Released monthly, the Richard Flint Photography audio podcast covers recent website updates, project news, New photography, photobook news, photographers, exhibitions plus links to photography, videos and multimedia and lots more.
A number of additional bonus podcasts are also recorded each year. These podcasts are recorded on location or focus on specific photography related topics, books or photographs.
The links for the photography, video and other content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the podcast links page.
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In the podcast: The difficulties of writing introductions for photo books, the website shop update issue is finally fixed, and a new Ben Nevis gallery in the portfolio section. In the photography links Michael Bennetts excellent forty-year-old photographs of North Wales seaside resorts out of season, winners of the 2021 Underwater Photographer of the Year contest and Grace Robertson's postwar Britain capturing a nation at work, at play – and…
A bonus podcast looking at photographer Chris Killip who died in October 2020 at the age of 74. Killip's excellent 1988 photography book 'In Flagrante' highlighted the effect of deindustrialisation on communities in the northeast of England. The book remains highly influential with many photographers. All the links this month look at Chris Killips photography with also a video and podcast link where Chris Killip talks about his work. The…
In the last podcast of the year, Richard takes a personal look back at the year, The Two Towns photo book gets an update and the website gets a secondary menu added to highlight a few areas of the website. In the links, Searching 80,000 miles for the American dream - photography by Ian Brown, A 70-year-old photographic mystery from a recently developed roll of film, the Agency Photographer of…
In this month's podcast: The Two Towns photobook gets closer to release with the final edits to text taking place plus the website will be getting a new gallery addition in December. In the website links there is Jerome Sessini's fantastic Images from his return to Mexico city where he first became a photographer, a grandfather's hidden WW2 photo album - the fascinating story of a photo album documenting life…
In the podcast: The difficulties of writing introductions for photo books, the website shop update issue is finally fixed, and a new Ben Nevis gallery in the portfolio section. In the photography links Michael Bennetts excellent forty-year-old photographs of North Wales seaside resorts out of season, winners of the 2021 Underwater Photographer of the Year contest and Grace Robertson's postwar Britain capturing a nation at work, at play – and in the delivery room in the 1950s. All of the... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography audio podcast contains news,…
A bonus podcast looking at photographer Chris Killip who died in October 2020 at the age of 74. Killip's excellent 1988 photography book 'In Flagrante' highlighted the effect of deindustrialisation on communities in the northeast of England. The book remains highly influential with many photographers. All the links this month look at Chris Killips photography with also a video and podcast link where Chris Killip talks about his work. The podcast links can be found at... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography audio podcast contains news, featured photographers, upcoming exhibitions,…
In the last podcast of the year, Richard takes a personal look back at the year, The Two Towns photo book gets an update and the website gets a secondary menu added to highlight a few areas of the website. In the links, Searching 80,000 miles for the American dream - photography by Ian Brown, A 70-year-old photographic mystery from a recently developed roll of film, the Agency Photographer of the Year 2020 – shortlist and finally the excellent Women Photograph: 2020 Year in Pictures. As usual,... Released regularly, the…
In this month's podcast: The Two Towns photobook gets closer to release with the final edits to text taking place plus the website will be getting a new gallery addition in December. In the website links there is Jerome Sessini's fantastic Images from his return to Mexico city where he first became a photographer, a grandfather's hidden WW2 photo album - the fascinating story of a photo album documenting life in the Royal Canadian Airforce - found only after the photographer had died and... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography…
In this special September podcast... I take a look back at my trip to Fort William in Scotland from mid-September and choose two... NO... THREE images from the trip. The photos, two from Mallaig and the third from the summit of Ben Nevis, can be found on the Richard Flint Photography Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/richardflintphoto/ No photography links this month but please check out and follow me on Instagram. Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography audio podcast contains news, featured photographers, upcoming exhibitions, links to photography plus more.
In the August 2020 podcast... The podcast becomes available via Amazon Music, Instagram changes its API rules that cause temporary issues on the website and details about a special podcast coming next month. In the weblinks, we have a collection of 3000 cameras, wet plate collodion images of female skateboarders in California and a photographer captures 'hidden' life with a disability. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography audio podcast contains news,…
In the July Podcast: After a decade I make the switch from iPhone to Android but there is a photo app I'll rather miss. I also discuss the rather interesting website I've been building recently. In the photo links, there is a heavy Magnum photo agency theme starting with Paul Fusco's superb photography from Robert Kennedy's funeral train - the Magnum photographer passing away recently at the age of 90. Also on the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, Sumeja Tulic reflects on Magnum... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography…
In the June 2020 podcast: Olympus announces they will stop making cameras, the main website goes wide with a slight tweak to the design, photo book news about a potential release for the first book of 2020 and in the links, there is photography and photo discussion by Stuart Franklin, images from the Magnum archive of social unrest in 1968, Shirley Bakers excellent street scene photographs from Manchester and Salford. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography…
The June bonus podcast takes a look at two fascinating books about the photographer Larry Burrows who was best known for his images of the Vietnam war. The first book is 'Lost over Laos' by Richard Pyle and Horst Faas that explores the mystery of his death in 1971 when his helicopter was shot down. The second book is the equally excellent 'Larry Burrows Vietnam' that contains many of his best images from the war. Both are still available online new/secondhand via Amazon etc. All of the weblinks... Released regularly,…
In the April/ May podcast - A few coming potential changes for the website are discussed, the landscape of Glencoe is covered in a Testflight blog post and the upcoming release date for a photobook sadly gets moved to the end of year due to COVID-19. Also, a beautiful 95 years old photo gets copied for a client but when do you stop removing the wear and tear of history? In the links, there is Magnum's Eve Arnold's remarkable photos of Malcolm X, the beauty of the Nordic landscapes by...…
In the podcast... So many changes since the last recording and none of them to do with the website! With COVID-19 restrictions in place, its time to have an experiment with my Instagram account with daily photos added from the archive. In the links there are photos from the isolation of the Faeroe Islands, more excellent Dennis Stock photography from the movie set of George Lucas' classic 'American Graffiti' and the 16mm footage from the Apollo 13 mission gets some enhancement using a very... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography…
Why do I take Photographs? It seems like a simple question but the answers can be varied and complicated. In this podcast, I try to explain my own reasons for taking photos. Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography audio podcast contains news, featured photographers, upcoming exhibitions, links to photography plus more.
In this busy February podcast: The Islay gallery is launched with photography and video from the trip to the Scottish island in 2019, from the archive makes a return to the Test Strip blog and the podcast page gets a player. In the links, there is a new film about Magnum photographer Abbas, Leonard Freed’s Work on the NYPD, W. Eugene Smith's photographs of Charlie Chaplin during the making of Limelight and Reuters look back on 18 years of images from the war in Afghanistan. All of the weblinks... Released…
In the first podcast of 2020 - The first improvement to the PDF photo book and portfolio overview pages are added to the main website. The Scotland galleries get a bit of thought regarding their growing size - just how many images should you add to a gallery? In the links Raymond Depardon’s Paris Dakar Rally, Erich Hartmann’s work documenting the crumbling artefacts and remnants of Europe’s concentration camps, the images of music photographer Jim Marshall and Chechnya: Images of a Forgotten... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography audio podcast…
In the podcast: A personal look back at my photography 2019 and the decade. The Two Towns book gets delayed until the end of next year... but for a very good reason. In the weblinks, Two Dennis Stock photography projects from the sets of a couple of classic movies including the 1968 classic Planet of the Apes. And Robert Capa's excellent photography marking the 75th anniversary of the battle of Bastogne in December 1944. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can... Released regularly, the…
In the October podcast: More social media changes as the Facebook pages finally get deleted after ten years or more with the social media platform. The main website gets a new home page slider after the old one is wrecked before heading to Islay. In the links, photographs of Haiti's cycle team training on the hard roads of the island, Candid moments on the London Underground of the 1970s, Bruce Gilden's photography and a vision of a long-gone New York City and Berlin after the Wall – then and... Released…
Not quite the location-based recording I wanted due to technical problems. So back home, Richard discusses his trip to Islay on the west coast of Scotland that took place in September. Islay is best known for its distilleries with a total of nine currently open on the island. The ninth opened just this year and will not release any whisky for nearly ten years. Photography, whisky... and er... more whisky. No links this month. The links will be back for the October podcast. Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography audio…
In this month's podcast: Richard prepares for a trip away... but isn't saying exactly where. The Darker Skies website celebrates its tenth anniversary, the website menu gets some more improvements and the RFP RedBubble store gets some much-needed love. In the links is a superb collection of WW2 photos by Magnum photographers, 21 images by Margaret Bourke-White, Markéta Luskacová capturing the people of Whitley Bay during the 1970s and Making Hitchcockian Portraits. All of the weblinks for the... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography audio podcast contains news, featured photographers,…
In the podcast: Apart from the occasional tech problems occurring, The 'Caught by the Tide' photo zine gets released and the foundations of the long-awaited Norfolk Project book are finally laid out. In website news, the menu has a number of big alterations made to it and some new photobook web pages are added. In the links, there are images from the 2019 Tour de France, The Magnum photographer Abbas' Vietnam war photography and more. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the... Released regularly, the Richard…
In the bonus podcast: Richard talks about his recently released 24-page photo zine 'Caught by The Tide'. The new photo zine features 19 street photography and landscape images shot in Norfolk during an emotionally turbulent 2016. The podcast delves into the background of the photography, favourite images, the making of the zine and more. 'Caught by the Tide' can be purchased on Blurb at https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/9554004-caught-by-the-tide. Related links for current photo book projects can be be... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography audio podcast contains news, featured photographers, upcoming exhibitions, links…
In the podcast: The photo zine 'Caught by the Tide gets close to release and the anniversary of the death of Michael Jackson brings back a few memories of early smartphone photography. In the links is an article by Associated Press about the power of the image, an iconic climate change photo and a great archive post from the Magnum blog looking at photography from the Mexico/USA border. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast... Released regularly, the…
In a late May podcast due to ill health - delays to the photo book releases due to an injured back and a dose of the flu. Details of a recent trip to the Scottish borders in early May and in the links it's a regular weekend reading list for photographers and filmmakers plus unseen images by Weegee lost for 82 years. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/ Released regularly, the Richard Flint…
This month: More details about the book releases including a delay to Edinburgh: Seven Hills. The website receives a massive update with the portfolio and pages changed to the new Gutenberg blocks. In the links, W.Eugene Smith's powerful photography from Minamata, Bill Owen's photos from the disastrous Altamont festival in 1969, Chris Steele-Perkins’ New Londoners documenting the many faces of one of the most diverse cities in the world and “Crying Girl at the Border” by U.S. photographer John... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography audio podcast contains news, featured…
In the March podcast: More news on the photography book development the new photo zine using images from the 2016 Norfolk trip that has been added to the roster. The links look at Gerda Taro's photography and career, Magnum's Raymond Depardon's superb photos of Glasgow in 1980, Tim Hetherington's sleeping soldiers and Toby Binder's images of teenagers on both sides of the peace walls in Belfast. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated... Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography…
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