B&H Photography Podcast

B&H Photography Podcast

Author: B&H Photo & Video Language: English Episodes: 455
There's a conversation happening about photography that goes far beyond the latest camera review, and you can find it on the B&H Photography Podcast. Hosted by the team at B&H Photo & Video, this series sits down with a wide range of insightful and genuinely entertaining guests from across the photographic world. Every other week, these discussions delve into the practical realities of gear and technique, but they also wander into the richer territory of visual history, the surprising science behind an image, and the personal philosophies that drive artistic expression. What you'll hear feels less like a formal interview and more like eavesdropping on a passionate chat between experts, unpacking the ideas that actually matter to anyone making pictures today. Whether you're a seasoned professional curious about a colleague's process or an enthusiastic amateur looking to deepen your understanding, this podcast provides a thoughtful, accessible space to explore the entire ecosystem of photography. The result is a consistently engaging listen that reminds you why you picked up a camera in the first place, while giving you the concrete knowledge to use it better tomorrow. Tune in for a fresh perspective that connects the technical dots with the creative spark.
Episodes
Timeless: The Photography of Moshe and Eddie Brakha [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:13
Is artistic creativity passed down through generations of a family? How is style and wisdom garnered? How can a father and son collaborate to grow their work individually and as a team? These are just a few of the questi…
Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:14
In 1966, a twenty-one-year-old French woman bought a one-way ticket to Vietnam, where the American military involvement was becoming a full-scale war. The young Catherine Leroy was an admirer of photographer Robert Capa…
Polaroid History and Techniques for Creative Instant Film Photography [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:29
This is a fun conversation, very informative, and gets the creative chemistries gellin'. Our guest on today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is Rhiannon Adam and if there is anyone who knows more about instant fi…
"The Drowning" by Cornell Watson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:24
In September 2017, we dedicated an episode to a conversation about one photograph—an image made by photographer Richard Drew, on September 11, 2001, in New York, which has come to be called "The Falling Man." It was an i…
Shifting Expectations -- Photojournalism after 2020 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:55
Our conversation on this week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is about the challenges that the practice of photojournalism faced during, and in the wake of, the monumental year, 2020. With the Coronavirus pandem…
Earth Day Encore Episode: The Ethics of Landscape Photography [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:18
(This episode of the B&H Photography Podcast was originally published on January 20, 2017.) We are living in a Golden Age of landscape photography. Digital cameras and improved software enable the kind of imaging that un…
Photography and Loss of Sight, with Pete Eckert [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:08
Artist Pete Eckert began to lose his sight at age twenty-seven. That's the time he began to study photography. In a few years, Eckert would be completely blind, but his photography practice continued, and numerous exhibi…
Photography Accessories 101: The Basics [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:11:04
Except for the new flagship Olympus OM SYSTEM OM-1 Mirrorless Camera, there haven't been a lot of big camera announcements thus far in 2022, so we thought for this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we'd start an int…
Memory Cards and Storage for Digital Photography [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:29
With much thanks for a listener's suggestion, we invited Pete Isgrigg back to the B&H Photography Podcast for an incredibly informative conversation about memory cards, external hard drives, and other digital image stora…