Tricky Thoughts: Encountering Photography In New York City Podcast

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, no matter how myopic it may be - here’s mine!

This is a podcast about Diane Arbus “Constellation” show at Park Avenue Armory, which closed August 17th. This …

Hello there! Thanks for looking and listening. For this episode, I’m in Queens (the borough with the best food in NYC) - sitting on the bank of the East River and talking about growth - all the work …

Hello everyone! Back at you from NYC and this time I’m walking ACROSS a bridge and talking about why mistakes and failure are good things. This is a bit of a noisy podcast as I’m walking right next t…

Sorry it’s been a couple weeks since I posted an audio note, but I did have an excuse: I went on a family vacation to Paris. I used to go to the City Of Lights about 5 or 6 times a year for work and …

So - I don’t really do deep dive explorations of camera gear here, there are plenty of people doing that on YouTube, especially for Leica cameras and accessories. I’ve been using the Leica M camera s…

This episode comes on a very heavy week (aren’t they all heavy these days?) and I’m under the Queensboro Bridge thinking about creative motivation because I saw someone pissing against a trashcan as …

Hello again! In this episode I discuss choosing the more difficult option creatively - and then finding out what the up and downsides of that are, with the backdrop of the absolutely wonderful 2025 C…

Welcome to episode six of Under The Bridge, recorded on June 18th under the Queensboro Bridge, the day after I attended the Bild expo at the Javitz Center - which organizer B&H Photo calls “NYC’s la…

Happy Father’s Day 2025! OK first off: this episode was NOT recorded under a bridge, it was recorded under a boardwalk - and on a boardwalk - at Coney Island, on June 14th, which was just crappy, col…

In this episode, I talk about Dave Chappelle (thought he did the bit in DC, it was actually Detroit), Fan Ho, Evel Knievel, The Girl In The Coffee Shop Window, and Colon Blow. And believe it or not, …

What is visual signature and why is it important for photographers, or really any creative, to make the pursuit of visual signature a maxim? Join me in the latest episode of my unedited audio chats r…

A brief chat about film photography, consumerism, the digital economy, Wim Wenders and enjoying one raisin.

Join me under the Manhattan Bridge, and listen to the trains booming overhead while I talk about silencing the inner voice that makes artists doubt ourselves. Recorded in one take with no edits on t…