The Talking Pictures Podcast
Photojournalism on the radio...sort of. The photography centric podcast is hosted by veteran photojournalist Todd Mizener with help from fellow photogs Todd Welvaert and Meg McLaughlin. Our goal is to both entertain and inform with our personal experiences or via interviews with a wide variety of guests. Mizener is the former Director of Photography for the Dispatch/Argus, a mid-sized daily newspaper, located in western Illinois along the banks of the Mississippi River in Moline, Ill. He is currently the Marketing & Communications Director for the D/A and Quad-City Times. We all get asked questions about our jobs and the podcast lets us answer some of those questions. It also affords us the opportunity to connect with readers, aspiring photographers, and learn a thing or two from our guests. The podcast is also an extension of our historically strong intern teaching program. Please email your questions and/or topic suggestions to [email protected] and don’t forget to tune each week for a new episode.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2020
Instagram, Selfies and Likes, Oh My
Instagram and Twitter have become key components to lives of both photojournalists and teenagers. Inspired by This American Life podcast's episode #573: Status Update, we explore the use of Instagram…
The big switch - Nikon vs. Sony
Nikon or Canon? Nikon or Sony? Sony or Fuji? Talking Pictures Podcast co-host Paul Colletti recently had to answer the difficult question of what camera system buy. After over 8-years with the Dispat…
Pet photography for a cause
John Wangelin is a pet photographer with a big heart. John sits down with us to discuss a variety of topics including his 2017 pet calendar to benefit a local animal shelter. The John Deere painter h…
'That Tree' Photographer: Mark Hirsch
The incomparable Mark Hirsch sits down with us to his discuss his book "That Tree : An iPhone Photo Journal Documenting a Year in the Life of a Lonely Bur Oak ” and his experience as a Quad City Arts…
The airing of grievances
This week's episode was sparked by an anonymous complaint that our Pacesetter (athlete of the week) photos of female athletes make them look like "pin-up girls". We wholeheartedly disagree with the r…
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
We chat with Chicago freelancer Ting Shen about his quest for the perfect camera strap, shooting NBA basketball and his experience covering the Dallas police shootings. On July 7, 2016 four Dallas po…
From the land of sky blue waters
Former Chicago Sun-Times photojournalist and current Media Specialist, University Photographer, Adjunct Instructor for the University of Wisconsin - Stout, Brett Roseman, makes his long awaited debut…
Our gadget geek out
If you are a photo gadget geek like us you’ll love this week’s episode. We talk about our new gear and why we think you should know about these items. Paul Colletti makes a return to the podcast to t…
Returning to the scene of the crime
The hosts true crime podcast "Suspect Convictions", journalist Scott Reeder and WVIK producer Lacy Scarmana, talk about their new podcast which revisits the 1990 murder of Jennifer Lewis and the case…
Cubs Win!! Photographing history with Brian Cassella
Chicago Tribune photojournalist Brian Cassella talks about covering the Chicago Cubs historic playoff run and scoring the iconic front page image of the team celebrating the final out of the World Se…
The Twitter storm
It was a week that started with a fatal fire and ended with 6 high school football players taking a knee during the National Anthem. Our photos from both events garnered reaction on Twitter. In this …
Kimmell comes home
Tom Kimmell, one of the paper’s most decorated photographer alumnus returns home for his 40th class reunion and sits down for a chat with Todd and Gary. He worked for The Daily Dispatch from 1980 to …
Rain delay theater from John Deere Classic
We took the podcast on the road to the John Deere Classic golf tournament and recorded this episode during a rain delay. Our special guest for the second-half of the episode is award winning photojou…
A Trump tale in two acts
This week's podcast revolves around our coverage of Donald Trump's first campaign stop in Davenport since accepting the Republican nomination for the presidency. Part 1 - Todd takes the podcast to th…
Nikon D500 review
We have been waiting for months to get our hands on the new Nikon D500. Meg jumped into the deep end of the pool and bought one as soon as it was released. Here is our (her) review of her new favorit…
Listening Matters: Reporting on tragedy in the Black community
In this week’s episode of the Talking Pictures Podcast we talk to former Dispatch/Argus reporter, and local African American leader, Brandy Donaldson, about media responsibility when covering tragedy…
Oh Steve, you broke our hearts
Todd Welvaert and Paul Colletti return to the podcast to discuss the scandal surrounding famous photographer Steve McCurry his altered images. Steve McCurry is world renowned for his National Geograp…
The man with seven hats
He says that he is an accidental editor but native Iowa photojournalist Scott Norris is a born leader. 15-years ago Norris left his home state of Iowa to work for Gannett’s original flagship paper, t…
Free cake and 12-year-old scotch
After 23-years at the Dispatch/Argus co-host Todd Welvaert is retiring from the daily grind of newspaper work. Long-time podcast listeners don't worry, he'll still be doing the podcast. ToddW is a bo…