The Photowalk

#243 Photowalk: Photograph strangers you meet, camera bags & other stories

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Each Friday we take a walk with our cameras, a microphone and a mailbag with your thoughts and ideas about photography and what making pictures means ...

#242 Frostbite before you can load a film! Henrik Saxgren

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Making pictures at -35 degrees Celsius in Greenland. Your hands can freeze, long before you load a film chamber. Today, Henrik Saxgren, an internation...

#241 Photowalk: Build a photo business NOW & other stories

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The biggest photo mailbag show in podcastsphere; where you set the agenda with your thoughts and ideas about taking pictures. Today, make pictures bef...

#240 Van Lifing with a camera - BEST JOB EVER!

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Photojournalist Ryan Vizzions excites us about being on the open road in a van, photographing every American state. We talk about escapism, freedom, m...

#239 Photowalk: Urban exploration, potholing & other stories

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The podcastsphere photography mailbag show. Your ideas and thoughts about making photographs whilst we take in a countryside walk. It's a photowalk an...

#238 Images of Courage, Endurance and Defiance

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

British photojournalist Tom Stoddart on his new book Extraordinary Women, a photographic collection that salutes the resilience and courage of women t...

#237 Photowalk: Sharing my secret, how to shoot street & other stories

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The mailbag Photowalk show is from South Devon this week in the south west of England. A dawn chorus, returning to Chernobyl, how the 'Merikans fish, ...

#236 Rogue Hippos! and photographing during a dictatorship

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today two stories featuring humanitarian photojournalist Jason Florio. In the first we talk about a photo expedition he took with his wife and busines...

#235 Photowalk: BEATING creative block & other stories

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The walking photography mailbag show of the week is truly international this week, with stories from the US about the tallest stainless steel monument...

#234 The Meaning in the Making: Why do we make things? Why do we make pictures?

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Philosophical YouTuber and photographer Sean Tucker returns to the show, this time to talk about his new book released this Summer; The Meaning in the...

#233 Photowalk: Chernobyl is my cosy place & other stories

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's the photography podcast edition where we escape together like the end scene from The graduate. Just us, our cameras, earbuds and the mailbag; wal...

#232 Shooting your BIG life changing photo project

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pulitzer prize winner Marissa Roth returns to chat with me about a photographic trip to Tibet that changed her life and 'saved her photography.' If yo...

#231 Photowalk: Leaving my job for photography! & other stories

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's black and white week on the Friday Photowalk as I read and answer your mails you send into the show. We talk about embracing the world that is on...

#230 Witnessing history with your pictures

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Photojournalist Rick Findler's work focuses on both domestic features as well as travelling to some of the most dangerous places on Earth, to shine a ...

#229 Finding a chest of photographs unlocks a new career!

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today Karah Mew, AKA The Glass Narrator talks about how launching a career in documentary portrait photography during a difficult pregnancy that then ...

#228 Friday Photowalk: Beware the bears!

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Friday edition of the show is our mailbag episode; you, your questions and thoughts about the guests you have heard and the photo projects you're ...

#227 'The greatest London photographer you've never heard of?'

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you're wondering about the title today, it's a quote from a Time Out special feature when they highlighted the historically important work of a pho...

#226 'Landscape journalism' and shooting for YOU!

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Barry Butler in our Monday FOCUS edition on business talks about the incredible work he has been doing photographing each sunrise and sunset in Chicag...

#225 Friday Photowalk: Solving crimes in Oxford

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's the mailbag podcast of the week from Oxford this time. Joined by a friend of the show, Steve Vaughan who takes us on a short Morse walk within th...

#224 Women Street Photographers: an international story

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gulnara Samoilova, a photojournalist, a documentarian, a curator, a street photographer and now an editor with a Wednesday Photostory edition about a ...

#223 Building a portrait business in a NEW city: Sydney!

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A new month, a new season of the show begins; on Mondays we talk with photographers worldwide, digging a little deeper into their business stories, a ...

#222 Friday Photowalk: Watership Down

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The 'end of the week show,' taking your emails and DMs on a photowalk; us with our cameras, me with my microphone. Today we're 'climbing' Watership Do...

#221 Take a Picture, Tell a Story, in County Jail!

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'Take a Picture, Tell a Story' is American photojournalist Robert Gumpert's thirteen and a half year project in County Jails where he makes a portrait...

#220 When the NY Times publish your photostory...

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Photographer and National Geographic contributor Roff Smith is more used to being on an airliner travelling to his next international story, than work...

#219 Photowalk: Fish, chips and a polarizer!

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's the end of the week show where you're invited to join me on a photowalk, just you, me, our cameras and the mailbag. This week basketball memories...

#218 Albert Watson on Jagger, Hitchcock and passion

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Albert Watson, OBE is our guest. It's a story of moving from Scotland to America, to the bright lights of LA, which must have been very dazzling and e...

#217 The movie man who 'buys' your house for the day

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Like many good stories, this starts with an element of sliding doors circumstance, a fitting movie reference. A sucker for tales of the unexpected, th...

#216 Friday Photowalk: I can see the sea!

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Photowalk edition is the show where I take your emails and DMs on a photowalk to end the week. We make some pictures and have a chat. Your thought...

#215 SHOOTING hoops, a life with legends!

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Andrew D. Bernstein is a legend in American sports photography, involved in the creation of NBA Photos in 1986, responsible for helping archive ...

#214 Taking your LEAP of faith

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Roy Tyson creates witty and intriguing imagery with customised miniature figures in photographs and art installations. The former car mechanic and pha...

#213 Friday Photowalk: Vintage camera obsessions

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The mailbag walkabout edition of the week where I take the show out with you and our cameras, some 'us time' to make pictures and chat about photograp...

#212 Broken bones to Bel-Air to NASA Classified

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Snowboarder turned photographer Mike Kelley shares a story of his entirely unplanned journey into the world of international architectural photography...

#211 A Wounded Landscape: The Kickstarter success story

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today the extraordinary Kickstarter book project by a British commercial photographer, Marc Wilson; A Wounded Landscape, Bearing Witness to the Holoca...

#210 Friday Photowalk: a meditative walk

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Photowalk edition of the week is a chance to escape into ourselves with earbuds charged, you and I, chatting about what went on during the week wi...

#209 Bono, Hanks, Oprah, Tyson; how to shoot the stars!

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Pugliese, or 'Joepug' as you'll find him online, is an LA based photographer, travelling the world, who photographs celebs and celeb culture, but ...

#208 Photographers don't take sides, they take pictures

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today, two guests. An introduction to Marc Wilson about a Kickstarter project to make a book about the those who lived through, survived, or lost thei...

#207 Friday Photowalk: A jab, a teenager and spring!

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's the edition you download to take out on your own photowalks. The only photowalk show on the 'dial.' This week stories, mails and pictures from De...

#206 One Person Crying: Women and War

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Marissa Roth, a Pulitzer prize winning photographer with the LA Times tells the story of how women in numerous countries and cultures have been direct...

#205 From reality show to photographer of the year

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today the new Irish Press Photographer of the Year, sports photographer James Crombie talks about 2020. From a pandemic stay at home order when all sp...

#204 Friday Photowalk: Snakes and Adders

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The on-location mailbag show of the week where we take a walk together, make some photographs and you share your own pictures and stories of what phot...

#203 Maradona and the $6K picture of a shark

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today, world renowned fine art photographer David Yarrow whose evocative and immersive photography of life on earth has earned him an ever growing fol...

#202 Making your photobook pilgrimage

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today two guests; Angelika Schneider who has been walking the trails of the Camino in Europe, and Ayaz Ali who joined millions of pilgrims for what is...

#201 Friday Photowalk: Gone with the wind

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

50mph average winds, 98% chance of rain, but you've got to take that photowalk; there's always the chance of a strong photograph. Today we talk about ...

#200 What I've learned about photography

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A blind photographer, an animal rights activist, a former nine to fiver who now spends his life photographing the ocean, a once army photographer and ...

#199 Leaving and Waving, Photographic Gold

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Leaving and Waving; 27 years of photographs by photographer and artist Deanna Dikeman, pictures of her parents as they waved goodbye after Deanna's vi...

#198 Friday Photowalk: Who stole my sunshine?

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The mailbag show, brimming with your messages about the guests you've heard and the photos you've been making. This week we hear about Pres. Obama's p...

#197 Pete Souza, The President's photographer

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

President Barack Obama wrote; "I probably spent more time with [photographer] Pete Souza than with anybody, other than my family, having Pete around m...

#196 Honey, I shrunk the photographer!

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cameras made from carved out melons, chutney flavoured developer and salt fix? It can mean only one man; Brendan Barry, the photographer who has a lov...

#195 Friday Photowalk: Gone fishing

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In honour of 'George,' today's photowalk mailbag edition takes us on a lake and riverside walk where the recent rains have the banks close to bursting...

#194 Laughter, love and loss: The Family Imprint

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Family Imprint is a story, a book about photojournalist Nancy Borowick's parents, Howard and Laurel, married for over three decades as they underg...

#193 Silencing the press

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'Arrested for criminal damage.' Why that particular charge has a familiar ring for two photojournalists with the Irish sea between them. Part of a gro...

#192 Friday Photowalk: Finding our mojo again!

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The mailbag show of the week and a sub-theme develops where we hear from some writers who are finding new projects following a year where pandemic has...

#191 Presidents, passion and problem solving

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"A lot of people have jobs they don't love doing. I'm lucky in that I love photography just as much today as I always have." Scott Goldsmith has spent...

#190 Personal photo projects can make you FLY!

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

British editorial shooter Alex Ingram launched his business proper in 2019, just months from this world 'shut down' and I thought it may be interestin...

#189 Friday Photowalk: Photographic therapy

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Great Pen Wood in Berkshire, surrounded by the ancient woodland and forestry, I read some thoughtful reasons why you make pictures in the mailbag show...

#188 Censorship, truth and the Instagram game

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Want some forthright thinking today? NYC and LA street photographer, social documentarian and free spirited thinker, Suzanne Stein talks about a photo...

#187 Photographic LIFE lessons from a master

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ed Kashi, VII Photo Agency photographer talks of his incurable curiosity when it comes to photographing people. We discuss candid photography, what it...

#186 Friday Photowalk: Hidden Tracks

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I've found another disused railway track and it's the perfect photo walk to take with you as we 'raid' the mailbag and messages following this week's ...

#185 Born free, photographed free, living free

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meet commercial and wildlife photographer George Logan, a man who has spent his life dedicated to and now photographing one of the most magnificent ca...

#184 The Sandwich Generation by Ed Kashi

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A story of love, empathy and dignity today. VII Photo agency member Ed Kashi in the first of two parts, the initial being a most remarkable personal p...

#183 Friday Photowalk: Walking the globe!

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The only photowalk show like it in the Podcast Universe, we take our cameras together with a mailbag of your thoughts, walk and talk. This week, celeb...

#182 The 9am selfie for 40 years!

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

American photographer Nancy Floyd talks of 'Weathering Time,' a special self portrait project spanning almost four decades featured in international p...

#181 I've FAILED (or have I?)

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An important question today for photographers; have you or do you feel you have in any way failed? As jobs dry up, as opportunities for many to just g...

#180 Friday Photowalk: Photography brings me 'normalcy'

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Just you, me, our cameras, a microphone and a walk together to make pictures and look into the show's weekly digital mailbag. The only weekly photowal...

#179 The President's picture and hip hop's golden era

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On the day the States welcomes in a new President, I have two stories, one of a photograph that became the favourite Inauguration Day picture for Bara...

#178 Stop the steal's frozen moment: Inauguration week

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

American photojournalist Raquel Natalicchio, in Washington this week for the Inauguration of the 46th President of the United States of America, talks...

#177 Friday Photowalk: Wild horses and dirty boots

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The mailbag show; today we talk monochromatic sensors, shooting style, Berlin sights and capturing the stars as I walk once more closer to home, a res...

#176 Break dancing, street art and the 'Black Sun'

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Renowned Danish portrait photographer Søren Solkær is back for the second concluding part to his story and we talk about two very different projects...

#175 Extraordinary ordinary pictures: our legacy

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I am in a philosophically reminiscent, nostalgic mood with a very different story of photographic life from the news photojournalism, sports shooting,...

#174 The Capitol, what the photographer saw!

09 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Saturday extra edition today talking to DC photojournalist David Butow. He came to Washington at the start of the Trump presidency to see how the st...

#173 FRIDAY PHOTOWALK: Inspiring ideas for 2021

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's the mailbag show, featuring your feedback and photo plans for 2021. We play photo ping pong, pick up our film cameras, try to reboot our photogra...

#172 Soulful celebrity portraiture

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A two-parter across today and next Wednesday; Danish photographer Søren Solkær known for his creative portraits of music stars, celebs and more latt...

#171 Photographing FIVE Prime Ministers

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today, PA Media photojournalist Stefan Rousseau on two decades spent photographing every British Prime Minister as they take power, leave power, and p...

#170 MEGASODE PREVIEW: "A career making pictures of what I love!"

02 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's the Megasode for Patrons and this is the free preview. I talk with established London portrait photographer Neale Haynes who has photographed A l...

#169 Friday Photowalk: 2021 Photo Plans

01 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's the first show of 2021; the mailbag show and if you're new to this podcast, during the week, I talk with photographers from all backgrounds and g...

#168 Ten inspiring photographer stories

31 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A New Year's Eve special where we listen back to the words, advice and inspiration of some of 2020's most popular guests. From photographing president...

#167 War, country shows and getting personal

30 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today, 'embracing opportunity,' meet Ian Forsythe, former army photographer now news, social, commercial and even events photographer whose story tell...

#166 Don't follow the 'SHOULDAs' in 2021: be YOU!

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For those a little sluggish from the rich holiday banquets, left overs and reheated left overs of left overs, plus of course the mountains of chocolat...

#165 If you're passionate about it, go ALL IN!

23 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

'Twas the show before Christmas, a time to reflect a little and look forward too. Last week I introduced you to the YouTube photo philosophiser, photo...

#164 Three Wise Photographers

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"Ah, Neale has gone and found himself three very travelled seasoned known names who are about to impart wisdom gathered from their combined 14 decades...

#163 Elton John, the one who got away! Nearly

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the photographer Bjoern Kommerell who travelled from Germany to the States to find his creative fortune and I think you can safely say he found i...

#162 Friday Photowalk: Chasing the light

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's mail time show and photowalk, Matt Hardwick shares leaving a nine to five job to pursue his real passion; automobile photography, your thou...

#161 What makes you a better photographer? The sequel

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With help from the mailbag, today; what makes you a better photographer? It seems that it's a mix of fun, deliberate practise, varying how you work, r...

#160 Going viral on YouTube

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With video titles like, 'How portraits lie, Why BAD photographers THINK they're good,' and 'Are these photographers cheating,' today's guest Jamie Win...

#159 Shooting a Royal Wedding

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

PA Media Photographer Owen Humphreys shares his story of a career highlight; photographing the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle, high in...

#158 Charged by elephants, 200 times!

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There's a distinct possibility, this episode could just save your life. We start the week with a walk on the wild side, literally with an internationa...

#157 Friday Photowalk: Soggy left foot

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's the mailbag show; the episode that takes your feedback about the shows you hear and shares thoughts about photography on a weekly photowalk. This...

#156 Lost and found creatively, during 'The Covid'

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only ...

#155 The adventurist photographer 8,848 metres up!

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Seven years in the British Special Forces, today's guest delivered the world's highest video broadcast to the BBC, he's been a professional racing tea...

#154 Photographic witness to terror

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For two decades, Stefan Rousseau has spent much of his time travelling with and photographing the Prime Ministers of Great Britain as a photojournalis...

#153 White horses to wild horses, the job of dreams

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

World renowned fine art photographer Jonathan Chritchley has discovered the serenity of the sea, being by water, on water, even in water. His trademar...

#152 Friday Photowalk: Chased by darkness

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With the winter months descending, on this photowalk, I get, as ever, lost in the woods with the sun sinking lower and the trails back to the car disa...

#151 What makes you a better photographer?

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Let's be honest this is a BIG question and in many respects I'm throwing it out to you so that we can start a two way on this for inclusion in a forth...

#150 Get in REAL close and tell the story!

02 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Butow, a Washington DC based photojournalist who made the decision to move to the capital purely because he wanted in on the Trump show. But awa...

#149 Photographing what you BELIEVE in

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I've spent 2020 talking with and interviewing over a hundred photographers for this and the FujiCast podcast and if one thing has become clearer than ...

#148 Whatever you do matters

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Misan Harriman returns for his concluding part, the story of an incredible three years, from making pictures on a holiday with a camera he barely used...

#147 MEGASODE promo: seascapes, mindfulness and business 2021

28 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today meet Margaret Soraya, based by Loch Ness in Scotland, working in nature's quiet places, capturing beautiful land and seascapes. We learn more ab...

#146 Friday Photowalk: Bognor and the Birdman

27 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's the end of the week show, the photowalk; me with my camera and mails from the electronic mail bag, feedback to what you've heard on the podcast. ...

#145 Photographing THE PRESIDENT

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today, in photographing The President, DC based photojournalist and portrait photographer David Butow talks of making pictures in a climate where imag...

#144 The greatest passport is my camera

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Charlene Winfred the nomadic street photographer and Fujifilm ambassador returns today for the second concluding part of her story, and we meander a l...