Hit The Streets 138: Q&A & Photo Challenge

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In this Episode…

Valérie invites German photographer Martin Waltz to guest co-host. Together they answer questions about the locations/situations they like to shoot the most, and the least. They also delve into the subject of photo exhibits.

Guest Co-Host: Martin Waltz

Martin is a  photographer, writer and educator in Berlin, Germany.

He is the editor of the German street photography site and the curator of the German street photography festival.

He has written and co-authored several books on street photography. He is a passionate photography teacher and offers photography coaching and photography workshops in Berlin. 

His work has been shown at exhibitions in New York, London, Paris, Dublin, Rome, Budapest, Bucharest and Berlin and has won numerous international awards.

Links to Martin’s Work

Website https://streetberlin.net/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/martinuwaltz/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/photographyandberlin/

And the Winners Are…

The theme was LOVE. Martin picked a photo by Kai Behrmann

Congratulations Kai, you will receive a camera strap by Lucida Straps

©Kai Behrmann

Next Photo Challenge: Through The Window

Listen to the tips in the episode and enter your best shot before August 8th.

The Prize…

A beautiful Soft Release Button of your choice by or friends at AF Shoot

Martin’s Book Pick

Hit The Streets 134: Blindsight with Bob Sacha

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In this Episode…

This week, Valérie shares a conversation with NYC award-winning photographer, documentary film maker and teacher Bob Sacha. They discuss his experience filming BlindSight, a short documentary film that examines the photographic imagination of the members of the Seeing With Photography Collective in New York City and much more.

Bob’s Biography

Bob Sacha is a director, cinematographer, editor, teacher, photographer and, above all, a collaborator on visual journalism projects. He has created video for projects that have won the Pulitzer Prize, a National Emmy for New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming,  a Webby and the first gold medal ever given by the Society for News Design. He was the director of photography for the New York Times series, Living City, about  New York’s infrastructure. BlindSight, a documentary short about a group of blind photographers that he directed and shot, had its world premiere at DOCNYC, the country’s largest documentary festival.

He was recently named an Associate Professor for Video Storytelling at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, where for four years straight he received the Tow Foundation Grant for “teachers who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in their fields.”  Known for his innovative approach to visual storytelling and his engaging teaching style,  he received one of  the initial Journalism360 Grants for Immersive Storytelling to bring  360 video journalism to community media organizations in the NYC area.

He has lectured and taught workshops and classes at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, SVA, the International Center of Photography’s New Media Narratives, CAMERA, the Italian Center for Photography and around the world for National Geographic Expeditions. 

In the hazy past, he had a long career as a photojournalist, first for The Philadelphia Inquirer, magazines like LIFE and National Geographic, then he worked as an editor/producer at the multi-award winning MediaStorm. He is currently interested in looking deeper into 360 video and spatial audio and using his iPhone to capture the world around him every day.

Links to Bob’s Work

http://twitter.com/bobsacha

https://www.instagram.com/bobsacha/

http://bobsacha.com/edu/

Hit The Streets 133: Q&A & Street Challenge

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In this Episode…

In this new Q&A episode, Valerie invites the founder of the 24h project, Renzo Grande, to co-host with her. Together they answer questions from podcast listeners Valerie Vaillant and Chantal Mougel about showing your street photography to a traditional photo club and capturing silhouettes in a high contrast situation. They also give the names of the winners of the last street challenge and announce a new one.

Guest Co-Host: Renzo Grande

Renzo Grande is a photographer who focuses his passion and sensitivity to document daily street stories with a sense of perpetual iconic emotions.

Originally from Lima – Peru and currently based in New York City he started his visual documentation in 2010.

His work has been featured in Photo France, Los Angeles Times, Serie Oro Italia, Efsyn News Greece, United Nations UNDP Humanum, among others.

Renzo’s photos have been exhibited in Germany, Iran, Finland, Italy, Venezuela, Peru, United States and Mexico. He is also the founder of the 24HourProject, a worldwide documentary of the Human Condition through street photography.

Links

@renzogrande www.renzogrande.com The 24HourProject is on May 25 2019 and photographers can register free in the website: www.24hourproject.org and view @24hourproject 

And the Winners are…

Renzo picked photo by Andy Fisher
Valerie picked a photo by Pia Parolin

Congrats to both winners who will receive an ebook of their choice from our friends at www.rockynook.com

©Pia Parolin

©Andy Fisher

Next Photo Challenge: LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!

Listen to the tips on the show and enter your STREET LOVE photograph in the comments section for a change to win a beautiful camera strap by https://www.lucidastraps.com/en/ to enter the next contest. Contest deadline is MAY 30th

Renzo’s Book Pick

Hit The Streets 123: Case Study 5: When the Police Gets Involved

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In this Episode…

During this special case study episode, Valerie shares a conversation with Indiana based photographer Dave Dufour. Dave shares his experience doing street photography at Texas State Fair, dealing with an irate mother and the Dallas police...

"Hi Valerie,
I had a rather bad experience in Texas doing street photography at the Texas State Fair this October, involving me, an irate mother and the Dallas police. I'm wondering if this is something you'd want to discuss on the podcast as a kind of cautionary story. I've learned a couple valuable lessons as a result. [...] Love the podcast!!" Dave Dufour

Dave’s Biography

Dave Dufour is the Executive Director of Elkhart Civic Theatre, community theatre in Northern Indiana. Theatre was a lifelong passion, which became his job about four years ago.  He has also been an avid photographer since receiving his first camera, a Kodak Brownie Starmite, when he was seven years old.  Three and a half years ago, he lost his wife, Michele, to cancer.  As part of his recovery from this loss,  he bought a Canon DSLR and started to travel, first to Paris, then later to Nice, France, to take photographs.  He spent a year studying comedy at The Second City in Chicago, where he also enjoys street photography.  For the theatre Dave takes publicity pictures, as well as performance photos and candids backstage.  His favorite cities for street photography are Paris and Chicago.  Dave plans another trip to France in 2019.  

Links to Dave’s Work

Personal website: davedufour.com.  

Instagram & Twitter: @davedufour

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Hit The Streets 122: Q&A and Street challenge

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In this Episode…

Valerie and guest co-host Chris Foley answer listener questions about lens choices and photographing in crowded locations. They announce the winners of the latest photo challenge and announce a new one.

Guest Co-host: Chris Foley

Chris Foley is a designer, developer, software instructor, and intrepid traveler who harbors a voracious hunger for visual storytelling.  

Reared in a home whose bathroom doubled as a darkroom on weekends, he was restoring vintage rangefinder film cameras at 8 years old. His love for photography has been an ingrained and constant thing throughout the decades. 

As The Ambulant Photographer, he hosts regular group photowalks in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He currently resides in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and two ridiculous little dogs. His latest eBook “Moving Beyond Snapshot” is available now for free download at his website: www.ambulant.photo

Links

Website: https://ambulant.photo/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ambulant.photo/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ambulant.photo/

And the Winners Are…

©Robin Chun

Robin Chun will receive the grand prize, a bag by Evermore. This all purpose bag makes a great camera bag for small cameras.

©Wayne Richards

The runner up, Wayne Richards, will receive an Ebook by RockyNook.

Next Photo Challenge

SHADOWS Please listen to the episode and enter one picture in the comments below. Deadline Feb 14.

Book Pick

Hit The Streets 107: The Malawi project with Paul Vincent

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In This Episode…

Valerie shares a conversation with Paul Vincent. Find out how football, photography and serendipity brought a visual storyteller from London to work on a documentary project in Malawi.

Paul's Biography

Paul is a married father of two from Hertfordshire, England. Having originally trained as a photographer in the 1990s, he slowly gravitated towards graphic design and now runs a small London based agency called Stone Creative Design. He worked with Valerie and Joshua Coombes, designing the New York and Paris #dosomethingfornothing ebooks.

Since picking the camera up again a couple of years ago (He now considers himself a fully fledged Fuji-holic) he’s integrated photography into his family life and enjoys brightening up his commute with street work on the London Underground in particular. It’s also lead to a wide range of interesting projects and experiences through his business including shooting live theatre and recently a short film for a soccer school using the Fuji X-T2. 

Earlier this year, his passion for documentary work took him to Malawi where he worked with the charities Kit Aid and Friends of Mulanje Orphans. Images from this project have been entered into this years Lens Culture Emerging Photographers award.

Links to Paul's Work

www.paulvincentphotography.net

insta: @paujlkvincent

twitter: @pauljkvincent

www.stonecreativedesign.com

Examples of Paul's Work

Hit The Streets 97: 20 Minutes with Valerie

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Street Photography... Color or B&W?  Let's look at the pros and cons of color and B&W in street photography. How do you decide? With several examples, Valerie will help you put more intent in your photography. Whether you shoot raw or not, this webinar is designed to help you make the decision before you press the shutter as part of the creative process. 

When: August 1st, 2018. If you cannot attend the webinar LIVE, you can stream it on your own time later as long as you are registered!

Summary

In this episode of Hit The Streets, Valerie gives you a quick recap of the past few weeks. She talks about her workshop in Normandy in June, experiencing the World Cup victory in France, and update on Joshua Coombes and #DoSomethingForNothing and more..

Links

https://valeriejardin.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/normandy-students-work/

http://valeriejardinphotography.com/how-you-can-help/

Hit The Streets 93: Juxtapositions, Patience and Perseverance with Ritesh Ghosh

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Street Photography... Color or B&W?  Let's look at the pros and cons of color and B&W in street photography. How do you decide? With several examples, Valerie will help you put more intent in your photography. Whether you shoot raw or not, this webinar is designed to help you make the decision before you press the shutter as part of the creative process. 

When: August 1st, 2018. If you cannot attend the webinar LIVE, you can stream it on your own time later as long as you are registered!

Summary

David Julian is guest hosting for Valerie this week. This week he has a conversation with Ritesh Ghosh about juxtapositions, patience and perseverance. Enjoy!

Biography

My name is Ritesh Ghosh and I am a travel and Street Photographer from Kolkata, India. 

This would probably not have been my introduction 8 years ago when I was just a regular guy working as a cashier in a Private Bank. Although I had been creatively inclined since childhood, the 9 to 5 grind left me with almost no time to discover the potential within. I guess everything comes with an expiry date and so did my career as a Banker. It was in January 2014 that I decided to hang up my banker boots and opt for a better alternative. With the little savings that I had managed to accumulate and not knowing what exactly I wanted to pursue, I purchased my first DSLR camera, a Canon 600D. Looking at the world around me through the little glass window on my camera (better known as the viewfinder) I started getting intrigued day by day. As I was running out of money I decided to take up a job and moved out to Dubai for a year. During my stay abroad, I was following a lot of Photographer’s on YouTube when I came across this gentleman named Zack Arias who was shooting with the Fujifilm X100s. The sheer brilliance of this little mirrorless system was such that Mr. Arias had declared that “The DSLR is dead.” The statement was so convincing that I ended up purchasing the X100s for myself.  

Coming back to India in October 2015, I started taking pictures on the streets of Kolkata. The 23mm f.2.8 on the X100s was just the perfect combination for capturing street action. Initially, I was a bit apprehensive about how my subjects would react. Approaching them with a smile made things work for me. The compact size of the camera did not make me look too intimidating and people wouldn’t really mind me taking their snap from a close proximity. Photography is all about how you perceive the world through that viewfinder glass on your camera. For most it really does not make any difference but for some it can be a “game changer”. One of the many learnings which I have personally gained over the last couple of years is something that I would like to share. Persistence and Patience are the best friends of a photographer. I try and shoot regularly for about 3 hours. By virtue of these qualities one starts looking at the things around them with precision. I have been visiting Kumartuli and it’s alleys from the moment I had my first camera in hand about 4 years ago. There were times when I would return without a single decent frame. But that did not deter me from going back to the same place again. With every repeat visit I started noticing minute things present around me which were otherwise invisible to others.

I have recently worked on a personal project #BEINGAWOMAN where I have tried to bring out the different shades to a Woman's personality. Prior to that I had worked on a project showcasing a young skateboarder from Kolkata. 

Juxtaposition is my favourite sub genre in Street Photography. It gives me the opportunity to express myself creatively and engage my audience at the same time. I draw my inspiration from Vineet Vohra who has mastered the art of Juxtaposition. I am presently working on a couple of personal projects and traveling whenever I have the opportunity. My gear includes the Fujifilm XT1 with the 10-24mm, 16mm, 23mm, 18-55mm and 50-140mm lenses. 

Links to Ritesh's Work

https://www.facebook.com/ritesh.ghosh.549

https://www.instagram.com/love_thy_camera/

Examples of Ritesh's Work

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Hit The Streets 92: Before Winter with Olga Karlovac

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Street Photography... Color or B&W?  Let's look at the pros and cons of color and B&W in street photography. How do you decide? With several examples, Valerie will help you put more intent in your photography. Whether you shoot raw or not, this webinar is designed to help you make the decision before you press the shutter as part of the creative process. 

When: August 1st, 2018. If you cannot attend the webinar LIVE, you can stream it on your own time later as long as you are registered!

Summary

Today my guest is Olga Karlovac. On this episode of Hit The Streets we discuss her unique style, projects, upcoming exhibit and more.

Biography

My name is Olga Karlovac and I am a street and abstract photographer from Croatia. I was born in Dubrovnik and currently I live in Zagreb.

Photography is my passion and a help to go through life. It is a way of communication to everything around me and within myself.

I like reading books, winter and rain. I enjoy small things such a walk in nature, having my favourite coffee and sometimes just doing nothing.

My photos have been a part of exhibitions and have been published in various magazines. 

I have published two photo books. Currently, I am preparing a book presentation and exhibition for my second photo book "before winter"  in the Ecad gallery in London. I am also working on a new project called "The Disarray" .

Links to Olga's Work

https://www.instagram.com/olga.karlovac/

https://www.olga-karlovac-photography.com/

https://www.facebook.com/olga.karlovac

Examples of Olga's Work