#12 Daniel Meadows - PHOTO TALK - WTF-STOP PODCAST

11/13/22 • 73 min

Photographer, documentarian, and digital storyteller Daniel Meadows (b. 1952) has spent a lifetime recording British society, challenging the status quo by working in a collaborative way to capture extraordinary aspects of ordinary life through pictures, audio recordings, and short movies.
He is best known for his 1973-74 journey around England in the Free Photographic Omnibus when he traveled 10,000 miles in a converted double-decker and made 958 portraits in "free studio" sessions on the streets of 22 different British towns and cities. This is a project he revisited in the 1990s, photographing again some of the subjects of those portraits for his widely published series National Portraits: Now & Then.
His pioneering community storytelling project BBC Capture Wales (2001-08) encouraged many hundreds of people across Wales to embrace the arrival of the digital age in pop-up workshops by making their own two minutes of TV, framing their memories and pictures into digital stories, "multimedia sonnets from the people". Capture Wales won a BAFTA Cymru in 2002.
Meadows taught the documentary photography course with David Hurn in Newport(1983-94); also photojournalism (1994-2001) and digital storytelling (2000-2012) at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies where he also completed his PhD (2005). In the 1990s he taught photojournalism workshops in the emerging democracies of eastern Europe, also in India and Bangladesh. After 2000 he traveled repeatedly to Australia and the USA lecturing about his pioneering work in participatory media.
Selected Books:
Living Like This – Around Britain in the Seventies (1975) https://www.setantabooks.com/products/living-like-this
Nattering In Paradise – A Word from the Suburbs (1987)
National Portraits – Photographs from the 1970s (1997) https://www.setantabooks.com/products/national-portraits
The Bus – The Free Photographic Omnibus 1973-2001 (2001)
https://www.setantabooks.com/products/the-bus-the-free-photographic-omnibus-1973-2001
Café Royal: https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/search?q=meadows
The Daniel Meadows Archive was acquired by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in March 2018.
Daniel Meadows
Website: https://www.photobus.co.uk/home
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Digital Stories: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5268983
Talking Stories: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5268853
Photographic Stories: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5268975
Digital Literacy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-15717619
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#11 Denis Thorpe - PHOTO TALK - WTF-STOP PODCAST

Denis Thorpe joined his local newspaper with the ambition of becoming a reporter. Circumstances dictated that he was assigned to the photography department and immediately became enamoured with that medium’s creative possibilities. For Denis, photography became his passport to another world.
After National Service with the Royal Air Force, he pursued photojournalism, inspired by Picture Post and the early Magnum photographers. Thorpe embarked on a journey of freelancing through London and then the provinces working for morning and evening papers, eventually arriving at the Daily Mail in Manchester.
Denis became a Guardian staff photographer in the 1970s covering assignments across the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, China, India, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Japan during a twenty-three-year career with the paper. Denis has many press awards for his picture essays and news photography including the 1979 World Press Photo Foundation Gold Medal and Ilford Photographer of the Year in 1988.
Denis has produced several books and exhibitions of his work and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, a Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photography, and an Honorary Master of Arts degree from the University of Manchester. This book shows his beginnings, personal projects, and work from around the British Isles and clearly demonstrates why Denis Thorpe is considered by his peers as one of the greats of twentieth-century British photojournalism.
Denis Thorpe
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddes...
Redeye: https://www.redeye.org.uk/opinion/int...
Birds: https://www.theguardian.com/environme...
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#2 Barry Lewis - Frontline Reporting: 'Intersections' - WTF-STOP PODCAST

Barry Lewis is a London-based photographer and filmmaker, founder of Network Photographers, who has worked internationally for books and magazines from Life magazine to National Geographic.
As well as photojournalism and portraiture, he has directed over 20 documentaries, commercials, and art films. His work has been exhibited at the V&A, The Museum of London, The Photographers Gallery, and Modern Art Oxford.
Notable exhibitions and awards include Positive Lives( 1993), a book and international exhibition about living with AIDS; the World Press Award’s Oscar Barnack Medal for humanitarian photography (1990). In 2019 his images from Butlins in the 1980s will be shown at Turner Contemporary as part of the “Resort” show.
Since 2010 Barry has worked with musician David Toop and singer Elaine Mitchener to produce the mixed-media production “Of Leonardo” for the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice. A new version, choreographed by Dam Van Huynh, now tours internationally with a performance at the Purcell Room on the South Bank in September 2018. In July 2018 Barry’s film “Pond” was streamed by NTS as part of a performance by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Toop.
Selected Books:
Butlin’s – https://barrylewisphotography.com/butlins
Glastonbury – https://www.thefloodgallery.com/products/vaguely-lost-in-shangri-la-12-years-of-the-glastonbury-festival-by-barry-lewis
MIAMI BEACH 1988-1995 - https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/miami-beach-1988-1995?_pos=3&_sid=14a349bba&_ss=r
Cafe Royal Books - https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/search?q=barry%20lewis
Barry Lewis
Website: https://barrylewisphotography.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barrylewisphotography/
Network: https://www.networkphotographersonline.com/
In Pictures: https://www.in-pictures.co.uk/portfolio/C0000KkjgAy1kLUs/G0000ckgYH720dAk
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