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My name is Andrew Walmsley and your listening to episode 154 of photography insights.  This is the show that interviews people from the photography world. I have been shooting film for about 5 years now (or so I believe) and buying it initially online was always daunting. The world is very different now with so many places to buy from but that offer more than just a place to buy.  Luckily I came across Paul at Analogue Wonderland just over 3 years ago. It was clear he had a fresh approach to the industry and quickly established his business.  From his initial interview back in August 2018 I wanted to reach out again to try and summarise whats happened to Analogue Wonderland in the last 3 years. Paul always seemed like one of us and felt like you were dealing with a friend and investing in something good. From the reviews side to the loyalty rewards, it just felt he had really nailed the film sector.  I'm always keen on following people that do good things and Paul is definitely one (as y

My name is Andrew Walmsley and your listening to episode 153 of photography insights.  This is the show that interviews people from the photography world. My friend Stephen Rendall had talked about a famous fashion photographer during a previous podcast (link here).  After going through some of this persons work I was actually enthralled by it and just had to get in contact with them.  Now this was not easy to pull off, she is a very busy lady and it's took some months but I'm pleased to say we have Lindsay Adler.  Lindsay is amazing photographer, who is at the top of her game in the fashion industry (she has over 388k followers just on Instagram!).  Her work is on magazine covers, editorials and adverts across places like Marie Claire, Elle Magazine etc. Lindsay teaches through her links with Adorama, Canon and places like Creative Live too.  She also has 5 books out there too and also started her own learning platform. I truly believe you will become hooked on her work once yo

My name is Andrew Walmsley and your listening to episode 152 of photography insights.  This is the show that interviews people from the photography world. It's funny how my previous guests can influence my decisions over future shows.  Kat Reichert was someone I became friends with, so when she recommend Lena Storjohann I reached out straight away.  Lena's work falls under the Lomography field, it's full of colour and alternative thinking.  We began talking as she attended the Experimental photography festival in Barcelona.  Well it turns out she took part and had a workshop on multiple exposure.  You can see how this type of work suits Lena, as she thinks differently about using film - wait till you hear about exposing both sides of the film (EBS).  Her fun continues by using 35mm film canisters for pinhole work! So in this one we discuss: - macro & contrast - still life - double exposure - ebs - solargraphy - pin hole -roundabouts - peanut cans - washi film - film so

I'm Andrew Walmsley and your listening to episode 151 of photography insights.  The show that interviews people from the photography world. In this weeks show I have a person who has been talked about so much. Many of fine art guests have talked about the Griffin museum and a lady called Paula Tognarelli.  So we managed to arrange a suitable time and here we are! First off I should say thanks to all my friends for recommending her.  Paula is simply a lovely character who cares deeply about the museum and the artists.  From the long days in the office, to searching Instagram in the early hours of the morning. She does not stop hunting for great people to work with.  It's clear from our conversation she really enjoys the world of photography and also missed taking part herself. After 20 years at the Griffin museum you can understand her quest to retire and get back to her ideas.  Coming from a family of inventors hopefully she will find time to execute some of her thoughts!

I'm Andrew Walmsley and welcome to a landmark episode of photography insights.  Yes we are now on show 150, so much has happened in the 3 years I've been doing this. We have all been through dark times but it's great to see life in the UK working its way back to normal.  It really has been an emotional time recently and I can feel it with my guests and myself too.  I admire the courage it's taken everyone to keep going, especially in a fragile industry like art, so well done all and keep fighting away. Today I would like to introduce Joni Sternbach, an artist, photographer and filmmaker from the USA. We had speaking a long time ago about coming on and Joni reached out recently so was pleased to have a lady on for this episode. Joni has a keen interest in surfing and shoots this using large format cameras using the tin type process.  It's an amazing thing to be doing with such large cameras, requiring everything darkroom related to be with you and taken back too. She talks to us about her

I'm Andrew Walmsley and welcome to episode 149 of photography insights.  This is the show that goes behind the scenes and interviews people from the world of photography.   Today I'm pleased to talk with Sarah Manriquez, a friend of Jason Lazrus and Kat Reichert from the Fairbanks university in Alaska.  It's a tale of boudoir, homeless and safety.  Boudoir in the sense of her fabulous fine art project photographing a classic era of the past.  Safety in the sense of working as a model and working with others.  Jason recommended Sarah because of her work around the homeless.  It's an amazing project based on helping others have a platform to show what its like.  Through her "genesis" and "through our eyes" we talk about a lady called Felicia, her new life and where she has come from. It's thought provoking work, deeply personal to Sarah and something that needs the eye of the masses. Anyway, I don't want to give too much away, so lets just highlight a few topics we disc

Welcome to episode 148 of photography insights and I'm your host for today - Andrew Walmsley.  In this weeks show we talk with an artist who fell for the famous city of Venice.   Sarah Hadley was a photographer and artist I came across through Instagram recently.  Her work seemed very interesting and after talking about Venice you can tell why - it's a story of internships, art, loss and being alone.    Another talented and gifted person who talks to us about her evidence project which was shot in China and "Unconscious terrain" project.  Sarah has ties with musuems and has been featured in various exhibitions and her book is very doing well - so buy it while you can!  Not only that but Sarah's images also feature on some book covers by some famous writers!  We don't get time to talk about this but they are on her site, so do check those too! So in this one we discuss: Griffin musuem Lenscratch Festivals & portfolio reviews Collages Cyanotypes Slee

My name is Andrew Walmsley and your listening to episode 147 of photography insights.  This is the photography podcast that interviews people from the photography world. We change our thought process and stance on photography fields today.  After speaking with Michael Snyder a few weeks ago I wanted to start exploring another subject that really interests me - science.  Robert Dash is in his 6th decade as he calls it; he’s an educator, naturalist and photographer from the USA. He has had many exhibitions, been published in National Geographic and even spoke at Ted-x! Robert piqued my interest after looking at the Blue Earth Alliance, a great not-for- profit organisation. They serve as a pass-through organisation for tax-exempt contributions in support of environment-related photography projects. Robert is a very experienced person and talks about his love of the environment, climate and nature.  He provides information on his process when working with food and talks about his childhood me

My name is Andrew Walmsley and your listening to episode 146 of photography insights.  This is the photography podcast that interviews people from the photography world. In this week's show we feature Diana Nygren, artist from Boston, USA. I was lucky enough to come across Diana through Debe Arlook who was exhibiting at the Griffin Musuem too!  In the words of Diana "her work explores the way people relate to their physical environment, be it urban, rural, or natural."  This it totally evident through her different projects that show these themes.  For instance we have a discussion on the urban scheme for her "when the trees are gone".  Honestly please check it out, its a great take on the future of our world.   We also go through her covid project "just another alice" all about very small photography.  Moving through her work we look at "the persistence of family"  and "beyond this place there be dragons".  We have a lovely time going through life, family and tr

My name is Andrew Walmsley and welcome to photography insights.  This is the photography podcast that interviews people from the photography world. Today we feature someone from my home country - UK.  Mark Tamer is a multi media artist from London, or I suppose you could also say experimental photographer too.  Whether it's digital cameras, scanners, chemicals, toy cameras Mark has tried it.  Looking over Mark's range of projects was fun, because there is a total variety.  The Multi portraits was something I noticed online and couldn't believe this idea.  Sure many of us have seen multi exposure, but not to this extent!    He came up with the idea with a friend after realising he didn't have many portraits. We talk about his other projects like memory that fades that is all about editing hex code!  Moving across mediums he talks to us about his issues with migraines. This led him to the idea of shooting every day for his migraine diary and used the chemigram

Welcome to photography insights I’m your host Andrew Walmsley.  This is the show that interviews people from around the photography world. Today I'm glad to invite you to listen to Ella Morton, an artist from Toronto. Ella's work uses lens based technology but also a variety of experimental and alternative processes.  Her work is about telling deep stories with a mixture of alchemy. We discuss a number of her projects including "dubious cosmology" which is all about using pictures from the internet with the wet plate process.  The ones that don't look real and could easily be described as photoshop fakes!  We discuss Ella's version of film soup and her series "The Dissolving Landscape". There is also talks of exhibiting your work by using animation tricks from the 1800's.  We also have a look at this idea of colour images made from b&w film.  Ella has spent time in the Svalbard region of the Artic too and made her film on super 8 film using interesting techniques! So in th

Welcome to photography insights I’m your host Andrew Walmsley.  This is the show that interviews people from around the photography world. Kathryn Reichert is today's guest, all the way from New Yersey, New York. Kathryn's work is all about a combination of alternative processes, painting and intaglio printing. We came across her work through the wondeful Jason Lazarus from episode 139.  I really liked Kat's projects - from the how my son sees it, to genetically modified and hynagogia. There are fun and meaningful works for you all to look at. In this one we discuss: buying toys working with flash & long exposure being a student creating work solar plates sleep states self portraiture undiagnosed health Hasselblad Links Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ksreichert/ Website - kathrynreichert.com Donations Please don't forget i've launched the KO-FI donation page.  All donations mean a lot to me. In actual fact the first lot of donations I have put towards my cyanoty

Welcome to photography insights I’m your host Andrew Walmsley.  This is the show that interviews people from around the photography world. Today I’m shaking things up and will be a sign of the near future for the show. I watched a few documentaries recently and this got me thinking about a different type of photography. So today I’m interviewing someone who is not only a talented photographer but a film maker too.  Michael snyder has worked  for many years in the doucmentary and science field of photography. An educated man with master and batchelor degrees in science. His work can be found in National Geographic, guardian washington post etc.  He has lived in the UK, Japan, Hawaii, New Zealand, Washington and now resides in Virgina, USA. We talk about some of his fun projects like the visitor, breathing life, demolition men, the roof runner and the family at the end of the world.  But we find time to talk about climate science and his documentary “into the dark” too. Michael’s a fath

Welcome to the cat show (aka episode 141 of photography insights), the show that interviews people from the photography world.  I'm your host Andrew Walmsley and today we have a guest from Los Angeles.  Cat Gwynn has Welsh ancestry (as you will find out) who is a photographer, writer, teacher, talker and mindfulness practitioner. Cat has such a fun personality, that we decided to name this one the cat show - well she has the flashing neon light, so why not. We covered so much from laughs to the reality of life in this one so bare with us! When I first started talking with Cat about her projects I just couldn't wait to talk, the projects she has worked on are lovely.  From the fun of "the cat is me" and "smoking dudes" to the serious tones of "Cry".  Cat's life has had ups and downs, like surviving through cancer.  She talks about her life through this disease and how she made her infamous "10 mile radius" project.  So in this one we will discuss: lockdowns & gata blanca

Welcome to episode 140 of photography insights and I'm your host Andrew Walmsley.  This is the show that interviews people, artists, models and photographers from around the world.  Today we pop across to the west of America and talk with Carol Golemboski. Carol teachers alternative processes at the University of Colorado in Denver.   Not only that but she is an artist in her own right with some interesting projects.  One of the projects is based on anthotypes and its another old process that uses the sun.  You will hear about her passion for the analogue world including the darkroom to produce her work.  Another piece of Carol's work we talk about is based around magic using processes like photograms.  We finish talking about an app she created to showcase her "psychometry" project on magic related anitques. In this one we discuss: energy & rewards teaching teacher questions boiling emulsions remote teaching lumen prints re-using products emulsions from or

Welcome to episode 139 of photography insights and I'm your host Andrew Walmsley.  This is the show that interviews people from the photography field from across the globe. Today I'm really excited to share with you another great force in education and photography.  J Jason Lazarus is an educator at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.  Not only that but Jason loves interesting alternative or historic processes and having fun.  You can tell from our conversation he is really in to his ability to educate others and keep pushing forward.  He teaches the history of photography and talks about the importance of updating his students with his own work.  It's all about motivating others but keeping up to date and pushing yourself. Jason is also part of an "untapped group" where the idea is to meet up in person and provide encouragement and critique for people's images.  There are so many different projects Jason has worked on, from Mordançage, to chemigrams, cyanotype or shooting

Welcome to the episode 138 of photography insights, the show that interviews people from the photography world.  I'm your host Andrew Walmsley and today we are hop over the ocean to Florida in the United States.  When we talk about cyanotypes, I think of our friend Jonah who actually introduced Jaime to myself.  But traditionally with cyanotypes we think about small 4x6 style prints and flowers or leaves.  Well Jaime has a really different view on this and it's why I found her work so interesting.  Jaime Aelevanthara is an assistant professor at the University of Tampa.   As Jaime would put it "her work explores themes of the human condition and an interconnectedness with nature".  So looking at her images and projects you will see foilage, trees, water, leaves combined with her love of alternative processes like cyanotypes and gum bichromate.  In fact we discuss her project "palace of leaves" which was shot during COVID.  Also we discuss the problems around

Welcome to the latest episode of photography insights, the show that interviews people from the photography world.  I'm your host Andrew Walmsley and today we are going to look at some creative composites.  For episode 137 we managed to talk with Terese Meier from Oregon in the USA, who produces beautiful photo illustrations and dreamy composites.  Teresa is a skilled lady who can be seen hand making elements in her design including clothing.  She seems a jack of all trades and can take to wood and illustration by hand too - very gifted i know!  I really do have to thank Jonah for the introduction too. Teresa has a variety of work, from her impressions of dream like montages to portraiture and self portraiture too.  You should always be on the look out for her cats too, quite often featured in the periphery. It was such a blast talking to Teresa as she has a great and funny attitude to life.  There was lots of laughter and we even solved world problems - so don't forget to

Welcome to the latest episode of photography insights, the show that interviews people from the world of photography.  Today I take you to America again, with our featured artist Kathleen Dreier.  Kathleen was introduced by Jonah is another lovely soul from Tucson, Arizona who is known for her corporate work until recently.  Covid well and truly had a large impact on her life and she's embraced the world of projects.  You will hear us talk about her work involving front line workers during COVID. But also we tackle and talk about racial issues in the country (voices of race).  Like Kathleen says sometimes its about looking in and not just out.  It's a thoughtful and engaging body of work she has undertaken, which may end up being long term!   Kathleen has been featured in press and media all over now (link here) and she's using this to educate others it's time for change.  Please do look at her Facebook page, which is now the core place for everything related to her wo

Welcome to photography insights, the show that interviews people from the photography world. i'm your host Andrew Walmsley and today we feature a fun lovely surfing martian!  Yes it's Vania Zask a film photographer from Los Angeles and the other half of "all through a lens podcast". As a regular listener of allthroughalens, it was great to feature Eric in episode 130 and he really recommended Vania.  So I did my usual research and listened to even more episodes and just couldn't wait to get her on here.  I think you will understand from her vibe and constant giggles, she really is a fun and interesting lady. Vania's work is all about water, she's never far from it with her camera too.  She is known for her surfing shots and yes I mean shooting film on, in and under the water.  What is also fascinating is because of her love for old technology she approaches everything with a can do attitude.  Whether's its medium format, large format, cyanotypes or developing - she is a yes pers