Hit The Streets 150: About Teaching, Ethics, Vision And More With Valerie

Guest User November 28, 2019

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In this Episode…

In this episode, the tables are turned and Valerie Jardin is being interviewed by Alec Hosterman on her teaching philosophy, ethics as a street photographer, and much more.

Valérie's bio

Valérie Jardin is a French photographer, currently residing in the United States. She is self-taught and, after working as a commercial photographer for many years, she now dedicates her time to educating others all over the world during workshops, conferences and exhibits.

Valérie has also written several books about visual storytelling as well as hundreds of articles. She also produces her own weekly podcast titled Hit The Streets with Valérie Jardin. She lives and breathes photography.

Links to Valérie’s Work

www.valeriejardin.com

www.instagram.com/valeriejardin

Alec's bio

By day, Alec Hosterman is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. While there, he teaches courses in public relations campaigns, research, writing, and visual communication. But once he puts down the red grading pen, Alec picks up his camera for some well-deserved image therapy! Alec has been behind the lens for over 20 years, shooting anything from nature to landscapes, architecture to street. He also teaches photography courses for a local art studio. Alec lives with one spoiled dog, two vocal cats, and way too many cameras to count.

Links to Alec’s Work

www.alechosterman.com

www.instagram.com/alechosterman

www.twitter.com/alechosterman

Hit The Streets 148: Transitions and more with Greg Turner

Guest User October 31, 2019

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In this Episode…

Today Valerie shares a conversation with Greg Turner, a photographer from the UK. They discuss two specific projects Greg completed in recent years and how projects often come to the photographer in the most unexpected ways.

Greg’s Biography

My work is driven by a combination of poetry and pragmatism. I take inspiration from a variety of places, in particular Diane Arbus, Joel Sternfeld, Richard Renaldi, Rineke Dijkstra and Laura Panack, from Avedon’s ‘In The American West’ series as well as the Italian Neo-Realist cinema movement.

I work primarily outside in the street, in parks and on the beach, in between meetings, while on business trips or if I have a spare 40 minutes at the end of the day. As a result, my work tends towards spontaneity and serendipity. I photograph people as they are in the moment I find them. Sometimes the connections are brief, sometimes they develop and flourish, but they are all bound and connected by the place and time in which they occur.

This connection with place and time is central to my work. It is a means by which to both pragmatically structure my activity around family life, and poetically explore the ideas that are important to me. By locating a subject in a specific place and time, I have the chance to ask, ‘what brought you here to me, what ties you to this moment, where have you come from and where are you going?’ In asking these questions I hope to make a more meaningful connection with an otherwise detached stranger and thereby learn something more profound about them and the nature of our humanity.

My focus is the humanity of the person in front of the camera; community, gender identity, sexuality, transition, conformity and vulnerability are all prevalent motifs in my work, but it is this last phenomenon, our vulnerability, that interests me most. It is when we are at our most vulnerable that our humanity is most readily evident; it is in our collective vulnerability that all our humanity lies.

Links to Greg’s Work

www.tearsinrain.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/geetee1972/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geetee1972/

Examples of Greg’s Work

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Hit The Streets 146: SixPick with Achim Katzberg

Guest User October 3, 2019

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Achim and Valérie discuss the importance of always working on photography projects.

Achim’s Biography

I was born and raised in 1965 in Zweibrücken. Since the early 90s I have been working in the Rhein Main Region and now live in Mainz.
Since my early youth, I have been taking photos with analog cameras. Even though I collected some experience with analog image editing in my own laboratory.
After a work related break as an artist, since the turn of the century, I am shooting with digital cameras. Going digital the black and white lab has been replaced by Lightroom and – in some exceptions only – Photoshop.
I am now working as a professional photographer specialized in weddings, events and architecture photography as well as street and documentary photography.

Being specialized in architecture and documentary photography as well as weddings and events in Mainz and the Rhein-Main Region, street photography is a kind of uncommissioned, free program for me.
Street photography allows me to reflect my great love for people and life in general, as well as my fascination for architecture and design. I love to show people in the urban environment in strong compositions, preferring minimalistic urban graphics.

Links to Achim’s Work

Homepage (street section): https://querformat-fotografie.de/en/galerien/?filter=street

Instagram (relevant re SIXPICKs): https://www.instagram.com/achim_katzberg/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/querformat.fotografie/

Examples of Achim’s Work

Hit The Streets 145: Finding Robert Capa with Charlie Maguire

Guest User September 19, 2019

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In this episode Valerie interviews her good friend and song writer Charlie Maguire who recently travelled to Iowa to document Robert Capa's work documenting life on a farm that no one knows about. This episode is a real treat and there is a bonus song at the end. Don't miss it!

Charlie’s Biography

Called “A legend in the Midwest” by the Winnipeg Folk Festival; a performer “Who can sing, really sing” by Diane Sawyer of ABC-TV; and whose songs are “Damn good and so are you” by Pete Seeger; Charlie Maguire may be as much in the tradition of photographer Robert Capa, as his own musical roots in the Woody Guthrie tradition. Capa said, “If your pictures are not good enough, you are not close enough.” Guthrie described his songwriting as being like “A photographer without a camera.” Like Capa and Guthrie, Charlie Maguire uses the same close-up methods for his subjects when he writes songs about them.

Charlie has written songs about migrant labor as a VISTA volunteer, and the alienation of old age in his life-long work with elders. He has sailed the Great Lakes mirroring the job of a Third Mate on the bridges of huge grain and iron ore carriers well as an “ordinary seaman” on the slippery decks of a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker. Both of these opportunities brought a fresh look at the conditions of modern working life on the U.S. Great Lakes. He has donned the uniform of the U.S. National Park Service ranger as the first and only “Singing Ranger” in the history of the service, training in the Grand Canyon and subsequently writing 24 award-winning songs about the Mississippi River. His work with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources as “Centennial Troubadour” was so compelling it raised the awareness of women actually gainfully employed in conservation as far back as 1903. That research and writing led in part to the construction of the Mary Gibbs Headwaters Visitor Center at Itasca State Park, honoring Ms. Gibbs, as the first woman park manager in the history of the United States.

Maguire is a native of upstate New York, and was mentored by Seeger, Lee Hays, and Marjorie Guthrie. His eyes and ears for a good story rest in his belief that songs containing real drama experienced close up, whether tragic or uplifting, not only inspire the listener but have a power to change — as well as comfort and heal people. Recently as an artist-in-residence contractor at the Minnesota Veterans Home, Charlie’s way of using music and photography to forge answers to social problems, recently led to an award-winning suicide prevention program for U.S. Veterans and returned military personnel. Since it’s inception there three years ago, “OSS: Operation Sight And Sound” has had a zero suicide rate for those veterans involved in the program that practices songwriting, and photography in service to the greater community.

Links to Charlie’s Work

Web: https://www.charliemaguire.com/

Instagram: charlie_studio-california

FB: Charlie Maguire

Twitter: @mellojam

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/robert-capa/

http://www.cityofcarroll.com/carroll-county-historical-society

Photos from the Iowa Trip

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New Challenge: Photograph the backs of people

Hit The Streets 143: Q&A & Photo Challenge

Valerie Jardin August 22, 2019

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In this Episode…

In this episode of Hit The Streets, Valérie has invited another Valérie to guest co-host. Together they answer questions about Instagram and the many challenges of Street Photography. They also announce the winner of the last photo challenge and announce a new one.

Guest Co-Host Valérie Vaillant

Valérie Vaillant started street photography quite recently and has participated in a few workshops with Valérie Jardin. She lives in Angers, in the Loire Valley of France and works frequently in Paris where she practices her street photography skills as often as she can.

Links to Valérie Vaillant’s Work

Instagram: @frenchy_val_

And the Winner Is…

Winner of the THROUGH A WINDOW contest is Aixa.

Link to her work: @moodandmystery

She will receive a soft release button from our friends at AF Shoots.

Next Photo Challenge

Photograph people from the BACK, listen to the many tips in the show and upload 1 photo in comment section below. Two winners will receive an ebook of their choice from Rockynook.com.
Deadline: Oct. 3

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Hit The Streets 142: "What The Hell Are You Doing on this Planet?" with Hendrik Lohmann

Guest User August 8, 2019

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In this Episode…

My guest today is Hendrik Lohmann. His work was brought to my attention by you, the listeners. thank you for for that! He is German and has been working on a series titled “ What the hell are you doing on this planet?”.

Hendrik’s Biography

Born 1965 in Germany, I spent my childhood in Germany, Denmark and Portugal. I have lived in Düsseldorf since 1990.

The Rhineland way of seeing life in a friendly and relaxed way, of not taking yourself too seriously, has infected me and I also live it in my photography, which I discovered about 10 years ago. People, urban structures and light are my passion.

Links to Hendrik’s Work

www.hendriklohmann.com

https://www.instagram.com/hendrik.lohmann/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lohmannfotografie/

Examples of Hendrik’s Work

Hit The Streets 141: Who are you? And what are you doing in my bed? with Fran Kaufman

Valerie Jardin July 25, 2019

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In this Episode…

Valérie shares a special conversation with NYC photographer Fran Kaufman about her ongoing photography project of documenting her daily life with her husband who is struggling with dementia.

Fran’s Biography

More than 20 years ago, I retired from a long career at Children’s Television Workshop (Yes! I knew big Bird!) and picked up a camera. I’ve never looked back. Since then, I combined my love of jazz music with my photography, and had a second career photographing musicians for magazines, record companies and for the pleasure of it. I’m working on putting together a book of my jazz photos, with the title “Stolen Moments,” as my pleasure and specialty has been behind the scenes photos from rehearsals, sound checks, recording sessions. I’m honored that the great, multi-Grammy-winning critic Dan Morgenstern has written an essay about my work to be included in the book. I’ve had numerous shows of this work in galleries and at two museums. I continue to be the photographer for a monthly jazz magazine that’s distributed in clubs around the country.

I thought I’d continue on this path forever. But a few years ago, my personal life took a left turn when my husband began to show signs of dementia, just as the kids left home, the tuition loans were paid off and we thought life would be a picnic.

To my surprise, finding a way to deal with the feelings and the day-to-day reality of our situation has led to the current project, which has taken over my photographic life. I’ve used this challenge as an opportunity to stretch my photographic muscles and venture sometimes into metaphoric territory.

This project, which certainly could also be called “Stolen Moments” is both a diary of domestic life and a hard look at how dementia robs not only the patient but also those who live with him.

Links to Fran’s Work

Website is www.frankaufman.com

Instagram: Frankaufmanphoto

Facebook: Frankaufman

Examples of Fran’s Work

Hit The Streets 139: Leveraging the Power of Instagram with Pei Ketron

Valerie Jardin June 27, 2019

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This week on Hit The Streets, Valerie shares a conversation with Pei Ketron. Pei gives us lots of great tips on how to leverage the power of Instagram. How to better use Hashtags, Stories, we talk about the Instagramer Do & Don'ts and a lot more!

Pei’s Biography

Pei Ketron is a photographer and educator based in San Francisco who
spent a decade teaching special education in the public school system
before becoming a freelance travel and commercial photographer. She
recently joined the Lightroom team at Adobe, focusing on Lightroom
community. Pei regularly teaches photography and social media classes
privately and through companies and events such as Creative Live, The
Image Flow, the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, and Adobe MAX. In
addition to her experience with DSLR and medium-format film
photography, Pei is also an accomplished mobile photographer.

Links to Pei’s Work

https://www.instagram.com/pketron/

https://twitter.com/pketron

http://www.pketron.com/

Examples of Pei’s Work

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Hit The Streets 136: Small Town Street Photography with David Julian

Guest User May 16, 2019

In this episode of Hit the Streets, Valérie teams up with David Julian to discuss the many advantages of doing street photography in small towns.

Hit The Streets 134: Blindsight with Bob Sacha

Guest User April 18, 2019

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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/

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Valérie's bio

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Alec's bio

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Greg’s Biography

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Achim’s Biography

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Charlie’s Biography

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Photos from the Iowa Trip

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In this Episode…

Guest Co-Host Valérie Vaillant

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And the Winner Is…

Next Photo Challenge

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Hendrik’s Biography

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Fran’s Biography

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Pei’s Biography

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Bob’s Biography

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