Welcome to a photography podcast where we walk together with a mailbag of stories and pictures.
My guest today, John Dolan, understands and completely embraces the importance of the photographic moment over photographic perfection. The second edition of his best-selling monograph, The Perfect Imperfect, is about to be released, and in it, he invites photographers to look beyond the shot list and find beauty and truth in imperfect moments. He has photographed the most recent Whitehouse Wedding; he is Seinfeld's family documentarian, and he is trusted to record the most intimate and often vulnerable moments for clients including Will Smith and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Also from the mailbag as we walk, making pictures of the beautifully inanimate, the things that we pass by every day and never give a second thought to, a case of mistaken Googling when typing in the letters M A L and I, a letter on dragging yourself out of bed at sunrise, solar eclipses, the winner of last month’s assignment, plus it being the second Friday of the month, street photographer and photography mentor Valerie Jardin joins me for Visual Stories, this month talking about timeless pictures in Paris.
Links to all guests and features will be on the showpage, my sincere thanks to MPB.com who sponsor this show and the Extra Milers without whom we wouldn't be walking each week.
WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available here.
#298 Photowalk: Obsessions with sad and the Instagram Curiosity Shop
#297 The Assignment: Mali Davies #1
#296 Photowalk: Suffering for our art, a shortcut to mindfulness?
#295 The Assignment: Giles Penfound #1
#294 Photowalk: Changing life plans for photography
#293 The Assignment: Sean Tucker #2
#292 Photowalk: Finding YOU and your photographic voice
#291 The Assignment: Valerie Jardin #1
#290 Photowalk: Magnum's Alec Soth finding chemistry with strangers
#289 The Assignment: Sean Tucker #1
#288 Photowalk: Punk Rock Star to Photographer!
#287 Photowalk: REDHEADS or GINGERS and a gene uniting the World
#286 Photowalk: What do you see in the mirror?
#285 Photowalk: From dentistry to DeVito!
#284 Photowalk: Voices from Ukraine
#283 Photowalk: Joel Meyerowitz awakening our potential
#282 Photowalk: Giving EVERYTHING for one BIG picture
#281 The Photowalk Retreat 2022
#280 Photowalk: Respect the street & criticism!
#279 Photowalk: A life well lived making pictures
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