The Richard Flint Photography Podcast

RFP Podcast: Spheres of influence

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:12:05 GMT

In the Podcast: A couple of links to two blog posts i made about real photographs that were thought to be AI generated. Also in the main podcast links we have great images by Magnum's Raghu Rai, who died at the end of April, NASA images from moon flyby by Artemis II, Spheres of influence: the Bauhaus’s radical female photographers and a brilliantly presented photo essay by Thomas Dworzak looking at the new iron curtain along the border with Russia.For more details about the podcast and to view some of my photography go to richardflintphoto.com

Podcast Links

Spheres of influence: the Bauhaus’s radical female photographers

Border Link War - Photographs by Thomas Dworzak

Remembering Raghu Rai

Photos: NASA releases first images from moon flybyBlog Posts

https://richflintphoto.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-authenticity-war.html

https://richflintphoto.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-dogs-tale.html

RFP Podcast: Seeing is Believing?

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:25:48 GMT

In the podcast links for this belated February podgram, we have just links, but some great articles including Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation, Was it real, or AI? the tidal wave of AI photo slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war and Brad Rimmer photographs the faded glory of Western Australia’s wheatbelt halls... plus a few more links as a bonus.

Podcast Links

‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/04/camera-weapon-gordon-parks-shots-segregation-martin-luther-king

A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/17/atrocity-ai-slop-verify-facts-iran-minab-graves

Brad Rimmer photographs the faded glory of Western Australia’s wheatbelt halls

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/gallery/2026/mar/09/brad-rimmer-photography-australia-wheatbelt

Who really took one of history’s most famous pictures? – podcast

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/mar/09/who-really-took-one-of-historys-most-famous-pictures-vietnam-war-podcast

BONUSHorizons and highways: Franco Fontana’s stunning photographic experiments

Furious row erupts over Madrid site of one of Robert Capa’s most important pictures

RFP Podcast: A Fair Day

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:04:12 GMT

In the podcast,.. A small change of format for the pod, a Martin Parr exhibition starts on 6th February at the Photographer's Gallery in London and in the links we have some photography theory with John Berger, the winners of the World Sport photography awards and fantastic images by photographer Ed Kashi.

Podcast Links

Martin Parr exhibition - A Fair Day: Photographs from the West of Ireland

https://website-tpgallery.artlogic.net/exhibitions/59-martin-parr-a-fair-day/overview/‘A front row seat to witness history’: Ed Kashi’s astonishing global images

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jan/06/ed-kashi-astonishing-global-images-in-pictures

World Sports Photography Awards 2026 winners revealedhttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2026/jan/17/world-sports-photography-awards-2026-winners-revealed-in-pictures

Tearing down our icons | Thoughts of a Bohemian blog

https://blog.melchersystem.com/tearing-down-our-icons/

Ways of Seeing TV series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgZCWewreKo&list=PL3WD7al24ZH6Z9ekfpE3q4n5TURYvYz3T https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/

Bonus Podcast: Martin Parr 1952 - 2025

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:43:33 GMT

Just a few thoughts about the recent death of the highly influential, and controversial to some, photographer Martin Parr.

Martin Parr, 1952 – 2025

https://www.1854.photography/2025/12/martin-parr-passing/

British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5m0mnvnvmo

The 1980s seaside snaps that sparked a controversy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gdx7r4w02o

RFP Podcast: Ten Years After

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:39:02 GMT

In the podcast.... Some changes to the website store after a few months of database issues, some memories of The Two Towns project ten years after and discussing the upcoming book, and in the links there are two great articles from the Magnum website celebrating the life and photography of Chris Steele-Perkins who died in September of this year.

Podcast Links

Remembering Chris Steele-Perkins (1947–2025)

https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/remembering-chris-steele-perkins-1947-2025/

A Tribute to Chris

https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/a-tribute-to-chris/

Bonus Podcast: Lost Week

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:52:29 GMT

So the scotland trip hits a snag... a dose of covid, flu or cold spoils the second week. The first week did have a trip to Culloden Moor Battlefield, though, and the slightly strange photo interactions by visitors.

RFP Podcast: Northern Light

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:14:56 GMT

In the podcast, the recently released photo zine 'Southerly Point' gets its own page on the website plus some hints for a photo book project in 2026.

In the links, there is excellent Vietnam war photography from the legendary Catherine Leroy, newspaper picture editors’ picks for Visa pour l’Image, northern lights over Scotland and a great collection of photography from Australia and New Zealand.Links mentioned in the Podcast

The Southerly Point photo zine website page

https://www.richardflintphoto.com/photobooks/photobook-southerly-point-the-mull-of-galloway/

One-way ticket to Vietnam: Catherine Leroy’s fearless war photography

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/aug/23/one-way-ticket-to-vietnam-catherine-leroys-fearless-war-photography-in-pictures

A deeper story: photography from Australia and New Zealandhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/sep/02/a-deeper-story-photography-from-australia-and-new-zealand-in-pictures

Newspaper picture editors’ picks for Visa pour l’Image https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/sep/08/newspaper-picture-editors-picks-visa-pour-limage-in-pictures

In Pictures: The Northern Lights over Scotland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxwll89e79o

RFP Podcast: Making the Point

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:28:55 GMT

In the podcast: Southerly Point, a 44 page photozine featuring 40 images(photographer Richard Flint) of the Mull of Galloway is now available via Blurb. The new website store is opened and in the links we have Chris Killip's excellent website and the painting like photography by Joann Randles.

Podcast Links

Photographer showcases her work at French Celtic Festivalhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2p6qp1e4go

Chris Killip's excellent website

https://www.chriskillip.com/

Southerly Point photo zine on Blurb

https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/12497265-southerly-point-the-mull-of-galloway

New fine art print web store

https://www.richardflintphoto.com/shop/

BONUS LINKS

The Cloudflare blog posts

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content

RFP Podcast: Transformed Perceptions

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:25:57 GMT

In the podcast: Links to the photography of two great documentary photographers who died recently - Sebastião Salgado and Nick Hedges.

Also the webstore is due for changes, website speed woes solved and the text is complete for the Southerly Point Photozine.

Podcast Links
Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/23/brazil-sebastiao-salgado-death

‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2024/feb/08/i-photographed-the-world-the-art-of-sebastiao-salgado-in-pictures

Amazon in pictures: Sebastião Salgado's last frontier

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-57162597

Sebastião Salgado Gallery at ICP

https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgado

Nick Hedges Website

http://www.nickhedgesphotography.co.uk/

Nick Hedges obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/20/nick-hedges-obituary

Bonus Podcast: F1 at 75

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 20 May 2025 19:25:55 GMT

If you are a Formula One fan then the BBC and Getty Images have put together a great collection of Formula One photography going through 75 years of the sport.

F1 at 75

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/v7yykmbyey/f1-at-75-by-bbc-sport-and-getty-images

RFP Podcast: Lost in Loch Ness

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:34:40 GMT

In the podcast: Changes to the website store, a post about a found WW2 family photo and more. In the links, the winners from the 2025 World Press Photo awards and a camera lost in Loch Ness for 55 years is found!

The Podcast Links

Portrait of injured Gazan boy named World Press Photo of the yearhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm347kpljko

Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster discoveredhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20g82y1k8o

Bonus Podcast: A Nick(ed) Photo?

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:05:12 GMT

It's an iconic image from the Vietnam War... but who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture? The strange story of a new documentary castings doubt over whether Nick Ut took that remarkable image after a napalm attack on the village of Trang Bang and the six month investigation by Associated Press.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Ut

AP Report: Investigating claims around ‘The Terror of War’ photograph

https://www.ap.org/about/ap-report-terror-of-war/

He is credited with one of history’s most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it

https://www.ap.org/media-center/ap-in-the-news/2025/he-is-credited-with-one-of-historys-most-indelible-photos-a-new-documentary-questions-who-took-it/

Nick Ut Photography Gallery

https://leicagalleryla.com/gallery-view/nick-ut-from-hell-to-hollywood/

RFP Podcast: Books and Winter Beaches

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:10:32 GMT

In the podcast: Richard talks about The Bang Bang Club Book he recently found in a second hand bookshop as well as the Northumberland images shot just before Christmas in the fantastic locations of Bamburgh, Seahouses and Lindisfarne. Podcast links include recent photography from the L.A fires

Links

Photos: The Palisades Fire Scorches Parts of Los Angeles

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/01/photos-palisades-fire-los-angeles-california/681241/

THE BANG BANG CLUB

The Bang Bang Club Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang-Bang_Club

Capturing Humanity Through the Lens: Kevin Carter

https://fstoppers.com/historical/capturing-humanity-through-lens-kevin-carter-662720

The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich (Author), Joao Silva (Author)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bang-Bang-Club-Snapshots-Hidden-War/dp/009928149X

RFP Podcast: Remembering Paul

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:43:45 GMT

In the Podcast. remembering the photojournalist Paul Lowe who died in October and who was a big influence during my photography students days. In the links, a look at Paul Lowe's work, Ian Macdonald’s magnificent north-east and Is the era of the pro photographer over? An interesting article about the future of professional photography.

The Podcast Links

Bruce Gilden says "I'll be broke in a year". Is the era of the pro photographer over? https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/features/bruce-gilden-says-ill-be-broke-in-a-year-is-the-era-of-the-pro-photographer-over

Son charged with murdering war photographer father https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj4e9p1nw3o

A kid playing with a ball next to a tank trap: Paul Lowe’s best photograph

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/aug/03/a-girl-plays-in-the-street-during-siege-sarajevo-paul-lowe-best-photograph

Photographer Paul Lowe’s life in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/oct/24/photographer-paul-lowes-life-in-pictures

From steel works and eerie houseboat communities to local kids in detention Ian Macdonald’s magnificent north-east

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/sep/10/ian-macdonald-north-east-in-pictures

RFP Podcast: Reversed Perspective

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:35:10 GMT

In the podcast... A WordPress website optimization recommendation plus links to great photography from the Paris Olympics, images of the beach defences of WW2, remembering the Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker and Paul Fusco is captured in a photograph as he photographed America from Robert F Kennedy's funeral train in 1968.

PODCAST LINKS

Remarkable images from the Paris Olympics fhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-c9425ca9-5c30-4ae0-b059-3eae6abcc18f

Remembering Thomas Hoepker (1936–2024) https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/remembering-thomas-hoepker-1936-2024/

The Nazis’ Atlantic wall that failed to prevent D-day https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/03/the-nazis-atlantic-wall-that-failed-to-prevent-d-day

RFK Funeral Train: The Reversed Perspective

https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/rfk-funeral-train-the-reversed-perspective/

Robert Capa Podcast Episode

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-flint-photography/episodes/The-Ageless--Changeless-Robert-Capa-e2k8d2c

John Steinbeck's excellent book with images (and a chapter) from Robert Capa

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russian-Journal-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/014118633X

The Ageless, Changeless Robert Capa

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 29 May 2024 12:43:42 GMT

A new post on the Magnum website looks at the life and legacy of Robert Capa, along with a superb letter from John Steinbeck written shortly after Capa died in 1954.

The Ageless, Changeless Robert Capa

https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/the-ageless-changeless-robert-capa/

John Steinbeck - A Russian Journal book

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russian-Journal-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/014118633X

Robert Capa - the rare 1947 radio interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYe4ynXnqug

RFP Podcast: A Quick Dodge and Burn

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:35:00 GMT

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

A new exhibition brings together Chris Killip and Graham Smith’s seminal shots of England’s north-east from 1975-87, when heavy industry and working-class life were transformed

‘The surreal dislocation of the everyday’: how Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura captured the Troubles as never before

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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:20:46 GMT

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

https://gettyimagesgallery.com/collection/bert-hardy/

Podcast Links: Elliot Erwitt

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:57:53 GMT

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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:40:16 GMT

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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 10:14:23 GMT

A location podcast from a wet and windy Campbeltown (Mull of Kintyre) looking back at two weeks of travels around the Isle of Arran and the Mull of Kintyre. 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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:53:34 GMT

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

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/aug/15/2023-international-portrait-photographer-of-the-year-in-pictures

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

https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/zak-waters-documentary-photographer-birdmen-british-culture-archive/

Bonus Podcast: Favourite Northumberland Photograph Pt2

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 14:26:33 GMT

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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:45:25 GMT

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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:31:43 GMT

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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:54:12 GMT

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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:52:19 GMT

35 years or more after seeing it as a tennage photographer just starting to take images, I've rewatched the BBC Arena documentary 'Mentioned in Dispatches' about Vietnam war photographer Tim Page. 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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 10:57:13 GMT

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

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2022/aug/24/tim-page-the-vietnam-war-photographers-career-in-pictures

Tim Page 'Mentioned in Dispatches' - BBC Arena -1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JPT_fKHOzw

RFP Podcast Extra: January 2023

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:13:40 GMT

Back with an update about the Podcast for 2023. Regular episodes, short 5 minute podgrams and more.

RFP Podcast: August - Podcast Update

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:20:30 GMT

After taking a break from social media and the Podcast for a few months, it's time to start posting again. This podcast is a update about the break with a quick photo link for the photographer Eric Treacy. Check out his photography on Google.

RFP Podcast: January 2022

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:54:20 GMT

Back after an enforced break with a quick update. The RFP Redbubble shop gets close to 400 photos available to purchase as prints etc with a new collection of archive photos. In the links are award winning photographs by Sally Mann, images from a British Army Tank unit and a look at the work of street photographer Sabine Weiss who died recently aged 97. All the links can be found on the links page. Details at richardflintphoto.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: September 2021

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:08:51 GMT

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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 22:28:02 GMT

In the August podcast... talking about the recent bonus podcasts released to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Sea, Sky, Sand and Street. In the links, two from Afghanistan looking back at the twenty years of photography from the war torn country and a collection of images from this year's Olympics in Tokyo. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

Bonus Podcast: Sea, Sky, Sand and Street – Final Mooring

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:03:27 GMT

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the release of the Sea, Sky, Sand and Street photobook, this series of three bonus podcasts takes a look at some of my favourite images from the book. This podcast will look at three more images from the book starting with Final Mooring - shot in Brancaster Staithe. The second image is one of the most memorable photos from the project - Brancaster Beach with storm clouds building. The final image is the Wells Next the Sea crabbers down on the harbour that became the book's cover. 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 – Fishing Boat at Sheringham

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:03:40 GMT

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the release of the Sea, Sky, Sand and Street photobook, this series of three bonus podcasts takes a look at some of my favourite images from the book. This podcast will look at two more images from the book starting with a Fishing boat a Sheringham - an image that was an early candidate for the book's cover. The second image is of an abandoned bicycle at Burnham Overy Staithe. 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

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:24:02 GMT

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the release of the Sea, Sky, Sand and Street photobook, this series of three bonus podcasts takes a look at some of my favourite images from the book. The first photograph is Mother and Son shot on a busy Saturday in the Norfolk town of Wells-next-the-sea. Check out the image via the gallery at richardflintphoto.com or via the podcast links page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: June/July 2021

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:20:20 GMT

In the June/July podcast: News about an upcoming trilogy of bonus podcasts celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the Sea, Sand, Sky and Street project. In the photo links... images from the 2021 Tour de France, photography from the fires in California and Canada and we take a look at the brilliant photojournalism of Danish Siddiqui, a Reuters photojournalist recently killed in Afghanistan. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

Bonus Podcast: Mull of Galloway, Scotland - May 2021

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:22:26 GMT

A special bonus podcast recorded on the Mull of Galloway in Scotland. Three separate recordings made over four days while photographing the Mull lighthouse. The weather conditions were fine but very windy which added to the fun of recording the podcast. Listen out at the end for the Mull Of Galloway foghorn!

RFP Podcast: April/May 2021

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:05:45 GMT

In this brief update podcast... the Billingham bag reviews from the blog are now linked on the Billingham website. The website's exclusive fine art print shop has been improved and a new colourized photograph service has been added. Finally, there is news about an upcoming bonus podcast recorded on the Mull of Galloway. No links this month but I will add a bumper amount of links to the June podcast.

RFP Podcast: February/ March 2021

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 13:42:15 GMT

In the podcast... The website gets some love and improvement, some things that can't be talked about now but will talk about later, and a bit of news about an upcoming Scotland trip. In the photography links, there is photo repair on a huge scale in Japan as Tsunami victims are reunited with their family photos/albums, Ian Berry's photo of a summer's day in Whitby, photo in a Russian Naval base from 1990, and America by streetlight by photographer Daniel Freeman. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: January 2021

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:50:41 GMT

In the podcast: The difficulties of writing introductions for photo books, the website shop update issue is finally fixed, and a new Ben Nevis gallery in the portfolio section. In the photography links Michael Bennetts excellent forty-year-old photographs of North Wales seaside resorts out of season, winners of the 2021 Underwater Photographer of the Year contest and Grace Robertson's postwar Britain capturing a nation at work, at play – and in the delivery room in the 1950s. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcasts

Bonus Podcast: January 2020 - Chris Killip

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:51:21 GMT

A bonus podcast looking at photographer Chris Killip who died in October 2020 at the age of 74. Killip's excellent 1988 photography book 'In Flagrante' highlighted the effect of deindustrialisation on communities in the northeast of England. The book remains highly influential with many photographers. All the links this month look at Chris Killips photography with also a video and podcast link where Chris Killip talks about his work. The podcast links can be found at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcasts

RFP Podcast: November/December 2020

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:30:23 GMT

In the last podcast of the year, Richard takes a personal look back at the year, The Two Towns photo book gets an update and the website gets a secondary menu added to highlight a few areas of the website. In the links, Searching 80,000 miles for the American dream - photography by Ian Brown, A 70-year-old photographic mystery from a recently developed roll of film, the Agency Photographer of the Year 2020 – shortlist and finally the excellent Women Photograph: 2020 Year in Pictures. As usual, all the links can be found via a Google search or by taking a look at the podcast's dedicated link page over at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: May 2019

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 13:11:26 GMT

In a late May podcast due to ill health - delays to the photo book releases due to an injured back and a dose of the flu. Details of a recent trip to the Scottish borders in early May and in the links it's a regular weekend reading list for photographers and filmmakers plus unseen images by Weegee lost for 82 years. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: October 2020

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 11:41:36 GMT

In this month's podcast: The Two Towns photobook gets closer to release with the final edits to text taking place plus the website will be getting a new gallery addition in December. In the website links there is Jerome Sessini's fantastic Images from his return to Mexico city where he first became a photographer, a grandfather's hidden WW2 photo album - the fascinating story of a photo album documenting life in the Royal Canadian Airforce - found only after the photographer had died and Raymond Depardon photos commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to travel to Glasgow for a feature on its rich and poor. The photos he took were never published. All the links and more can be found on the podcast page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: September 2020 - Three Scotland Photos

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:33:58 GMT

In this special September podcast... I take a look back at my trip to Fort William in Scotland from mid-September and choose two... NO... THREE images from the trip. The photos, two from Mallaig and the third from the summit of Ben Nevis, can be found on the Richard Flint Photography Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/richardflintphoto/ No photography links this month but please check out and follow me on Instagram.

RFP Podcast: August 2020

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:25:13 GMT

In the August 2020 podcast... The podcast becomes available via Amazon Music, Instagram changes its API rules that cause temporary issues on the website and details about a special podcast coming next month. In the weblinks, we have a collection of 3000 cameras, wet plate collodion images of female skateboarders in California and a photographer captures 'hidden' life with a disability. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: July 2020

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:56:39 GMT

In the July Podcast: After a decade I make the switch from iPhone to Android but there is a photo app I'll rather miss. I also discuss the rather interesting website I've been building recently. In the photo links, there is a heavy Magnum photo agency theme starting with Paul Fusco's superb photography from Robert Kennedy's funeral train - the Magnum photographer passing away recently at the age of 90. Also on the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, Sumeja Tulic reflects on Magnum Paolo Pellegrin's work on the subject plus Constantine Mano talks about his photography of his native South Carolina. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: June 2020

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:42:32 GMT

In the June 2020 podcast: Olympus announces they will stop making cameras, the main website goes wide with a slight tweak to the design, photo book news about a potential release for the first book of 2020 and in the links, there is photography and photo discussion by Stuart Franklin, images from the Magnum archive of social unrest in 1968, Shirley Bakers excellent street scene photographs from Manchester and Salford. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

Bonus Podcast: Lost over Laos - Two books about Larry Burrows

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:54:03 GMT

The June bonus podcast takes a look at two fascinating books about the photographer Larry Burrows who was best known for his images of the Vietnam war. The first book is 'Lost over Laos' by Richard Pyle and Horst Faas that explores the mystery of his death in 1971 when his helicopter was shot down. The second book is the equally excellent 'Larry Burrows Vietnam' that contains many of his best images from the war. Both are still available online new/secondhand via Amazon etc. All of the weblinks for the books and digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: April/May 2020

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 28 May 2020 14:59:19 GMT

In the April/ May podcast - A few coming potential changes for the website are discussed, the landscape of Glencoe is covered in a Testflight blog post and the upcoming release date for a photobook sadly gets moved to the end of year due to COVID-19. Also, a beautiful 95 years old photo gets copied for a client but when do you stop removing the wear and tear of history? In the links, there is Magnum's Eve Arnold's remarkable photos of Malcolm X, the beauty of the Nordic landscapes by photographer Stefan Forster and gritty black and white from Christopher Bobyn of a Scottish ICU ward battling the Coronavirus pandemic. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: March 2020

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:52:28 GMT

In the podcast... So many changes since the last recording and none of them to do with the website! With COVID-19 restrictions in place, its time to have an experiment with my Instagram account with daily photos added from the archive. In the links there are photos from the isolation of the Faeroe Islands, more excellent Dennis Stock photography from the movie set of George Lucas' classic 'American Graffiti' and the 16mm footage from the Apollo 13 mission gets some enhancement using a very clever technique. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

Bonus Podcast: Why do I take photographs?

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:18:03 GMT

Why do I take Photographs? It seems like a simple question but the answers can be varied and complicated. In this podcast, I try to explain my own reasons for taking photos.

RFP Podcast: February 2020

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:56:44 GMT

In this busy February podcast: The Islay gallery is launched with photography and video from the trip to the Scottish island in 2019, from the archive makes a return to the Test Strip blog and the podcast page gets a player. In the links, there is a new film about Magnum photographer Abbas, Leonard Freed’s Work on the NYPD, W. Eugene Smith's photographs of Charlie Chaplin during the making of Limelight and Reuters look back on 18 years of images from the war in Afghanistan. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: January 2020

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 23:17:08 GMT

In the first podcast of 2020 - The first improvement to the PDF photo book and portfolio overview pages are added to the main website. The Scotland galleries get a bit of thought regarding their growing size - just how many images should you add to a gallery? In the links Raymond Depardon’s Paris Dakar Rally, Erich Hartmann’s work documenting the crumbling artefacts and remnants of Europe’s concentration camps, the images of music photographer Jim Marshall and Chechnya: Images of a Forgotten War, haunting images of the war by Thomas Dworzak. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: November/December 2019

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 11:22:03 GMT

In the podcast: A personal look back at my photography 2019 and the decade. The Two Towns book gets delayed until the end of next year... but for a very good reason. In the weblinks, Two Dennis Stock photography projects from the sets of a couple of classic movies including the 1968 classic Planet of the Apes. And Robert Capa's excellent photography marking the 75th anniversary of the battle of Bastogne in December 1944. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: October 2019

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:50:10 GMT

In the October podcast: More social media changes as the Facebook pages finally get deleted after ten years or more with the social media platform. The main website gets a new home page slider after the old one is wrecked before heading to Islay. In the links, photographs of Haiti's cycle team training on the hard roads of the island, Candid moments on the London Underground of the 1970s, Bruce Gilden's photography and a vision of a long-gone New York City and Berlin after the Wall – then and now with photography by Colin McPherson. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: September 2019 - The Islay Visit

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:41:58 GMT

Not quite the location-based recording I wanted due to technical problems. So back home, Richard discusses his trip to Islay on the west coast of Scotland that took place in September. Islay is best known for its distilleries with a total of nine currently open on the island. The ninth opened just this year and will not release any whisky for nearly ten years. Photography, whisky... and er... more whisky. No links this month. The links will be back for the October podcast.

RFP Podcast: August 2019

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:33:02 GMT

In this month's podcast: Richard prepares for a trip away... but isn't saying exactly where. The Darker Skies website celebrates its tenth anniversary, the website menu gets some more improvements and the RFP RedBubble store gets some much-needed love. In the links is a superb collection of WW2 photos by Magnum photographers, 21 images by Margaret Bourke-White, Markéta Luskacová capturing the people of Whitley Bay during the 1970s and Making Hitchcockian Portraits. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: July 2019

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:14:04 GMT

In the podcast: Apart from the occasional tech problems occurring, The 'Caught by the Tide' photo zine gets released and the foundations of the long-awaited Norfolk Project book are finally laid out. In website news, the menu has a number of big alterations made to it and some new photobook web pages are added. In the links, there are images from the 2019 Tour de France, The Magnum photographer Abbas' Vietnam war photography and more. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Bonus Podcast: Caught by the Tide Photo Zine

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:06:48 GMT

In the bonus podcast: Richard talks about his recently released 24-page photo zine 'Caught by The Tide'. The new photo zine features 19 street photography and landscape images shot in Norfolk during an emotionally turbulent 2016. The podcast delves into the background of the photography, favourite images, the making of the zine and more. 'Caught by the Tide' can be purchased on Blurb at https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/9554004-caught-by-the-tide. Related links for current photo book projects can be be found at richardflintphoto.com

RFP Podcast June 2019

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 11:57:02 GMT

In the podcast: The photo zine 'Caught by the Tide gets close to release and the anniversary of the death of Michael Jackson brings back a few memories of early smartphone photography. In the links is an article by Associated Press about the power of the image, an iconic climate change photo and a great archive post from the Magnum blog looking at photography from the Mexico/USA border. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: April 2019

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 03 May 2019 23:08:57 GMT

This month: More details about the book releases including a delay to Edinburgh: Seven Hills. The website receives a massive update with the portfolio and pages changed to the new Gutenberg blocks. In the links, W.Eugene Smith's powerful photography from Minamata, Bill Owen's photos from the disastrous Altamont festival in 1969, Chris Steele-Perkins’ New Londoners documenting the many faces of one of the most diverse cities in the world and “Crying Girl at the Border” by U.S. photographer John Moore of Getty Images has won the 2019 World Press Photo of the Year. All of the weblinks for the content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: March 2019

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 10:39:06 GMT

In the March podcast: More news on the photography book development the new photo zine using images from the 2016 Norfolk trip that has been added to the roster. The links look at Gerda Taro's photography and career, Magnum's Raymond Depardon's superb photos of Glasgow in 1980, Tim Hetherington's sleeping soldiers and Toby Binder's images of teenagers on both sides of the peace walls in Belfast. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: February 2019

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:13:08 GMT

In the podcast: All the Google +_ links get removed from the website and two new photography books are in the works with releases due over the Summer. More details about the books in the podcast. In the weblinks, a look at the images taken in Manchester by Magnum's Martin Parr over 48 years, old Victorian photos of a huge building project rescued from a skip, plus just who were the kissing sailor and nurse in Eisenstadt's famous Times Square VJ Day image from the end of World War II? Finally, the intriguing tale of identifying a badly wounded U.S marine in an iconic photograph from the Vietnam War by John Olsen of LIFE. All of the weblinks for the content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: January 2019

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:23:54 GMT

It's a short podcast this month due to injuring my back. Hopefully i'll be back to full health in February. The January podcast has a brief look back at 2018 and the end of Google Plus. Only one link this month and it comes from the Magnum Photos website with Jonas Bendiksen's excellent social documentary project about Greenland.All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: December 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:07:55 GMT

In the podcast: Photography on Calton Hill, a few details about the recent trip up to Edinburgh and the images taken. In the podcast links psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein explores the complexity of photographers’ day-to-day work covering conflict and human depravity, Masha Ivashintsova's street photographs of strangers and Lu Guang's haunting images of China environmental and social issues. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: The Photographic Memory: Press Photography - Twelve Insights

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:40:25 GMT

A bonus podcast looking at the 1987 book 'The Photographic Memory: Press Photography - Twelve Insights' containing essays by twelve photographers including Don mcCullin and Peter Korniss. Book links can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: November 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:32:44 GMT

In the podcast: Flickr changes its terms with the potential for image deletion from free accounts and in the podcast links - an community living underground in Australia, a community living off grid in the North weat of Scotland and a great documentary drama film not shown on BBC TV for twenty years - The War Game. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: October 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:02:34 GMT

In the podcast: Ten years of talking and finding photography on Twitter. In the links are Magnum's images from Northern Ireland during early 1970's, Roman Vishniac's images of Jewish life and Jane Bown's faboulous portraits of gypsies. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

RFP Podcast: September 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:11:59 GMT

In the podcast: A new company logo, the website returns to using the Cloudflare security and CDN service plus the latest image featured in this month's'From the Archive 'post is from a project about the Army Reserve. Photo links look at F1, Brexit on the borders of Northern Ireland and Ireland, we take a look at the life and work of Magnum photographer Wayne Miller and National Geographic highlight the groundbreaking work of Dickey Chappelle. The links mentioned (and more) can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: August 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 19:30:39 GMT

In the podcast: Details on three blog posts added to the website(s) this month including a long overdue review of my Billingham 550. In the photography links, classic (Werner Bischof) and contemporary (Martin Parr) photos from the Magnum website, Le Mow endurance lawnmover racing and more. The mentioned links (plus some bonus links) can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: July 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:15:42 GMT

In the podcast: More changes to the website including updates to the weblog, podcast and website shop pages. The Tumblr 50mm photoblog also gets a lick of paint for the first time since 2011 and there are a couple of great photography links including the Tour de France at its most beautiful and how Washington, England, feels about President Trump's UK visit:. The mentioned links (plus some bonus links) can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: The Norfolk Project

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:08:48 GMT

In the podcast: The second of the special podcasts takes an introductory look at the Norfolk Project, a series of images taken in the English county of Norfolk between 1998 and 2016. Part documentary and part landscape, the photographs here are part of a self initiated long term project documenting the social, historical and geographic aspects of the English county of Norfolk using digital, 35mm and 645/6×6 medium format photography. The gallery can be found at https://www.richardflintphoto.com/featured-photography-norfolk-project/

RFP Podcast: June 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:30:16 GMT

In this month's podcast: A few more tweaks to the website, plans to improve some of the galleries and some great documentary photography (currently being exhibited) from the 1980's from Tish Murtha of community life in Newcastle Upon Tyne and David Bailey, Paul Reas and more photograph industrial Wales for Ffotogallery. The links mentioned (and more) can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: May 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 31 May 2018 18:50:37 GMT

In the podcast: A few more improvements to the website... but problems too. The Test strip blog has one of Richard's favourite images taken in the Highlands of Scotland. In the photography links, two great photoblog posts by the Atlantic Photo blog of the Changing Way of Life For Mongolia’s Dukha Reindeer Herders, amazing images from the past week of volcanic activity on Hawaii's Big Island and A Gambler’s Look at Gamblers by photographer Martin Amis. All the links can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: April 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:19:31 GMT

In the podcast: More news about the improvements made to richardflintphoto.com including a new logo, new photos for the slider and more. In the links is A Sense of Community: Wolverhampton in the 1970s - A decade after Enoch Powell’s infamous speech on immigration, Chris Steele-Perkins travelled to Wolverhampton in 1978 to photograph the communities most affected. Also Helen Levitt’s Street Dramas - Levitt shot the black-and-white photographs between 1934 and 1946, mostly in working class neighbourhoods of New York City. All the links can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: Photobook: Northumberland by J C Tordai

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 13:46:01 GMT

The first in a series of special podcasts looking at a photography book taken from Richard Flint's bookshelf. The first book in this series is the documentary photography book Northumberland by J C Tordai, published in 1993, and a book that has been a big influence on Richard's photography over the past twenty years. Book links can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: March 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:09:01 GMT

In the podcast: More news about the updates made to the main website including a rather good use of some video footage shot on the Isle of Skye way back in 2014. A photograph taken during the 'Beast from the East' winter storm makes it into Picfair's Top ten images of the week and another photo from the archive is posted onto the Test Strip blog. In the links... Fifty years since the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War - Getty Images talk to the photographer who was there and helped tell the story to the world, colour images of Ireland from the sixties and seventies PLUS Surfing Norway in Sub-Zero Temperatures - 30 images from AFP photographer Olivier Morin. All of the links can be found at www.darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: February 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:35:35 GMT

In the February podcast: Details about recent updates to pages on the main website at richardflintphoto.com plus the old pressgram miniblog gets a new name - as well as the start of a new series of posts starting with a photo taken in Beaumaris, North wales in 2003. In the links there are two from the Guardian website: The photos that changed America: celebrating the work of Lewis Hine and The vanished East End - David Granick’s shots from the 1960s and 70s capture a fading world. All the mentioned links can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: January 2018

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:53:22 GMT

In this podcast: Goodbye to Audioboom, The Photography News Daily Paper li online newspaper and even the Darker Skies domain name finally fades into the distance. More news on what's going on in the podcast. Also the Richard Flint Photo Instagram account gets a makeover regarding how its used... with encouraging results. No links were mentioned on the podcast but a few can be found at the NEW podcast page address at darkerskies.wordpress.com

RFP Podcast: August 2017

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:56:23 GMT

In this podcast: After a very tough 2016, the podcast starts up again with details on last year, plans for the future and a couple of juicy photography links. In the links there is Seven photos, seven stories: Chris Killip on capturing the declining industrial towns of England in the '70s and '80s plus Harf Zimmermann captures the day-to-day of an East German neighborhood in the 1980s. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: The Scotland Podcast 2015

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:13:21 GMT

In this delayed podcast special, recorded back in September 2015, Richard has a wander along the rocky north west coast of Skye discussing the beautiful landscape, observations made during the trip, the two photography bargains, a Nikon camera and bag, picked up during the trip as well as a few other topics as well. The recordings were made between 1st - 11th September.

RFP Podcast: January/February 2016

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:45:59 GMT

Returning for 2016 the podcast looks into what's been happening over the last few months, the changes to the podcast and more. In the weblinks section there are portrait images from WW2 of American airmen by Roger Freeman, a look at the great photography by the 2015 World Press Photo winners and Camille Seamen's haunting and beautiful photos of disappearing icebergs. All of the links for the content mentioned (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: February/March 2015

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 07 May 2015 16:10:24 GMT

In this podcast: After taking a winter break this spring podcast takes a look at the new Richard Flint Photography website that cam online recently. In the links there is tintype portraits from the Sundance film festival, images of New York by Lee Friedlander and an excellent photo-essay on the Navajo plus a few more. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: October/November 2014

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:54:27 GMT

In this, the last podcast of 2014, Richard updates about the Scotland trip and the photography book project connected to it. In the links we have photography of the all female biker gangs of Marrakesh, atmospheric photography of caves in China, portraits from Nigeria's Nollywood and ;pst photos from the Vietnam War. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: August/September 2014 - Scotland Podcast

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:13:52 GMT

In the Podcast: Richard leaves the studio and travels up to Scotland yet again to stay on the fabulous Isle of Skye. The recording were made at various points of the stay including a rather blowy podgram from the top of the Quiraing... but there is a twist or two to the tale after that! There is news about a rather good timelapse iPhone app from the makers of Instagram and Richard manages to pick up a few photo bargains. To see some of the photography from the Scotland trip, go through to Richard's Instagram page and check out the recent images @ http://instagram.com/richflintphotography New images are also been uploaded to the gallery on the main website @ http://www.richardflintphoto.com/portfolio/scotland/

RFP Podcast: June/July 2014

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:12:43 GMT

In this podcast: The website improvements continue, more photography is added to the impressive 500px website and in the weblinks there is a great video by Michael Almereyda about Chris Killip' classic photography from the North Yorkshire fishing village of Skinningrove during the 1980's, excellent photography from the Vietnam war by legendary Larry Burrows, photography of the crumbling soviet monuments and twenty five of the best images from the recent commonwealth games. All of the links (plus bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: April/May 2014

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 20:34:30 GMT

In the podcast: Updates about the repair and improvements to the website; especially the podcast pages, a few iPhone camera problems and in the links there is photography by the legendary Dennis Hopper, excellent documentary photography from the 1984 miners strike in Britain, a video about the great architectural/documentary photography of Tony Ray Jones and the superb work of photographer Guy Rhodes who photographed the Sochi Winter Olympics with a 4x5 camera. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: February/March

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:41:19 GMT

In this Podcast: No podcast for December/January so the slightly longer podcast returns with an update on what happened in the the early months of 2014, the main website causes some worries and the Scotland book makes process but will it be out for April? In the links there is the beautiful photographs of probably the world's only 13 year old to hunt with a golden eagle, the haunting long exposure images of Darren Moore,part one of the winners of the Sony World Photography awards, and Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photography. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: October/November 2013

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:39:28 GMT

In this Podcast: Details from the last podcast in Scotland are updated as Richard discusses another Scotland trip for 2014 and a new camera bag he purchased because of his last visit. In the links there is tracking down what happened to the children featured in Lewis Hine's child portraits from the early 20th century, Josef Koudelka talks about photography in a rare interview, photographer Jimmy Nelson photographs ancient cultures Before They Pass Away, and a few recommended photography websites for 2014 are also mentioned too. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: The Scotland Podcast

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:47:39 GMT

The August/September podcast sees Richard leave the studio and travel up to Scotland, first staying on the Isle of Skye where the podcast starts with a fabulous cliff top walk, an error with the name of the location (it's Cul-nac-noc)... and lots of midges! Later the podcast moves down to the Highlands, but returns to Skye with a rather windy walk across the very busy road bridge to Skye... and a discussion about the problems with not having the right camera bag with you! This podcast was recorded using an iPhone in Scotland over a two week period in mid September 2013.

RFP Podcast: June/July 2013

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:43:56 GMT

In the June/ July Podcast: After a bust few weeks since the last podcast, Richard contemplates the new technical challenges for photographers as the technology has complicated the photograph making process. In the links there is the Mikolaj Nowacki's photography of the Polish Odra river, a fascinating look at the changing style of Bill Brandt's early prints, great surf photos by Lucia Griggi and a father and son photograph Los Angeles. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: April/May 2013

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:12:31 GMT

In the Podcast... One or two of the websites get a small tweak or two, Flickr decide to update their website and divide opinion with the design, but where are incentives to upgrade? In the links there is the excellent multimedia piece by The Guardian about the Holmes family hiding from a violent bushfire in Tasmania, great images from Aleppo in Syria by NOOR photographer Stanley Greene and one photographer decides to document an oak tree over a year using his iPhone. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: February/March 2013

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:12:27 GMT

In the podcast: Keeping in with the current fashion for zombies, Jessops make a return from the dead with a new website and shops opening. In the links we have Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis project that took nine years to complete, Michael Falco’s excellent American Civil War 150 Pinhole Project, The Atlantic's In Focus blog takes a long look at the Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary and there is Amos Chapple's excellent travel photography from the Islamic Republic of Iran. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: December/January 2013

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:39:34 GMT

In this podcast: Instagram potentially loose half their regular users after a poor update to service terms and conditions, the UK retail chain Jessops closes all of its shops after nearly eighty years of trading and in the links we have a photographer who is a fisherman, wet plate process photography for modern US Civil War re-enactments and Lyndsay Addario's excellent photos of female marines at work in Afghanistan. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: October/November 2012

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:44:13 GMT

In this Podcast: Photographing the flood. Richard discusses the weird feeling of deja-vu while photographing the floods in his local town. Do you have a good website backup system for your photography website? The podcast contains a possible solution and in the links we look at a LIFE photo essay by Gordon Parks, soviet war photography, Two videos about wet plate photography and the epic story of Edward S Curtis. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: September 2012

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:54:29 GMT

In the September Podcast: It's back to the studio after a trip to Scotland with Richard reviewing his use of Instagram during the summer and discussing the need for a purpose when using social networks. In the links, 380 billion images are taken each year... what is to become of the professional photographer? Also fantastic images of the Red Bull Cliff Diving Series involving divers plunging 27 metres into the sea. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: August 2012

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:56:35 GMT

In the August podcast: Kodak decide to sell their film division but Impossible project move to launch a new 8x10 instant film. In the links we have images from Aleppo, Syria by Goran Tomasevic, a 1959 documentary about the life and work of Ansel Adams, NASA's curiosity send photos from Mars and their are some fantastic portrait images in Crossing Paths. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: June/July 2012

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:30:58 GMT

In the June/July Podcast: In the news, Fujifilm decide to kill off Velvia 100F and reduce the Velvia 50 range of film, plus the Hipstamatic issue returns. The links mentioned this month feature storm images taken in the Mid-west of the USA by Camille Seaman, photographs of the fantastic Machine That Found the Higgs Boson and images by the master of photography Sebastião Salgado: Images from his Genesis project. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: May 2012

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:54:17 GMT

In the May Podcast: Taking the plunge with Instagram... but what is the social photography app useful for? In the news, Leica release the Lecia Monochrom - a camera that features a black and white only digital sensor. The weblinks this month include the volcanic imagery of G Brad Lewis, an excellent audio slideshow of the last of the Billingsgate Fish Porters of London and the superb work of Edward Bertynsky who spent fifteen years photographing the complicated world of oil. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: February/March 2012

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:57:39 GMT

In this podcast: Capturing the past - Richard details his final photographs of the village where his Grandparents used to live. Can you shoot a great film on an iPhone? It seems you can, as the short film 'Framed' gets a mention in the podcast. In the photography links, we have coastal erosion photography from the East coast of Yorkshire in 'Lost Villages', some excellent street photography from New York and photography of a remote Afghan people who have never ever been photographed before. The links mentioned can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: April 2012

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:29:23 GMT

In this month's podcast: In the news, Fujifilm decide to put their film prices up as demand drops and costs go up. In the photography links there are links to a great photography podcast, some terrific underwater photography, Steve McCurry's excellent photography blog, an unusual selection of animal portraits taken in Southern Africa and the photographer Michael Keating captures a friend's life. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: December/January 2012

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:12:56 GMT

In the December/January podcast: 2012 starts with some big news stories as Nikon release the Nikon D4 and Kodak file for bankruptcy protection. In the photography links we have tourist self portraits, the excellent multimedia piece by Seamus Murphy - A Darkness Visible:Afghanistan, and Roller Skating Rinks photographed using a 20×24 Polaroid camera. As always, the links mentioned can be found via the podcast page at darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: October/November 2011

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:44:46 GMT

This month in the podcast: Is a photography degree worth taking? The pros and cons of photographic education. Sea, Sky, Sand and Street arrives on the iPad and Richard details the new book that will be released in March 2012. In the links: Photography with a 20x24 Polaroid camera, Early photography with Louis Daguerre and Polaroid images of the Manic Street Preachers collected by Nicky Wire. All the content links can be found at http://www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: August/September 2011

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:23:04 GMT

In this month's podcast: A bit of news about a few changes coming to the podcast, the end of Solo Photo Book Month was announced recently, so what will happen to next year's PDF photo book? In the links we have some great b&w portraits of wildlife, more wildlife photos shot at night in the desert, a great Don McCullin interview (but only if you are quick!) and some brilliant photography by a lesser known FSA photographer called Jack Delano. All the content links can be found at http://www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: June/July 2011

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:52:50 GMT

In this month's bumper 40 minute podcast: Richard catches up on his podcasting duties with news about his Solo Photo Book Month project for 2011 - Sea, Sky, Sand and Street, a few mobile podcasts from his trip down to Norfolk... and in the links... Should you photograph a war with an iPhone? Hipstamatic at War! Also Modern Victorian photography: Modern photographers in Saltburn, UK using Victorian Wet Plate Collodian photography gear. All the content links can be found at http://www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: May 2011

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:30:57 GMT

In this month's podcast: A brief mention of what's coming up in next month's special outside broadcast podcast, Richard chats about his views on the future of film photography and in the links we have extreme rock climbing photography and James Nachtwey photo story on drug rehabilitation camps in Thailand and more. All the content links can be found at http://www.darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: April 2011

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:59:27 GMT

In the April Podcast: Photography as art and therapy - the work of Mark E Hogancamp at Morwencol, portraits of American Civil War women by Matthew Brady and 25 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster a photographer photographs a couple who returned to their village in the exclusion zone. All of the photography website links can be found at http://darker-skies.com/podcast

RFP Podcast: March 2011

podcast@richardflintphoto.com (Richard Flint) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:19:05 GMT

This month in the podcast: News about changes to the podcast hosting and feed, the Arts Council of England cut funding to the arts affecting a rather brilliant gallery in Newcastle Upon Tyne and in the links we have portraits in Nashville, Annie Leibovitz's Celebrity portraits and photographs of the aftermath of the Tsunami by Shiho Fukada. All the content links can be found at http://www.darker-skies.com/podcast