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Whether it's after a night out or a night shift, Chicago has a selection of 24-hour restaurants no matter what corner of the city you are in. Host Jacoby Cochran and producer Michelle Navarro talk about their favorite restaurants that have 24-hour service. Good news: Youth Open Mic, Pop Up Party, Unsocial Aesthetics Love Memorial Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this May 21 episode: Williamstown Theatre Festival Paramount Theatre – Use the code CityCast for $5 off/ticket. Valid for up to 4 tickets Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

Protesters arrested during last summer's pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention are still facing prosecution from the city's law department. Some legal experts have called it a “waste of resources” as the city has not won any cases that have gone to trial. Executive producer Simone Alicea and host Jacoby Cochran discuss the ongoing court battles. Plus, why aren't e-scooters available after midnight and would you take a Great Lakes cruise?  Good News:  AAPI Market, The Water We Dance in Poetry Reading, and Masala Memories Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this May 20 episode: Williamstown Theatre Festival Paramount Theatre – Use the code CityCast for $5 off/ticket. Valid for up to 4 tickets Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

With better weather comes more time outside, which in Chicago means more time in the alley.  Back in March, we listed 1,000 things we love about Chicago, and something that repeatedly appeared on the list was the great Chicago alley. Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas is here to discuss the importance of the Chicago alley and why we have the most extensive network in the country. Good news: Healing House Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 If you enjoyed today's interview with Women Employed's CEO, Cherita Ellens, learn more here. Learn more about the sponsors of this May 19 episode: Williamstown Theatre Festival Paramount Theatre — Use the code CityCast for $5 off/ticket. Valid for up to 4 tickets Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

Mayor Brandon Johnson was on the hot seat Wednesday testifying before a Congressional hearing on sanctuary cities. How did he do? WBEZ's Susie An and Block Club Chicago's Madison Savedra are here with host Jacoby Cochran to grade his performance. Plus, the Highland Park shooting trial was cut short by a guilty plea, federal funding cuts are hitting researchers in Chicago, and one of the South Side's last bowling alleys is in trouble. This is City Cast Chicago's 1,000th episode! To celebrate, tell us something you love about Chicago. Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this March 7 episode: Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Steppenwolf Theatre Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE 

Spring break is around the corner, which means students and families in Chicago might be looking for things to do, and we might get some people in from out of town. City Cast senior roving producer Lizzie Goldsmith and newsletter editor Ava Wojnowski don't live here, but they've got some ideas for what they want to do when they visit. Host Jacoby Cochran and executive producer Simone Alicea are here to see how they might improve those itineraries. Good News: Las Locas Comedy tonight Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this March 6th episode: Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Steppenwolf Theatre Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

Chicago goes hard on St. Patrick's Day, and tickets are going fast for parties and bar crawls throughout the city. Social media creator Paige Serena is here to break down the best events and offer some tips for these marathon celebrations. Find out more about Paige's R&B and Roulette event on March 9th, a River North crawl on March 15th, and other bar and restaurant specials around the city. Kevin White's “The Red Room” series on March 28th Good News: Welcome to the Show on March 10th Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this March 5th episode: Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Steppenwolf Theatre Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

Mayor Brandon Johnson is in D.C. and he'll be testifying Wednesday in front of a House oversight committee about Chicago's welcoming city policies, aka sanctuary city laws. Executive producer Simone Alicea and host Jacoby Cochran discuss their expectations heading into the Congressional hearing. Plus, who is replacing retiring Park District CEO Rosa Escareño and where is CTA adding additional bus service? Good News: Jazz and Gumbo Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this March 4th episode: Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Steppenwolf Theatre Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

The New York Stock Exchange Chicago, formerly the Chicago Stock Exchange, announced it's relocating to Texas. This is just the latest blow in the long downfall of Chicago's place as a financial epicenter. Host Jacoby Cochran talks with Chicago History Podcast host Tommy Henry about the stock exchange's founding nearly 150 years ago, the rise of trading pits in Chicago, and what will be left of the history once the office relocates. Good News: Mardi Gras deals Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this March 3 episode: Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Steppenwolf Theatre Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

In October, the Acero Charter School network sent shockwaves through their school communities when they announced they would be shutting down seven Latino-majority schools in Chicago. For families and students, it's been a waiting game as they wonder if or when their schools will close and what their options are. Chalkbeat Chicago's Samantha Smylie and Block Club Chicago's Atavia Reed explain the Chicago Board of Education's Thursday vote to save some of the schools. Plus, Gov. JB Pritzker wants to ban cellphones in classrooms, Lems BBQ adds another prestigious award, and today is Janet Martin Day! Good News: Fat Ham and BUST at the Goodman Theatre Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this February 28th episode: Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Steppenwolf Theatre Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

Chicago's birthday is coming up, spring is around the corner, and the city's preparing to dye the river green — welcome to March in Chicago. Host Jacoby Cochran, contributor Leigh Giangreco, and digital marketing manager Jermaine Thomas are here with their tips for making the most of the month, including handling the weather, finding art shows for Women's History Month, and going beyond green beer for St. Paddy's Day. If you're new here, welcome! We've put together a starter pack for you, with episodes and articles to welcome you to the City Cast Chicago community.  For even more tips on how to make the most of March in Chicago, check out Hey Chicago's take on what to do this month.  City Cast Chicago's guide to March is made possible by our awesome sponsors, Griffin Museum of Science and Industry and Steppenwolf Theatre. City Cast Chicago is also powered by our members, who enjoy an ad-free version of the show. Find out more about how to become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here.  Reach us at chicago@citycast.fm.

Are Chicago's bakeries up to scratch when it comes to making Paczki? That's what we wanted to find out, so last year we met up with journalist Joanna Marszałek to taste-test these traditional Polish pastries, which are a cross between a classic donut and brioche bun with a cream or fruit filling. With Paczki Day coming up next Tuesday, we're bringing this episode back to help you find the city's best Paczki, as well as learn more about the history of this holiday and why so many Chicagoans celebrate it. Where We Went:  Bennison's Bakery in Evanston Laramie Bakery and Deli in Belmont Cragin Polish Paczki Cafe in Norwood Park Other Suggestions: Racine Bakery in Garfield Ridge Weber's Bakery in Garfield Ridge Delightful Pastries in Jefferson Park  Baranowski in Franklin Park Hanna's Bakery in Bloomingdale KD Market (several suburban locations) We also mentioned this episode about the Polish roots of the Avondale neighborhood. Good News: Pueblo Market in Pilsen Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this February 26th episode: Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Steppenwolf Theatre Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

Governor J.B. Pritzker has proposed a $55.2 billion state budget that includes no major tax increases. Executive producer Simone Alicea and host Jacoby Cochran dive into the details. Plus, Chicago has less than two years to spend its remaining COVID relief money, and when one restaurant week ends another begins.  Good News: Chicago Justice Gallery Film Screenings Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773 780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this February 25th episode: Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Steppenwolf Theatre Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

Chicago's new partially elected school board has its second full meeting on Thursday. While the new members are still settling in, the board has big issues coming their way like approving a new contract with the teachers union and finding a new CPS CEO. Chalkbeat Chicago editor Becky Vevea talks with host Jacoby Cochran about the political lines forming and how this board is approaching their new jobs. Want some more City Cast Chicago news? Then make sure to sign up for our Hey Chicago newsletter.  Follow us @citycastchicago You can also text us or leave a voicemail at: 773-780-0246 Learn more about the sponsors of this February 24th episode: Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Steppenwolf Theatre Become a member of City Cast Chicago. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE

Jake Benzinger (Wych Elm) and Tabitha Barnard join me to officially launch my series on publishers and authors where I explore the relationship that builds between publishers, editors, designers, and photographers and to hopefully provide some insight as to how photobooks are being made. Tabitha's book, Dead Trees Speak to Me, was Jake's first photo book that was not his own and Jake and Tabitha will share how they came to know each other and why Jake wanted to publish Tabitha's work. We will talk about the editing and sequencing of the book as well as some of the more traditional questions about how they both got to where they are. https://wychelm.press  |||    https://jakebenzinger.com   |||      https://www.tabithabarnard.com This podcast is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club Begin Building your dream photobook library today at https://charcoalbookclub.com Tabitha Barnard was born in Freedom, New Hampshire in 1994. She is a photographer who grew up in rural Maine with three sisters. Growing up in a very Christian female-dominated family has had a huge influence on her work. Barnard works primarily in digital color photography exploring themes of femininity and religion. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Maine College of Art in the Spring of 2016 and a Master of Fine Art from Massachusetts College of Art in the Spring of 2021.  She has worked in both commercial studio settings, as a shooting assistant, and as the media technician for the photo department at the Maine College of Art. She currently works in Portland Maine, teaching at the Maine College of Art and the University of Southern Maine.  Jake Benzinger (he/him) is a photographer, book artist, and writer based in Rockland, Maine; he received his BFA in photography from Lesley University, College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA. His work has been shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Haute Photographie Rotterdam, Center for Fine Art Photography, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, 82Parris, Panopticon Gallery, RIT City Space Gallery, and more. He has been featured by numerous platforms including GUP Magazine, Lensculture, Float Magazine, Lenscratch, Transference Magazine, and Fraction Magazine. His publications are held in collections at the National Gallery of Art, School of Visual Arts, SMFA at Tufts, and Griffin Museum of Photography, and his monograph, Like Dust Settling in a Dim-Lit Room (Or Starless Forest), was shortlisted for the 2023 Lucie Photobook Prize.

Above Photograph © Lou Jones Africa is the cradle of our civilization. Yet, most Westerners see this massive continent from a distance, and often through a scrim of largely negative headlines.  For more than a decade, Boston-based photographer Lou Jones has sought to challenge this misperception. In 2013, he launched an in-depth photographic documentation of individual countries across Africa under the title the panAFRICAproject.  Jones joins us on today's podcast to recap his efforts to date, which currently encompasses a third of Africa's 54 nations.  Listen in to learn how the project came to be—growing from a solo endeavor to travels with two assistants and enough photo and lighting gear to illuminate an airplane factory. We also discuss the delicate mix of diplomacy and six degrees of separation Jones employs when negotiating access to photograph—plus much, much more. “We're talking about contemporary Africa,” Jones points out. “Talking to people local—not academics in America—to tell us what's important to their culture, what's important to their country, what's important to their community, what's important to their company. Directly from people living there.” Guest: Lou Jones Episode Timeline: 2:58: Lou's earliest trips to Africa predating the panAFRICAproject, then traveling to Ghana to start the project. 7:26: The logistics of travel as a solo photographer and the six degrees of separation that informs his photographic process.  11:33: The substantial diplomacy required in meetings to negotiate access, while avoiding cliches and stereotypes. 19:29: The value of Lou's images as currency in gaining access to photograph business environments. 26:18: The evolution of Lou's photo crew, planning and packing for multiple purposes, plus the art of trading down with project costs. 32:10: The contents of Lou's gear bags, and how he packs everything from cameras to Speedlights to lighting accessories. 39:53: Photography as a bridge to cultural sensitivity and the relationship between a photographer and his or her subjects. 43:08: EPISODE BREAK 44:00: The evolving process of planning each trip to Africa and the constant work when boots are on the ground. 48:12: The complex algorithm Lou and his team use in planning which African country to document next. 53:56: Technological advances and cultural trends coming full circle in Africa, plus cell phone use and fin tech. 59:45: Two cultures side-by-side. Documenting the parallel worlds of contemporary society and indigenous traditions in daily life. 1:05:56: Use of photographs from the panAFRICAproject and maintaining connections with photographic subjects.  1:08:12: Kickstarter and crowdfunding campaigns to support panAFRICAproject travel and books. 1:16:03: Next steps in the panAFRICAproject and the project's impact on a local, grass roots level. Guest Bio: The eclectic career of Lou Jones has spanned every camera format, film type, artistic movement, and technological change, while simultaneously evolving from the commercial to the personal. Recognized by Nikon as a “Legend Behind the Lens” and honored as a Lowepro “Champion,” Jones has maintained a photography studio in Boston for more than 40 years, all while traveling to over 65 foreign countries on assignment. Jones works primarily with advertising agencies and design studios for corporate clients such as Nike, Mobil, and Federal Express, as well as influential publications like Time, Fortune, and National Geographic, among many others. The author of more than a dozen books, Jones is also an esteemed educator and has served as a board member for organizations such as ASMP National, the Photographic Resource Center and the Griffin Museum of Photography.  In tandem with his busy assignment career, Jones pursues long term projects on subjects as diverse as death row inmates, the Summer and Winter Games, and his most recent endeavor, The panAFRICAproject, a contemporary visual portrait of the entire continent, to establish an archive representing its 54 individual countries devoid of the preconceived, western notions of distress. Stay Connected: panAFRICAproject Website: https://panafricaproject.org/ Lou Jones Photography Website: https://www.fotojones.com/ Lou Jones Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loujonesstudio/ Lou Jones Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fotojones/ Lou Jones Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Jones_(photographer) Lou Jones 2018 presentation at the B&H Event Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVb_EFMcQM Lou Jones on the B&H Explora blog: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/features/lou-jones-takes-a-long-term-approach-from-jazz-portraits-to-the Lou Jones's book Speedlights & Speedlites: Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025994-REG/focal_press_978_0_240_82144_3_book_speedlights_speedlites.html End Credits: Host: Derek Fahsbender Senior Creative Producer: Jill Waterman Senior Technical Producer: Mike Weinstein Executive Producer: Richard Stevens

Matthew Leifheit, Photo by Shala Miller Matthew Leifheit is an American photographer, magazine editor, and professor based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the Yale School of Art, Leifheit is Editor-in-Chief of MATTE Magazine, the journal of emerging photography he has published since 2010. Leifheit's photographs have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aperture, TIME, and Artforum, and have been exhibited internationally. His work has been supported by residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo and The Watermill Center, receiving grants from the New York State Cultural Council and the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale, where he was awarded the Richard Benson Prize in 2017. He is currently full-time faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Gay Archive was presented at Union College Crowell and West Galleries and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design's Brant Gallery in the fall of 2024. "Matthew Leifheit: Gay Chorus" will be on view at REVERB Gallery in Tampa, Florida through February 14th. Selections from Leifheit's Gay Archive work will also be included in the Griffin Museum of Photography's upcoming exhibition "Nuclear Family," on view January 17th—March 30th 2025. Installation View of Matthew Leifheit: Queer Archive at Massachusetts College of Art and Design's Brant Gallery, November 2025 John Pfleiderer Body Hair Collection* (undated, collected prior to Pfleiderer's death in 1982) GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, 2023 40x30” dye sublimation print with footnote. Harvey Milk Underwear, GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, 2023 40x30” dye sublimation print on aluminum Pedro Zamora Gift Image, 2024 22.75'' x 32.75'' offset lithography on newsprint, edition of 1000 copies.

The name is Bond, James Bond, and I'll have a Vesper Martini with a side of science to celebrate my movie series, which is the longest-running ever! Chicago's famous Griffin Museum of Science and Industry welcomes “007 Science: Inventing the World of James Bond”. The exhibit, open through March 2025, explores the science and technology featured in the James Bond movies!We sit down with Museum Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer, Laura Herrera, to discuss what you can expect from a visit to the 007 exhibit. She shares what cool gadgets and famous Bond cars you can see inside the exhibit! Plus, we discuss some of the amazing science that will immerse Bond fans young and old in the famous spy world!We also chat about how an exhibit like this goes from concept to creation (spy hint: it takes a lot of talented people at GMSI a long time)! Plus, Laura discusses her career path in Chicago and how her experiences have shaped her work at the museum. We end with a 007 round of rapid fire, finding out Laura's favorite piece in the exhibit, her favorite Bond movie, and how she likes her martini!Buy tickets now through spring 2025!TICKETS/INFO: https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/007-science-inventing-the-world-of-james-bondSOCIAL: https://www.instagram.com/msichicago/?hl=enVESPER MARTINI RECIPE: https://www.liquor.com/recipes/vesper/...

John Llewellyn, Senior Exhibit Strategist at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, joins Steve Dale, in for Lisa Dent, to remind listeners that it’s not too late to attend MSI’s Christmas Around the World.

John Llewellyn, Senior Exhibit Strategist at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, joins Steve Dale, in for Lisa Dent, to remind listeners that it’s not too late to attend MSI’s Christmas Around the World.

Steve Crano, Corporate Communications Manager at Choose Chicago, joins Jon Hansen on Your Money Matters. Steve shares the top things to do in Chicago this holiday season, from the Christmas Around the World exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry to ice skating downtown.

“Barbara Crane” au Centre Pompidou, galerie de photographies, du 11 septembre 2024 au 6 janvier 2025Entretien avec Julie Jones, conservatrice – cabinet de la photographie, Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou, et commissaire de l'exposition,par Anne-Frédérique Fer, à Paris, le 9 septembre 2024, durée 19'10,© FranceFineArt.https://francefineart.com/2024/09/26/3556_barbara-crane_centre-pompidou/Communiqué de presse Commissariat : Julie Jones, conservatrice, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre PompidouLe Centre Pompidou présente la première monographie d'envergure consacrée en Europe à Barbara Crane (née à Chicago, 1928 – 2019), photographe américaine de renommée internationale dont la carrière s'étend sur plus de soixante ans. L'exposition réunit plus de 200 oeuvres, dont une partie récemment entrée dans la collection du Musée national d'art moderne. Réalisée en partenariat avec le Barbara B. Crane Trust, elle se centre sur les 25 premières années de sa carrière, réunissant certaines de ses oeuvres majeures, dont plusieurs inédites. Auteure d'une oeuvre plurielle, Barbara Crane n'a cessé d'explorer les formes et les techniques photographiques (épreuves gélatino-argentiques et numériques, tirages instantanés – Polaroid –, transferts photographiques, tirages au platine-palladium, couleur, noir et blanc…), comme le montre la sélection de l'exposition.Formée à la photographie ainsi qu'à l'histoire de l'art au Mills College (Californie) et à la New York University, Barbara Crane devient photographe professionnelle, spécialisée en portraits. Elle continue sa formation auprès d'Aaron Siskind, à l'Institute of Design de Chicago dans les années 1960 puis enseigne la photographie à l'Art Institute de Chicago de 1967 à 1995.Son oeuvre est remarquable par la synthèse qu'elle opère entre la tradition de la straight photography américaine et une sensibilité plus expérimentale, héritée des avant-gardes européennes, typique des enseignements de l'école de Chicago. Elle associe ainsi une liberté totale envers le médium à un perfectionnisme technique qui la démarque de ses contemporains. Son approche photographique de la ville, Chicago en premier lieu, et de ses habitants anonymes en devient particulièrement singulière. Le contexte artistique dans lequel elle évolue, marqué par le structuralisme, l'art conceptuel, comme ses influences multiples – de John Cage, Henri Matisse, en passant par Merce Cunningham et le cinéma expérimental, influent sur sa pratique dominée par l'idée de séquence et de série, d'accidents et de discipline.Présente dans de nombreuses collections publiques et privées américaines, l'oeuvre de Barbara Crane est encore largement méconnue en France. Une importante rétrospective lui a été consacrée en 2009, présentée au Chicago Cultural Center, à l'Amon Carter Museum, Texas et au Griffin Museum of Photography, Massachussetts.#Catalogue de l'exposition – Barbara Crane sous la direction de Julie Jones, coédition Editions du Centre Pompidou / Atelier EXB. Textes de Paul Bernard-Jabel, Lynne Brown, Agathe Cancellieri, Barbara Crane, Philippe De Jonckheere, Julie Jones, Françoise Paviot Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Code Name Nemo was the name eventually given to one of the most daring and audacious missions of World War II – the effort to capture a German submarine intact. Charles Lachman joins us to share this fascinating and still little known story. The capture of U-505 was the first time since the War of 1812 that an enemy vessel was boarded and captured. Lachman is the Executive Producer of the nationally syndicated news program “Inside Edition” and the author of four books. In Code Name Nemo, Lachman uses archival documents and taped interviews with actual crewmembers to give the reader a deep familiarity with the sailors involved in this mission. They include the maverick Navy Captain Daniel Galley, who first dreamed up the plan as well as one of the ill-fated German U-Boat Commander who committed suicide on board during a depth charge attack. Lt. Albert David led the boarding party and would eventually be awarded the Medal of Honor. Also key to the mission was ship's mechanic Earl Trosino and Ewald Felix, a defecting German crew member who helped keep the U-505 stabilized and afloat so that it could be towed to an allied port. Critical to Galley's plan was for his antisubmarine task force to do sufficient damage to the enemy submarine to get her to surface and force the crew to abandon ship without destroying the vessel. Between engaging in a shootout with any German sailors remaining on board the sub sinking from any demolition charges left behind, the brave sailors who comprised the boarding crew knew they were likely on a suicide mission. The capture of U-505 was an intelligence coup. However, the captured crew would have to be segregated and the submarine disguised so the Nazi's would never realize it was captured. Renaming the ship “Nemo” in all communications was a key part of this strategy. We also discuss the sometimes difficult decisions that have to be made in war, including the many violations of the Geneva Conventions that resulted from this secret plan. The U-505 is on display at the at the Griffin Museum of Science and History in Chicago.

We are hosting a series of conversations with women about their motherlines. Join us monthly. We began in March and continue through March 2025.  We speak with Stephanie JT Russell, poet and visual artist, Poet Laureate for Dutchess County, New York.  Poet,interdisciplinary artist, and cultural worker Stephanie JT Russell's most recent creative nonfiction book is One Flash of Lightning, a poetic treatment of the classical Samurai Code (Andrews McMeel). Her poetry, essays, and visual art are anthologized in books and journals including Colossus: Body, Xavier Review, The Winter Anthology, Sequestrum, Lightwood, and ArLiJo. She has performed and exhibited at venues such as The New Museum, The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Albright Knox, Bowery Poetry Club, and The Berkeley Museum. A visiting teaching artist at New York University, Vassar College, The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, and other noted institutions, Russell received the Overall Winner Award from the 2022 Wirral Poetry Festival, UK.  As Dutchess County Poet Laureate, Russell is curating Stream of Life, a series of intercultural poetry and multidisciplinary events featuring diverse Hudson Valley artists. https://www.artsmidhudson.org/dc-poetlaureatewww.stephaniejtrussell.comwww.stephaniejtrussell.com We close with Abby Lincoln and Max Roach's "Freedom Now." When do we want it? Now!       

Return guest, Michael Joseph, talks about his new book, Lost & Found, published by Kehrer Verlag. You may already know the work from the Travelers series on his Instagram account. This is a beautifully laid out and printed book and we get into many of the details and decisions that went into making this book. First, the decision to publish this series, connecting with an editor, the fundraising, what kinds of text would be used, all the design elements, and finally having it in hand. Michael generously shares each step along the way. We also catch up on how Michael's next series, The Wild West of the East is coming along. https://www.michaeljosephphotographics.com https://www.michaeljosephphotographics.com/book-purchase/p/lost-and-found-book https://www.kehrerverlag.com/en/michael-joseph-lost-found This podcast is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club Begin Building your dream photobook library today at https://charcoalbookclub.com Michael Joseph is a street portrait and documentary photographer.  Raised just outside of New York City, his inspirations are drawn from interactions with strangers on city streets and aims to afford his audience the same experience through his photographs.  His portraits are made on the street, often unplanned and up close to allow the viewer to explore the immediate and unseen. Themes throughout his portraiture and projects include identity formation, found family, wanderlust, the human journey, the search for equality and human authenticity. His first monograph, "Lost and Found: A Portrait of American Wanderlust" will be published in Fall, 2023 (Europe) and Spring, 2024 (USA) by Kehrer Verlag. Michael's work has been featured on CNN, Vice, The Guardian, Dazed, AnotherMan, Paper Magazine, HUCK, the Advocate, and published in magazines internationally including Elle, Inked, 1814 and SHOTS. He has been exhibited nationally, with solo shows at Daniel Cooney Fine Art (New York, NY) and the Soho Photo Gallery (New York, NY) and the FP3 Gallery (Boston, MA). Group exhibitions include the notable Aperture Gallery (New York, NY), the Getty Images Gallery (London, UK) and the Griffin Museum of Photography (Massachusetts). He has lectured at the International Center of Photography (New York, NY), the Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA), in portraiture classes at the New England School of Photography (Boston, MA) and taught at the Light Factory (Charlotte, NC).  His portraits are held in the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX) Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Fort Wayne, Indiana), the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts (Rochester, NH), the Jack Sheer Collection, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (Saratoga Springs, NY)and private collections. He is a 2023 and 2016 Photolucida Top 50 Photographer, 2020 Photolucida Finalist, and LensCulture Portrait Award Finalist. He is a recipient of the fellowship in photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation.  Support Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/real-photo-show

In this 'Photobook Special' episode UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his she connecting with Mary V Swanson in Arizona and Darius Himes in New York to discuss their book Publish Your Photography Book and all things 'photobook' related. You can find out more about the book mentioned in this episode here www.publishyourphotographybook.com and here on Instagram @publishyourphotographybook Mary V Swanson is an educator, author, entrepreneur and a respected advisor to artists and arts organisations. She received her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University in 1979 and throughout graduate school she served as a research assistant for the Curator of Photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. She began her career at The Friends of Photography in Carmel, California, managing the education offerings including the Ansel Adams Workshop and then moved to New York to head Special Projects at Magnum Photos, before relocating to Tucson, Arizona in 1990 to launch Swanstock, an agency managing licensing rights for fine art photographers. She currently works independently, offering consulting services to artists and arts organisations, and offering her own classes and educational seminars, serving as an advisor for multiple not-for-profit industry organisations, and other community-minded activities. Swanson coauthored with Darius Himes Publish Your Photography Book: Revised & Updated in 2014. Among the recent awards she has received are the 2015 Honoured Educator from the Society for Photographic Education, the 2014 Susan Carr Award for Education from the American Society for Media Photographers (ASMP) and the FOCUS Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography from the Griffin Museum. She frequently serves as a judge on contemporary photography and photobook competitions, as a portfolio reviewer for industry events, and she presents group learning through interactive lectures, workshops and Master Class Retreats. Swanson is based in Tucson, Arizona. @maryvirginiaswanson. Darius Himes completed his Master of Arts in Liberal Arts at St. John's College in 2000, and received a BFA in Photography from Arizona State University, having studied under William Jenkins and Bill Jay. Based in New York City, Himes has overseen a global team producing auctions and exhibition as the International Head of Photographs for the auction house Christie's since 2014. Prior to joining Christie's, Himes was the director of the Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco from 2011–2014. In 2007 he co-founded Radius Books, a non-profit publisher of books on photography and the visual arts, where he continues to serve on the Board. While working with artists such as John McCracken and Lee Friedlander, he has published first monographs for over a dozen emerging artists, including Renate Aller, Colleen Plumb, Aaron Huey, Janelle Lynch, Michael Lundgren, Alison Rossiter, and Meghan Riepenhoff. Himes was also the founding editor of the photo-eye Booklist, a quarterly journal devoted to photography books, which was published from 2002–2007. A lecturer and writer, he has contributed to Aperture, The Photobook Review, Blind Spot, Bookforum, FOAM and BOMB. @dariushimes Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was first screened in 2018 www.donotbendfilm.com. He is the presenter of the A Photographic Life and In Search of Bill Jay podcasts. © Grant Scott 2023

In episode 253 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the mistakes made when staging a photography festival, the importance of developing a thick skin as a photographer and honesty in the world of generated photography. Plus this week, photographer Landry Major takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Landry Major's childhood summers were spent on a family dairy farm in Nova Scotia. Her ongoing series Keepers of the West takes her back to fields at dawn, and the family-run ranches of the American West.  She believes that visions of the American West have long been central to our culture, but the way of life of the cowboy and the family-run ranch is fast disappearing as over half of all family owned ranches in Montana are run by people over 65 and many of their children are not choosing to remain in ranching. The images she creates are made up of the places, people, and creatures that have welcomed her into their world to remind us of the arresting moments of grace and beauty found in a life lived under the wide-open western skies. Major's work has been widely exhibited including at the Griffin Museum of Photography Winchester and the J. Paul Getty Museum and she has received multiple awards. www.landrymajor.com Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was first screened in 2018 www.donotbendfilm.com. He is the presenter of the A Photographic Life and In Search of Bill Jay podcasts. © Grant Scott 2023

Fine art photographer, Tokie Taylor, comes back to the Noize to talk about her new projects. Tokie has been working on a book with her Reclamation series that features her fine art photography featuring children and heirlooms. We discuss the book and how it relates to family history and artifacts. She lets us know how she manages the children in the shoots, the role of experimenting in her practice, and how she sees herself growing her vision with every piece. Listen, subscribe, and share!Episode 148 topics include:Reclamation seriescreating an art bookexperimenting with other mediumscyanotype vs photographyartists during the pandemicfamily heirloomsinstitutional spacesthe value of Black artdoing commissions Atlanta, Ga. based artist, Tokie Rome-Taylor, explores themes of time, spirituality, visibility and identity through the medium of photography. Portraiture, set design, and objects all are a part of Tokie's photographic practice. She uses digital photography as her foundational medium, while also exploring cyanotype, and embroidery as a means to explore the layered complex relationship African Americans in the diaspora have with the western world. Rome-Taylor's series, “Reclamation”, was selected for PhotoLucida Critical Mass top 50. Her work has been featured in What Will You Remember and Feature Shoot Magazine. Additionally, Tokie is a Funds for Teachers Fellowship recipient, studying photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in San Francisco, California. Rome-Taylor's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been a part of exhibitions at The Griffin Museum of Photography, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Stella Jones Gallery, SP-Foto SP-Arte Fair, São Paulo, Brazil, Gallery 1202, the Masur Museum, Zuckerman Museum of Art Lyndon House Art Center and the Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, among others. She is a recipient of the Virginia Twinam Smith Purchase Award, adding her work to the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia as well as the Legacy Award, bestowed by the Griffin Museum of Photography. Her work is held in multiple public and private collections and was recently acquired by the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art. Rome-Taylor is a 20+ year veteran educator and working artist. She is open to opportunities that relate to artist talks, visiting institutions, residencies and workshops.See More: www.tokietaylorstudio.com + Tokie Taylor IG @tokietstudioFollow us:StudioNoizePodcast.comIG: @studionoizepodcastJamaal Barber: @JBarberStudioSupport the podcast www.patreon.com/studionoizepodcast

Hosts Julie Slater & Jason Friday chat with Tami Bahat. Born in Israel, Tami is a lens-based artist (aka "LENS CRAFTER"), whose passion lies in molding the beauty of humanity into something extraordinary. She strives to push the boundaries of her own imagination, as well as the viewer's, by creating bold works of art from striking perspectives. Creating staged tableaux, Tami explores the performative nature of portraiture in many of her photographs, influenced by Renaissance and Neoclassical conventions of still-life and chromatic symbolism. After moving to the west coast, Bahat turned her creative interests to photography and was recognized by the U.K. publication Nikon Owner Magazine. Soon after, the work appeared on the cover along with a feature story detailing her as an artist. Tami was a finalist for the Julia Margaret Cameron Award and received a Spotlight Award for Black & White Magazine. In 2014, her work was exhibited at Fotofever Paris. In 2016, Bahat was selected for Critical Mass Top 50 and she received an award from the San Diego Art Institute. Bahat's solo exhibitions include Building Bridges Art Exchange in Los Angeles, This is No Fantasy in Melbourne and the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago. She also won a Young Masters Emerging Woman Art Prize from the Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London in 2019. Other venues and events that have featured her work include The Annenberg Space for Photography, The Griffin Museum of Photography, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, PULSE Miami, AAF Hong Kong, SCOPE NYC, and AIPAD. Tami currently lives and works in Los Angeles. We chat about her biggest inspiration (her father...how she got into photograph...working with wild animals...how connecting with people is her biggest passion...how we should all be helpers for others...soccer, chocolate, and more. Tami can be found @tamibahatphoto and https://www.tamibahatphotography.com/ Some of her work is being shown at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento June 19th through Sep 11th. The exhibition is called “Twinka Thiebaud And The Art Of The Pose.” https://www.crockerart.org/exhibitions/twinka-thiebaud-and-the-art-of-the-pose Follow @cuzihavetopodcast on Instagram for all the latest news. We'd love to hear from you - email us at cuzihavetopodcast@gmail.com. Find other episodes or leave us a voice message for the show on the anchor website. Thanks for tuning in! Keep on living those dreams, friends, CUZ YOU HAVE TO!! - jULIE AND jASON --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cuzihaveto/message

Saul Robbins is interested in the ways people interact within their surroundings and the psychological dynamics of intimacy. His photographs are motivated by observations of human behaviour and personal experience, especially those related to loss, unity, failure, and the latent potential residing in traditional photographic materials and personal history. Robbins is best known for “Initial Intake”, which examines the empty chairs of Manhattan-based psychotherapy professionals from their clients' perspective; “How Can I Help? – An Artful Dialogue”, a pop-up office into which he invites strangers to speak with him about anything they wish for free and in complete confidence. Robbins is also the father of a young boy and since 2012 has created several series of abstract “photographic drawings” and sculptures made from physically altered chromogenic paper and chemistry in response to his desire and struggles to start a family, including: “Where's My Happy Ending?;” “Chemical Peels;” “Fertile Gestures;” and a new series of traditional photographs. Exhibitions include The Bolinas Museum, Blue Sky Gallery, Busters, Deutsche Haus at NYU, chashama (Windows Installation), Griffin Museum, Humble Arts, ICP, KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO, Lilac Arts, MASQUELIBROS Artist Book Fair, Lilac Arts, Massachusetts General Hospital, MICA, Museum of Fine Arts – Houston, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Ost Gallery, Moscow, Pelican Bomb, Portland Art Museum, The Educational Alliance, Philoctetes Center, Skirball Center, Mark Woolley Gallery, White Gallery (PSU), and others. His photographs have been published in Aufbau, Berlin Tagesspiegel, CPW Quarterly, D - La Repubblica, Dummy, More, The New York Times, Real Simple, TAM, and Wired, among others. Grants and awards include The Covenant Foundation Ignition Grant, Sony World Photography Awards (Finalist), U.S. Embassy, Tblisi, GE, AJPA Rockower, Gunk Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts. Curatorial projects include Intervening Histories, OFF_Festival, Bratislava (2015), Projecting Freedom: Cinematic Interpretations of the Haggadah (2010), Regarding Intimacy (2007), and No Live Girls, Peep Show 28 (2002). Robbins was awarded a NICA Stipendium from Berlin's Hoch Schule der Kunste in 1998, and received his MFA from Hunter College (CUNY) in 1999, where he studied with Roy DeCarava, Mark Feldstein, Juan Sanchez, and Thomas Weaver. He teaches photography in New York City and has been leading Master Workshops internationally, helping photographers and artists to incorporate communication and professional development strategies into their creative practice. Interview with Saul Robbins recorded by Michael Dooney on 14. May 2021 between Berlin and New York via Squadcast. Portrait photo by Matthew J. Bernuca   NOTES Full episode transcript (online soon) Saul Robbins Official: https://www.saulrobbins.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Saul.Robbins/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saulrobbins/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saulrobbins/

In episode 195 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the use of the word photography, the role of photojournalism and the evolution of the photographic agent. Plus this week photographer Ruth Lauer Manenti take's on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Ruth Lauer Manenti received an MFA from The Yale School of Art in painting and drawing in 1994 and in 2012, she was given a large format camera and taught herself how to use it. Since breaking her neck in a car crash at the age of twenty, she has developed a spiritual life and practice that has propelled much of her photographic work. Gradually she accomplished what she was striving for in drawing and painting, through photography. Her mother was also an artist who left behind a legacy of unknown work and part of Ruth's determination as an artist is to reward her mother for her efforts and to create a continuum. She was awarded a NYFA grant in photography in 2016 and had a solo exhibition at The Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY in 2020. Her book Alms was exhibited at The Griffin Museum of Photography and Manenti received an Honourable Mention in the 2021 Julia Margaret Cameron Award and 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts in Photography. She lives in the Catskill Mountains in New York with her husband and 3 cats. www.ruthlauermanenti.com Dr. Grant Scott is the the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). Podcast music: Written and performed by Dr. Laura Ritchie www.lauraritchie.com © Grant Scott 2022

In episode 186 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on commitment to photography and photographers, never getting old, questioning funded photographic institutions, supporting good causes and more Dutch photo comedy. Plus this week photographer Ashleigh Coleman on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Ashleigh Coleman was born in 1983 in Virginia and is a self-taught photographer working with an inherited Hasselblad. Her photographs have been exhibited across the United States, including solo shows at the Fischer Galleries in Jackson, MS, the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture, and the Claire Elizabeth Gallery in New Orleans. Coleman's work has also been shown at the Ogden Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the University of West Virginia, the University of Southern Mississippi, the Bo Bartlett Center, and it is currently part of the traveling exhibitions for Looking for Appalachia and A Yellow Rose Project. She is a founding member of the Due South Co and lives on the land of her husband's family in rural Mississippi. www.ashleighcoleman.com Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). © Grant Scott 2021

Ashleigh will be one of several artists participating in the 2021 show, One Night Stand at the Ole Miss Motel, taking place October 16, 2021. Contact iheartmotelart@gmail.com for more information. ------- Ashleigh Coleman (1983, Virginia) is a self-taught photographer. As she susses out where she lives and what is required of her as a mother, Ashleigh looks through the lens of an inherited Hasselblad. In the meantime, her photographs have exhibited across the United States, including solo shows at the Fischer Galleries in Jackson, MS, the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture, and the Claire Elizabeth Gallery in New Orleans. Her work has also been shown at the Ogden Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the University of West Virginia, the University of Southern Mississippi, the Bo Bartlett Center, and is currently part of the traveling exhibitions for Looking for Appalachia and A Yellow Rose Project. She is a founding member of Due South Co. Ashleigh lives on the land of her husband's family in rural Mississippi. https://www.instagram.com/ashleighcoleman/

In episode 172 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on emotions and memory within photography, the importance of the family album and how life informs who we are and what we photograph. Plus this week photographer Yukari Chikura on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Yukari Chikura was born in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Music University, she became a music composer, computer programmer, designer and photographer. As a young photographer Chikura has already won many prizes, among others the Photolucida Critical Mass Top50 Winner in 2016 and 2015, the International Photography Award and the Sony World Photography Awards. She has held solo exhibitions in Japan, and group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide. Her work is collected by the Griffin Photography Museum in US, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and K*MoPA (the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts). Chikura is the winner of Steidl Book Award 2016 and her work from her series ZAIDO was published by STEIDL, in 2020.  Her work has been published in the New York Times and is held in collections including the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts. Chikura has been honored at the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards, the International Photography Awards, Critical Mass and the Sony World Photography Awards, among others. In 2015 she was artist in residence at the Mt. Rokko International Photo Festival. http://yukari.chikura.me Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). © Grant Scott 2021

As curator of 28 exhibitions featuring over 110 international photographers J. Sybylla Smith provides context for an expansive array of image-based work. Her Concept Aware® curriculum provides a unique concept development framework that strengthens creative practice. Amplifying visual narrative, fostering collaborations across disciplines - she believes visual culture creates social change. As an independent curator, she exhibits in traditional and non-traditional settings venues which include; The Griffin Museum of Photography, Harvard University Ed Portal, and Photoville, with a select few traveling to Columbia and Mexico.  Smith consults with individual artists providing collaboration on editing, sequencing,  marketing, and writing artist statements and/or exhibition proposals. Her work with arts organizations and educational institutions includes development, educational programming, and fostering dynamic partnerships.  She is an avid portfolio reviewer participating in photo-centric reviews nationally. She is an active member of the Society of Photographic Educators.    Websites Sybylla Smith   Odette England     Sponsors Charcoal Book Club Lensrentals.com   Education Resources: Using Your Life to Launch Your Photography Momenta Photographic Workshops   Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .  

Photographer Kiliii Yuyan illuminates the hidden stories of Polar Regions, wilderness and Indigenous communities. Informed by ancestry that is both Nanai/Hèzhé (Siberian Native) and Chinese-American, he explores the human relationship to the natural world from different cultural perspectives. Kiliii is an award-winning contributor to National Geographic Magazine and other major publications. Kiliii is based out of Seattle, but can be found across the circumpolar Arctic much of the year. His series, Masks of Grief and Joy is exhibiting in the Main Gallery of the Griffin Museum of Photography, from May 26th - July 9th, 2021 as part of Spirit: Focus on Indigenous Art, Artists and Issues, and online at griffinmuseum.org or kiliii.com.  

City Lights Bookstore Mary Beth Meehan and  Fred Turner launch Seeing Silicon Valley,  Monday, May 3, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 ET, through a virtual Zoom platform event hosted by City Lights Bookstore. Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, Massachusetts Event on May 13, 2021 at 7:00 ETMary Beth Meehan, is a distinguished  photographer known for her large-scale community-based portraiture. Fred Turner   is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University and author of  From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago, 2006) among other books.Read Peter Walsh's  review of Seeing Silicon Valley in the Arts Fuse.Nathan Moody  composed the music for this episode.  The song is  "Sonnenaufgang" from the album Future Rituals.   Buy the book!

On this episode of Optics, Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator at the Griffin Museum of Photography interviews award-winning American photographer/filmmaker, Gary Beeber. He discusses his current exhibition, Sylvester Manor. Sylvester Manor Educational Farm is a 243-acre historic plantation and nonprofit educational farm on Shelter Island, NY. His exhibition will be displayed at the Griffin Gallery at WinCAM till February 12th.

On this episode of Optics, Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator at the Griffin Museum of Photography interviews Shelby Meyerhoff. Shelby is a multidisciplinary artist based in Winchester, Massachusetts. She works with a variety of media, including photography, painting, sculpture, and body art, often combining multiple techniques to create her image. In her current exhibition "Zoomorphics", she transforms her appearance using body paint and photograph herself as different creatures inspired by the natural world. She believes that connecting to nature is fundamental to the human experience.

On today's episode W. Scott Olsen is talking to Gary Beeber, an award-winning American photographer/filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. His documentary films have screened at over 85 film festivals. Solo (photography) exhibitions include two at Generous Miracles Gallery (NYC), the Griffin Museum of Photography, and upcoming exhibitions at PRAXIS Photo Arts Center, and the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts which will travel to several cities. Beeber’s work has also been included in juried exhibitions throughout the world. Among Fortune 500 companies who collect his work are Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Goldman Sachs and Chase Bank.Click here to visit Gary's website.Click here to visit Gary's Instagram account.This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES - upcoming photography magazine in print.Click here to find out more about FRAMES Magazine and join our community.

With my camera, I document the joy and the light of her last years of life – the ways that she circles back home, even as she is leaving.  Cheryle St. Onge in the New York Times, Sunday June 28, 2020.  Photographer Cheryle St. Onge’s plot twisted when her mother was diagnosed with vascular dementia. Her mother began to disappear, and Cheryle grew increasingly depressed.  Her friends suggested that she make art instead of complain.  So she picked up her iPhone and took a picture of her mother. This led to an exquisite collection of photographs, Calling The Birds Home.  Cheryle describes the experience as “a silent conversation with her Mom in the process of making art.”   Cheryle St. Onge was named one of the Top 50 Photographers in the country by TIME Magazine. Her work has been exhibited at London’s National Portrait Gallery, Princeton University, Griffin Museum, University of Rhode Island, Massachusetts College of Art, Rick Wester Fine Arts, and with the American Institute of Architects traveling exhibition. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.  Listen as Cheryle talks with us about the creative process with her mother and what she’s learned about herself, her art, aging, and living. Click here to see her work at Cheryle St.Onge.com Follow Cheryle St. Onge on Instagram New York Times: Photographing the Beauty of My Mother's Decline 

Larry Volk is an artist, educator, lecturer and author. He and holds an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design has taught photography and visual art in nationally and regionally, for over 25 years. Currently, he is a Professor of Photography in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Endicott College. He has lectured nationally on, digital imaging, portfolio production and art practice and has served as portfolio reviewer nationally as well as a juror for regional art and photographic competitions. As a visual artist, Larry works with a range of photographic media in a variety of contexts. His work has been exhibited nationally and is held in both private and museum collections. He is a member-artist of the Bromfield Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. His most recent exhibitions include: a solo exhibition at the Bromfield Gallery (2019), a solo exhibition at the Atelier Gallery of the Griffin Museum (2017) , two-person exhibitions at Endicott College (2013) and New England Bio-Labs (2012).

On this episode of Optics, Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator at the Griffin Museum of Photography interviews Rick Wright. Rick is a Philadelphia based fine artist, architectural photographer and instructor. He is showing the series "Vessels of the Late Petroleum Age" which features 27 digital photographs printed with tri-tone pigment ink on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper. The exhibition will be on display at the Griffin Gallery at WinCAM from January 18th - April 16th with a reception held on March 19th which is free and open to the public.

In episode 89 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering the purpose of the photo book, pressure put on photographers, and the rise of the 'photo-entrepreneur'. Plus this week photographer R.J.Kern takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' R. J. Kern was born in 1978 and is an American artist whose work explores ideas of home, ancestry, and a sense of place through the interaction of people, animals, and cultural landscapes. His work has been exhibited in a number of exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi, Georgia, the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, and a solo exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA. Awards and accolades include PDN's 30 2018, Critical Mass 2018 Top 50, the 2017 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize (Finalist), and two Artist Initiative Grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board (2016, 2018). Kern's projects The Unchosen Ones and Out To Pasture were published in National Geographic in 2017 and his first monograph with Kehrer Verlag titled, The Sheep and the Goats, was awarded one of  'The Most Beautiful German Books 2018' by Stiftung Buchkunst and a 'Bronze' by the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2018-19. Selected collections holding his work include the Center for Creative Photography, Arizona, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. He was the Commemorative Artist for the 2019 Minnesota State Fair and is represented by the Klompching Gallery in New York and the Burnet Fine Art & Advisory in Minnesota. www.rjkern.com If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His next book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s. © Grant Scott 2020

Jane Szabo is a Los Angeles based fine art photographer, with an MFA from Art Center College of
Design in Pasadena, CA. Her work investigates issues of self and identity. Using self-portraiture and
still life as a vehicle to share stories from her life, her work merges her love for fabrication and
materials, with conceptual photography. Szabo brings many facets of visual art into her photographic
projects, incorporating sculptural, performance and installation elements into her work. Her imagery is often infused with humor and wonder, ingredients that draw the viewer in, inviting them to linger and to have a dialogue with the work, and themselves. Her background in the film industry, creating prop and miniatures for theme parks, and overseeing set construction for film and television, undoubtedly informs her creative process. Szabo’s photography has been exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Museum of Art & History in Lancaster, CA, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, the Yuma Fine Art Center in Arizona, and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Oceanside Museum of Art, the Griffin Museum of Photography, Houston Center of Photography, Tilt Gallery, Davis Orton Gallery, The Colorado Center for Photographic Arts, San Diego Art Institute, Los Angeles Center for Photography, Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, the Kaohsiung International Photographer Exhibition in Taiwan, and Foto Fever in Paris, France. Her photographs have been featured in many publications and blogs including: The Huffington Post,
Lenscratch, Mono Chroma Magazine, Silvershotz, Bokeh Bokeh, L’Oeil de la Photographie, F-Stop
Magazine, Foto Relevance, Fraction, Your Daily Photo, A Photo Editor, Don’t Take Pictures, Art &
Cake, Diversions LA, ArtsMeme, and others. Jane Szabo’s work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LACMA), the
Lancaster Museum of Art & History (MOAH), and in private collections throughout the US and Europe. Upcoming Shows include: “All Women Are Dangerous,” Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA, opens December 14   https://www.buildingbridgesartexchange.org/ "Somewhere Else", solo show: Foto Relevance Gallery,  Houston, TX - opens January 24    https://fotorelevance.com/ Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX, auction preview exhibit opens January 17 Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX, print auction / gala, February 13.   https://hcponline.org/print-auction/ Photo LA, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, January 30-Feb 2. https://www.photola.com/ All images courtesy of the artist 00:00 - Introduction 00:39 - Jane Szaba 02:30 - Hana Vu - Actress 05:59 - Switch to Photography 11:08 - dis.place.ment 16:31 - Reconstructing Self 23:59 - Family Matters 30:06 - Current Work 35:42 - The Static - Dead Soft 39:46 - Outro 40:07 - Finish

On this episode of Optics, Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator at the Griffin Museum of Photography interviews Melissa Lynn. Melissa is a professional documentary and portrait photographer based out of Denver, CO. Her current exhibition "American Mosaic", explores heritage, identity, and multiculturalism which is discussed in this episode. "American Mosaic" will be on display at the Griffin Gallery at WinCAM from September 19th - January 15th, 2020.

On this episode of Optics hosted by Paula Tognarelli of the Griffin Museum of Photography, Jennifer McClure is the featured guest. Jennifer is a fine art and documentary photographer based in New York City. She discusses her personal experiences and her workshop "How to Bring Your Life to Your Projects" which was held at WinCAM and sponsored in part by Leica Camera and the Richards' Family Trust.

Colleen Woolpert’s interactive objects and installations are rooted in photography and explore vision—both as concept and perceptual phenomena. An identical twin born on Halloween, Colleen’s life and work draw on the uncanny and on author John Stilgoe’s notion of directed serendipity. Raised in Michigan and currently based in Kalamazoo, Colleen has lived in seven states; in Syracuse, NY, she was inspired by late 1800s pre-cinema inventors who worked at the same site where her studio was located to pursue her own patent, which was awarded in 2018 for her exhibition stereoscope, the TwinScope Viewer. Colleen’s TwinScope project promotes stereograph display and addresses topics like binocular vision, invention as art production, and her identity as a double image whose twin has a visual impairment, strabismus, which affects her depth perception. Relatedly, Colleen’s Persistence of Vision project stems from her work with blind artists and explores how we visualize the unseen and navigate the unknown, and reframes disability.  Colleen holds a BA from Western Michigan University and an MFA from Syracuse University. Her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, California Museum of Photography, Griffin Museum of Photography, and Light Work, among other venues, and her TwinScope Viewer has been acquired by numerous institutions, collectors, and artists internationally; it is currently touring Alaska to enable an exhibition of stereographs by pioneering photographer Edweard Muybridge. Red Twin Blue Twin (Stereograph No. 7 & TwinScope Viewer), 2017, archival inkjet print and papers, museum board, frame, 11 x 1.25 x 14 inches; wood, rubber, glass optics, hardware, 4 x 7 x 4 inches TwinScope Viewer Patent Sketches and Document, 2019, archival inkjet print, 11 x 28 inches

Rafael Soldi in his exhibit 'Imagined Futures' Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian­-born, Seattle-based artist and curator. He holds a BFA in Photography & Curatorial Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has exhibited internationally at the Frye Art Museum, American University Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, ClampArt, The Print Center, G. Gibson Gallery, Connersmith, Filter Space, and Burrard Arts Foundation, among others. Rafael is a 2012 Magenta Foundation Award Winner, and recipient of the 2014 Puffin Foundation grant, 2015 Portable Works Cultural Perspectives Purchase Grant, 2016 smART Ventures grant, 2016 Jini Dellaccio GAP grant, 2017 CityArtist Projects Grant, and a 2017 4Culture Arts Projects Grant. He has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, PICTURE BERLIN, Oxbow Space, and The Bogliasco Foundation. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, and the King County Public Art Collection. He has been published in PDN, Dwell, Hello Mr, Metropolis, GRAY, LUXE, Lagom, among others. His work has been reviewed on ARTFORUM, The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, ArtNexus, Photograph Magazine, Lensculture, and PDN. Rafael is the co-founder of FOUND, a space for contemporary art in Seattle, and the Strange Fire Collective, a project dedicated to highlighting work made by women, people of color, and queer and trans artists. 'Imagined Futures,' Fifty Gelatin silver photo booth portraits, 2 x 1.5 inches each. Each unique. Installation view at Oxbow Seattle 'Imagined Futures (detail),' Fifty Gelatin silver photo booth portraits, 2 x 1.5 inches each. Each unique. Installation view at Oxbow Seattle.

This week on Viewfinder we are joined by Caren Connelly, the Executive Director of the Winchester Foundation for Educational Excellence to talk about the organization and it's upcoming event, the WFEE Trivia Bee. We also get a visit from our friends at The Winchester Star, Melissa and Bram to talk about Eversource, a new exhibit at the Griffin Museum, public records requests and more! Also, Suzette talks about WinCAMs Winter class schedule. Recorded 1.13.2016.

Aline Smithson is a fine-art photographer whose work has been exhibited widely in exhibitions in venues such as the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Lishui Festival in China and the Tagomago in Barcelona and Paris. Her images have also been published in PDN (Photo District News), Communication Arts Photo Annual, Lenswork Extended and Silvershotz magazines.  In 2012, Aline received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community. Aline founded and writes the blogzine,, that celebrates a different contemporary photographer each day and offers opportunity for exhibition. www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

Suzanne Revy's commercial portraiture (mostly of children) is truly excellent. Revy has that gift of being able to bring out a child's personality and then capture it on film. The result is something that families cherish for ages. It's no surprise then that Revy's personal fine art work (again mostly of children) captures the essence and personality of her subjects. The different in her fine art work though is that Revy also infuses a sense of place and time that evokes a shared sense of history, nostalgia and time. Also mentioned in this podcast is the Griffin Museum.