The Richard Flint Photography Podcast
By Richard Flint Photography
The photography podcast is released regularly (around six episodes a year plus a number of special bonus podcasts focusing on books, photography locations and other photography-related subjects. The podcast covers all sorts of photography-related topics and issues including photography books, photographers, classic and contemporary photojournalism plus lots more.
The Richard Flint Photography PodcastOct 06, 2012
RFP Podcast: A Quick Dodge and Burn
In the podcast... the main website gets a BIG, and rather unexpected, spring clean to give it a bit of a refresh. A quick discussion about the recent royal photo manipulation story. In the podcast's recommended photography links we have four great photographers covering the last five decades including Chris Killip, Akihiko Okamura and Tim Hetherington.
Podcast Links
The extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington
The work and legacy of photographer Anja Niedringhaus endure 10 years after her death
Bonus Podcast Links
BBC Media Show - Is seeing still believing? Photo journalists on how the Princess of Wales story unfolded.
2024 World Press Photo Contest: Winners revealed
RFP Podcast: Back to the Future
In this podcast: Richard heads back to the RSS feeds as a way of getting new sources of photography news and content after stepping away from social media. Dusting off those old blog feeds and seeing what works. The main website gets a new portfolio gallery with Northumberland: Castles and Coast added to the site. The podcast links look at the legendary photojournalist Bert Hardy who has a retrospective exhibition on at The Photographers' Gallery in London until June 2nd.
Podcast Links
The Gorbals of the 1940s - through Bert Hardy's eyes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg9kp599kwo
Bert Hardy: Photojournalism in War and Peace
Fri 23 Feb 2024 - Sun 02 Jun 2024 - The Photographers' Gallery
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/bert-hardy-photojournalism-war-and-peace
Bert Hardy | Getty Images Gallery
Podcast Links: Elliot Erwitt
Podcast links look at the diverse work work of legendary Magnum photographer Elliot Erwitt who died back in November 2023. A big influence to many photographers, his ability to capture iconic images of events, portraits, and even dogs showed the broad range of his skills.
Magnum Profile - https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/elliott-erwitt/
Guardian Obituary - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/21/elliott-erwitt-obituaryhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/21/elliott-erwitt-obituary View the podcast links page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast
RFP Podcast: Looking Back
In the podcast: I'm looking back at 2023 and my favourite images from my travels during the past year. Also, I take a look at what may be coming in 2024. No podcast links in this episode but an Elliott Erwitt link podcast will be recorded soon for the end of January.
Bonus Podcast: Arran and Campbeltown
Lots of photography with the weather adding some drama to the skies and coastline.
Check out the websites and the richardflintphoto Instagram feed for some images from my travels.
RFP Podcast: Back to the Blogs
In the podcast: With Twitter, now called X, making further changes to its platform and its lifespan up for debate, is it time to move back to blogging? Four great photography links including a history of photography TV series via YouTube.
Photography links
International Portrait Photographer of the Year 2023
BBC | Extraordinary photos of July's extreme weather
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-bcea7bff-641f-4cbf-b091-26491409fbdc
BBC History Of Photography Complete (Episodes 1,2, and 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMZsjYCUfpo
Zak Waters - Birdmen. Great Documentary photography about Pigeon Racing
Bonus Podcast: Favourite Northumberland Photograph Pt2
A bonus podcast talking about the first of two favourite photographs shot in Northumberland in late April 2023.
The image of the harbour at Seahouses is my second favourite photograph.
View the photo at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast
RFP Podcast: Lost tweets and a photo mystery solved
In the podcast: More drama from Twitter with the tweet feed vanishing from the website, the new social media platform Threads arrives and looks promising, and there's more website improvement work. In the links, Eve Arnold's excellent portrait and documentary work, a love letter to the industrial part of the Melbourne suburb and the makers who work there and an 84-year-old photo mystery is solved!
Photography links
Mystery of Holocaust escape girls solved after 84 years https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66040197
Roller Door: Moorabbin makers at work https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/09/roller-door-moorabbin-makers-at-work
Brothels, bartenders and film stars: Eve Arnold’s women https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/10/brothels-bartenders-and-film-stars-eve-arnolds-women-in-pictures
BONUS LINK
Prix Pictet shortlist 2023: Human https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/07/prix-pictet-shortlist-2023-human-in-pictures
RFP Podcast: Northumberland Castles and Railroad Landscapes
In the podcast. Details on April's visit to Northumberland and photographing a couple of fantastic castles, the landscape, and more. Streamlining work on the website, to make the site a little more slick and light, and the problem with old WordPress plugins. Instagram and Twitter thoughts and RFP's social media future. The podcast link is for the excellent Railroad through the American landscape video work of Acme Cinematography on Youtube
Podcast link https://www.youtube.com/@AcmeCinematography
RFP Podcast: March 2023
In the March podcast: Changes to the podcast page including an audio player on the darker skies website, social media accounts including the RFP Instagram feed start up again... slowly. In the photography links... The flaky remnants of adverts painted onto the walls of Bradford buildings years ago are being recorded by photographer Jenna Greenwood and Alex Boyd is using a photographic process developed by the Victorians more than 170 years ago to create images of Scotland and Ireland.
Ghost signs: Bradford's faded adverts photographed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-64798380
The photographer using a Victorian process to picture Scotland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-64053045
RFP Podcast Extra: Revisiting Tim
I thought I'd capture some brief thoughts about Tim's images, his influence on my photography and how the documentary looks now.
RFP Podcast: January/February 2023
In the podcast: A catchup about what's been happening and the plans of the podcast, photobooks etc, and in the links, I take a look at one of my early heroes Vietnam war photographer Tim Page who died in August 2022. Tim had a huge influence on me as a young photographer. The 'Mentioned in Dispatches' BBC documentary especially sparked my interest in photojournalism.
Links mentioned in the podcast
Time Page's obituary in The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/tim-page-obituary
Tim Page: the Vietnam war photographer’s career in pictures
Tim Page 'Mentioned in Dispatches' - BBC Arena -1979
RFP Podcast Extra: January 2023
RFP Podcast: August - Podcast Update
RFP Podcast: January 2022
RFP Podcast: September 2021
A bit of a switch around this month due to the delay in getting the September podcast recorded. September's Scotland trip will now be talked about in next month's podcast complete with a recording originally made for a bonus Scotland podcast. I'll also cover recent website news in that podcast too.
In this podcast, however, I talk about the move to new podcast hosting that should improve the podcast no end. Better distribution, links in the show notes, and more! Some great photo links are thrown in at the end from the BBC In Pictures page including images of Joy Division by Kevin Cummins, award-winning wildlife photography and 1960s photographs of The Rolling Stone and The Beatles in County Durham.
Photography links mentioned in the podcast
Joy Division: Photographer Kevin Cummins on capturing the post-punk icons
Close-up of gull's eye in Shetland wins ecology photography prize
'All I can hear is a cacophony of screaming girls' - photographing the Beatles and Stones
All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can also be found on the dedicated podcast links page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast
RFP Podcast: August 2021
Bonus Podcast: Sea, Sky, Sand and Street – Final Mooring
Bonus Podcast: Sea, Sky, Sand and Street – Fishing Boat at Sheringham
The final podcast in this series will feature my favourite final three photographs from Sea, Sky Sand and Street.
Check out the image via the gallery at richardflintphoto.com or via the podcast links page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast
Bonus Podcast: Sea, Sky, Sand and Street - Mother and Son
RFP Podcast: June/July 2021
Bonus Podcast: Mull of Galloway, Scotland - May 2021
RFP Podcast: April/May 2021
RFP Podcast: February/ March 2021
RFP Podcast: January 2021
Bonus Podcast: January 2020 - Chris Killip
RFP Podcast: November/December 2020
RFP Podcast: May 2019
RFP Podcast: October 2020
RFP Podcast: September 2020 - Three Scotland Photos
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