Miranda Penn Turin- Episode Nine

May 21, 2022

Miranda Penn Turin is a freelance photographer and director who has been specializing in portraiture, music, fashion and beauty for over thirty years. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and splits her time between New York and LA -

She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in creative writing, but her passion for photography overrode her major. In her summer breaks she interned with Boston photographers and began assisting once she graduated. She still considers assisting the greatest photographic education and feels that this step is essential to truly hone one's skill

She describes her style as graphic, sexy and emotional. Miranda is always vigilant for the moment that makes an image epic.

Her clients include Coty, Max Factor, Sony, Universal, Bloomingdales, Fox, Warner Bros. Records, Converse, Conde Nast, the Four Seasons, Chase and many others. She is currently working with Voices4Freedom, a humanitarian organization committed to abolishing human trafficking all over the world. Her images of the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu provide the cover art for The Book of Joy, which spent 37 weeks on the New York Times top fifteen bestseller list.

Miranda’s Website

Miranda’s Instagram

Miranda Penn Turin

Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama photo by Miranda Penn Turin — photo by Miranda Penn Turin

Fashion photo of Emma in Red dress, photo by Miranda Penn Turin — photo by Miranda Penn Turin

The Hills cast, photo by Miranda Penn Turin — photo by Miranda Penn Turin

projects,OPI,Bottles,model,Alex photo by Miranda Penn Turin — photo by Miranda Penn Turin

Outlander, cast, photo by Miranda Penn Turin — photo by Miranda Penn Turin

Black and White portrait of Gwen Stefani by Miranda Penn Turin — photo by Miranda Penn Turin

Jill Greenberg - Episode Eight

January 26, 2021

Jill Greenberg is a world renowned artist/photographer with a diverse and varied body of work.
She is likely best known for her "End Times" series of crying babies, but she has shown herself to be an innovative and relevant photographer who moves beyond past accolades and accomplishments.

Her images of anthropomorphized animals (monkeys and bears) have become highly sought artworks.
Jill's work has been published into four books and her images have been shown in galleries all over the world.
Born in Montreal, Canada, Jill's career has been based mostly in New York and Los Angeles.

In addition to her art and photography, Jill is also an adjunct professor at Brown University in Rhode Island.
While Jill is a master of Photoshop, adopting the nickname,"The Manipulator", it's worth noting that many of her artistic images are born of lighting and in camera techniques.
Jill is recognized for her unique, stylized images of celebrities for magazine and editorial clients. Treat yourself and view her incredible work at one of the links below.

Check out her website and Instagram account below.
https://www.jillgreenberg.com
https://www.instagram.com/jill.greenberg

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Flora Borsi- Episode Seven

October 23, 2020

I love when photography and art meet head on and the incredible self portraits created by my guest Flora Borsi caught my eye a few years ago. She lives and works in Budapest and has gained international recognition for her stand out imagery.

Armed with her Hasslbald X1D ii (see https://www.hasselblad.com/stories/flora-borsi/) and her Profoto lighting, Flora pours her emotional soul into her photographic art. It actually took me a while before I realized looking at her work that the person in the photos was always the same person, Flora!

She transforms herself in each and every image into a different ethereal persona and incorporates different elements into her self portraits. Animals, food, feathers, all combine with her in a way where you wonder where reality stops and fantasy begins.

Flora started teaching herself photography and retouching at the age of 11 and has never looked back.

You’ll also want to check our her many other series, especially her time travel work. She manipulates herself into historic images with famous icons and it’s done so seamlessly you might believe she really is a time traveller.

I hope you enjoy this episode, please leave me a comment or review on Apple podcasts. (iTunes)

https://www.instagram.com/floraborsiofficial/feed/

https://floraborsi.com

Michelle Valberg -Episode Six

October 14, 2020

Some years ago I came across the work of Canadian Photographer Michelle Valberg. She is a nature and landscape photographer who resides in Ottawa, Ontario. Michelle is a Canadian Nikon Ambassador and she has been shooting for over thirty years. Her work has been featured in advertisements and publications such as National Geographic, The London Tribune, More Magazine, Canadian Geographic and Instyle. She is also a regiular contributor to PhotoNEws Magazine.

She works as a resource photographer for Adventure Canada, Frontiers North Adventures, Regent Seven Seas and Abercrombie and Kent.

She is a tireless philanthropist and in this episode we learn about her passion for Project North, a non profit committed to delivering education and sports based opportunities to youth in Canada’s Arctic.

To see more of her work and learn more about Michelle visit her website

http://www.michellevalberg.com

Her instagram https://www.instagram.com/michellevalbergphotography/

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Howard Schatz -Episode Five

June 24, 2020

I am so honoured to have as my guest this episode, Howard Schatz.
Howard has an incredibly diverse portfolio of work. You owe it to yourself to have a serious look at his website before you listen to this episode. We chat about Howard’s first career as an opthamologist and how the change to photography in mid life came about. It was around the age of 54 when Howard’s wife Beverly suggested they move to New York and try photography full time.
Howard gives some gems on editing and what he feels is necessary for a photographer to show their best work. We also talk about dancers, boxing and how he overcame so many obstacles in creating his iconic underwater series with dancers.

Howard Schatz website

Art Streiber -Episode Four

June 03, 2020 in photography podcast, photography

Host Rob Nowell has a conversation with the iconic Art Streiber, a Los Angeles based photographer/director specializing in reportage, portraiture, corporate, entertainment and advertising projects.

Art's editorial clients include Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, Fortune, ESPN, GQ and the New York Times Magazine.

His entertainment clients include ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Showtime, Dreamworks, Paramount, Sony Pictures,Warner Bros Studios, and a host of others.

His advertising portfolio includes Chase Bank, KFC, Kohler, Cadillac, Miller Lite, Heineken, Subway, Farmers Insurance and Disneyland.

In this conversation, Art shares the behind the scenes of his session with Lady Gaga, his massive Paramount Studios group portrait of over 100 actors and directors and much more!

Art Streiber website http://www.artstreiber.com
Art's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aspictures/

Mentioned in the podcast: https://www.thehappypixelproject.com
https://www.dfstudio.com

Jesse Dittmar- Episode Three

June 02, 2020 in photography podcast, photography

New York photographer Jesse Dittmar discovered his passion for photography while thumbing through photographs in the high school library and soon found the work of the famous photographers who had photographed celebrities.

He started taking pictures, built his own darkroom and the rest is history. While Jesse’s assignments call for digital images he still shoots with his Hassleblad and 3200 iso film at almost every session.

Join host Rob Nowell in a conversation with Jesse as they chat about career, what it’s like photographing celebrities, the challenges involved and more.

Website https://jessedittmar.com

Instagram @jessedittmar

Chris Nicholls - Episode Two

May 26, 2020

Born in England and raised in Canada, Chris Nicholls works mostly in either New York, LA or Toronto. He’s worked with personalities such as Taylor Swift, Kate Moss, Lorde, Courtney Love, Clare Danes, Christina Ricci, Michael Buble, Katy Perry ,Olivia Wilde and many more names you’d recognize.

Listen to this episode as Rob explores the world of fashion photography with Chris Nicholls. Rob and Chris met in the early 1980s while they both attended Fanshawe College in the photography program.

Episode One - Meet the Host