Photo Breakdown

Jamie Rose is co-Founder and COO of Momenta Group, LLC, which owns Momenta Workshops, Momenta Creative, and manages Wildfire Media, a nonprofit dedicated to documentary storytelling. Her early career was spent in the halls of power as a Press Corps photojournalist covering Capitol Hill and the White House, primarily as a long-term contract for The New York Times.  Her passion for working with nonprofits led her to documentary coverage of humanitarian and health crisis in Africa, North and South America, and the Middle East. Her clients included organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, The Calvert Foundation, The Global Fund, and Physicians for Human Rights among others.

In this episode, Jamie Rose shares what went into a photograph from one of her workshop clients, Sarah Jane Holden. Jamie was the photo editor for this piece, and this conversation approaches it from that angle.

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Born in Los Angeles, Armando studied photography, architecture, and graphic design. The early ninety’s found him in Colorado where he worked in advertising, design, and publishing for the first 10 years. The last 18 years with his own company Mando-Matic, a photography, video, and retouching studio, has allowed Martinez to concentrate on the photographic image. An award-winning filmmaker, photo retouching artist, and photographer, he crafts photographs into new visions daily.

In this episode, Armando shares the story and inspiration behind a photograph of former Governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper at a winery. What you learn about this photo might shock you.

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Everyone can learn a lesson from this story. At some point in their career, every photographer will be put into a situation that makes them feel uncomfortable, disrespected, degraded, and so on.

But today, I want to share a story with you, which was initially shared on Reddit and then made its rounds in mainstream news.

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Dave Wilson, who hails from Scotland but has now lived in Texas longer than the UK (despite what you may think from his accent), has been an avid photographer since his early teens. While he’ll point a camera at just about anything, his favorite subjects are landscapes, architecture, rodeo, and sport although portraiture is beginning to play a larger role in his photographic life these days. He writes software for a living but enjoys occasional photography commissions, shooting for the local newspapers, and licensing stock images to magazines. He is lucky enough to be credentialed photographer at Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin where he takes pictures of the University of Texas Longhorn Band while football goes on in the background.

In this episode, Dave shares the story and inspiration behind a stunning HDR Panorama of the Taipei Skyline.

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Kendrix has had a love for cameras, both photo, and video, since a young child. After spending time in Atlanta as a personal photographer, he moved to Thailand in 2012. That's when he focused on travel photography and started Freedom of Photography to share some of the photos and stories from his travels. He mainly photographs landscapes but he also works with non-profits and NGOs to photograph their work and provide them with digital content.

In this episode, Kendrix shares the story and inspiration behind a Muay Thai fight photo and the new techniques and tools he used to make it.

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David Rubin is a Dallas-based photographer specializing in Street Photography from around the world, especially Europe and Asia. He has had 4 exhibitions in Dallas at Zhens Music and Art Institute, where he also teaches photography for kids, hoping to inspire the same passion behind the camera. He has also shown twice in San Antonio during the city-wide Foto Septiembre as well as participating in numerous collectives. David has also held 2 exhibits in Paris, France where he continues to be a photographer of record for the Centre de Danse du Marias.

In this episode, David shares the story and inspiration behind one his street photographs from Paris.  Find the show notes and see the photo at photobreakdown.com

Arnold has been an avid amateur photographer since the early 1980s. He worked with black and white and color negatives as well as slides. He had his own darkroom for color or black and white and after attending the Continuation of the Ansel Adams course at Yosemite in 1986. Arnold has attended a number of photo courses and trips throughout the years, but has been fortunate enough to travel with his camera to numerous great locations with his wife. Arnold is a retired physician/Radiologist who put photos on the old X-Ray film to create excellent quality black & white transparencies. Photography remains a passion in his life.

In this episode, Arnold shares the story and inspiration behind one his recent travel photographs from Tahiti.  Find the show notes and see the photo at photobreakdown.com

James Maher is most known for his street photography and photography talks at conferences, articles at industry sites like Digital Photography School and Photofocus, and of course, his ebooks. But James has been a commercial photographer for many years, working with clients including Daily News, Tiffany & Co, and many other New York businesses and businesses around the world. 

In this episode, James shares the story behind one a project of his called Speedway and an interesting man named Mango.  Find the show notes and see the photo at photobreakdown.com

Lauri Novak is an award-winning fine art photographer, mentor, and author based outside of Chicago. She has an eye for photographing architecture, traveling as much as possible, and just wandering in nature with her camera.  In this episode, Lauri shares the story behind one of her favorite recent architecture photographs.  Find the show notes and see the photo at photobreakdown.com

Welcome to the first episode of Photo Breakdown, a podcast where I talk with a photographer sharing the story of a specific photograph, technique, or business win.

To kick things off, I share one of my favorite proposal photography photos in my portfolio.

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Photo Breakdown is a podcast where I talk with a photographer sharing the story of a specific photograph, technique, or business win.

I'm your host, Scott Wyden Kivowitz and this is photo breakdown - let’s break it down…