Palm Springs Photo Festival Podcast

In our 27th podcast, 48th conversation we chat with photographer Steve McCurry - world famous author of 27 books and recipient of countless prestigious awards. Steve and host Jeff Dunas talk about what it's like to work in the streets with very little gear and only one translator or driver to rock his immediately identifiable images. He talks about how he started, being smuggled into Afghanistan early in his career, Magnum, how to avoid smiles, his teen years fascinated by cars, drugs and girls and most surprising of all, his big, outsized McCurry-esque plans for his work after he takes his last walk down an exotic street somewhere with his camera. Come hang with us.

Greg Heisler, one of the top commercial portrait photographers in the United States for over 35 years, has made over 70 covers for Time Magazine. In a very entertaining conversation, Greg talks about working for the one & only Arnold Newman as his second assistant job and how naivety and persistence, plus his one suit and tie got him the job; photographing both Mayor Guiliani (standing on the edge of a sky-scraper) and Mayor Bloomberg, standing in a tree); his keen observations about looking forward (analog) and backward (digital); a famous deli in NYC, his advice for keeping it real and how a framework is essential for editorial portraiture. A must listen.

Photographer & Canon Explorer of Light Lindsay Adler "started her business" at 15 years-old in upstate New York. She talks about how she conquered NYC, taught herself myriad lighting techniques, thought she was a fashion photographer but came to see the world of beauty photography was more her thing, muses on what it means to be an outlier, why being active on multiple social media platforms seems completely natural, why photography is her business as well as her profession and her new focussing spot light.

Photojournalist, political wire photographer & Pulitzer prize-winner David Hume Kennerly has been in the room with his cameras when nearly every major American political event in the latter 20th and 21st centuries took place. White House photographer under Gerald Ford, he's photographed every president since LBJ and most world leaders in his 50+ year career. His often irreverent humor permeates his remembrances and descriptions of the circumstances that led to his greatest photographs in this podcast. Not to be missed. Parts I & II available.

Fine art star Mona Kuhn Talks about her meteoric rise, what keeps here there, her early years and her remarkable process. Her relationships with her subjects, the difficulties she deals with on the web and reveals her wonderful approach to life that informs her work. Nudes represent a difficult subject yet Kuhn has found her voice and her seat at the table.

In a raucous, candid and humorous interview Diltz tells of the historic Laurel Canyon days of the sixties with pals like Steven Stills, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, the Doors, James Taylor, Mama Cass, John Sebastian and the whole range of American rock, folk music and pop culture legends he photographed before they were famous and over the next 50 years. It's thought that Henry may have sold more prints than any photographer in history.

Legendary fine art photographer Ralph Gibson talks about 60-years of making images, 40+ books, The Somnambulist, Robert Frank & Dorothea Lange, The right side of the street, photo-book making, pal Helmut, his weekend in Pennsylvania, the frigate in the North Atlantic, Lustrum Press, Larry Clark, B&W, color & his favorite lenses of all time.

In our second, one-person (new series) conversation, we talk with one of the few photographers known by just one name: DUANE. Duane Michals talks about life, death, "art", sex, age, humor, nostalgia, past, present, Andy Warhol, McKeesport, creativity, personal style and more. Michals is one of the true legends from the latter 20th Century and 21st Century. At 88 - still going strong as hell!

Master of the recreated crime scene Fine Art Photographer Melanie Pullen talks about her plan to keep the ball rolling and distinguishing between the photo and broader fine art market; The man Adobe calls for input, Photoshop guru and best-selling author Ben Willmore explains his approach to Photoshop in everyday language plus discusses when to use Lightroom vs. Photoshop & the energetic talker and good listener Heidi Goverman, West Coast rep from the Workbook talks about your marketing goals and the way to get on the marketing highway.

Rockstar Architecture Photographers Tim Griffith and Scott Frances both discuss their careers, approaches and methods for their work. These insights are valuable for all photographers so enjoy these conversations! Nazraeli Press publisher and founder Chris Pichler talks about his passions for book making, photography, LA in the 60s, Central Coast ranching, olive oil and his two cows. Chris has made a magic life and published over 600 photobooks.

Our 6th podcast contains in-depth conversations between Director Jeff Dunas and Fashion and Beauty Photographer Miranda Penn Turin who reveals her breakout realization & her recommendations for the early part of your career; Father of Digital Printing Mac Holbert gives a mini class in color management and tells many a great story about his time with Crosby Stills & Nash and later, Nash Editions. Also Fujifilm's Senior Manager for Product Development, Justin Stailey talks about the great new generation of Fujifilm camera systems and reveals what it's like in secret meetings at Fujifilm.

This week's podcast contains in-depth interviews with prolific and enigmatic fine art photographer Todd Hido discussing his early days, his remarkable ascent to the top of the game his influences and process; a valuable conversation with David Fahey, Director of the Los Angeles Mega-photography gallery Fahey Klein and the National Executive Director of American Photographic Artists, Juliette Wolf Robin in which we discuss what the landscape of our profession will look like post Covid 19.

This week's podcast contains interviews with the great Chicago advertising & fine art photographer Sandro Miller. Miller is perhaps most well known for his epic collaboration with actor John Malkovich (The Malkovich Sessions). In Los Angeles, photographers call Eric Joseph for all things printing and paper - Eric discusses his programs at PSPF 2020. Digital Silver Imaging founders discuss Lightjet & Lambda technology - the perfect marriage of digital photo files and analog gelatin-silver printing that made their company a solid hit with photographers worldwide.