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In this episode, Casey Fatchett sits down with award-winning photographer Ari Espay, who splits his time between New York City and Santiago, Chile. Ari discusses his decade producing and teaching at National Geographic's photography workshops alongside legends like David Alan Harvey, Ed Kashi, Bob Sacha, Ira Block, and Maggie Steber; his approach to street photography and portraiture with subjects ranging from presidents to Broadway performers; his long-term humanitarian project documenting the EB (Epidermolysis Bullosa) community; and his nonprofit Statement Arts, which has run photography workshops and donated more than 100 cameras to young and at-risk photographers in Myanmar and Laos, including activists documenting human rights abuses in their own communities. Topics Covered: Lessons from a decade at National Geographic's photography workshops Why "serendipity" changed how Ari approaches every shoot Reading a scene: light, subject, and background as visual problem-solving Building trust with strangers on the street Studio portraiture with presidents and public figures vs. street portraiture Photographing vulnerability: the Faces of EB project Where to draw the line between bearing witness and intruding Statement Arts: teaching photography and donating cameras in Myanmar and Laos Why the people living a crisis should be the ones documenting it The throughline across Ari's career: humanity Episode Promos On1 Photo RAW - https://nerdyphotographer.com/recommends/on1 Nerdy Photographer Contract Templates - https://nerdyphotographer.com/product-category/contracts/ Siteground Web Hosting - https://siteground.com/go/nerdy Survey Monkey - https://get.surveymonkey.com/nerdy ABOUT MY GUEST Award-winning photographer, Ari Espay, splits his time between New York City and Santiago, Chile. Ari has shot documentary pieces, campaigns and editorial essays for magazines in the US and all over South America including; Architectural Digest, Vogue Latin America, Que Pasa, and ED. He has worked for Maybelline, Gillette, Corpbanca, Ferouch, New Man, Kohana Rum, Amazon/AWS, Australis Cruise to name a few and has shot portraits for Presidents, internationally known actors, Emmy Award winning directors, Broadway performers, politicians and high profile business people. With numerous gallery exhibitions, Ari's recent show, "A Glimpse of Southeast Asia" was featured at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, a museum in Cento, Italy (2018 – 2019). Other exhibitions include; 2026 "Rostros, El Mar De Cultura" Valencia Photo Festival, Spain. 2025 "FACES / VISAGES" , Art-Icon Collective Exhibition Arles, France. 2024 "Corporeality" Art-Icon Collective Exhibition - Paris, 2024 "Moments in Time" Art on the Avenue - New York City, New York, 2021 Art on the Avenue - New York City, New York "Art on the Avenue" (New York City 2021), "Mingalabar Myanmar"(Rome and Bologna, Italy - 2016) and "The Faces of EB" in New York City (2015). In 2012, he was named as Artistic Director of International Projects for Galeria64, the only gallery in Chile exhibiting photography exclusively. Ari has won Chile's prestigious Fondart Grant, was a 2026 Finalist Lucie Foundation On The Block Street Photography, a 2026 Selected Winner American Photography AI-AP 42, a 2024 Portraiture Bronze Winner Prix de la Photographie Paris PX3, Short Listed "EB" State of the World Project Prix de la Photographie Paris PX3, Street Photography Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie Paris PX3 and 4 Portraiture Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie Paris PX3, a 2024, 2022 BIFA Budapest International Foto Award Silver winner in Book / Documentary, 2022 MIFA Moscow International Photo Award Winner for our book, 2020Unmasked, in the Documentary Book category. He was the photo editor for "2020 Unmasked" book which won 2 Honorable Mentions at the IPA/International Photography Awards for Documentary and Self-published book. For 10 years, he taught photography workshops for National Geographic and their legendary photographers including, Joe McNally, Bob Sacha, Ira Block, VII's agency Ed Kashi and Magnum's David Alan Harvey. He has worked and traveled in more than 40 countries. Ari speaks 3 languages and enjoys spending time in the mountains. Find Ari Espay: Website: https://ariespayphotography.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ari_espay Photography Workshops: https://fancygirlstreetboy.com Nonprofit: https://StatementArts.org Follow the Nerdy Photographer Podcast: Instagram - https://instagram.com/thenerdyphoto Reddit - https://reddit.com/u/thenerdyphoto Threads - https://threads.com/thenerdyphoto Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/thenerdyphoto.bsky.social TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@thenerdyphoto About The Podcast The Nerdy Photographer Podcast is written and produced by Casey Fatchett. Casey is a professional photographer in the New York City / Northern New Jersey with more than 20 years of experience. He just wants to help people and make them laugh. You can view Casey's wedding work at https://fatchett.com or his non-wedding work at https://caseyfatchettphotography.com If you have any questions or comments about this episode or any other episodes, OR if you would like to ask a photography related question or have ideas for a topic for a future episode, please reach out to us at https://nerdyphotographer.com/contact
" " Maggie Steber is an internationally known documentary photographer, educator, and photo editor whose work has appeared in major magazines, newspapers and book anthologies as well as national and international exhibitions. She has worked in 72 countries specializing in telling the stories of underrepresented people and her work has been seen in 70 exhibitions in 35 countries. Best known for her photo essays in National Geographic Magazine and her humanistic documentation of Haiti, she published Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti with Aperture. Her nine-year project on her mother's melancholic voyage through memory loss was made into a multimedia presentation by MediaStorm and won a Webby award. In her career Maggie has worked as a picture editor for Associated Press, a contract photographer for Newsweek, and as the Director of Photography at The Miami Herald. Maggie is a member of VII Photo Agency. Maggie has received numerous awards, too many to mention here but they include a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Guggenheim foundation fellow and a medal of honour for contribution to journalism. To see some of Maggie's moving photographs just check out her website. https://www.maggiesteber.com/main.html Maggie lives in Miami, Florida in the United States To stay up to date, follow @SmitaTharoor on Smita Tharoor (@SmitaTharoor) / Twitter or Smita Tharoor (@smitatharoor) | Instagram and follow the podcast on your favorite streaming service.
A beautiful conversation with Leica user Vanessa Charlot about her journey into documentary photography [insta : https://www.instagram.com/vanessa.charlot/ ] where we talk about Life, Love, and Leica's (C) [SMH Photo Design]. The Pod: 0:01 : The Intro ; 3:11 : My First Leica ; 3:45 : My favorite place ; 5:05 : Found my passion ; 5:50 : Into documentary photography ; 8:55 : Film & Digital ; 10:00 : The Socials ; 14:25 : Covid-19... ; 16:25 : My approach to documenting ; 19:25 : My inspiration ; 21:20 : The women in photography ; 24:20 : Stepping out of my comfort zone ; 27:20 : My biggest challenge ; 28:55 : What I like most about documentary photography ; 31:27 : My schooling ; 35:05 : Feeling uninspired ; 37:40 : Evolution ; 39:00 : Staying focused on photography ; 41:12 : My most memorable moment ; 42:45 : Gucci ; 44:17 : My 5 Year plan ; 45:50 : My projects ; 49:00 : Where I want to shoot ; 52:05 : Instagram pressure ; 54:55 : Relevancy ; 1:00:XX : Giving advice ; 1:02:XX : Advice to myself ; 1:04:XX : My recommendations ; 1:07:XX : The Final question. Vanessa's Photographer recommendations : Maggie Steber [ instagram : https://www.instagram.com/maggiesteber/ ] : Sheila Pree Bright [ instagram : https://www.instagram.com/shepreebright/ ] : Dee Dwyer [ instagram : https://www.instagram.com/deedwyerjonts/ ] --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ricardo-huerta2/support
Thinking about the outstanding career of photographer Maggie Steber, the words Resilience, Persistence and Faith in the World – come to mind. Having found photography quite by chance, Steber has followed her passion from her first journalism job in Galveston, Texas step by step to the pinnacles of photojournalism. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, National Geographic…the list is long. She has been honored by World Press Photo and is a Guggenheim Fellow. I spoke to Maggie at her home in Miami - about her dream of becoming a better photographer everyday. Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=HGJKF8TKYSKRN)
Ibarionex Perello is a photographer, writer and educator. Since 2006, he has also served as the host, and producer of The Candid Frame photography podcast, which has featured hundreds of conversations with the world’s best and established photographers. Guests have included Sam Abell, Maggie Steber, Eli Reed, Jay Maisel, Elliot Erwitt, Ruddy Roye, Dan Winters, Keith Carter and many more. Ibarionex has written hundreds of magazine articles on the subject of photography and has authored half a dozen books on the subject of photography including his most recent Making Photographs: Developing a Personal Visual Workflow. Topics Discussed In This Episode: His podcast, “The Candid Frame” Content with substance vs. content consumed to distract Cerebral vs. technical vs. intuitive elements to creativity Book: Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “The Decisive Moment” Finding comfortability in uncomfortable scenarios Discussing the role of the interviewer Ibarionex’s photography and writing process The importance of creating your own creative community Podcast: Elvis Mitchell’s “The Treatment” Photographers: Joel Meyerowitz, Richard Avedon, Michelle Groskopf www.artistdecoded.com
Eve Eurydice & two well-known women photographers, Maggie Steber & Starr Sariego, talk female gaze (as in not the male gaze), muses & fashion shoots, beauty & sex appeal, kissing & chemistry & oral sex, viagra & cialis, financial freedom, marriage, slavery, rape culture, the value & importance of metoo. We also Laugh a lot! We reassure men who are intimidated by feminists & who feel that all men are seen as misogynists that this is not a gender war. It’s a re-education of us all. We speak about how we see our bodies, how we wear our bodies, how difficult it is to tell our lovers what to do to our bodies without worrying of hurting their feelings, how we struggle to find sexually enlightened men, how we separate our body from our mind & self & soul, & how we self-censor to fit our place in the social power structure or to please our lovers. We speak sex to overcome our fear of feeling judged, to separate our general identity from our sex practice & to make our sex choices more conscious & less transactional. To quote Maggie, who just spoke Sex openly for the first time: ‘Speaking Sex in a public forum is invigorating. It feels liberating. It makes me feel like a grown up.’ Want to learn How to Speak Sex? Want to Practice Honest Conscious Sex? Follow my blog at https://www.speaksexpodcast.com/blog You can Read more from me about the enjoyment of life on https://link.medium.com/BsqueNdt63 or https://eurydice.substack.com/publish Watch Speak Sex content on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9S0CadCPgP_VbXctZQmZlA www.facebook.com/speaksexpodcast/ www.instagram.com/speaksexpodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/speaksexpodcast/message
ASMP Executive Director Tom Kennedy speaks with Maggie Steber, a well-known documentary photographer, Leica Ambassador and photo educator. Maggie has worked in 64 countries focusing on humanitarian, cultural, and social stories. Her honors include the Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation, the Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year, the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson and Ernst Haas Grants, and a Knight Foundation grant for the New American Newspaper project. For over three decades, Steber has worked in Haiti. Aperture published her monograph, DANCING ON FIRE. In 2013 Steber was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine, publishing a book and touring an exhibition in five American cities. Steber has served as a Newsweek Magazine contract photographer and as the Asst. Managing Editor of Photography and Features at The Miami Herald, overseeing staff projects that won the paper a Pulitzer and two finalist recognition. Her work is included in the Library of Congress, The Richter Library and in private collections. She has exhibited internationally. Clients include National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, AARP, The Guardian, and Geo Magazine among others. Steber teaches workshops internationally including at the World Press Joop Swart Master Classes, the International Center for Photography, Foundry Workshops and and the Obscura Photo Festival. You learn more about Maggie here.Support the show (https://www.asmp.org/asmp-foundation-donations/)
Documentary photographer Maggie Steber has worked in 67 countries focusing on humanitarian, cultural, and social stories. Her honors include the Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo, the Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year, the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson and Ernst Haas Grants. In 2013, Maggie was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine, publishing a book and touring an exhibition in five American cities. More recently, she was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Grant for her current project, The Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma in which her dark alter-ego in an alternate universe where anything is possible and all ideas and characters are welcome. For over three decades, Maggie has worked in Haiti documenting the history and culture of the Haitian people. Her essays on Haiti have appeared in The New York Times and she has a monograph published by Aperture titled Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti. Steber has served as a Newsweek Magazine contract photographer and as the Asst. Managing Editor of Photography and Features at The Miami Herald, overseeing staff projects that won the paper a Pulitzer Prize. Her work is included in the Library of Congress, The Richter Library and in private collections. She has exhibited internationally. Clients include National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine and many other. Maggie is a member of VII Photos. In episode 081, Maggie discusses, among other things: Having to ‘flush out your subconscious’ The secret garden of Lily De Palma Having to change direction How she loves teaching her ‘little babies’ How being a picture editor helped her photography How she secured her first job as photographer/reporter Her Mother’s influence and documenting the end of her life Her fascination with the warrior ethos Haiti and The picture that changed her career Why she likes to champion the underdog Website | Facebook | Instagram “I’m a documentary photographer. I’ve covered everything from war to fashion; i’ve worked for the Geographic; I’ve done all these stories, but I realised a few years ago that I had all of these things stored up in my head and I felt I was experiencing the tyranny of documentary photography, because that’s what described me. But we’re so much more than what we do…” THIS EPISODE OF THE PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY THE CHARCOAL BOOK CLUB - THE LATEST AND GREATEST PHOTOBOOKS, EXPERTLY CURATED AND DELIVERED TO YOU DOOR WITH FREE SHIPPING AND NO HASSLES. **VERY SPECIAL LISTENER OFFER** USE CODE 'ASMALLVOICE' TO CLAIM A FREE BOOK OF YOUR CHOICE WHEN YOU JOIN!! INFORM THE MIND, INSPIRE THE SOUL
August marks the release of our 16th annual photo issue. This year, for our Idols Issue, we paired 16 up-and-coming photographers with the veterans who inspired them, creating unique conversations between generations of talent. Here's our table of contents: - Throughout the episode, we hear from four young photographers in the issue on the artists who inspire them: Tommy Kha on William Eggleston; Tasneem Alsultan on Maggie Steber; Maria Gruzdeva on Mark Power; and Jonathan Gardenhire on Leslie Hewitt. - Photo editor Elizabeth Renstrom discusses our dual covers, describes why we chose the concept of “idols” as this year's theme, and recalls a photography mentor of her own. - Logan Jackson and his idol Roe Ethridge talk about re-contextualizing editorial work into art and about the beauty of getting it “exactly wrong” in photography. - Olivia Bee talks to her idol, Doug DuBois, about the importance of honesty in photography, from how a picture is made to how it's used. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Maggie Steber has worked in 64 countries focusing on humanitarian, cultural, and social stories. Her honors include the Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation, the Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year, the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson and Ernst Haas Grants, and a Knight Foundation grant for the New American Newspaper project. For over three decades, Steber has worked in Haiti. Aperture published her monograph, DANCING ON FIRE. In 2013 Steber was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine, publishing a book and touring an exhibition in five American cities. Steber has served as a Newsweek Magazine contract photographer and as the Asst. Managing Editor of Photography and Features at The Miami Herald, overseeing staff projects that won the paper a Pulitzer and two finalist recognition. Her work is included in the Library of Congress, The Richter Library and in private collections. She has exhibited internationally. Clients include National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, AARP, The Guardian, and Geo Magazine among others. Steber teaches workshops internationally including at the World Press Joop Swart Master Classes, the International Center for Photography, Foundry Workshops and and the Obscura Photo Festival. Resources: Maggie Steber Ruddy Roye Phil Toledano http://www.mrtoledano.com Donato DiCamillo Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Click here to download for Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button.
Maggie Steber is a prolific documentary photographer who has worked in 65 countries around the world focusing on humanitarian, cultural, and social stories. For over three decades, Maggie has worked in Haiti, an experience that has impacted her emotionally and personally and led to her book “Dancing on Fire.” She has received the Leica Medal of Excellence, and recognition from World Press Photo Foundation, the Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year, and the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri. Her work has been featured in National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, AARP, The Guardian, and Geo Magazine among others, and is featured in the Library of Congress and in private collections. In 2013, Maggie was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine, publishing a book and touring in an exhibition in five American cities. Maggie talks about her love for history, a near-death experience covering conflict and her opposition to making poverty porn.
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