The Photowalk
The Photowalk is a mailbag-driven podcast where we walk, make pictures together, and meet with special guests along the trail. For anyone who likes to take pictures.
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#525 How to change your life profoundly
03/27/2026
#525 How to change your life profoundly
After a handful of specials, four weeks away from the studio, and a journey that took me from Austria to Bangladesh and on into India, it feels a little overdue, and very welcome, to make this a mailbag week, walking one of my favourite photowalk paths with camera and Sir Barkalot, spending a good hour and a bit with the letters you've been sending in, some contemplative music, the wind doing its thing along the path, and the welcome return of Valerie Jardin, our street photography mentor, fresh from her own travels in Mexico, for TEACH ME STREET. Letters and stories today from Martyn Cox, who wonders if exotic places and travel lead to making better photographs, Paul Morgan has some thoughts on Bangladesh and her workforce, Andreas Noeh shares a super project from New York where loft life rules for artists, Jon Otis has me diving for cover behind the sofa of flattery, Dennis Linden is researching family history and creating his own, Tom Cavness practices Haiku, and Monika Adler finds profound beauty and peace with her photography and a famous English backdrop. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#524 The Bangladesh Photowalk Special
03/20/2026
#524 The Bangladesh Photowalk Special
Today, the show travels to Bangladesh. It’s the first of two specials, as we visit India too in the coming weeks. Bangladesh is roughly the size of England, with a population of between 170 and 200 million people. Dhaka is one of the busiest, loudest, most relentlessly alive cities you are ever likely to walk through. The city runs on noise, an orchestra of car, bus, rickshaw and tuk-tuk horns and beeps that never quite stops, layers of sound that, after a while, start to feel almost normal. We walk the riverbanks of the Buriganga, explore the shipyards of Keraniganj, lose ourselves in the markets of Old Dhaka, and find ourselves unexpectedly invited through a wall into a Krishna festival in full swing. Along the way, we photograph the sand carriers of the river and spend time in a city that rewards anyone willing to look past the surface. Into all of this walked my travel partner, Lynn Fraser, and I, with cameras and the great fortune of having GMB Akash as our guide, a World Press Photo winner who has spent his career photographing lives on the margins in a way that gives people back their dignity rather than reducing them to their hardships. This isn't a formal interview with him, more time spent together in his city, with his people. You'll get a very clear sense of who he is. We certainly did. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#523 Long live your photo blog!
03/13/2026
#523 Long live your photo blog!
David duChemin is back for his third visit, and this time we're tackling a surprising topic: the enduring power of photography blogs. In an age of algorithms and fleeting posts, David makes a compelling case that blogs aren't dead and are thriving as vital spaces for deeper storytelling and better connection with your audience. Through a curated collection of photography blogs, we explore why long-form content and owning your platform matter more than ever, whether you're shooting for clients or purely for the love of it. David is a photographer and author based on Vancouver Island, Canada. A former humanitarian photographer, his work shifted after a life-altering accident in Italy in 2011 left him a below-the-knee amputee. We also talk about his adventures in Kenya. Join David in this special to discover why the blog remains one of photography's most powerful tools. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#522 Seeing slowly at the end of The Earth
03/06/2026
#522 Seeing slowly at the end of The Earth
David Wright returns from Antarctica with the story he promised to share with us at the start of the year. He talks of the deep stillness he encountered on his expedition as a guide, and the practicalities of photographing this vast beautiful land and seascape. David is known worldwide as an award-winning filmmaker and photographer who has worked in more than seventy countries for clients including National Geographic and the BBC. His path has gradually moved toward personal projects, and this Antarctic voyage is a part of that chapter, where the focus is on seeing slowly, working with isolation and weather, and translating one of the planet’s most remote places into images. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#521 Just one shot, part 2
02/25/2026
#521 Just one shot, part 2
In this second part, former professional documentary photographer Giles Penfound and I are back at Penwood in Berkshire, England, to make one special single picture using 5x4, paying homage to the late Dennis Lee, an American community member who passed at the start of 2026. In this episode, you get to see what all of that waiting, all of that patience, actually produced. We reveal the finished photograph: the large-format portrait of a remarkable tree. We also pick up the conversation where we left it, talking more about what happens when you deliberately take your foot off the accelerator, not just as a photographer, but as a person moving through the world. Giles came from documentary work, where speed and instant story were everything, and watching him operate with a 5x4 plate camera in a quiet wood in Berkshire is about as far from that as you can get. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#520 Just one shot, part 1
02/20/2026
#520 Just one shot, part 1
Sometimes the most profound photographs aren't made in an instant, they're cultivated over days, even weeks. In this special two-part episode, I walk with photographer Giles Penfound in Penwood in Berkshire, as he slows down to make a single large-format image of a giant tree, a portrait created in honour of a photographer known to us both. Working with a 5x4 plate camera, Giles has transformed his practice from the fast-paced world of documentary work to something more deliberate, contemplative, and rooted in presence. Across two weeks, we explore what it means to truly slow down: waiting for light, sitting with a ‘subject’, and navigating the mental space that opens up when you're no longer chasing the next frame. We discuss mental health, the quality of light, and choosing a different pace of life in a world that demands speed. This is photography as meditation, as ritual, as a way of being fully present with the world. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#519 Milestones in your life
02/13/2026
#519 Milestones in your life
This week, I speak with Gary Williams, a professional singer who's performed at Buckingham Palace and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, where the late Martin Parr once photographed him. Over the last two years, Gary has built a thriving business photographing micro weddings at London's iconic town halls, the same venues where Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Lily Allen, and Ed Sheeran have tied the knot. We discuss reaching his photographic milestone of 100 weddings in just two years, the process of building a practice as a newcomer to professional photography, and what he's learned along the way. It's 100 not out. Then Valérie Jardin returns for her monthly Teach Me Street segment, where she offers creative feedback on candid street photos submitted by two photographers, examining the decisions made and the stories behind the images. From the mailbag, Sven in Switzerland is trying to lose the imposter syndrome character on his shoulder, Gene Westberg wonders if he missed a photographic trick during the pandemic, Jussi Jääskeläinen takes us on a hike in North Eastern France, Adriano Henney shares what he loves about Venice, and there's a moment of Spike Milligan silliness, or at least an ode to him, from the Doctor of Reflection, Robin Chun. Plus, news about some very special editions coming in the next four weeks. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#518 What is a photograph?
02/06/2026
#518 What is a photograph?
This week, Steven Seidenberg is my guest, a photographer, philosopher, and writer whose work focuses on empty spaces, ordinary places, and the things most people pass by. His photographic books include The Architecture of Silence and Pipevalve: Berlin, and his work has been shown internationally, from Europe to the US and Japan. Alongside the photographs, he writes prose and poetry that explore similar themes, examining perception and what it means to truly notice what’s in front of us. It’s certainly one of our more thought-provoking conversations of late, as Steven even questions what a photograph actually is, if it’s not a printed, tangible, tactile thing. From the mailbag, Andrew Larking writes about self-criticism, sharing a story that touches on depression and the instinct many of us have to try to push through it alone; Richard Rawlings writes about neurodiversity, and Jim Farmer reports on unexpected wildlife encounters that may or may not involve actual alligators a little too close to home! Also today, a chance to join in with a new community feature for 2026 called HERE AND THERE. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#517 Dreaming in Photos
01/30/2026
#517 Dreaming in Photos
This week, I speak with Cathal McNaughton, a well-respected international photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner. We discuss his biographical film I Dream in Photos, his recent photography in Ukraine that focuses on ordinary life continuing alongside the war brought to their country, and the role family plays in shaping how and why he photographs. Along the way, Cathal shares a personal discovery that has refocused attention on him, after a career spent observing others. It becomes a conversation about self-understanding and what it means to keep making photographs when the relationship with the camera itself is being questioned. From the mailbag, Richard Rawlings pairs photographs with prose as walking helps him appreciate nature, Marilyn Davies nudges anyone still circling a 365 feature, to just start, even if February becomes the starting line, and Jaki G heads celebrates Lisbon’s street photo festival, and walking with the celebrated Phil Penman who swapped his adopted New York for the Portuguese capital. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#516 Standing where Orwell stood
01/23/2026
#516 Standing where Orwell stood
This week, I talk with Craig Easton, and the conversation embraces AI, trust in photojournalism, and how a still photograph can still hold its own. But the heart of this chat sits on a Scottish island. Picture a house at the end of a single-track road, miles from anywhere, no shop, no pub, just weather, water, and time. This is Barnhill, on the Isle of Jura, where George Orwell came to live and work while writing Nineteen Eighty-Four. Craig travelled to this fabled place to make his new book 'An Extremely Un-Get-Atable Place'. This is a conversation about place, curiosity, and paying attention. On today’s walk from the mailbag, Jade Lee discovers just how powerful it can be to swap pictures with people in other countries, Jean-Maurice Cormier shares some thoughts on travel and street photography, and Phil Ferris appears to be listening from the shower in what may or may not become a formal complaint, all while we pack coffee, biscuits, film, and a copy of 1984 into our camera bags. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#515 Strangers when we meet
01/16/2026
#515 Strangers when we meet
Strangers When We Meet is a street portrait project built as much on conversation as photography. In it, Tim Allen approaches people he has never met, talks with them, and then makes their portrait. Beneath that simple exchange sits a longer story about family influence and a decision to move his life to the town where he now photographs its people. The family thread isn’t about cameras being passed down, but about a father who could talk to anyone, and how that way of meeting the world found its way into the work. We talk about Tim’s book, Strangers When We Meet, published to raise funds for St Michael’s Hospice, and his return to Artisans, a project documenting people who make things for a living. From the mailbag: Glenn Sowerby has been making street pictures at big-city football matches. Chris Hughes reckons he may already have made his one big picture for 2026, just days into the year, and Jeff Smeraldo is deep into proper family photographic history. Also today Valérie Jardin returns for the first of our monthly TEACH ME STREET features and she shares news about We are Minnesota, plus there’s an invitation to come to Scotland in 2026 and further afield to India, Mongolia and Venice. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#514 THE ONE, big pictures from 2025 Part 2
01/07/2026
#514 THE ONE, big pictures from 2025 Part 2
Late last Autumn, I asked you to send me one photograph you made in 2025. Not a greatest hit and not something that had done well online, just the one you kept coming back to when nobody else was watching. The one you might show a friend and say, “Yeah, this really means something.” What arrived was more than I expected. Over a hundred pictures came in, each with a story attached, some short, some long, some so open it made me pause. The level of trust that this show evokes never feels normal, and this project really brought that home. THE ONE was never meant to be a competition. There was no ranking, no winners, no pecking order. The pictures we talk about are simply the ones that made me stop, sometimes because of the image, sometimes because of the story that sat behind it. I invited 10 photographers over two weeks to talk about their work, and this is the second of those two special editions. If your picture isn't included in these two episodes, it doesn’t mean it was missed. This grew bigger than anyone expected, and THE ONE now has a home on the website, ready to be returned to throughout the year. John Lancaster talks about a health scare that pushed him to look at both life and photography differently. Wendy Brandon takes us out onto the water, finding calm among whales and ice. Jan van der Hooft shares a deeply personal story of love, loss, and what it means to keep making pictures. Michael Tenbrink brings his blurred, dreamlike landscapes into the mix, while Gene Westberg reminds us that some of the best images happen when you wander off the main path. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#513 THE ONE, big pictures from 2025 Part 1
01/02/2026
#513 THE ONE, big pictures from 2025 Part 1
Before Christmas, I asked you to send me one photograph from 2025. Not necessarily what you consider to be your best, not your most liked, and not something measured against anyone else in either competition or social media terms. Just the picture that said to you, “This was my 2025.” The one you kept coming back to. My plan was to invite ten photographers to the first episode of 2026 to talk about their pictures and the why behind them. Over a hundred arrived, each with a story attached, and it quickly became clear that with the compelling stories you sent in, we’d need to spread this across two editions, and so that is where we are. As I spoke to the people behind these pictures, the conversations opened out into how we see, why we photograph, and what was going on in life when the shutter was pressed. This episode is the first half of those conversations. Unrushed, unscripted, and simply photographers talking about images that meant something to them, and by extension, saying a little about themselves. David Wright reflects on serenity in photography through an image that feels like an emotional time capsule. John Charlton talks about a Northern Lights photograph whose meaning runs far deeper than the light in the sky. Wayne Richards joins me on the path to talk about a rag tied to a railing that all but demanded to be photographed. Kim Cofield shares thoughtful advice drawn from her experience of making animal portraits, and Mark Creamer looks back on a photograph made in the middle of a disaster zone. Read more about our photographic adventures on our photography travel website, . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#512 The time it takes to be truly seen
12/19/2025
#512 The time it takes to be truly seen
Today’s guest is Phil Sharp, a portrait photographer whose work has been on my radar for a while, and who was brought back into focus for me through a couple of prompts and a short film made by Sean Tucker. Phil’s approach is considered, patient and personal. He creates a setting where people are given time, often during longer sessions in his London studio, to settle rather than perform. Music often plays a part in that process, helping to establish a mood that is very evident throughout his portfolio. This conversation isn’t about cameras or lighting setups. It’s about how you create the conditions for someone to feel comfortable enough to show whatever emotion arrives, whether that’s openness, uncertainty, or anything in between. It’s about trust, presence, and what can happen when a photographer is willing to slow things down, away from the watchful eyes of publicists in the corner of the room. If you’re interested in portrait photography, there’s plenty here. But if you’re interested in how time, attention, and thoughtfulness affect the way people appear in photographs, a human approach, I think you’ll find a lot to sit with in this one. From the mailbag, Phil Ferris clears up a curious fascination with bottoms, and no, it’s not quite what it sounds like. There’s a long service award for Morris Haggerty, a sunnier than usual update from Jack Antal in San Diego with a nudge towards making books, and Per Birkhaug checks in from the Norwegian mountains with a few thoughts about age and perspective. There are some thoughts about the end of the year as we look ahead to the show in 2026, and an invitation to come to as we meditate a little in the middle of today’s edition. Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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Reflections: Should I know you?
12/15/2025
Reflections: Should I know you?
is a short-form feature within The Photowalk podcast, offering thoughtful observations on a creative life and the themes that we often discuss on Fridays, including perfectionism, impostor syndrome, comparison, confidence, and more. It’s a pause at the start of the week to recalibrate, recorded in the studio between the walks. Each Monday, you’ll find Reflections on The Photowalk podcast feed, providing a creative reset to start the week. From Tuesday to Friday, it continues exclusively on our member-supported channel, , for those who walk a little further with us. From Terry Wogan to “my five-year-old could do that,” a bemused look at how creatives are spoken to, and spoken over. My sincere thanks to who sponsor this show, plus our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#511 Stories hidden behind locked doors
12/11/2025
#511 Stories hidden behind locked doors
Robert Gumpert joins me on the show from San Francisco, where he’s spent decades photographing the parts of life most of us never see unless we work there, live there, or get pulled into the system. Hiring halls on the docks and the interview rooms inside the county jails have all been part of his working world. His long-running project Take a Picture / Tell a Story was the one that initially caught my attention: a portrait made after a recorded conversation with someone in custody, giving a literal voice to people awaiting trial. We also talk about his photographs of mariners heading out to sea, and his book Division Street, published by Dewi Lewis. That work looks at life under the flyovers and in the city's corners, where people without a home live just two blocks from some of the wealthiest startup companies on earth. Alongside my conversation with Robert, Gene Westburg is back from last week with a follow-up question about street v travel photography. Fred Ash also returns, and Michael Brennan has posted something that will, I’m sure, spark a few ideas for anyone thinking about bringing their work to life in print. There are some thoughts about THE ONE feature and an invite to come to . Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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Reflections: Farewell Martin Parr
12/08/2025
Reflections: Farewell Martin Parr
is a short-form feature within The Photowalk podcast, offering thoughtful observations on a creative life and the themes that we often discuss on Fridays, including perfectionism, impostor syndrome, comparison, confidence, and more. It’s a pause at the start of the week to recalibrate, recorded in the studio between the walks. Each Monday, you’ll find Reflections on The Photowalk podcast feed, providing a creative reset to start the week. From Tuesday to Friday, it continues exclusively on our member-supported channel, , for those who walk a little further with us. Today, a reflection on Martin Parr’s life, his eye for the everyday, and the legacy he leaves in British documentary photography. Also see in The Guardian. My sincere thanks to who sponsor this show, plus our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#510 The Beautiful Game
12/05/2025
#510 The Beautiful Game
In between the letters and features, my guest today is Laura Gates, a fast-rising documentary sports photographer. We talk about the pitches where stories begin, the momentum behind the women’s game, and the moments on and off the field that meet Laura’s curious lens. She self-published her first book and sold more copies than many photographers manage through traditional publishers, which speaks to the strength of her work. We also talk about confidence when you are starting out as a photographer, the realities of building a creative business, and the place of women in sport as the wider picture continues to grow and evolve. From the mailbag today, Gene Westburg writes about the calm he’s found walking with a camera and a four-legged friend, Alex Boone sends in the picture that defined his 2025, made on a trusty smartphone, and Fred Ash throws me a why question to wrestle with, plus street photographer Valérie Jardin guest-writes a Friday Reflection and considers how AI may affect street photography. Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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Reflections: Marsha
12/01/2025
Reflections: Marsha
is a short-form feature within The Photowalk podcast, offering thoughtful observations on a creative life and the themes that we often discuss on Fridays, including perfectionism, impostor syndrome, comparison, confidence, and more. It’s a pause at the start of the week to recalibrate, recorded in the studio between the walks. Each Monday, you’ll find Reflections on The Photowalk podcast feed, providing a creative reset to start the week. From Tuesday to Friday, it continues exclusively on our member-supported channel, , for those who walk a little further with us. I met someone called Marsha last week, which has inspired this reflection about listening. My sincere thanks to who sponsor this show, plus our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#509 The world went completely dark
11/27/2025
#509 The world went completely dark
This week’s edition is guest-focused. Paul Berriff OBE, has lived a life few could imagine. A filmmaker and photographer whose work spans more than 180 prime-time documentaries, he has survived a helicopter crash, escaped a sinking ship in a North Sea storm, crawled from the wreckage of a downed aircraft, and lived through the collapse of both towers on September 11 while filming inside the disaster zone. His tape from that day remains one of the most important visual records of the south tower falling. Before film came photography. In the 1960s, Paul made remarkably natural portraits of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, long before fame turned them into myth. Later, with what he called a “clockwork camera,” he moved into observational documentary and eventually built his own production company. Alongside all this, he trained as a firefighter and helped carry out more than 850 RNLI sea rescues. The conversation moved differently from how I imagined it might. Two major stories emerged. One is his account of filming inside the World Trade Center as the towers came down, surviving when the buildings collapsed around him. The other is the story of a rescue by helicopter in brutal conditions, a moment when a second narrow escape became part of his history. I’ll also share a little more about the craft of photogravure that we’ll be exploring on the new Scottish retreat in June. There’s a reminder of this month’s assignment, the last one of the year, before we shift our focus to THE ONE in December. Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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Reflections: Who needs a professional anyway?
11/24/2025
Reflections: Who needs a professional anyway?
is a short-form feature within The Photowalk podcast, offering thoughtful observations on a creative life and the themes that we often discuss on Fridays, including perfectionism, impostor syndrome, comparison, confidence, and more. It’s a pause at the start of the week to recalibrate, recorded in the studio between the walks. Each Monday, you’ll find Reflections on The Photowalk podcast feed, providing a creative reset to start the week. From Tuesday to Friday, it continues exclusively on our member-supported channel, , for those who walk a little further with us. These professional people, highly overrated, I say. If you want a job done properly, just do it yourself, surely? My sincere thanks to who sponsor this show, plus our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#508 Silence, solitude and sanctuary
11/21/2025
#508 Silence, solitude and sanctuary
Artist, writer and thinker Gael Hillyard joins me to talk about her creative life, from painting, writing and photography, to the deep-winter months she spent as artist-in-residence on Fair Isle, to the ten silent days she lived inside a retreat with no conversation at all. We explore how her work has been shaped by a childhood spent in a Victorian atelier, the two studios she now keeps in the Highlands, and the weather-beaten coastlines she keeps returning to as both muse and anchor. And in the mailbag this week, Spike Boydell, our man from the canoe down under, has been thinking about slowing down, and I mean really slowing down. Comedy-writer-in-chief Hegaard the Dane sends word about solitude and the small matter of spending a night or three in jail! John Kenny writes about trees and the Sycamore Gap, which has an unexpected local relevance for me this weekend, and Bill Frische has been photographing a ‘monster’. I’ll also share a little more about the craft of photogravure that we’ll be exploring on the new Scottish retreat in June. There’s a reminder of this month’s assignment, the last one of the year, before we shift our focus to THE ONE in December. Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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Reflections: Toxic Voyeurism
11/17/2025
Reflections: Toxic Voyeurism
is a short-form feature within The Photowalk podcast, offering thoughtful observations on a creative life and the themes that we often discuss on Fridays, including perfectionism, impostor syndrome, comparison, confidence, and more. It’s a pause at the start of the week to recalibrate, recorded in the studio between the walks. Each Monday, you’ll find Reflections on The Photowalk podcast feed, providing a creative reset to start the week. From Tuesday to Friday, it continues exclusively on our member-supported channel, , for those who walk a little further with us. Today, Toxic Voyeurism. It's a real thing, although how do we notice it's happening? My sincere thanks to who sponsor this show, plus our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#507 What we hear, what we see, what we keep
11/14/2025
#507 What we hear, what we see, what we keep
This week’s Photowalk features Bil Repenning, a musician who’s shifting his creative energy into photography. Music has shaped the way he sees the world, and you can hear that within our conversation. Following an accident five years ago, he began building a photographic practice rooted in documentary portrait work, taking the craft seriously as he moves into this next chapter. We talk about the music that shaped him, the radio that shaped us both, and what it’s like to change course mid-career without the fanfare or drama, just a genuine desire to make good work. It’s a conversation about starting later, learning on the move, and finding a new place to stand creatively. From the mailbag, John Anderton shares a deeply personal story about his mum, Winnie, and the way he chose to document her life as dementia changed their days. What he’s written is a reminder of how powerful it can be to hold on to family stories in more than one way. There’s also a note from Dominique Martel, who’s wrestling with a familiar modern problem: subscription overload! We have this month’s One Word assignment from Liza Gershman, and you’re invited to join the show in Scotland for a new look Scottish Retreat in June 2026. Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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Reflections: Delayed gratification
11/10/2025
Reflections: Delayed gratification
is a short-form feature within The Photowalk podcast, offering thoughtful observations on a creative life and the themes that we often discuss on Fridays, including perfectionism, impostor syndrome, comparison, confidence, and more. It’s a pause at the start of the week to recalibrate, recorded in the studio between the walks. Each Monday, you’ll find Reflections on The Photowalk podcast feed, providing a creative reset to start the week. From Tuesday to Friday, it continues exclusively on our member-supported channel, , for those who walk a little further with us. Today, an unexpected frame I made in London, comes back two years later with a message. My sincere thanks to who sponsor this show, plus our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#506 If you fall, get back on that horse!
11/07/2025
#506 If you fall, get back on that horse!
Former champion jockey Richard Dunwoody joins me to talk about how photography has become a part of his life after racing, and there are questions about the sport that defined him, too. A three-time Champion Jockey in the UK, Richard won two Grand Nationals and a Cheltenham Gold Cup on the legendary Desert Orchid. He helped define jump racing in Britain and Ireland during one of its most competitive eras. But that was only chapter one. After stepping out of the weighing room, Richard set out on endurance rides across South America and took on challenges that carried him far beyond the racecourse. Now, he travels with a camera, chasing stories in places a long way from grandstands and bookmakers. In this conversation, we talk about photography, adventure, and the discipline that links both worlds, plus what happens when the noise of competition finally stops. Also in the show, Lee Cobbs writes about retracing his roots and finding new angles in a familiar town, Arran Carter-Cheetham shares stories from his photographic adventures that took him halfway round the world to the so-called “Venice of the East,” and on that note, I have news about a photographic retreat to the real Venice! Christopher Kincaid reckons he might just live in the best place in the world, and Matties Wesche is filming tandem parachute jumps from 10,000 feet. Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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Reflections: Unaccustomed as I am...
11/03/2025
Reflections: Unaccustomed as I am...
is a short-form feature within The Photowalk podcast, offering thoughtful observations on a creative life and the themes that we often discuss on Fridays, including perfectionism, impostor syndrome, comparison, confidence, and more. It’s a pause at the start of the week to recalibrate, recorded in the studio between the walks. Each Monday, you’ll find Reflections on The Photowalk podcast feed, providing a creative reset to start the week. From Tuesday to Friday, it continues exclusively on our member-supported channel, , for those who walk a little further with us. Today, some thoughts about the wonderful mentors who help us along our creative paths. My sincere thanks to who sponsor this show, plus our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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#505 Our great American road trip and voyage
10/31/2025
#505 Our great American road trip and voyage
This week’s show follows a journey that stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic, five days, 2,845 miles by road, from LA, through Vegas, Denver, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, finally reaching New York City, and then a week at sea aboard the Queen Mary 2. I travelled with the photojournalist Marissa Roth, helping her bring home six precious heavy cases packed with nearly half a century of negatives; work that spans everything from Women and War, her lifetime project on the human cost of conflict, to assignments that shaped her long career behind the camera. Together we crossed America before sailing for Southampton with that extraordinary cargo. There were wrong turns, long drives and high North Atlantic waves, but more than anything, a reminder that photographs hold stories worth carrying safely home. Also on the show, special guest John Plews, a Titanic expert and fellow passenger shares facts about a ship made famous by tragedy. Links to all guests and features will be on the , my sincere thanks to our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week and , giving photographers smart tools to plan, promote, and manage your creative projects more easily. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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Reflections: The long way home
10/27/2025
Reflections: The long way home
is a short-form feature within The Photowalk podcast, offering thoughtful observations on a creative life and the themes that we often discuss on Fridays, including perfectionism, impostor syndrome, comparison, confidence, and more. It’s a pause at the start of the week to recalibrate, recorded in the studio between the walks. Each Monday, you’ll find Reflections on The Photowalk podcast feed, providing a creative reset to start the week. From Tuesday to Friday, it continues exclusively on our member-supported channel, , for those who walk a little further with us. Today, a 2,845-mile road trip across America and a voyage across the Atlantic, made to keep fifty years of photographs safe. My sincere thanks to who sponsor this show, plus our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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Reflections: The nature of fragility
10/20/2025
Reflections: The nature of fragility
is a short-form feature within The Photowalk podcast, offering thoughtful observations on a creative life and the themes that we often discuss on Fridays, including perfectionism, impostor syndrome, comparison, confidence, and more. It’s a pause at the start of the week to recalibrate, recorded in the studio between the walks. Each Monday, you’ll find Reflections on The Photowalk podcast feed, providing a creative reset to start the week. From Tuesday to Friday, it continues exclusively on our member-supported channel, , for those who walk a little further with us. A tree almost striking my car, has me thinking on fragility. My sincere thanks to who sponsor this show, plus our without whom we wouldn't be walking each week. WHY: A Sketchbook of Life is available .
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