Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton
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In Memory of Martin Bough
September 25, 2021 18:15 - 1 hour - 60 MBFrom June 2020, My conversation with Martin Bough on his life and work. Martin Bough 1927-2021
Flooding + Back to School = No episode this week.
September 10, 2021 18:06 - 39 seconds - 618 KBHad some trouble getting it all together for this week.
Anita Allyn | Teaching & Ecosystem
August 28, 2021 01:45 - 55 minutes - 51 MBArtist and educator, Anita Allyn and I talk about the origins of her photography and installation work and we talk about our shared experiences of teaching in Mercer County, New Jersey. Anita is the Coordinator and Professor of Photography and Video at The College of New Jersey. https://www.anita-allyn.com https://www.instagram.com/anita_allyn/ This episode is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club, a monthly subscription service for photobook enthusiasts. Working with the most respected n...
Away with the Family
August 13, 2021 13:00 - 29 seconds - 459 KBNo show today. Traveling with the family.
Tom Leininger | Teaching & Sale Day
July 30, 2021 12:00 - 52.8 MB**Lecturer and Photographer, Tom Leininger and I talk about his shift from the world of photojournalism to the world of art education which has been a mix of full time and part time work, including being one of many voices in a large program at the University of North Texas to becoming the primary voice in a small program at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. We also talk about the challenges to finding time to photograph and stay engaged in the art world, especially with a full time job o...
Julianna Foster | Teaching & Geographical Lore
July 16, 2021 19:50 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBJulianna Foster is an artist and assistant professor and interim Program Director of Photography at the University of the Arts. We have a fantastic conversation about teaching and her latest work, Geographical Lore which looks at the changing environment through sculptural images. Geographical Lore was just included in Four Degrees: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Change Presented by Strange Fire Collective & Humble Arts Foundation. Julianna was also a guest on the JKC Gallery's Third Thursdays talk...
Brendan Bannon | Teaching & Most Important Picture
July 02, 2021 13:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBBrendan Bannon is a photographer and teacher based between New York and Nairobi, Kenya. We talk about the work his students are showing at the JKC Gallery as part of The Mark and the Memory show curated by Ryann Casey. The work comes from a workshop taught by Brendan and Julian Chinana called Odyssey that is offered to combat veterans to help them process their experiences through the use of the camera. We talk about how Brendan suffered from depression while taking care of his mother who wa...
Efrem Zelony-Mindell | Teaching & Primal Sight
June 18, 2021 21:22 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBArtist, critic, writer, curator, author, and workshop teacher, Efrem Zelony-Mindell and I talk about their book Primal Sight, pub by Gnomic Book, and how this book about a modern examination of black and white photography lead to Efrem's latest book, Witness, which examines radical forms of expression and affection through the works of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists. We also have an extensive conversation about teaching professional practice and how Efrem's ideas about the ways we make art inter...
Elinor Carucci | Teaching & Midlife
June 04, 2021 23:47 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBElinor Carucci and I talk about her book Midlife, an autobiographical exploration of life, ageing, mortality, and the challenges women face as they get older to not become invisible. We talk about the hard work and stresses involved with making personal and commercial work, raising children, and teaching. Elinor talks about her mentors, and the ways in which she has changed as an educator and how she learns from her students. http://www.elinorcarucci.com Born 1971 in Jerusalem, Israel, E...
Cary Benbow | Teaching, Writing, & Textbooks
May 22, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MBCary and I reminisce a bit about our different experiences in the textbook world and the changes that occurred in the publishing and stock photography world that came about almost simultaneously with the introduction of digital photography in the classroom. We talk about Cary's own photography, his desire to promote work from those underrepresented in the photo world, and we talk about the kind of work we might be seeing in the coming years that is a result of the psychological and emotional...
Heather Palecek | Teaching & Historical Practice
May 08, 2021 17:34 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBHeather Palecek is an artist who uses historical photographic processes in experimental ways to explore our relationship with nature. She is also a high school photo teacher. We talk about her last show at the JKC Gallery and I ask her about teaching at the high school level and the importance of mentors. https://heatherpalecek.squarespace.com This episode is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club, a monthly subscription service for photobook enthusiasts. Working with the most respected name...
Endia Beal | Teaching & Performance Review
April 24, 2021 20:30 - 47.7 MBThis episode is the first in a series dedicated to talking about teaching art while still having some personal success as an artist. Everyone in this series will be asked Who were your teachers or mentors How do you balance teaching and making Who do you see getting hired today as teachers Where does art rank in importance in your school Who are the students that you serve What’s your favorite teaching assignment Give us a pro-tip for teaching or photographing Endia Beal is a North C...
Gulnara Samoilova | Women Street Photographers
March 21, 2021 15:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBToday's guest is Gulnara Samoilova and we talk about her book, Women Street Photographers published by Prestel Publishing. An amazing collection of work that showcases 100 contemporary women street photographers working around the world. We also talk about how the aftermath of photographing 9/11and editing work for the Associated Press after 9/11 caused Gulnara to think about what she wanted or needed to photograph to bring some joy back into photography for her. Gulnara Samoilova, who ha...
Irina Rozovsky | In Plain Air
March 07, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MB"I wish I had more time for my child, I wish I had more time for my work, I wish I had more time for the Humid…" Irina Rozovsky and I talk about her work being included in MOMA's New Photography 2020, her new book, In Plain Air, running workshops at The Humid, and just life in general during Covid. Irina Rozovsky (born in Moscow, raised in the US), makes photographs of people and places, transforming external landscapes into interior states. She has published three monographs (One to Nothi...
Hannah Kozak | He Threw the Last Punch Too Hard
February 13, 2021 19:52 - 70.1 MB"Forget about stunts, owning my story was the bravest thing I ever did." Hannah Kozak is a photographer and a Hollywood stuntwoman. When Hannah was 9 her mother left the family for a man who turned out to be abusive towards her mother. Hannah witnessed this abuse and it eventually lead to Hannah's mother being hospitalized with permanent brain damage. Hannah's book, He Threw the Last Punch Too Hard, is a story about Hannah and her mother and her journey of forgiveness and dealing with domes...
Stephen Frailey | Looking at Photography
January 19, 2021 14:00 - 42.3 MB"In a way the book is almost a valentine to a group of pictures and also a group of people…a community of people who have been engaged in redefining photography." Stephen Frailey and I talk about his new book, Looking at Photography published by Damiani Books, an homage to John Szarkowski's Looking at Photographs. While it uses Szarkowski's format, it is very much Stephen's own ideas about photography distilled from many years of lectures, critiques, and conversations he has had with his s...
Amani Willett | A Parallel Road -Ep.127
December 26, 2020 15:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MB"In classes it was always, oh the road represents ultimate freedom, exuberance, the American dream…I just kept thinking, wait a minute, this doesn't line up for me." For nearly a century, the American road trip has been closely associated with the American dream. The open road is where millions of Americans freely set out to explore the country’s beauty, epic landscapes, and diversity of cultures. For a country that claims to be a free and democratic land without roadblocks, the road trip h...
David Alpert | What is your Reality -Ep.126
December 16, 2020 17:00 - 38 minutes - 70.5 MB"I'll go and hold their hand with my hand by following their cursor with my cursor." David Alpert is an artist and curator living and working in Kansas City. His curatorial work involves interaction, connection, and collaboration with others. His work is performative and driven by a desire to bring people together. The pandemic has been a unique challenge to David who is currently in the Curatorial Practice program at MICA. We talk about how he has continued to create collaborative work du...
Jesse Lenz | The Locusts - Ep.125
December 04, 2020 20:20 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MB"Like shooting in black and white it really is just trying to find a way to see all these tones of gray and to not see things so stark as good and bad or life and death…" Jesse Lenz and I talk about his first monograph, The Locusts. It is a gorgeous book that explores childhood wonder and discovery, beauty and terror, and memory and imagination, as well as the notions of what is family and home. As you will hear in our conversation, the process of making this work was part of a turning poi...
Jesse Lenz | The Locusts -Ep.125
December 04, 2020 20:20 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MB"Like shooting in black and white it really is just trying to find a way to see all these tones of gray and to not see things so stark as good and bad or life and death…" Jesse Lenz and I talk about his first monograph, The Locusts. It is a gorgeous book that explores childhood wonder and discovery, beauty and terror, and memory and imagination, as well as the notions of what is family and home. As you will hear in our conversation, the process of making this work was part of a turning poi...
Finbarr O'Reilly - Bernadette Vivuya | Congo in Conversation Ep.124
November 18, 2020 13:35 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBEpisode Notes "What this project looks to do is go well beyond that with more nuance and more authentic voices from the community that is being reported on." -Finbarr O'Reilly I have two amazing guests for today's show Finbarr O'Reilly and Bernadette Vivuya. This show coincides with the release of the book and multimedia online collaboration, Congo in Conversation by Finbarr O'Reilly. Finnbarr and, journalist and filmmaker, Bernadette talk about the work, the messages they wanted to conve...
Bronx Documentary Center | The End of Truth -Ep.123
October 21, 2020 18:15 - 16 minutes - 22.3 MBMichael Kamber and Cynthia Rivera of the Bronx Documentary Center call in to talk about several events coming up at the BDC for this short series pre-election episode. Here are the events you should support or attend if you can. https://www.bronxdoc.org 6TH ANNUAL PHOTO AUCTION BENEFIT VIRTUAL CELEBRATION THURSDAY OCT 22, 2020 | 7PM The Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) is proud to present our 6th Annual Photo Auction Benefit. To give back to the many Bronx photographers who work with us...
Eric Kunsman | Fake News -Ep.122
October 11, 2020 13:35 - 25 minutes - 20.6 MBEric Kunsman and I talk about his work, Fake News Archive Project: A Historical Archive of the Donald J. Trump Presidency. Eric is looking for people interested in the next election, and any archive enthusiasts, to search through his screen captured collection of news headlines from the past almost four years and to highlight, through your own social media, the stories that were impactful to you but, because of the overwhelming news cycle, may now be lost to history. Here is his description...
Sasha Rudensky | Insider / Outsider - Ep.121
September 25, 2020 19:40 - 47 minutes - 38.1 MB"Really my favorite thing about photography is walking around with my camera…If I could do only one kind of work for the rest of my life, I think that would unquestionably be what I would want to do." Sasha Rudensky is an artist and an educator. She is currently the Program Director and an Associate Professor of Art at Weslyan University. She studied Studio Art and Russian Literature at Weslyan University and received her MFA from Yale University. When Sasha was young her family left Russi...
Duquann Sweeney | Counter Narrative -Ep.120
August 28, 2020 19:12 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MB"I was thinking about that lately…as far as black photographers in general, will it always be a counter-narrative…" Duquann Sweeney is a photographer and a community organizer in Jersey City, NJ. He is a founder of The Royal Men Foundation which provides mentoring services, health and educational workshops, and works with the county courts to provide alternative sentencing for people accused of minor crimes. I've posted a link to The Royal Men Foundation in the show notes. Duquann and I tal...
Deborah Jack | Drawn by Memory - Ep.119
August 13, 2020 22:55 - 1 hour - 51.2 MB"When the green comes in, the grass comes back first, and then the smaller shrubs. It's always this sort of hopeful space…I always feel that nature reminds us that after trauma there's regeneration." Deborah Jack is a multimedia artist. Her current work deals with trans-cultural existence, memory, the effects of colonialism and mythology through re-memory. Deborah was born in the Netherlands and grew up in the Netherlands/Saint Martin. She went to grad school at SUNY Buffalo, NY and current...
Habiyb Ali Shu'Aib | Beloved Home - Ep.118
July 25, 2020 23:44 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MB"There's a small neighborhood that's called Wilbur Section…It's known for crime, gang activity, drug usage, murders, unsolved homicide, and this is where I am from and this is what formed and shaped me…I want to give something back to my community. I want people to acknowledge themselves and know that they are beautiful." Habiyb Ali Shu'Aib is a Trenton, NJ based photographer who has been photographing life in Trenton since he was 9. His work is a mix of portraits of neighborhoods and portr...
PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - Teaser
July 17, 2020 20:15 - 9 minutes - 7.75 MBHere's an introduction and a short clip from PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, a new show that I am producing for Sasha about some of the more existential questions that artists think about but don't always talk about. Subscribe to it on your favorite podcast service or listen to it at photowork.podbean.com.
Martin Bough | Curiosity & Music - Ep.117
June 28, 2020 14:49 - 1 hour - 91.1 MB"You really have to understand the times we live in and…the things that you push against are the things that make you who you are." Martin Bough is a photographer, a teacher, and a Jazz musician. He has been photographing since 1962 but that is not where this story begins. Martin is 92 years old and he was already an accomplished saxophone player and a highly skilled printing press operator before he took up the camera. Martin is a storyteller and you will not hear me very much in this episod...
Tamara Torres | Who Does Art Belong To - Ep.116
June 07, 2020 01:59 - 1 hour - 101 MB"I can't take that (art) with me when I am gone, but I can certainly pass the message and leave behind how important art is as a tool to get better from trauma in life and just move forward." Tamara Torres is an Afro-Latina feminist artist and community activist based in Trenton, NJ. Tamara and I were going to record last year when her work was in the JKC Gallery, but she had to jet off to two more shows, one in Chicago and another in London before we had the chance. We recorded with, guest c...
Tamara Torres | Who Does Art Belong To -Ep.116
June 07, 2020 01:59 - 1 hour - 101 MB"I can't take that (art) with me when I am gone, but I can certainly pass the message and leave behind how important art is as a tool to get better from trauma in life and just move forward." Tamara Torres is an Afro-Latina feminist artist and community activist based in Trenton, NJ. Tamara and I were going to record last year when her work was in the JKC Gallery, but she had to jet off to two more shows, one in Chicago and another in London before we had the chance. We recorded with, guest ...
Ross Kasovitz | K&M Camera Past, Present, & Future - Ep.115
May 22, 2020 16:03 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MB"I can tell you stories upon stories about endless amounts of people who have come through from Roy DeCarava, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank, Larry Clark…all the icons of the fine art photo community…everybody…Helen Levitt and Mary Ellen Mark. Just amazing artists…my father's been in it from the beginning." Ross Kasovitz grew up around some of the most well known photographers and artists for all of his life. He is the son of Peter "Itzik" Kasovitz of K&M Camera. Ross and I talk about how he c...
Emily Hanako Momohara | Fruits of Labor - Ep.114
May 09, 2020 16:16 - 1 hour - 95.7 MB"My grandmother's family were all incarcerated at Minidoka, one of the WWII Japanese-American camps, and I just felt like there were few communities that stood up for them at that time and with the privilege that I have now, with being fourth generation American, I certainly can speak out on those issues that were pivotal to my own family." Emily Hanako Momohara was part of a panel talk at this year's SPE Conference titled 21st Century Family. She spoke about her work, Fruits of Labor: A Lega...
Roula Seikaly I Photos without People - Ep.113
April 18, 2020 17:27 - 1 hour - 117 MB"There is suddenly, in some ways, a whole new branch, a whole new subject for photography…How will notions of isolation, loneliness, communication…be addressed photographically and are those photographic subjects? " Roula Seikaly and I recorded at the SPE Conference in Houston just before everything began to be cancelled and public places were shut down. I called Roula to start the show because of all of the changes since we recorded, so there is a phone conversation at the start to check-in ...
John D Freyer | Building Recovery Capital - Ep.112
April 02, 2020 19:07 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MB"I say that as a person who shifted from being an artist/activist to someone who has really taken the activism part of my practice and my life and put it front and center." John Freyer is an artist, activist, and Professor of Cross Disciplinary Media at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. We met up at the Society of Photographic Education conference in Houston shortly after his panel talk titled, We Want Our Pictures Back, with Arthur Fields, Graham MacIndoe, and John. They ...
Matthew Leifheit | Ocean Meets the Bay - Ep.111
March 16, 2020 16:28 - 1 hour - 112 MBMatthew Leifheit | Ocean Meets the Bay "I think people are increasingly asked to choose many paths at once, so my professional practice class has been retitled, How to Become a Self-Cleaning Oven. " Matt Leifheit is a photographer, magazine editor, book editor, and publisher. He is the founder of Matte Editions which produces Matte Magazine and a growing number photo books, including Slow Morpheus by my guest co-host and friend of the show, Rachel Stern. Matt, Rachel, and I talk about Matt's...
Paolo Morales | Blind Leading the Blind - Ep.110
February 29, 2020 15:31 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB"When I would come up from Virginia I would go there and I would take pictures and I would be like, okay if I take a picture then he'll live until next time." Paolo Morales and I met to record at SVA during his short break from teaching at Hollins University in Roanoke Virginia. We talk about what it has been like for a New York City kid to relocate to Virginia to keep working and talk about his most recently exhibited work, The Blind Leading the Blind and Memphis Tulips, which deal with dis...
John Sanderson | Carbon County - Ep.109
February 07, 2020 19:13 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MB"I saw the sun coming over the east, over the landscape and the farmlands and I saw this hot air balloon that was coming up, this bright red…extremely saturated red hot air balloon…and behind it was sun lighting it up from behind…I looked over at my dad and he just kept driving… " John Sanderson is a large format film photographer based in New York City. He is probably best known for his portrait-like series of mid-century diesel locomotives and his series entitled Railroad Landscapes. I met...
Andrew Cenci | Louisville - Ep.108
January 24, 2020 17:38 - 51 minutes - 69.9 MB"Photography has been a really healing practice for me and a spiritual practice in terms of just going out and making work." Andrew Cenci is a photographer based in Louisville Kentucky. He was visiting New York last year to see the Winogrand show. Andrew works full time in marketing but he has immersed himself in and has become part of the photo community of Louisville. He is mostly self-taught and I wanted to talk to him about creating his life in photography in a smaller community of artis...
Amr Alfiky | Muslim in America Ep.107
January 04, 2020 19:53 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MB"I think we are going to need these pictures in 10 years because everybody's talking about what happened in Egypt, but no one is talking to us about what happened to us after we were kicked out of our own country." Amr Alfiky is an Egyptian award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker based in New York City. He was studying medicine when the Egyptian revolution began. Working as a medic during the uprising, Amr was accused of aiding the enemy and served time in prison on several occa...
Mark Steinmetz | Carnival - Ep.106
December 17, 2019 01:54 - 1 hour - 95.9 MB"That's the pleasure of photography, it's really just kind of daydreaming with these borders around the world and what's in and what's out." Mark Steinmetz was in town to talk about his new book Carnival, published by Stanley/Barker. In-between a talk at The Bronx Documentary Center, another one at The Penumbra Foundation, and a book signing at Dashwood Books, Mark sat down with Anna Roma and I in his tiny hotel room in Manhattan. We talk about everything from Mark's origins to photographing ...
Sasha Wolf | PhotoWork - Ep.105
November 30, 2019 21:40 - 42 minutes - 57.6 MB"I do think it's really important to help people out with as much information sharing as possible, especially when you get to a certain point in your career and you have information to share." Sasha Wolf is a curator, editor, art dealer, and most recently, the creator and editor of PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice. Sasha is also one of the most generous people in the photo world with her time and her advice, and that is a big reason for her wanting to create this book, t...
Madeline Djerejian | Double Portrait - Ep.104
November 16, 2019 22:43 - 1 hour - 100 MB"I looked at these images and I thought, what's this about? I had very faint memories about it and so in order to sort of fill in the gaps, I wrote to people and asked them what they remembered about evacuating Beirut…I thought how am I going to make sense of this, what am I going to do with this text…" Madeline Djerejian is a fascinating artist whose work brings together photography, literature, and writing in a very unique way. Sometimes the work is the writing and sometimes the writings i...
Matthew Abbott | Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards - Ep.103
October 28, 2019 21:53 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MB"I had to mature to a place where I was interested in the stories…It's not just about pretty photographs…I think you need to come to a point where you have a genuine interest in what you are photographing and the stories you are trying to tell and that takes time." Matthew Abbott is a documentary photographer based in Australia. He covers social and political issues around the world but, most recently, he has been working on projects that raise awareness about Indigenous Australians. He has b...
Ajuan Song - Kuzma Vostrikov | Absolutely Augmented Reality - Ep.102
October 12, 2019 17:07 - 51 minutes - 70.2 MB"I think it's wonderland, It's a positive little bit melancholy land located nowhere. It's not political or psychological, it's more about some far, far away world in which you don't have the keys to open it easily." Ajuan Song and Kuzma Vostrikov stopped by SVA to talk about their series "Absolutely Augmented Reality." It is a continually evolving series of portraits and multimedia work that explores our how our connection to the world and each other is increasingly a digital experience dri...
Liz Zito | Mueller Report Fan Fiction - Ep.101
September 27, 2019 19:46 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBLiz Zito | Mueller Report Fan Fiction "I felt the way to share it with adding the redactions in, it gives you at least a beat to laugh and to kind of take a break and also think about the absurdity…of the political world that we are living in." Liz Zito is a multimedia artist and the Coordinator of Curriculum & Special Projects at the School of Visual Arts MFA Photo, Video, and Related Media. When we recorded Liz was in the middle of doing live performance readings of her piece: Mueller Repo...
Kai McBride | Different City - Half Frame - Ep.100
September 13, 2019 19:24 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBFriend and former co-host Kai McBride calls in from New Mexico to talk about the big changes in his life and to help celebrate the 100th episode of the show. Kai was the manager of the photo facilities and taught photography at Columbia University. His move is related to the passing of his father and we talk about the adjustments he is making with work, planning his future, developing a new community, and acclimating to his new 7,000 foot elevation so he can get back to his full cycling capab...
Ann Lepore | Amulet for Introverts - Ep.99
August 27, 2019 01:44 - 1 hour - 122 MB"My work is very much about physical places and landscapes but it's' maybe more about communities and social markers that you can see in landscapes. So I was like, what's something social or community related that you could put in one of those capsules?" Ann Lepore is a multimedia artist in the in the most expansive definition of that term. She has made everything from lithographs to holograms, 3D printed amulets to animated sound experiments, she has made objects from street-interview reques...
Ivan McClellan | Eight Seconds - Ep.98
August 09, 2019 22:15 - 1 hour - 106 MB"Rodeo is sort of this universal expression of rural culture and everybody owns it…Native Americans own it, Mexicans own it, Black folks own it, White people own it…these are American Cowboys." Ivan McClellan grew up with adversity both from outside his family and inside his family. He speaks openly about the trauma and the healing in his life, and the choices he made that took him from acting, to UX design, and to photography. His best known work is a project he calls Eight Seconds, A tribu...
Edwin J Torres | Trent-Towne -Ep.97
July 25, 2019 17:46 - 1 hour - 106 MB"I wasn't really a big fan of government when I was working as a freelancer, I was very skeptical, but when I stepped in I saw the incredible amount of work…and it was insane, and it was overwhelming…these people are doing so much work and sacrificing everything." Edwin Torres is the Deputy Digital Director for Governor Murphy's Office in New Jersey. Before that he was a staff photographer for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and before that, Edwin was a freelance photojournalist. In 2016,...