My View Finder - How Photographers Approach Photography
My View Finder podcast is a series of interviews with photographers asking how they approach their craft. Learning where photography comes from will hopefully inspire people to take more pictures and to learn how to take meaning pictures. For themselves and the world at large!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 59
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Artificial - Long Live Our Robot Overlords
The continuation of our last chat. Recorded at the Calgary Central Library podcast recording studio. Edited with help from the AI Transcribe function of Adobe Premiere Pro. Brought to you by Alvin an…
As Summer Wanes
Another long break and another catch up episode. This time Alvin and I find ourselves in the recording booth at the Calgary Central Library. The summer's been busy. And we have put together two conve…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Nothing
What happens when 2 guests can't make it and Alvin and I are left on the mics with no direction? What happens when life prevents a quick post-process turn around? This. This is what happens. We're go…
Fine Art; Commerce; Communism
We are joined by Danny Luong award-winning photographer here in Calgary. Just because we can, we focus on what we know about fine art commerce and inevitably about our communist-leaning sense that th…
Grief and Cameras
David went to Toronto for his grandmother's funeral. As a photographer. Alvin was a photographer for his uncle's funeral a few years back. How does one separate themselves as a process and as a famil…
No Love Lost w/ new Co-Host: Alvin Paringit
So after a long break we're back. This season's goal: bring on co-host Alvin Paringit, build a Discord channel, and just riff on Photography in general. Where do we start? How about the realization t…
One Year and The End of a Season
Here's a 52 episode conclusion. We'll call this Season 1. With it I'm going to take a hiatus to reassess how to continue this project. I've learned a great deal from all my guests. The main take away…
Soloman Chiniquay - Giving Back with Photography - Part 2
This week's guest is Soloman Chiniquay documentarian photographer, film maker, and as I'm about to learn, a very wise young man. He lets me into his experiences growing up in a reserve in Morley and …
Soloman Chiniquay - Giving Back with Photography - Part 1
This week's guest is Soloman Chiniquay documentarian photographer, film maker, and as I'm about to learn, a very wise young man. He lets me into his experiences growing up in a reserve in Morley and …
Ashley Nixon - Cultural Documentarian - Part 2
This week I sit down with Ashley Nixon. We close out our chat with some final insights from Ashley. His approach is not about taking pictures. It’s about putting together stories and narratives that …
Ashley Nixon - Cultural Documentarian - Part 1
This week I sit down with Ashley Nixon. Ashley holds a PhD in Ecology and has worked in education, research, as well as in the private sector.
More relevant to us, he has been working a camera since …
Stefan Strangman - Photojournalism and Values - Part 2
Last week we met Stefan Strangman and learned about how his focus and work in photo journalism comes with awareness of both the positive and negative impacts images have on the public discourse. This…
Stefan Strangman - Photojournalism and Values - Part 1
This week I sit down with Stefan Strangman, writer and freelance photojournalist. I wanted to find out how journalism is taught and practiced, You know, to challenge my own cynical bias that it’s twi…
Jennifer Sanford - A Conservative Conversation on Art - Part 2
Here in the second part of my talk with Jennifer Sanford we talk about art’s role in politics and directing the public’s attention to important issues. I also yell a lot about Meaghan Markle. But I t…
Jennifer Sanford - A Conservative Conversation on Art - Part 1
This week I’ve asked Jennifer Sanford to join me. While not a professional photographer, Jennifer is a political and PR consultant with her own podcast called Conservative Like Me. I asked her to tal…
Angela Boehm - Compassionate Documentation - Part 2
This week we meet Angela Boehm. Angela is a documentarian photographer based here in Calgary who started with building a photography project at home with her teenage kids which then evolved into proj…
Angela Boehm - Compassionate Documentation - Part 1
This week we meet Angela Boehm. Angela is a documentarian photographer based here in Calgary who started with building a photography project at home with her teenage kids which then evolved into proj…
Kristofer Schofield - Therapeutic Silence - Part 2
Art is often associated with mental health. Usually in some dramatic and brutal way. Think of the phrase: suffering for one’s art. Part 2 of my talk with Kristofer Schofield focuses on his relationsh…
Kristofer Schofield - Therapeutic Silence - Part 1
Art is often associated with mental health. Usually in some dramatic and brutal way. Think of the phrase: suffering for one’s art. But sometimes it’s related in a sense of therapy, coping, self disco…
Rocio Graham - Cameras, Compost, Self Discovery - Part 2
Rocio Graham is a Mexican /Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Mohkinstsis/Calgary. Her work is influenced by her cultural heritage, personal experience with trauma and reflections on life cyc…