Hit The Streets 125: A Creative Life with Kenna Klosterman

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In this Episode…

This week Valérie shares a conversation with Kenna Klosterman who is a travel photographer, the host of Creative Live, a podcaster and an educator.

Kenna’s Biography

Kenna Klosterman is a travel photographer, tour leader, educator, international MC, podcaster, and has been the Host of the online education network CreativeLive for eight years. She also hosts the podcast We Are Photographers for CreativeLive. Kenna leads tours to destinations all over the world including Cuba, Morocco, Tanzania & Kenya, Costa Rica, Bhutan and Nepal. Kenna was the Field Producer for AdoramaTV’s original documentary series Through the Lens: Cuba. Her Cuba-only IG @cubaphoto was named one of Ink361's "Beautiful Instagram Accounts to Discover Cuba." She recently curated an exhibit of 60 Cuban photographers at the University of Washington in her home city of Seattle. Kenna’s personal vision is to enable change in the world through powerful imagery. Her travels have taken her to over 45 countries - the energy, friendliness and human connectivity of people she’s met and photographed around the world continue to inspire her. 

Links to Kenna’s Work

Web: https://kennakphoto.com

IG: https://instagram.com/kennaklosterman

IG: https://instagram.com/cubaphoto

FB: https://www.facebook.com/kennaklo

We Are Photographers podcast - http://creativelive.com/podcast 

Examples of Kenna’s Work

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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 120: New Year Special

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This week Valérie invites her dear friend Karen Hutton to recap 2018 in a New Year Special.

Karen’s Biography

Karen Hutton is a professional light bender and storyteller. That’s shorthand for her style of fine art landscape photography, and the fact that she’s also a voiceover artist, online show host, writer, speaker and teacher. You can find her at Karenhutton.com. 

Hit The Streets 117: Q&A and Photo Challenge

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In this Episode…

Valerie and guest co-host Jens Krauer answer listener questions about going beyond the comfort zone and weekend shooting. They announce the winners of the latest photo challenge and announce a new one.

Guest co-host: Jens Krauer

Jens Krauer is a passionate street and documentary photographer based in Zürich Switzerland. Official Fujifilm X-Photographer, workshop leader and vinyl collector with a strong background in urban culture and street art.

Links

 www.urbanframes.net

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011468868019

http://valeriejardinphotography.com/podcast/2017/1/11/hit-the-streets-17-six-weeks-in-new-york-with-jens-krauer

 And the winners are...

Congrats to Joan Lyons and Marc Täuber. Their entries won the LINES challenge. They will receive an ebook from our friends at Rocky Nook

©Joan Lyons

©Marc Täuber

The Next Photo Challenge

Prize for the best self portrait entry from our friends at Evermore Gear

Next challenge: CREATIVE SELF PORTRAIT. Deadline: January 10 Enter in show notes below.

One winner will receive a bag by Evermore. This all purpose bag makes a great camera bag for small cameras.

For inspiration check out the self portrait work of Cindy Sherman, Trish Morrissey Richard Avedon, Vivian Maier, Man Ray and many more!

Book Pick

Hit The Streets 116: On Wide Angle Photography And Much More With Chris Marquardt

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In this Episode…

This week Valerie shares a fun conversation with German photographer, educator, author and podcaster extraordinaire Chris Marquadt.

Chris’ Biography

As an author and podcaster, Chris helps you become a better photographer. As a photographer and coach, Chris Marquardt takes interesting people to the end of the world. As a consultant, he teaches businesses how to increase their visual impact. And as an author, Chris does some deep dives into wide angle, tilt-shift and film photography.

Links to Chris’ Work & Books

Photo Tours: https://discoverthetopfloor.com/ 

Podcasts: https://chrismarquardt.com/podcasts

Books: https://chrismarquardt.com/books

Examples of Chris’ Work

Hit The Streets 113: Q&A and Photo Challenge

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Summary

This week on Hit The Streets, Valérie invites Marco Larousse to co-host. Together they answer listener questions, announce the winner of the last photo challenge and much, much more.

Links to Marco Larousse’s Work

Web: www.MarcoLarousse.com - Twitter: @HamburgCam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marco.larousse/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarcoLarousse1

Links to PPN:
Web: www.PhotoPodcasts.com
Twitter: @Photopodcasts
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photopodcasts/

Q&A

Sent via email from Mike Branch: “If you could have a small dinner party with a group of photographers, living or dead, who would be on your short list?”

Here are the photograph Marco and Valérie would have at their dinner party:

Mary Ellen Mark - Elliott Erwitt - Sebastião Salgado - Gerda Taro - Robert Doisneau - Lewis Hine - Robert Capa - Vivian Maier

Book by Doisneau mentioned by Valérie during the Q&A:

And the Winner is…

Roel Ebbinge wins the Chief Mate camera strap for this photograph taken in Harleem, NL.

Congrats Roel! Visit his website and Instagram

Winning photographs of the Film Noir challenge by ©Roel Ebbinge

Next Photo Challenge

Theme: Using LINES in Street Photography

Listen to the tips in the show and enter on or before Dec. 6th in the comment section of this episode.

Book Pick

Announcements

PODCAST

PLEASE SEND YOUR LISTS, SUGGESTIONS, CASE STUDIES, ETC. HERE

1. The weirdest things that have happened to you on the streets

2. Best non-photo accessories for street photographers

3. Case Studies: Want to be a guest on the show and discuss a topic that can be helpful to the community? 

WORKSHOPS

Paris, Berlin, NYC, and many more… List of Valérie’s upcoming workshops here

Valérie will speak at Looking Glass in Berkley at 10 am on Dec. 2.

Valérie is joining David Julian in Havana in December.

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 105: Life in a Frame with Wayne Crichlow

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This week David Julian sits in for Valerie and interviews London based photographer Wayne Crichlow. Enjoy!

Wayne's Biography

Born in London’s East End to West Indian parents, Wayne’s passion for street photography grew in the early days with a modest bridge camera. Capturing everyday life events as they happen, and at every opportunity, he is intrigued by the creative freedom which photography brings as a creative outlet.

Wayne’s style of street photography takes inspiration from icons such as Vivian Maier, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martin Parr, Mary Ellen Mark, Mark Asnin and Zack Arias.   His visual storytelling aptitude enables him to provide an honest and yet thought-provoking insight to the world’s dynamic surroundings and the complexities and struggles of daily life.

Wayne has a unique ability to observe and represent life unfolding in front of him by showing the connection between the subject he sees in their environment. His visual language has evolved from candid street photographer to that as a humanist story teller.  From the poverty stricken townships of the Western Cape South Africa to living with the challenges of mental health, Wayne is an advocate for those voices whose story needs to be told.

“To capture an image is to capture the very essence of life itself and of that moment in time that can never be repeated."

Links to Wayne's Work

https://www.waynecrichlowphotography.com/

https://www.instagram.com/chasingthelight_67/

https://twitter.com/WayneRC67

https://www.facebook.com/chasingthelight67/

http://masterofphotography.tv/en/photographers/wayne-crichlow/

Examples of Wayne's Work

Hit The Streets 104: Giving a Voice with Ed Kirwan

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Summary

We often talk about the power of the still photograph to raise awareness and how each one of us can use our storytelling skills to make a difference in the world. Today I invited Ed Kirwan on the show. Ed uses stills and a unique word to bring the attention of the viewer on social media and bring attention to homelessness. This is an important conversation, please share it.

Ed's Biography

There are lived experiences out there that can put our own lives in context. Often they are too far away or too far removed from our experience to feel relevant. I want to connect people with these amazing rich experiences of distant lives to help see their own in a new context and with this new insight, do their little bit to change the world. I capture these through photography, videography and storytelling. 

My perception of other peoples lives was shaped by teaching teenagers in North London for 3 years. It ultimately opened my eyes to the huge injustices in the UK; wealth ultimately deciding education, health and success; it also showed me the power of words. Students, once I gained their trust, would take the words I said very seriously and literally. This is a huge responsibility and I decided to take advantage of this to ensure that these children left school as better humans and real members of society.

Teaching is where I found my passion for inspiring and influencing others to do good. I now focus on giving a voice to particularly rough sleepers in the UK as well as those trying to help them. Showing the person beyond the stigma, the motivations they have and the life they live. Once this public perception changes, homelessness can truly be ended. It seems an impossible up hill struggle but one which someone has to attempt. 

I hope in future to focus on other lives, bringing influence to a variety of causes as well as becoming a credible, reputable public speaker - my biggest aspiration.

Links to Ed's Work

Website: www.edkirwan.co.uk

The Homeless World Cup 2018 Prequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIdDJ7V9W0&t=21sHomeless

World Cup Foundataion: https://www.edkirwan.co.uk/mexico-homeless-football-world-cup

Trailer of the project: https://www.facebook.com/edjkirwan/videos/926043154242467/

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

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EjKirwan

www.givingstreets.com 

www.changeplease.org

www.wearebeam.org

www.linkey.org.uk

www.streetskitchen.org

www.wemakechange.org

Examples of Ed's Work