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.
#278 Photowalk: Landscape legend Charlie Waite & don't fear imposter syndrome
#277 Photowalk: "Sacrifice the weak?!" A photostory about empathy
#276 Photowalk: 3 decades in a creative wilderness
#275 Photowalk: INSPIRATION FOR 2022
#274 Photowalk: Photographing the homeless with dignity & Instafatigue
#273 MPB Special: My PASSION for buying used cameras and kit!
#272 Photowalk: Magnum's Mark Power & BEATING Imposter Syndrome!
#271 Photowalk: The World's best darkroom printer & other stories
#270 Photowalk: National Geo's Best Pics! & the Extraordinary Tom Stoddart
#269 Photowalk: Fighting for our planet, self belief & other stories
#268 Photowalk: Polaroid portraits of the stars, van-lifing, mushrooms & other stories
#267 Photowalk: Rankin, photographing The Queen & other stories
#266 Photowalk: The photographic secret to finding calm
#265 Photowalk: Age is but a number. Let's go get published!
#264 Photowalk: Adventures at sea, projects and making stories?!
#263 Photowalk: Can I take your picture, please? Confidence
#262 Photowalk: Mindfulness, street, film & other stories
#261 Photowalk: An accident, a photo love affair and a dog called Meg
#260 Photowalk: Have a little fear in your work & other stories
#259 Photowalk: Leaving photography to LOVE IT once again
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