. Since 2011 he has dedicated his time to documenting street scenes and making portraits of strangers using the medium of urban portraiture to explore cities through the people who live, work and travel there.  

Since 2013 Peter has been known as the Urban Scot and ran a successful wedding and portrait photography business. 

He now works in local government education services, is married with 4 children and actively involved in his local community but continues to document the streets and people he meets both locally and worldwide.

LINKS

Instagram: instagram.com/urbanscot 

Website: www.urbanscot.co.uk 

Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/dougliz/ 

Hit The Streets 160: The Heart of the Photograph with David duChemin

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This week my guest is someone you’ve heard on the show before, our good friend David DuChemin. We talk about his new book The Heart of the Photograph: 100 questions for making stronger, more expressive photographs and much more!

BIO

David duChemin is a world & humanitarian assignment photographer, best-selling author, and international workshop leader known and loved for his focus on creativity, vision, and humanity in a craft that is often overly focused on the technical. David lives on Canada’s Vancouver Island with his wife and too many cameras. 

LINKS

David’s work: https://davidduchemin.com/

David’s podcast: https://www.abeautifulanarchy.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidduchemin/

Hit The Streets 158: #GiveSeaLifeAHand with Tomás Tigchelaar

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This week on Hit The Streets you will learn a new way to use your photography skills by combining them with an awesome initiative called #GiveSealifeAHand. Let's spread the word and the love and enjoy my conversation with Tòmas Tigchelaar-Lourenço's work!

Tomás’ Biography

I’m Tomás Tigchelaar Lourenço, a 27 year old half Portuguese half Dutch Civil Engineer born in Cascais, Portugal.

In December of 2017 I started @GiveSealifeAHand Cleanup movement on Instagram.

This movement started during a beach walk in Portugal when talking about ocean plastic pollution I said something like “if fish would have hands, this problem would have been long solved.”. Moments after, I looked at my hands and said I must give Sea life a hand. After a cleanup, I made a hand out of the trash I collected and tagged it #GiveSeaLifeAHand. Two years later I now have more than 150 hands from 95 different countries around the world and carried out 9 GiveSeaLifeAHand talks at primary schools in Portugal and Curaçao reaching over 300 kids with this message.

My motto is “Cleanups are the easy part, making them unnecessary is the difficult one.” 

Therefore my goal is to have a picture of #GiveSeaLifeAHand hand from every country in the world and reach the youth with this message through school talks.

You can help the @GiveSeaLifeAHand movement at 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/making-a-givesealifeahand-talk-template

Links to Tomás’ Work

You can follow my sustainable minded projects on Instagram at

@tomas.tl

@GiveSeaLifeAHand

@IFlyVegan

For a mini documentary made by Wendy de Boer, of the @shootwithalocal Instagram page, check

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzCuX9g04kI

Examples of the work

Hit The Streets 157: American Bedroom with Barbara Peacock

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In this episode of hit The Streets, Valerie shares a delightful conversation with photographer Barbara Peacock about the making of American Bedroom, a truly inspiring project!

Barbara’s Biography

I am an assignment photographer living in Portland, Maine. I studied fine arts at Boston University School of Fine Arts, and photography and filmmaking at The School for the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University. I started as a street photographer and gradually became an assignment lifestyle photographer.

My commercial clients include Arm & Hammer, Nickelodeon, French's, Disney, Stride Rite, Brookstone. Editorial clients include People, Newsweek, Real Simple, Family Circle, Oprah, Family Fun. My images have been licensed by Toyota, Coca-Cola, Kodak, Wells Fargo, Tylenol, Volkswagen etc.

 In 2016 I published Hometown –1982-2015 - A thirty-year photographic project of the small town where I grew up and continued to live as an adult. Published by BazanPhotos Publishing, Brooklyn NY.  Printed in the USA by Puritan Capital. 

My current project, American Bedroom- reflections on the nature of life is a cultural and anthropological study of Americans in their private dwelling; their bedrooms. It will encompass the entire United States. It was the recipient of the Getty Editorial Grant 2017. 

I founded a non-profit organization ‘The Nightingale Project’ that teaches art and photography to needy children.  The program travels with a mix of adults and high school students.  Journeys so far have been to Haiti, Cambodia and New York. 

Artist Statement

American Bedroom – reflections on the nature of life

My interest lies in the poetic resonance of ordinary subjects. I am passionate, but not sentimental about America. I am drawn to the quiet magisterial beauty of people half lost in memory, with too much time on their hands, or in silent paradox. I argue and persuade that these subjects matter.

American Bedroom is a cultural and anthropological study of Americans in their private dwelling: the bedroom. The nature of the project is unguarded portraits of individuals, couples, and families that reveal the depth of their character, truth, and spirit. The images are paired with quotes from each subject and are full of subtle details that invite us to contemplate the idiosyncrasies of each enigmatic life. The scoop of the project is the entire country. 

With this project, I illustrate my love and influence of painting. When I was a child I watched my Mother paint by window light and as a result, I have been drawn to painting and interior light.

Links to Barbara’s Work

Instagram -   barbara.peacock_abedroom

Website -      www.barbpeacock.com

Examples of the series ‘American Bedroom’

Hit The Streets 155: Photographing 9/11 With Phil Penman

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In this episode, Valérie invites photojournalist Phil Penman, who has just moved to NYC when 9/11 happened. We talk about his experience, how it has changed him and much more.

Phil’s Biography

UK-born, NY-based photographer Phil Penman has documented the rapid flux of New York City's streets for over 25 years. With clients ranging from People Magazine to The Daily Telegraph, he has photographed celebrated living legends, including Jennifer Lopez and Bill Gates, and captured historical moments such as the September 11th Terrorist Attacks. Penman's distinctive style, versatility, and dedication to his craft has won him prestigious awards and exhibitions and distinction as one of the "52 Most Influential Street Photographers" alongside industry legends, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Sebastião Salgado

His debut book “STREET” launched as the Number 1 new release on Amazon for Street Photography and has since become a best seller and featured at MOMA in New York.

Link’s to Phil’s Work

https://www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/4439033/911-anniversary-photos-attack-twin-towers-new-york/

https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-in-famous-9-11-picture-employs-same-photographer-for-her-wedding

Examples of Phil’s Work

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Hit The Streets 153: Wishing You 20/20 Vision with Karen Hutton

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It’s a tradition… Valérie invites her good friend Karen Hutton for a new year special! This time, Karen and Valérie talk about creative freedom, vision, authenticity, pixel peepers and much, much more.

Karen’s Biography

Karen Hutton is a professional light bender and storyteller. That’s shorthand for her style of fine art landscape photography, and the fact that she’s also a voiceover artist, online show host, writer, speaker, and teacher. You can find her at Karenhutton.com. 

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Hit The Streets 151: Gordon Laing Is In The House!

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It's a yearly tradition! I invited gear guru and all-around awesome guy, Gordon Laing, back on the show to answer your gear and technical questions.

Questions Gordon Answers:

From Stewart Chambers via the FB Group
Does the plethora of post processing options mean we're spending less time thinking about the image because we can always fix it later?

From Mike0725 via FB Group
Recently there was a rumor that Olympus was on shaky financial ground. Apparently the entire industry is on shaky ground and Sony owns almost half the market share for new camera sales. What do you think this means for the future of photography? Will we all be shooting Sony some day?

From @geetee1972 via Instagram
Other than determining the resolution of a digital file, what else is affected by the size of the pixel?
What would you rather work with, a big sensor with fewer pixels or a smaller sensor with more pixels?

From @frenchy_val via Instagram
I bought a Fuji XT30 a few months ago. I really love this camera, it's perfect except the Q button location. I always press it.

Gordon’s Bio

Gordon Laing is the Editor of cameralabs.com and author of 'In Camera', a book that embraces the art of JPEG photography with no post-processing. A journalist of over 25 years and keen photographer since childhood, he loves food and travel and shares his personal work @cameralabs on Instagram and Twitter. Check out his gear reviews at cameralabs.com, on YouTube or in the Cameralabs Photography Podcast at iTunes.

Links to Gordon’s Work

Camera Labs | In Camera Book | Podcast | Instagram | Twitter