Dino Bićanić / FEAR OF THE DARK

A chat with photographer and serial creative entrepreneur Chase Jarvis about the many insights he’s gained over the course of his prolific career. We also discuss the backstory to his Best Camera app, a wildly successful early precursor to Instagram, and a subsequent botched contract that led to the app’s demise.

Podcast: Creative Innovation & Visual Voodoo, with Chase Jarvis

In which eavesdropping host Juliet Fraser talks to Anna Zaradny about finding inspiration in the grey times of censorship, the paradox of deficit, and the magic and responsibility of intuition. 

References: Musica Genera festival and record label, co-founded with Robert Piotrowicz, conducting the 'Dies Irae' from Verdi's Requiem (!), DDR (GDR in English), MTV, Bronski Beat, Monty Python, and her pieces 'Carbonado as a hex' and 'The Sound of A Distanced Body'.

Anna will perform in the eavesdropping festival at Cafe OTO on Friday 28 March 2025: https://www.eavesdropping.london/activity/festival-2025/

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eavesdropping conversation 45: anna zaradny (2025)

As any established photographer will tell you, forging a career can be a long and arduous journey, with no instruction manual to guide you through the process. The lofty world of top-notch pros is often shrouded in mystery and full of things they don’t teach in photo school. In today’s show, we get to peek behind the scenes of this complex, and often chaotic environment in a chat with two colleagues who’ve found a way to balance their freelance careers as independent creators with lucrative work assisting in a high-profile photo studio.
 
Listen in, to learn how a casual job application through LinkedIn landed Mike Foley an interview, ultimately resulting in a salaried role as first assistant to a world-class portrait photographer. While technical mastery counts for a lot, we discuss the critical importance of soft skills like personality and work ethic to success in such environments. We also distinguish between salaried full-time work and more common freelance roles, and the juggling required to coordinate the complex planning involved. 

As freelance lighting assistant (and longtime café owner) Alex Savidis admits, “the juggle becomes quite hard at times, but I think it's a necessity, especially when you're trying to pursue something that you're passionate about. You can't just become a successful photographer overnight. It takes years to build up to that.”


Photo Industry Tips from High-End Assistants, with Mike Foley & Alex Savidis

"If I didn't laugh, I'd cry."

Comic Release is a three-part podcast series hosted by artist Joe Jowitt which explores the use of humour in artists' moving image.

In this conversation, Joe meets Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-born, Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Sean Grattan, whose debut feature film, Policy Wonks, explores the clash of liberal ideologies through an absurd intersection of "money, guns and yoga." Joe and Sean discuss using slogans as dialogue, working with clichés, and deprogramming problematic humour from one's own cultural upbringing.

Episode 122: Comic Release with Sean Grattan

Nothing beats the thundering energy and human drama that unfolds across the surface of an automotive racetrack. Photographers who specialize in this adrenaline-fueled niche are best served by nerves of steel and the high endurance to lug multiple cameras and the long lenses needed to freeze the action. In today’s show, we plunge headfirst into what it takes to cover the many facets of auto racing with two of the finest professionals in the field, photographers Camden Thrasher and Jamey Price.

From stories of unexpected hurdles to access when scouting an unfamiliar course to the mix of visual stimulation and extreme exhaustion that accompanies a 24-hour endurance race, our chat is full of real-world insights. We also discuss the gear these photographers rely on and the wear and tear that comes with hard core use. 

And for listeners who’ve always wanted to try their hand at motor sports photography, Jamey Price shares some parting advice. “You don't build a portfolio by getting credentials,” he says. “You build a portfolio by going to races as a fan, bringing your camera, and making cool pictures from fan areas. Tell stories, do something different.”

Guests: Camden Thrasher & Jamey Price

High-Octane Motor Sports Photography, with Camden Thrasher & Jamey Price

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A chat with legendary urban portrait photographer Jamel Shabazz about his long career documenting daily life and thriving communities on the streets of NYC

The Alchemy of Urban Street Portraits, with Jamel Shabazz

Since 1989, the North Carolina Heritage Awards have honored artists statewide for their contributions to the cultural lives of their communities. The Folklife program of the North Carolina Arts Council is pleased to spotlight the five artists/groups who will be presented with the 2025 awards on June 7, at a public ceremony in Raleigh.

In this episode, we head to the far western end of North Carolina to the community of Brasstown, to chat with Helen Gibson, who grew up among the storied Brasstown Carvers at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Helen began carving at age 11 under the teaching of her mother, Dot McClure, and Murrial “Murray” Martin, the Folk School’s craft teacher, to whom the early growth of the Brasstown Carvers one hundred years ago can be credited. Best known for her detailed nativity scene carvings, she has been the Folk School’s resident carver since 1990, a mentor to apprentice carvers, and a teacher at home and through the Tri-County Community College.

The honorees for 2025 are: Round Peak Guitarist, Chester McMillian; Lumbee traditional artisans, Herman and Loretta Oxendine; North Indian classical musician, Gaurang Doshi; Brasstown Woodcarver, Helen Gibson; and Gospel Quartet, The Glorifying Vines Sisters. For tickets and more information, visit pinecone.org.
Introduction music performed by Etta Baker.

Arts Across NC is a podcast by and about the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, a state agency.



Meet 2025 Heritage Award honoree Helen Gibson

A chat with Acacia Johnson & Jonas Paurell, two photographers specialized in Arctic and Antarctic regions, about interpreting these realms of shifting ice, ethereal light, and profound environmental change through the lens of fine art and conservation photography. Our discussion explores how photography serves as both a creative pursuit and a call to action, capturing the transcendent beauty of polar regions while bearing witness to its fragility.

The Beauty & Impact of Polar Photography, with Acacia Johnson & Jonas Paurell

A chat with world renowned industrial landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky about his legendary industrial landscape imagery, as well as his business Toronto Image Works, which he started in 1985 to make fine art prints for other photographers

The Great Acceleration: Human-Altered Industrial Landscapes, with Edward Burtynsky

Brett Graham's exhibition Wastelands opened at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in June 2025. Featuring a monumental sculpture of the same name that was commissioned for the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, the haunting installation is expanded to include a new multi-channel video work, titled Whangamārino (2025). Re-working footage shot by news company Aukaha of a 2024 fire in the Whangamārino wetlands, Graham's new work adds layers of animation, personal history, and an ominous soundtrack.

The resulting installation addresses both the history of colonial exploitation and our contemporary ecological crisis. Over 1.2 million acres of Waikato-Tainui land were confiscated by the colonial government following the Waste Lands Act (1858), the Waikato War (1863–64), and the New Zealand Settlements Act (1863), with devastating consequences for tangata whenua and te taio. In this exhibition, Graham powerfully addresses the resulting degradation of the Waikato River and its surrounding wetlands, a precious resource and taonga for his iwi.

In this kōrero with Kathryn Graham, Brett discusses Wastelands, his earlier work Tai Moana Tai Tangata (2020), and presenting Wastelands at the Venice Biennale in 2024.

Episode 123: on Wastelands with Brett Graham

A chat with Mary Ellen Matthews, the official photographer for Saturday Night Live’s bumper portraits, about her new coffee table book featuring the portraits she’s made during her long run as the show’s photographer from 1999 to today.

The Art of the SNL Portrait, with Mary Ellen Matthews

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How do moving image artists work with visual effects? In this follow up podcast to CIRCUIT Cast 123: Brett Graham, interviewer Kathryn Graham speaks to Sam Tozer from LOT23. They discuss Sam's work on Whangamārino, a six channel video by Brett  included as part of his installation The Wastelands at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Sam discusses the process of working with Brett, the digital challenges of adding visual effects to documentary footage and working through ‘impossible lenses’. 

List of topics:

0:20 How did you first get to know Brett? Sam discusses making one of Nat Tozer’s works (Erotic Geologies (2024)) and forging a mutual connection with Brett via Gow Langsford gallery, and the inclusion of a Fred Graham sculpture in the video. 

2.30: Sam describes the original documentary footage which Whangamārino is based on.  

3.25: The unusual size of the six screen video installation -  “11 times wider than it is high…immediately really exciting”.

4.00: What was the process of choosing not to use the original footage? 

4:30: Sam discusses ‘impossible lenses’, and the difference between showing The Wastelands in Venice in 2024 versus the 2025 Auckland Art Gallery installation which features the video work Whangamārino.

6:00: How LOT23 work with artists - technologically and learning about the artists' kaupapa, looking at previous works, examining narrative and aesthetic threads in existing works - “so we’re part of a continuum”

7 :00: The technical challenges of making a work “12 times wider than it’s high” at a resolution of 11,500 pixels wide

8:25: Brief discussion of unusual screen sizes in projects with Lisa Reihana and Nat Tozer 

10:00: More discussion of working at large scale, Kathryn makes anology of working on a mural and the impact of scale on the viewer

12:30 Sam discusses beginning with grass, rock and trees as "touchpoints for a scale reference” Different lens sizes with a virtual camera. The process of creating natural environments. Using NASA Lidar data, using images of the actual sites in Brett’s video.

15:00 Working with Brett - suggesting inclusion of other details, thinking about depth of field “you get to play God with it…to create something larger than life…that is hyper real”. 

18:00 “There’s all sorts of Easter eggs of meaning…” Discussion of Brett’s personal references to whenua in the work.

19:30 Ends

Episode 124: Sam Tozer on Impossible Lenses

Summertime is the season for travel. With that theme in mind, in today’s show, we’re taking you on a short trip around the block to revisit a few of our favorite encounters from B&H’s 2025 Bild Expo. 

During two days in June, we engaged with the many thousands of Expo attendees who converged at New York’s Jacob Javits Center for the show. From our sleek podcast console/recording station adjacent to the Bild stages, we shared our favorite listens and offered advice to the many inquisitive creatives wanting to start up a podcast of their own. Amid all the noise and excitement, we also found the chance to record short interviews with a few of our visitors who had inspiring stories to tell, three of which we’re presenting today. 
So, sit back and enjoy these conversations with Philadelphia-based photographer, entrepreneur, and community organizer CJ Wolfe; New York-based filmmaker, producer, and podcaster Maria Clinton; and Canadian-born, globetrotting visual engineer and environmental activist Benjamin Von Wong.

Guests: CJ Wolfe, Maria Clinton, & Benjamin Von Wong


Host: Derek Fahsbender
Senior Creative Producer: Jill Waterman
Senior Technical Producer: Mike Weinstein
Executive Producer: Richard Stevens



Bild 2025 Recap, with CJ Wolfe, Maria Clinton & Benjamin Von Wong

The photo world is filled with remarkable young and up-and-coming talents. They often don’t get the visibility they deserve, so we created Next Frame—a new monthly series aiming to shine a light their way. These bite-sized episodes are equally inspired by the guests we speak with and the invaluable contributions of local creative arts programs that have played a key role in their development. 

We’re launching this series with photographer, filmmaker, and boxing & music aficionado Josh Nass, an alumnus of Baltimore’s Wide Angle Youth Media programs. From nailing his Photoshop skills while still in middle school to trading in his boxing gloves for a camera during college and beyond, Josh regales us with practical tips about both the successes and challenges all young creatives must face as they transition from trading pictures for access to molding media skills into a profitable career.

Looking back on his early days chasing both music and fashion scenes, Josh notes, “Your main role as a photographer—especially with talent and famous people—you know, I thought I was just making them look cool, but I'm making them money. I'm marketing them for their next tour, for their current tour. Looking back, I've learned a thing or two about how to get users’ attention online.”

Next Frame: From Boxing Rings to Media Stages with Josh Nass

This soundtrack was created for a dance performance called Spindotcom. Version 2025, created by the Mooier Foundation (Zwolle, Netherlands). Dancer Maartje Sijperda. Artwork by Mooier Foundation. 

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A chat with photographers Joel Simpson and John Paul Caponigro, discussing the philosophies behind their respective surreal / psychological geological photographs, plus the creative processes they use for image making.

Finding Faces in the Rocks, with John Paul Caponigro and Joel Simpson

The B&H Photography Podcast: Join us every other week for a conversation with insightful and entertaining guests. From gear and technique to history, science and art, we discuss the issues most important to the contemporary photographer.

Arts Across NC is a podcast by and about the North Carolina Arts Council. Founded in 1967 with the democratic vision of "arts for all citizens," the North Carolina Arts Council sustains and grows the arts for the benefit of North Carolinians and their communities. Join us as we celebrate the rich history of the arts across North Carolina.

eavesdropping is a platform for the sharing of new music and new ways of thinking about music. Our activity includes a festival, a forum, a podcast, and artist development opportunities. In our podcast, eavesdropping conversations, Juliet Fraser chats to the artists featured in the festival.

CIRCUIT CAST is a podcast produced by CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image, interviewing contemporary artists about recent exhibitions and how they approach their practice. CIRCUIT is Aotearoa/New Zealand's leading distributor of artists' moving image works. 

www.circuit.org.nz.

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