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.
#360 Photowalk: "If you can, then do!"
#359 The Assignment: Neale James #2
#358 Photowalk: All the World's a landscape
#357 The Assignment: Johan Otterdahl Edfeldt
#356 Photowalk: Walk gently those streets
#355 The Assignment: Marissa Roth #2
#354 Photowalk: A story of FOUR lions
#353 The Assignment: Bill Ward
#352 Photowalk SPECIAL: 'Mischief' Maker to Picture Maker
#351 The Assignment: Chris Orange #3
#350 Photowalk: Inspirational life journeys
#349 The Assignment: Marissa Roth #1
#348 Photowalk: Finding your faith?
#347 The Assignment: Karah Mew #3
#346 Photowalk: Photographing our 'Blue Planet'
#345 The Assignment: Nick Turpin
#344 Photowalk: A beautiful land frozen in time
#343 The Assignment: Chris Orange #2
#342 Photowalk: 1000 strangers gave me this advice
#341 The Assignment: Karah Mew #2
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