Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton
Episodes
SPQR Editions - Thomas Roma / Susan Kismaric - Special
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Books make us feel less alone…That's why I make books." -Thomas Roma A special release from thePhotoShow without your co-hosts. Thomas Roma and Sus...
Nat Ward & Ben Alper / A New Nothing - Episode 33
17 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"One of the big conversations that Ben and I have always had and always kind of bristled against together is this idea…that all potential is exhaust...
Richard Bram - Episode 32
02 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Michael and Kai met up with Richard Bram while he was getting ready to move from New York to London. Richard's book, Richard Bram New York, had just b...
Leo Rubinfien - Episode 31
18 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"….the fact is most of how we understand life…we do in essentially narrative terms and the moment that you make a photograph you step outside of t...
Joe Aguirre - Kramer O'Neill - Episode 30
06 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Aguirre and Kramer O'Neill join Kai and Michael for the first multi-guest show. Joe and Kramer both belong to different photo collectives. These m...
Preston Rescigno - Episode 29
22 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Preston Rescigno has straddled the worlds of photojournalism and fine art photography for all of his photographic life. When I spoke to Preston he was...
Wendel White - Episode 28
05 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Even for my students that naturally have a lot of enthusiasm and interest in the natural landscape, we talk about the natural landscape in political ...
Sasha Wolf - Episode 27
23 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Right now I know that for me the gallery model isn't working and so I go into this new chapter with much more confidence in what I am going to be doi...
Elinor Carucci - Episode 26
08 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"It's almost the opposite of daring…I find life to be difficult sometimes, this is my way of dealing with it. I photograph the deepest fears, or hap...
Greg Miller | Unto Dust - Episode 25
24 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"There's this idea for me of like time travel…the closest we get to time travel is this awareness that photographers have …that things will change...
Claudio Nolasco - Episode 24
10 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"I left The Cooper Union completely kind of broken just because of the conversations that I was having in terms of things like race, in terms of thing...
Louisa Marie Summer - Episode 23
27 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"It's always a balance you kind of have to have…being active and engaging and then stepping back…I reduce totally myself to the camera. Forget abo...
André Liohn - Episode 22
12 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Do you come home like troubled in your head, yes, but you come back home, you have the comfort of home…but here Brazil is home and now I need to le...
Matt Stuart - Episode 21
25 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"What I tell my students is…the one thing we can not teach and they can not buy is time, and time is the key to it, you just have to keep going out ...
Giancarlo T. Roma - Episode 20
11 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"When you're essentially trying to get baseballs and magazines signed everyday for seven days, it does kind of become its own thing and takes on a lif...
Susan Kismaric - Part 2 - Episode 19
26 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"We used to buy pictures and I'd say, well how much are your photographs, and they would say, um $25.00, and I'd say, why don't you make it $50.00…"...
Susan Kismaric - Part 1 - Episode 19
15 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"My sister and I would take our money [meant] for the collection box and drive downtown in Parkersburg West Virginia...and buy the New Yorker for that...
Polina Shubkina - Episode 18
22 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"They didn't really care about communism at all, but they were just doing it because it was giving them an opportunity for better living, so they were...
Rachel Stern - Episode 17
09 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"...the piece I had there had a big pillow pile in the middle of the room and all of a sudden at a certain point I looked over and the pillow pile was...
Charles Traub - Part 2 - Episode 16
18 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"...as the hick from Louisville who went to Chicago I always wanted to be in New York and I was in fact doing my Lunchtime photographs in Chicago at t...
Charles Traub - Part 1 - Episode 16
11 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"My father would say, 'son you just don't see it.' What's to see, I would respond. 'It's in the horizon line.' Didn't get it. Flip forward 10 years......
Jeff Hirsch - Foto Care - Episode 15
27 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"A lot of my thanks have to go to Bob (Fishkin) because he was in many ways a surrogate father figure to me besides my own dad, because he offered me ...
Kathy Shorr | SHOT - Episode 14
29 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"...she has like her cheerleading jacket inside glass and kind of on an easel, and all kinds of pictures of her daughter, and a swing outside on the l...
Eileen Quinlan - Episode 13
04 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"So I was obsessed with smoke on a number of levels and I had to smoke like 20 cigarettes an hour in order to produce these pictures which was suppose...
Episode 12 Origins: Thomas Roma - Part 2
23 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm looking at my son's grandfather's pictures and...I felt like I was trying to explain to him who his grandfather [is.] I didn't mean to do it, I'v...
Episode 12 Origins: Thomas Roma - Part 1
14 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"There's this expression, 'The Decisive Moment,' I'm sure it functioned for a while, but the question in a photograph isn't when, it's why...I want pe...
Episode 11 Origins: Tony Chirinos
10 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"So when I found out that the flash didn't really affect the roosters at all, then that's when I started photographing." Tony Chirinos calls in to tal...
Episode 10 Origins: Sasha Waters - Freyer
26 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"We had decided we were going to make a short documentary in 16mm, which I had never shot...and we decided we were going to make it about dominatrixes...
Episode 9 Origins: Laura Mircik-Sellers
19 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"My father was an insurance person, a loss control specialist, and so he knew about Cooper Union because he inspected the building. So he found out th...
Episode 8 Origins: Jared Thorne
12 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"Humble yourself, and let's talk about just how much you get rejected." Jared Thorne skypes in from his new home and new photo teaching job at Ohio St...
Episode 7 Origins: Dennis Santella
02 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"You have a vacuum cleaner that's reversed, a couple of pipe fittings, and now an old barbecue that you cut the bottom out of and you have a forge tha...
Episode 6 Origins: Yoav Horesh
26 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"We used to go out to the woods and capture scorpions, spiders, and stuff like that." After 17 years away from home, Yoav has returned to Israel as a ...
Episode 5 Origins: Jeff Ladd
18 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"Throughout my adolescence in high school years I was really only consumed with two things like skateboarding…and music and the music was all punk a...
Episode 4 Origins: Inbal Abergil
04 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
“Memorial Day is a very sad day (in Israel), everyone stands still for one minute. We never go and do barbecue…we don’t have sales…and we don’...
Episode 3 Origins: Patrice Helmar
01 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"I’m not dumb, I like Europe" Patrice got her start in photography as a young camera tester for allegedly broken tourist cameras at her father’s p...
Episode 2 Origins: Kai McBride
26 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"Grad School, look I already dropped out of undergrad, why would I go to grad school, it's another waste of money. You want to be an artist, be an art...
Episode 1 Origins: Anibal Pella-Woo
19 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"Everything in Cuba became sinister and funny." Frequent co-host Anibal and I met at his home in New Jersey during a coyote scare. Anibal’s life in ...