A weekly chat on Instagram Live with different photographers from all around the world and from all walks. No agenda, just organic discussion and sometimes questions from the folks watching the live stream. Topics vary between guests but it is always a lot of fun.
Follow me on Instagram @merlindb to check out the live stream every Thursday at 8pm EST.
It was very nice to share some time with @ashleysenja tonight on the chat. We talked about how she got started with photography, her time at Nikon, and what inspires her. Her cat Sir Theodore graced …
It’s been way too long since @nicolemunoz94 and I have hung out so it was awesome to catch up with her on the chat tonight. We talked about her career in acting and about the movie industry. We got i…
Jamie is a really interesting dude. Hailing from East Texas we talked about how Spike Jonze influenced him to get into photography. His humble beginnings shooting for the yearbook in his school and h…
Another rad chat is in the can, had an epic time with Dan. We talked about our mutual love of instant film and Polaroid. He talked about his upcoming book and some other projects he has in mind. We s…
It was great to chat it out with Dave, he is one of my fav folks and I have mad love for him. He shared some of his fav photo books with us and then we got into photography in the pandemic and talked…
The season opener for the chat was a blast. I really enjoyed chatting it out with @max.maurophoto about his practice and his new book. We talked about childhood, how he got started with photography. …
Well that was a lot of fun for an impromptu chat to wrap up the year. I was joined by @retro_photo_york and @johnnythebandit and we talked about the price of film, covid, long exposures and the art o…
Lucy is a real gem, I really enjoyed chatting with her. We talked about how she got started in photography and how music and movies are a big inspiration to her and then we got into her YouTube chann…
Tim Ryugo is an absolute legend and such a sweet human. It was a blast chatting with Tim about how he got started in the film industry 40 odd years ago and what his journey has been like to the prese…
This guy, Chris Koehn is a man of many talents and a few of them involve cameras of various kinds. We've known each other since the early 2000's when we both worked in a call center asking people if …
It was really nice to connect with Sarah and hear about her story. From humble beginnings with a Canon AE-1 Program to a Pentax 67 she jumped into the world of large format with a Wista 4x5 before mo…
I had a great time chatting with Starla. We got a little distracted at the start and talked about work for a bit but we did get into photo chat. We talked about the photo community and how awesome it…
Oh man, Mike and I got into some interesting chats tonight. We meandered all over the place from conspiracies theories, food, and different topics around technology availability and the ethics of tec…
Oh man, this was a fun chat with Ben. We unsurprisingly spent a lot of time talking about instant film and talking about the Polaroid Fuji rivalry (we love them both, we really do) there was some cha…
Apologies for the poor audio in this chat. We were having some technical difficulties. We chatted about how she got into photography and then into alternative processes. Shared some love around Polar…
With love from Lubbock, I mean Denton. If you don’t get it we’ll you’ll just have to watch the episode. Zane is awesome and it was so good chatting it out with him. We got really nerdy about Polaroid…
I ended up taking a little trip down memory lane chatting with Morgan. Talking about Cranbrook and the Kootenays brought up some old memories. We talked a lot about live music and what it was like be…
I appreciate Jeremy as a friend because he has always challenged me to think different and see the world around me differently. I think tonight’s chat was more like a public version of the chats he a…
The chat with Han has been one of my most interesting to date. It was rad getting to know her more and hear about what her experience with photography has been and what her experience in the regular …
I had a lot of fun chatting with Liza she is a very interesting person. We talked about how she got started and what her experience was like going from film to digital and back to film again. She sha…