The Photowalk

#443 Encounters: How to make portraits of strangers

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today's show explores captivating encounters and stories that turn fleeting moments into meaningful connections with people through the lens. Four gue...

#442 Creative writing: a photographer's secret weapon?

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Merryn Glover is an award-winning international author whose work spans fiction, drama, poetry, journalism and radio plays. Raised in South Asia, educ...

#441 George Lucas on Line 1: From Instagram to Star Wars

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I chat with Balwinder Bhatla, AKA Mr. Whisper, a London-based visual storyteller and professional photographer. Bal specialises in delicious ca...

#440 Life is not about what you have, but what you leave

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Photographer Tatiana Hopper is a YouTuber and writer becoming well-known for her wonderfully accessible thought-provoking documentaries on master phot...

#439 Keep calm and keep posting: the social media effect!

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's our end-of-the-month social media special! In this episode, we feature renowned photographers Sean Tucker, Valérie Jardin, Phil Penman, Emily Re...

#438 Ghost hunting on The Fells

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most personable landscape photography YouTubers to walk the fells of England's Lake District is my guest this week, Glenn, AKA Black Crag, ...

#437 The gloves off truth about taking pictures!

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

My guest today is Tim Clinch, a celebrated photographer known for his diverse and dynamic career spanning multiple continents. Having begun his career...

#436 Love Power Sacrifice and other stories

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I'm joined by documentary photographer John Angerson, described as one of Britain's most creative and versatile photographers, on a walk along ...

#435 Nudes, spiders in attics, I.T. disasters and more...

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, it's a show with a difference. It's officially a week off, though I'd miss you if we didn't chat, so I've compiled a short sequence of past pie...

#434 The last unknown place in New York City

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Renowned for exploring industrial landscapes and abandoned architecture, Christopher Payne delved into the forgotten corners of America's built enviro...

#433 Asleep for FOURTEEN years!

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Randall is a sports photographer whose journey into the genre was as unexpected as it has been impactful to his life. Fate led him to photography,...

#432 Graveyard Bins and Phantom Cats!

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Storyteller Al Brydon is a walker with a camera enraptured by the landscape and human interaction with it. He's published and exhibited internationall...

#431 Find your FIVE points of creative thinking

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine a five-pointed star. Now attach a word to each point and think of them as the core principles or values associated with how and why you create...

#430 Whatever you do, don't look away!

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Dupont is an Australian photographer recognised around the world for his concerned photography on the human condition, war and climate, earni...

#429 Photography reset my life: two powerful stories

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we walk today, two guests feature in the show. Photographer and creative retreat mentor Margaret Soraya from the Isle of Harris shares how the arts...

#428 The truth of a perfect imperfect photograph

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to a photography podcast where we walk together with a mailbag of stories and pictures. My guest today, John Dolan, understands and completely...

#427 Photowalk: 24 hours on EARTH in just ONE picture!

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, a holiday-special interview with the iconic fine art photographer Stephen Wilkes. Since opening his studio in New York City in 1983, he's built...

#426 Photowalk: A beautiful way to live

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Jo Hoffman is an aeronautical engineer-turned-artist. Twelve years ago she began a daily practice of photographing found nature, no subject too s...

#425 Photowalk Announcement: The Great Indian Railway Adventure

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I'm joined on Surrey's Chobham Common for a photo walk with award-winning photojournalist Jason Florio to announce 2025's Photowalk Show Adventure, wh...

#424 Photowalk: Random encounters with strangers

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Photographer Daniel Meadows has spent his life documenting British society, using photographs, audio recordings, and short movies. He is the creative...

#423 Photowalk: ICEBERG right ahead!

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As I walk with your letters and inspirational stories, I'm joined on the show by studio guest Michelle Valberg, the Canadian Geographic Photographer, ...

#422 Photowalk: The Secrets of Soviet Bus Stops!

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On a long-distance bike adventure from London to St. Petersburg, an 'accidental' photographic find led photographer Christopher Herwig to subsequently...

#421 Photowalk: The soundtrack for HOPE and PEACE

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hans Johnson is an international award-winning film and television composer. He records and collects sounds from the cultures and people he spends tim...

#420 Photowalk: The Gambian Photowalk Retreat SPECIAL

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, join me, Neale James on the show in West Africa and journey with our Photowalk team as we explore The Gambia with those attending this spec...

#419 Photowalk: Do SOMETHING for NOTHING

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2015, Joshua Coombes, a British hairstylist, took his scissors to the street to cut the hair of the homeless community in a story that is as much a...

#418 Photowalk: Leaps of faith and finding balance

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Retreating home to the shires from another day working in the city of London seventeen years ago, Kevin Mullins announced to his wife, "I'm becoming a...

#417 Photowalk: What's missing from my life?

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's a very cryptic show title, I grant you, but the question is answered by my good friend, documentary photographer Giles Penfound, a former British...

#416 Photowalk: My pictures don't need to be good, just HONEST

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the 'niche' of photography podcasts, there are a handful of names who stand out as pioneers of the genre. One of those is my guest today, Jeffery S...

#415 Photowalk: SOS! Trapped within an iceberg!

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Canadian explorer, photographer, filmmaker and international speaker Jill Heinerth joins me today for a bumper edition of The Photowalk podcast. We ta...

#414 Photowalk: The power to make people feel

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today's guest is the celebrated Canadian wildlife photographer Michelle Valberg, who shares stories of her photographic adventures at the two poles an...

#413 Photowalk: A beautiful photographic detective story

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The final Photowalk edition of 2023 takes me to Oxford to visit Tony Lorenzo, who, in the early part of this century, found two fading 1930s photograp...

#412 Photowalk: Having the 'Steele' to change your life

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nine years in the US Navy, Rachelle Steele learned her photographic craft the hard way in operations that tested her resolve. She laid down the camera...

#411 Photowalk: How to become an adventurer

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alastair Humphreys is a man who has the word adventurer on his business card. He's adventured to the most incredible remote places, cycled across the ...

#410 Photowalk: Empathy and a fascination for people

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Roger Hutchings is an award-winning British documentary photographer who was mentored by the Magnum photographer David Hurn. Today he talks of a life ...

#409 Photowalk: You'll never walk alone

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I'm walking this week with photographer Mali Davies in cultural Liverpool, birthplace of The Beatles, looking for the city's famous Liver Birds and ch...

#408 Photowalk: We're not photographers, we're therapists with a camera

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we walk part of England's oldest road, the 5000-year-old Ridgeway, with the mailbag for a special letters edition. In the show, teaching photog...

#407 Photowalk: A near death experience and photographic epiphany

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aged 31, Australian Police Officer Duade Paton's sudden surprise heart attack and near-death experience introduced him to a new life, walking and maki...

#406 Photowalk: Walking Japan and the joy of pizza bread

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For a show made out in nature with a microphone, camera and mailbag, today's guest fits like a well-loved and fitted favourite walking boot. Craig Mod...

#405 Photowalk: Your style, your genre, your brand, is YOU

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today's guest Karin Majoka is a visual artist, photographer, YouTube content creator and psychotherapist based in Germany. Her short films bring tuit...

#404 Photowalk: The Voice of Peace

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Can art and the spoken word be a voice for peace? Today, following the appalling events of a violent week in the Middle East, I discuss the "Greatest ...

#403 Photowalk: In space, no one can hear you click!

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kamal X is an astronaut with a camera, though the missions he flies, the planets he visits, are both familiar and alien. Today he talks of friendship,...

#402 Photowalk: The art of togetherness

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today, documentary photographer David Wright talks about his life behind a lens, making stories about the British, his fascination for modern tribes,...

#401 Photowalk: Still haven't found what I'm looking for

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is the joy of what we do about the answer, or the search? I find upon the shore of Loch Ness, Steve Feltham, the Nessie Hunter, convinced that there i...

#400 Photowalk: Find your heart and soul in Scotland, THE RETREAT

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, you're invited to join our Extra Milers in beautiful, majestic, enchanting Scotland. Join us on this year's Photowalk Retreat in the Highla...

#399 Photowalk: 9/11 Remembered

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We walk together on a Monday, a special programme today to commemorate 9/11, the date in September that changed the course of history forever, sociall...

#398 Photowalk: The photographer who never sleeps

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Phil Penman is my guest today, the British-born, New York-based celebrated street photographer. He's documented the ever-changing scene of New York Ci...

#397 Photowalk: How telling stories transforms lives!

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

VII Agency Photojournalist and award-winning storyteller in stills, video and sound, Ilvy Njiokiktjien joins me to talk about personal risk-taking, do...

#396 Photowalk: Seven creative LIFE CHANGING chats #2

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The second of two Friday Summer Specials featuring seven former guests from our three-year archive sharing photographic and LIFE wisdom. In this secon...

#395 Photowalk: The photo app to change ALL apps!

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A special pop-up episode today of The Photowalk as I trek along an old disused railway path with social photographer Tom Humble who is looking to laun...

#394 Photowalk: Seven creative LIFE CHANGING chats #1

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Across the next two weeks, a brace of Friday Summer Specials featuring seven former guests from our three-year archive sharing important life learning...

#393 Photowalk: Curiosity does not kill the cat!

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Documentary photographer Ian Howorth talks about identity, curiosity and his latest book, A Country Kind of Silence. Also today, the wonder in the ord...

#392 Extra Mile Special: Finding my Mum and other stories

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A special edition this week as I vacation in Wales, walking the rugged Pembrokeshire coastline, not with your letters this time, but a selection of re...

#391 Photowalk: Learn to read people!

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrated American sports photographer Jean Fruth joins us while we walk today, to talk about how to 'read the game' for better pictures on the field...

#390 Photowalk: The strangers I meet

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Portrait, celebrity, fashion and theatre photographer, Craig Fleming shares his story from being a roadworker, to photographing Hollywood's finest for...

#389 Photowalk: Find beauty in the detail of life

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Author, mentor, and photographer Gill Moon talks of her love for calmer landscapes finding beauty in the detail, giving others a voice within her book...

#388 Photowalk: The 'secret' word of trust

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A podcast that takes a mailbag, a camera, your thoughts (and a dog) out into nature, spending time together making pictures and sharing inspirational ...

#387 Photowalk: 50 Shades of a Photo Fantasy!

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meeting a stranger along a path leads one special listener to make his first 'street portrait' and unwittingly introduces us to an adventuring hiker w...

#386 Photowalk: HELP! My photographic eye has stopped working?

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We use photography and taking pictures to help with a myriad of positive mindful pursuits, but what happens when the enjoyment of picture-making start...

#385 Photowalk SPECIAL: Conquering life's mountains

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An extended show this week as I journey to North Wales, to Eryri (formerly Snowdonia) to speak, hike and climb with photographer, teacher, mentor, wil...

#384 Photowalk: Freedom from the noise

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The only walking photography podcast of its kind, from the Netherlands, Loek van Vliet talks today about his long-term photography project Earthly Win...

#383 Photowalk: Quit. Start again.

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Chouciño changed his photographic career direction completely during and following the pandemic. He embraced quitting at a time many creatives ...

#382 Photowalk: And your SUPERPOWER is...

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Viktor Hübner spent two years hitchhiking across America photographing and interviewing the people he met by chance during a time of political confus...

#381 Photowalk: Prototype your life and the hat of kindness

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Writer, photographer, TEDx speaker, and the author of the 1,000 True Fans essay, Kevin Kelly talks about his new book 'Excellent Advice for Living, Wi...

#380 Photowalk: Day Trips to Hell and the River of Life

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The great passport to life; your camera. Today travel stories from three photographers; Giles Penfound whose photo projects made in and about concentr...

#379 Photowalk: HOLLYWOOOOOOD, and the ultimate photo challenge!

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Five decades behind the lens, American photographer Ave Pildas talks about making pictures of those who come to stand on the stars of Hollywood's famo...

#378 Photowalk: Shhhhh, I'm hiding behind the sofa from ai

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is ai really coming to get us? Maybe not yet. Maybe not at all. This week is a show about the majesty of music, the beauty of emotion, the tactile nat...

#377 Photowalk: Chasing childhood

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A special photowalk made in the north-east of England with Extra Miler, writer and photographer, Paul Hutson. We start in York, chasing and finding gh...

#376 Photowalk: A life curating conflict!

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today, a special episode in which I travel to Farnham in leafy Surrey, England, to speak with former Head Curator at the Imperial War Museum London, H...

#375 Photowalk: Help! My mind is making too much noise, make it stop!

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Rose, photographer, writer, thinker, and the creative voice/director behind 'Humans are social,' an LA agency that believes in the incredible thi...

#374 Photowalk: Having the time of my life making a bestseller!

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrated photographer turns author; Julia Boggio talks about her transition from being behind the lens, to going behind the 'typewriter' as we discu...

#373 Photowalk: When is a photo story too personal?

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thoughts, debate and personal ideas as we walk today. My guests, philosophical YouTuber, author, speaker and filmmaker Sean Tucker and international p...

#372 Photowalk: This ever amazing shrinking planet

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Based out of Australia, photographer, film-maker, and audio engineer Simon Lister is my guest. He shares his travel adventures on a motorbike and, "Lo...

#371 Photowalk: COMPLETE life change to find creative soul

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A special edition where I walk with Paul Sanders, former Picture Editor for The Times, who thought he had everything he'd worked for and desired until...

#370 Photowalk: Misadventures with a camera!

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Canadian photographer, educator, explorer, and writer, Dave Brosha captures the beauty of this world, whether it's beauty in the most extreme environm...

#369 Photowalk: Africa awaits us

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, I'm walking just west of London with the award-winning photojournalist and friend of the show, Jason Florio. It's a show of two halves as w...

#368 Photowalk: Close encounters of the photographic kind

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Reeves' encounters making street portraits include short interviews that provide a real narrative to his photo stories. He talks today about mak...

#367 Photowalk: Obsession, do what you LOVE

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is obsession a wonderful photographic gift? Today, photographer Tim Booth talks about his obsession for making portraits, of hands. Show of Hands is a...

#366 Photowalk: What is your WHY? And the 'Color of light'

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our walking guest today is one of America's finest color photographers, Arthur Meyerson. He's travelled the world, creating award-winning advertising ...

#365 Photowalk: A beautiful curious life

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Editorial and fine art documentary photographer Alys Tomlinson is my guest, whose curious mind and methodical personal research take her on photograph...

#363 Photowalk: Beauty through the eyes of the law

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Restless flibbertygibbet" photographer Mark Littlejohn, former 'lawman' for three decades talks about his new life making extraordinary landscape pic...

#363 Photowalk: A New York State of Mind

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With a love for photographing the people and streets of New York, this week's guest Reuben Radding talks of fragility, character and emotion in black ...

#362 Photowalk: Wild in the water!

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Ward talks of his wild water photographic swimming project that persuaded him to take to the river too, something that landed him a stay in ...

#361 The Assignment: Marissa Roth #3

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Former Pulitzer prize winner with the LA Times Marissa Roth sets the third of her three in a series of photographic challenges that will have you look...

#360 Photowalk: "If you can, then do!"

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Photojournalist Erin Trieb talks of her time in Ukraine as the year anniversary of Russia's invasion approaches. We also discuss identity, trauma and ...

#359 The Assignment: Neale James #2

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With 2022 drawing to a close, and 'The Assignment' taking up residence within the Friday Photowalk show for the next and new season, I thought I shoul...

#358 Photowalk: All the World's a landscape

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Photographic adventurer Andy Mumford talks of his love for exotic faraway lands, working with and teaching photographers to find their creative peace ...

#357 The Assignment: Johan Otterdahl Edfeldt

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Johan Otterdahl Edfeldt introduces you to Project OCOLOY; One camera, One lens, One year and sets a challenge where you condense the theory of ...

#356 Photowalk: Walk gently those streets

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The photographers' photographer Nils Jorgensen talks this week about street, the "purest form of photography, stripped to its barest minimum; you, a c...

#355 The Assignment: Marissa Roth #2

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Former Pulitzer prize winner with the LA Times Marissa Roth sets the second of three in a series of photographic challenges that will have you today l...

#354 Photowalk: A story of FOUR lions

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The World Cup that launched a photo career and a lion that captured the hearts of a nation. My guest Derek Cattani talks about Fleet Street, lucky bre...

#353 The Assignment: Bill Ward

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Friday's guest rejoins me, to set a photo assignment for a new week and if you listened to the previous Photowalk (episode 352) you may be expecting a...

#352 Photowalk SPECIAL: 'Mischief' Maker to Picture Maker

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today, you and I walk with TV, film and stage actor Bill Ward. A multi-award winner for his challenging role as Charlie Stubbs in Coronation Street, o...

#351 The Assignment: Chris Orange #3

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this challenge, my guest, landscape and commercial photographer Chris Orange is going to call upon your inventive nature, asking you to step into h...

#350 Photowalk: Inspirational life journeys

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A childhood journey across America inspires guest Anne-Marie Michel to make Sisters of the Road, a book about forty female American truckers, an adven...

#349 The Assignment: Marissa Roth #1

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Former Pulitzer prize winner with the LA Times Marissa Roth sets the first of three in a series of photographic challenges that will have you today re...

#348 Photowalk: Finding your faith?

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Finding Faith" is a photographic journey through central Alabama's smallest towns. Over four years Jerimiah Smith photographed and interviewed countl...

#347 The Assignment: Karah Mew #3

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Documenter of life, Karah Mew sets the third and final assignment in her first series for us and asks you to break the popular photographic rules - in...

#346 Photowalk: Photographing our 'Blue Planet'

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Award-winning wildlife and travel photographer, filmmaker and author Sue Flood talks of her sincere love for the Arctic and photographing in the World...

#345 The Assignment: Nick Turpin

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Street and London-based commercial photographer Nick Turpin joins me today with thoughts about story-telling before setting an assignment that will ha...

#344 Photowalk: A beautiful land frozen in time

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Investigative journalist and photographer Lynzy Billing talks about her work in Afghanistan; the people, the stories, the difficulty and the beauty of...