The Photowalk

A childhood journey across America inspires guest Anne-Marie Michel to make Sisters of the Road, a book about forty female American truckers, an adventure that doesn't come without risks. We walk together with a mailbag making pictures and sharing ideas with letters today about 'that first photo,' the tonic of photography, old cars and haunting melodies, fierce skies, being immersed in nature and befriending those you make portraits of. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Former Pulitzer prize winner with the LA Times Marissa Roth sets the first of three in a series of photographic challenges that will have you today reaching for a camera and a pen! The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

"Finding Faith" is a photographic journey through central Alabama's smallest towns. Over four years Jerimiah Smith photographed and interviewed countless men and women living above and below the poverty line for whom faith is the cornerstone of their day-to-day. Also today, recording nature in a unique way, a Jack of all trades, street exhibitions, walking in Berlin, the enduring importance of the still image, news of the next Photowalk retreat and other stories. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Documenter of life, Karah Mew sets the third and final assignment in her first series for us and asks you to break the popular photographic rules - in fact, break them all! The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Award-winning wildlife and travel photographer, filmmaker and author Sue Flood talks of her sincere love for the Arctic and photographing in the World's harshest yet most beautiful places. Also today in the mailbag, a love for graffiti part 2, British pleasure piers, photographing with your 'wrong' hand and navigating through and out of a world pandemic. The show is recorded this week walking and photographing on the Isle of Wight. We're helped by inspirational special guests who have appeared on our shows. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Street and London-based commercial photographer Nick Turpin joins me today with thoughts about story-telling before setting an assignment that will have you observing the world in which you live for the next seven days. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Investigative journalist and photographer Lynzy Billing talks about her work in Afghanistan; the people, the stories, the difficulty and the beauty of this much-misunderstood land. Also, be a potentialite, what's important in life, faith in the deep south, bitten by the bug, swimming into portraits, looking v seeing, castles in Sweden and is there hope for our Earth?

We're helped by inspirational special guests who have appeared on our shows. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

A little courage is required for this challenge perhaps as food, interiors, commercial and landscape photographer Chris Orange sets his second assignment for the show. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

In 84 days, across 48 states, photographer Imran Nuri made portraits of 1000 strangers on his 50-year-old camera and asked them for one piece of life advice. He tells his story alongside Extra Miler Jon Buscall who shares why the still image is still so important. We discuss being a Jack-of-all-trades, how we fell in love with making pictures, the most unlikely imposter syndrome, not playing by the rules, ancient 'urban art' and rugged landscapes.

We're helped by inspirational special guests who have appeared on our shows. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Documenter of life, Karah Mew sets her second assignment for us and asks you to consider a photograph so precious, you may not have a second chance tomorrow to capture it. The assignment is a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Today, the renowned artist duo Alexandrov Klum talk of their love affair with nature and share how they use photographs, music, sound and film to make their art installations and stories. Also from the mailbag why a surfboard is like a camera, going on a software diet, letting go of Adobe, free carousel templates, imposter syndrome today, inspirational books you must have, courtesy of our Extra Milers and when is a photo not a photo?

We're helped by inspirational special guests who have appeared on our shows. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Food and interiors specialist Chris Orange sets his first assignment for the show, though you'll not be necessarily photographing inside! It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

All aboard the Eurotunnel train to France this week for a walk in southern France. As always your letters direct le travel and this week's topics include moving to France, pictures you can fall into, remembering 'The Queue', the country where a train company leads you to a photowalk, printing pictures, folklore, making pictures of things you don't usually, countries you've never heard of and more.

We're helped by inspirational special guests who have appeared on our shows. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Australian Leica ambassador Russell Shakespeare invites you to go back to basics today for an assignment inspired by one of his early mentors/trainers. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

What is VERO? Is it the Insta replacement, or does it fulfill a very different personal and social role? It's co-founder Ayman Hariri is on the show to talk about this app 'everyone' is talking about. Also today, what's in the box, the mental health benefits of walking, a language of photography, success later on in life, walking in Taiwan and citizen photojournalism. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

A special short Photowalk edition on the morning of the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, also featuring Rankin's experience of photographing the Monarch, recorded earlier this year. See the SHOW NOTES for the photographs referenced at the start of the programme.

I talk with street art and graffiti historian Roger Gastman about photographer Martha Cooper's pictures of NYC's subway art of the 80s, featured in her new book Spray Nation. Also, I 'doorstep' a special photography friend in England's Lake District and there are letters on making the last pictures of life next to the first pictures of a new life, getting up at silly o clock to make friends with the best light of the day, and the punk rocker who has swapped drum sticks for long exposure photography on a Scottish remote island. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

An assignment today that will have you thinking on two creative levels; photographing and writing. Plus, this forms part of an announcement with regard to a new feature coming to the photowalk edition of a Friday. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. I'll be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make to the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

We're in Scotland for the Photowalk retreat; seven photographers on the road, immersed in the most beautiful landscapes, walking by familiar and famous lochs, enjoying some photographic challenges - and you, have an open invitation to come along with us. Grab your walking boots and come for a 'wee amble' in the Highlands. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Today's assignment is the fourth set by, as I describe her within the show, most prolific assignment setter so far of this series, Valerie Jardin. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with, so email what you make the show via the contact page. Supported by our Patron Extra Milers and MPB.com

Australian Leica ambassador Russell Shakespeare talks about the importance of clicking with people before you even start clicking with the camera and how special India has been as his photo project muse across three decades. Also, getting creative with a drone, respects paid to Tim Page, photographing Rhino, a misty Swiss walk and being grateful despite the cancellation of a round the world trip of a lifetime. See the SHOW PAGE and our thanks to the Extra Milers and mpb.com.

Today's assignment is set by Pulitzer prize-winning photographer Marissa Roth. It's a challenge set for the next seven days; a way to think differently about how you approach making your pictures. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up so email what you make to stories@photowalk.show

The show is supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

SHOW NEWS: Photography Daily is now THE PHOTOWALK officially and we walk in Lillehammer, Norway, with our mailbag including letters today on empathy, legacy, Ukraine, the arts in Russia, Bullet Ants and giving a written narrative to your pictures. Special guest and Pulitzer prize winner Marissa Roth returns to talk about a forthcoming storytelling adventure to Nepal and we reveal the winners of MPB.com's Photo and Video Kit Hall of Fame for '22. See the SHOWPAGE for links, with thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons; the 'Extra Milers'.

Gabrielle Motola sets the third of her four assignments and this one is one of her more straightforward challenges or is it? Of course, as always, it's what you make it. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge.

Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

Back from our two-week break, the second part of my walking conversation with the award-winning photojournalist Kieran Doherty. This week we talk together about his most potent and personal project about his parents, plus the power of the project being all around us and often when we least expect it. Your letters on the lifeline that is photography, scenes at the end of a tunnel and legacy film projects we can all aspire to make. It's an episode with much light and shade as I discover how empathy plays an important role in storytelling. See the SHOWPAGE for links, with thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

Karah Mew sets a challenge that will have you digging a little deep, because you're being asked this week to do something as photographers, we're not quite used to, or at least comfortable doing! All will be revealed, and we'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

Kevin Mullins returns for a second assignment, Fujifilm X-Photographer and my co-host on The FujiCast setting you a challenge that he uses as an exercise within his street photography workshops. This is one that will engage a further sense. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

Gabrielle Motola sets the second of her four assignments across the coming months and this one will have you photographing for the actual seven days, from whenever you listen to this episode! We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Also today, a final call to vote in this year's MPB.com Photo and Video Kit Hall of Fame for 2022. Email your assignments through the SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

I walk this week in Farnborough, England, home of British aviation, with award-winning photojournalist Kieran Doherty for part one of his powerful life story behind the lens. Fired and importantly re-hired in one day by the global powerhouse of news agencies, Reuters, he went on to tell some of the most potent stories with his cameras across three decades of world events. It's an episode with much light and shade as I discover how empathy plays an important role in storytelling. See the SHOWPAGE for links, with thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

Ed Kashi, fresh from his appearance on Friday's Photowalk show returns to set an assignment and I feel honoured that this is one he hasn't set his international students, yet. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with following today's challenge, so please be sure to send your photographs to the show through the SHOW PAGE and I'll share the pictures you make for this challenge. My thanks to our Patrons and MPB.com who sponsor this show.

Ed Kashi's Abandoned Moments, a Love Letter to Photography is our companion conversation as we walk with our cameras and from the show's mailbag, we're getting spooked in a German forest, wonder what the animals whose home is the ocean think about us as visiting photographers, we ponder some international photowalk retreats, talk about taking up photography full time, swim in the surf, plus something strange happened with the recording this week! All will be revealed. See the SHOW NOTES for links, with thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons for their support.

Gabrielle Motola sets her first of four assignments across the coming months and this initial one will have you reaching for a rather different piece of kit, one that will most likely be analogue and one which may even have you leave your camera behind! We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

Four words to remember, that give the freedom to create when voices or life conspire to try and persuade us to take another path. Hannah Gimblett launches her first photo exhibition and refuses to let M.E. stop the show and Chris Harrison is shooting 1000 street portraits despite suffering anxiety. Also from the mailbag, what does a mundane picture actually mean, handling rejection, covered in coloured powders in India, forgetting about likes and algorithms and other stories. See the SHOW PAGE. With thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

Kevin Mullins, Fujifilm X-Photographer and my co-host on The FujiCast sets this week's assignment and it's one that will have you photographing literally from the moment you wake up. We'll both be fascinated to see what you come up with in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com.

Digging deep to make challenging pictures, I talk with Simon Townsley, twice winner of British Press Photographer of the Year about his recent assignments in Ukraine, and Afghanistan and trust in photojournalism. In the mailbag, climbing mountains to get fit and find mental well-being, three patrons who dug deep for their own picture-making experiences and is getting angry a positive way to make your photographic imprint? See the SHOW NOTES. With thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

Jim Sollows, for decades, mentoring and training new and established photographers to work with film. Today though, we ask, what are you not so confident with photographing? It's a mental as well as physical or technical challenge. We talk comfort zones and I'll be fascinated to see what you come up in relation to today's challenge. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our patrons and MPB.com

Today Alex Kilbee changes direction after decades in portrait photography to become a YouTuber. We talk about imposter syndrome and suggest a way to tackle it, I'm getting excited about van life, we talk about projects and first books, rediscovering a love for photo taking and making and the first pictures you made and processed. See the SHOW PAGE for links referenced and my thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

Street photographer and mentor Valerie Jardin returns for a third time to set an exciting photography challenge, a way to think about your picture-making for the next week. It's a challenge for everybody, whatever interests you have, and today, we're talking filters, but all is not as it seems?

I would love to share the pictures you make for this challenge on the SHOW PAGE from where you can also send in the pictures you make.

My thanks to MPB and our Patrons for supporting the show.

The only photowalk podcast of its kind, led by your letters from a weekly mailbag, and the pictures you make as we walk together. This week Austrian photographer Alex Frederickson shares her personal story about finding the photo project that eventually became her first book. We also talk about lowering your heart rate taking pictures, pictures in the mist, sound recording your street portrait subjects and ask what do you hear, smell and feel when you make a picture? See the SHOW PAGE, supported by MPB.com and our Patrons.

Monday means assignment day where my special guest, photographer and YouTuber Alex Kilbee sets a photography challenge or a way to think about your picture-making for the next week. It's a challenge for everybody, whatever interests you have and today, we're asking you to think about the every day; the mundane!

I would love to share the pictures you make for this challenge on the SHOW PAGE from where you can also send in the pictures you make.

My thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons for supporting the show.

A special today, as we both photowalk together in Gloucestershire with my guest Grant Scott on the United Nations of Photography, art and creative director, editor, writer, photographer, producer and the podcaster behind A Photographic Life. He shares his thoughts about Bob Dylan, working with the greats, the photographic philosopher Bill Jay, mentoring new photographers, social media and many other topics. See the SHOW NOTES on the website. Supported by MPB.com and our Patrons.

We're very lucky to have Nick Brandt, the internationally respected environmental photographer as my special guest to set a unique photography assignment and as you're about to find out, this one may well be a challenge on many levels; for its message, for its wider meaning, for perhaps some writing, for the fact that you have more than the usual week. See the SHOW NOTES and my thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons for your support.

We're photowalking together once again. Just you and I, with our cameras, special guests and a mailbag of your letters and pictures. Our guest Gareth Iwan Jones finds an ingenious way to light trees in the dark, we celebrate wonderful moments of quiet, how sound CAN be a part of photography, personal projects, caravans, morris dancers and our patrons reveal what things have happened that have helped them understand or better their photography. See the SHOW NOTES for links. The show is supported by mpb.com and our Patrons.

A photographer for 45 years, mentoring and training new photographers to work with film and established ones to be reacquainted with the medium, Jim Sollows sets this week's Assignment; his second. We'll be thinking like we're shooting with film, though listen for the full story. Digital camera shooters can take part really easily and on the show page, I repeat some of my suggestions for how to take part. It's wonderful to see the pictures you have been making from the assignments set so far, so please keep sending your photographs for inclusion on today's show page. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our patrons and MPB.com

Today street and people photographer Gabrielle Motola on finding confidence for making street portraits. In the mailbag, first-ever photowalks, an important letter of self-belief, holidaying from social media channels, the joy of macro with photowalks no further from your back yard, why photography has rescued one friend of the show, pictures that show how you feel and making ICM photos with a smartphone! See the SHOW NOTES for all links. Supported by our Patrons and MPB.com

It's assignment day where our special guest, Valerie Jardin sets a photography challenge or a way to think about your picture-making for the next week. It's a challenge for everybody, whatever interests you have and today, we're asking you to think about humour.

I would love to share the pictures you make for this challenge on the SHOW PAGE from where you can also send in the pictures you make.

My thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons for supporting the show.

A photowalk show featuring your letters on how you feel about making pictures; all about the why not the how. This week on the walk I chat with the internationally respected underwater wrecks and cave photographer Alex Dawson. Also, more on the right to roam, loving woodland, why skateboarding is just like photography, personal inspirations, breathless pictures, and the house clearance that made a photographer. All links and pictures on the SHOW PAGE, with thanks to MPB.com and our Patrons.

A photographer for 45 years, mentoring and training new photographers to work with film and established ones to be reacquainted with the medium, Jim Sollows sets this week's Assignment. We'll be thinking like we're shooting with film, though no more clues! It's been wonderful to see the pictures you have been making from the assignments set so far, so please keep sending your photographs for inclusion on today's show page. Email through SHOW PAGE. Supported by our patrons and MPB.com

A special Photowalk week in which we talk to photographers about addiction, mental health, mindfulness and how the practice of photography has a healing positive effect. Also today, making pictures without a camera, the beautiful landscape that is the entire island of Ireland, the sound of your pictures, colourful fishing harbors, trespassing and the Welsh retreat for Frankenstein? For links to all discussed, see the SHOW PAGE. Supported by MPB.com and our Patrons.

Sean Tucker sets his third challenge for the next seven days asking us to think like designers. I talk to Sean about a style of photography he is known for when he photographs on the streets and like the last challenge he set, this has a gentle observational tone which will suit photographers of all levels and interests. It's great to see the pictures you have been making from the assignments set so far, so please keep sending your photographs for inclusion on today's show page. Email through the SHOW PAGE. Supported by our patrons and MPB.com