While many people are saying "good riddance" to 2018, for Street Photography Magazine we're sad to see it go. 2018 was a great year for the magazine, which saw a spectacular line up of street photographers and images. In fact, I'd wager this year we had some of our best content to-date. In this episode of the Street Photography Magazine podcast, we look back on last year and talk about our favorite articles, featured photographers and lessons we learned from some of our guests. And not only
Best Practices for Your Online Portfolio
Earlier this month, Bob talked about Why it’s Important to Have Your Own Online Photography Portfolio on the podcast. He discussed some of the reasons why creating an online portfolio is vital if you want your work to be discovered and appreciated by others. While you may understand the reasons having an online portfolio is important, you may not feel equipped to take on the task. After all, for those of us who are not “techie” by nature (Ashley speaking here, obviously), setting up a website
Our Street Shooting Adventures in Cuba with Matt Jerrams
Growing up in the 50s and 60s I was taught to think of Cuba as an enemy state full of communists and Russians threatening our security and way of life. With no contact between our countries it remained an enigma to me most of my life. But I was also very curious about this place and was interested in seeing what it’s like for myself. Fast forward several years, it finally became possible for Americans to travel there easily, but not without a few hurdles. Photographers were among
The Making of a Personal Street Photography Portfolio with Miguel Ortiz
Welcome back to the Street Photography Magazine podcast. It’s really good to be back I apologize for publishing this two days late. Normally republish every other Thursday, but due to a freakish winter storm in the Carolinas I got stuck in Miami (if there is such a thing) for two extra days after the Miami Street Photography Festival. Miami Street Photography Festival I just returned form the Miami Street Photography Festival a couple days late thanks to a freakish winter storm in the
Why it’s important to have your own online photography portfolio
Today we discuss the importance of having your own photography web presence (a portfolio), the pitfalls of relying on "free" services like Facebook and Flickr as a portfolio, the best practices for creating and managing you online portfolio, common mistakes and the most common obstacles to making a personal photography website. I'm also please to welcome Portfoliobox as our sponsor for the month of December for our special portfolio series. You can try their service for free or get a Pro
Street Photography treatment for PTSD with Shawn Augustson
Here’s a quick reminder about our Facebook group. It’s still small and very active with some very talented and passionate street photographers. You can join it by visiting talkstreetphotography.com. That link will take you straight to the join page. If you tried to join over the last 2 weeks please accept my apologies for any delays. I didn’t realize it, but I was logged in as myself instead of the group administration, which means I didn’t see the requests to join. It’s funny because I
Old School Straight and Truthful Photography with Nikita Stupin
Can you believe it’s November already? It seems like summer just started and now we’re heading back into winter…at least up here in the norther hemisphere. First I’d like to give a plug to our Facebook group called the The Street Photography Community. It’s a small but mighty and very active group of highly motivated street photographers who are there to help each other in all areas of street photography. Check it out by visiting http://talkstreetphotography.com then click the Join
Andy Hann on self-publishing his book Welcome to Hollywood
The subject of our episode today is what I call the three P’s. Project, Passion, and Persistence. It’s really The hero of our story is Andy Hann, a creative director with Sony Studios in the Los Angeles area. Andy decided one day that he wanted to create a photo project about the people who frequent Hollywood Boulevard. If you’ve never been there it’s probably one of the quirkiest places in America with people dressed as movie super heros, famous people like Marylin Monroe and Michael
Kerry Faulkner – Journalist and Street Photographer
Our guest today is Kerry Faulkner, an Australian journalist / photojournalist and educator based in the city of Perth. Her work has been published in The Walkley Magazine, The Australian Travel and Indulgence, Scoop Magazines, R.M. Williams Outback Magazine, The Sunday Times and too many others to list here. Needless to say she’s quite busy. Kerry tells us that in today’s market journalists not only have to be skilled writers, they also must be good photographers and sometimes videographers.
Mexico Between Life and Death – Interview with Harvey Stein
Our guest today is Harvey Stein. He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography, (ICP) in New York and teaches a series of photography workshops around the world. His work is been exhibited around the world and is the recipient of numerous awards. Also he’s been published in dozens of magazines like the New Yorker, Time Magazine, life Magazine, Esqire, The New York Times and too many others to list here. Publishing a monograph of your street photos is the promised land
MIami Street Photography Festival with Juan Reyes and Veronica Valle
This is a special edition of the podcast all about the upcoming Miami Street Photography Festival coming soon in December. I’m writing this on Friday, September 14 as hurricane Florence is just making landfall in North Carolina. Earlier this week it looked like we were going to be overtaken by insanely heavy rain here in Central Virginia, so we scrambled to finish the magazine early…just in case we didn’t have any power to publish on Saturday. Fortunately for us, the storm turned south and