Podcast
Everyday Photography, Every Day
Hosted by M.H. Rubin and Suzanne Fritz-Hanson · EN
Everyday Photography (Every Day)" is a weekly podcast where you get to listen in on a chat between a photographer (Rubin) and a regular human (Suzanne Fritz-Hanson) with an eye on making your pictures amazing and helping you enjoy your photography more. No technical stuff. No talk of gear or software. Just photography for the fun of it.
Rubin brings a unique perspective to consumer media: a student of Jerry Uelsmann; an amateur photographer for 40 years; formerly of Lucasfilm, Netflix and Adobe; director of The Rubin Collection of Photography; and founder of Neomodern, he's long been passionate about advancing the language of photography.
** Enjoy show notes at www.neomodern.com/podcast
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143: Jake and the Bridge
Mar 31, 202500:55:08Tap to summarizePhotographer Jake Ricker has spent six years shooting the Golden Gate Bridge nearly every day — not as a single project, but as a daily commitment to seeing the familiar in new ways. His work isn’t just landscape or iconic structure photography: it’s an interior view of a shared landmark filtered through lived experience and constant presence.
Transcribe →142: Arthur Drooker, Staying Curious
Mar 23, 202500:51:50Tap to summarizeToday we get to know Arthur Drooker, a creative photographer I first discovered with his brilliant "Conventional Wisdom" -- peering inside some niche gatherings. But today his book of 37 Views of the Golden Gate has sold out, and we look at his interesting career.
Transcribe →141: Wallace Wilson and the Victims of Paradox
Sep 5, 202400:55:04Tap to summarizeI've long been fascinated by the photographs made by Wallace "Wally" Wilson in the 1970s-1980s; he was a professor of photography at the University of Florida when I was a kid, alongside other historic faculty like Jerry Uelsmann, Evon Streetman, Doug Prince, and Todd Walker. Wilson was part of an exciting time in the history of photography, as well as being a cool example of what I would describe as "haiku photography" -- although he would never have described his work that way.
Transcribe →140: Can Composition Be Taught?
Apr 22, 202401:00:06Tap to summarizeToday we're joined by John Lambert and William Loftus, successful tech professionals and excellent amateur photographers, who were recent students in Rubin's experimental "The Art of Composition -- Reimagined" workshop. The group discuss the difficult topic and what it means to be a photographer.
Transcribe →139: Elliott Erwitt, with Rick Smolan
Feb 1, 202401:00:15Tap to summarizeThe great photographer Elliott Erwitt passed away last November, but we sat down with his son-in-law, the Internationally acclaimed photographer Rick Smolan, to discuss Erwitt's life and work. Few have had such a close vantage on this inspiration to so many photographers today.
Transcribe →138: "Pure Seeing" and the New Years Episode
Jan 3, 202400:44:08Tap to summarizeWhere we catch up and review some travel photography, the definition of photography, the passing of the great Elliott Erwitt, the nature of composition and other various rants.
Transcribe →137: The Great Debate: Pictorialism, Modernism and Generative AI
Sep 30, 202300:56:03Tap to summarizeWe're joined by professor and photographic artist Ed Bateman, from the University of Utah, to discuss Rubin's issues with "pure seeing" and the 100-years debate about how much modification can you do to a photo before you change it fundamentally.
Transcribe →136: The Hat
Aug 11, 202300:42:30Tap to summarizeWe're back and catching up on workshops, lessons from the summer, Rubin's new camera and, of course, Suzanne's hat.
Transcribe →135: The Very Personal Landscapes from Jason Pettit
Mar 4, 202300:52:02Tap to summarizeRubin and Suzanne sit down with emerging Canadian landscape photographer Jason Pettit to unpack how—after only a handful of years behind the camera—he’s already producing quietly powerful, introspective work. Pettit, who lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario, describes his photographs as “emotional equivalents” of his own life; he wants viewers to feel nature rather than simply see it. Drawing inspiration from masters like Minor White, Guy Tal, Eliot Porter and others, he explains how slowing down, working close to home and embracing “border seasons” (those ambiguous weeks between autumn and winter or winter and spring) let him translate subtle landscapes into metaphors for the human condition.
Transcribe →134: Ambiguity in Paris—More Fun with Nina Welch-Kling
Dec 8, 202200:45:49Tap to summarizeNina and Rubin meet in Paris and go shooting. Rubin's haiku book is finished and Nina's Duologues book is ready for pre-orders! It's a fun catch up with Welch-Kling! Nina and Rubin discuss their approaches to photography and techniques they use to create meaningful images. They discuss pairing or juxtaposing images to create a story or narrative; They discuss the importance of a shift in scale and the role of adding "magic" or a personal touch to their images. The conversation touches on the theme of transforming everyday life and ordinary objects into something special through the photographer's interpretation and vision.
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