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.
#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
#258 Photowalk: Stumbling into a weapons establishment & URBEX with Abandoned Nordic
#257 If a tear escapes, it shows we're human: photographing with compassion
#256 Photowalk: Add sound to your pictures, Terakopian Pt.2 & other stories
#255 Photowalk: Find your photo MOJO & Edmond Terakopian Pt.1
#254 Photowalk: Let's make your book, a NEW show, Sean Tucker & other stories
#253 Shoot from the heart to connect and turn that bl**dy app off!
#252 Photowalk: Get your passion project on & other stories
#251 INSTAGRAM: Love, hate, need, want and and and...
#250 Photowalk: Stones, crop circles, hearing your pictures & other stories
#249 SUCCESS is not a pipe dream: Tim Wallace
#248 Photowalk: Instagram, vulnerability, confidence & other stories
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