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In this episode of Get the Picture podcast, host Brad Sigal talks with Adam Tanner. Adam is a Boston-based photographer specializing in concert, travel, and event photography. He started photographing his friends playing in hardcore bands in the late 1980s, and decades later he’s still going strong! In this conversation, Adam talks about the whys and hows of self-publishing your own photo zine, as he did with a collection of his 2025 concert photography, End of a Year 2025. Adam also shares many thoughts and experiences from his decades of photography.
DISCLAIMER: This episode is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing discussed in this podcast should be interpreted as encouraging trespassing, breaking laws, or engaging in unsafe activity while photographing abandoned places or exploring locations. Always follow all applicable laws and regulations, respect private property, obtain permission when required, and prioritize your safety and the safety of others. Always use good judgment and never enter locations that are structurally unsafe or legally restricted.
In this episode of Get the Picture podcast, host Brad Sigal talks with Phil Ward about one of the riskier types of photography -- abandoned photography. What’s that? It involves urban exploration through often hard-to-access and dangerous places like abandoned buildings, tunnels, silos, caves, amusement parks, and more. But unlike much urban exploration you see online, the focus of abandoned photography is on making amazing images more so than creating videos documenting an exploration journey.
Phil talks about what piqued his interest in abandoned photography, the equipment and settings he uses for long-exposure night photography, as well as the serious risks involved in doing abandoned photography - both legal and physical.
In this interview, Brad Sigal talks with Rob Coons about his current exhibition, “The Power of Punk Compels You,” featuring his incredible punk concert photography. Their conversation covers topics like:
How this exhibit came about
How Rob decided what photos to display
Equipment and settings he uses for concert photography
Rob’s editing style and why he mostly shoots black & white
Why he doesn’t use the camera’s viewfinder when doing concert photography
Using flash in concert photography
Developing a sixth sense for timing to get great concert photos
Tips for getting access at venues with camera restrictions
Some hazards of taking photos at punk shows
Rob’s thoughts on how he got to 50,000 Instagram followers
The Power of Punk Compels You: The Photography of Rob Coons exhibit at the Haight Street Art Center
In this episode, I have a conversation with Taylor Dahlin.
Taylor has spent years doing hyperlocal journalism and photography in Minneapolis, reporting on and photographing what’s going on in her neighborhood. Things like potholes, graffiti, interesting architecture, neighborhood association meetings and political conventions, odd local traditions & characters, local politicians both bland and provocative, and neighborhood businesses.
Through covering her neighborhood, Taylor has learned a lot about how the city works. Her work helps make the mundane entertaining and has helped expose opportunistic politicians and fraudulent candidates.
Recently Minneapolis catapulted into headlines with Trump's anti-immigrant surge & Minneapolis residents' resistance. This ostensibly started from a right wing YouTuber creating a hit piece on a Somali daycare center in Taylor’s neighborhood. The federal operation has subsided & the media has mostly moved on. So it seemed like a good time to talk with Taylor about her perspective on all this and more.
I accidentally only recorded the audio of our conversation, so this is an audio-only episode. I’ll be back with video on the next episode.
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DJ Victor 1200: el hombre detrás de la cámara
Friday, April 17, 2026 • Duration 01:03:19
DJ Victor 1200: el hombre detrás de la cámara
Una conversación con un periodista independiente y único en Minnesota
This is the first Get the Picture episode in Spanish! Hopefully this is the first of much more content in Spanish, and maybe we’ll have some in Portuguese as well in the future and make Get the Picture a trilingual podcast!
Este episodio de Get the Picture está en español con una conversación con DJ Victor 1200. Victor es DJ, periodista independiente, livestreamer, fotógrafo y más. Trabaja en Minnesota donde siempre le encuentras en la calle reportando las cosas importantes que están sucediendo en la comunidad. En esa entrevista Victor habla de su trabajo como periodista independiente y DJ y del camino que seguió para lograr el éxito que ha tenido.
Habla de cosas importantes como:
Cómo logró ganar muchos seguidores en las redes sociales
El reto de la Inteligencia Artificial para los fotógrafos, videografos y los DJ
La importancia de la pasión como motivo para su trabajo y no la búsqueda de dinero o fama
Su experiencia reportando las protestas en las calles de Minneapolis después de la muerte de George Floyd y también reportando las protestas contra ICE este año en Minneapolis
In this episode of Get the Picture podcast, host Brad Sigal talks with Minnesotan and renowned street photographer Valérie Jardin about her current photography project, “We Are Minnesota.”
“We Are Minnesota” is an ongoing series celebrating the people who make Minnesota strong. Featuring portraits of immigrants alongside Native Americans, the project explores the deep roots and evolving stories that shape Minnesota’s cultural identity and define life in the North Star state.
This project is extremely timely and important given the national focus on struggles over immigrants and immigration in Minnesota. Each participant in the series answers one question: “What makes Minnesota home for you?”
Valérie also talks about another of her recent projects, “One Love”, a black-and-white photography project celebrating the LGBTQ+ community by capturing moments of everyday life.
Valérie also talks more generally about her approach to street photography, and about her photography workshops around the world.
If you’re interested in participating in the We Are Minnesota project, reach out to Valérie here:
Amelia Rayno’s Guerrilla Journalism and Organizing | The ethics of photographing unhoused people
Episode 10
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 • Duration 01:13:12
Amelia Rayno’s Guerrilla Journalism and Organizing
A conversation on her life since 2018, the ethics of photographing unhoused people & more
In this episode of Get the Picture Podcast, Brad Sigal interviews Amelia Rayno, an independent journalist, organizer & photographer who left a mainstream journalism career behind in 2018 to live out of a van, and document & share stories from Skid Row in LA and Wood Street Commons in Oakland, as well as spending long stretches living in El Salvador and Argentina.
In this episode of Get the Picture podcast, host Brad Sigal talks with Daniela Bell about the art of Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) photography. Daniela shares her journey from more traditional photography to embracing intentional camera movement, emphasizing the fun and creativity involved. We talk about what ICM is, some techniques you can try, the editing process, and how you can try Intentional Camera Movement photography today!
In this episode of Get the Picture, host Brad Sigal talks with Minneapolis-based landscape and wildlife photographer John Steitz. John shares his photography journey, and how his love of the outdoors and photography reinforce each other. John also talks about his passion for wilderness preservation and the importance of combining photography and activism.
The conversation delves into some technical aspects of landscape photography including gear, settings and editing, as well as techniques like focus stacking and bracketing. John also shares personal anecdotes from his photography adventures, including too-close-for-comfort encounters with wildlife and the challenges of shooting in extreme weather conditions.
John touches on the importance of planning and preparation, and while he doesn’t make a living as a landscape photographer, he talks about how some people are able to do so.
John’s portrait series “Portraits of the Minneapolis Uprising”:
A Model’s Perspective Every Photographer Needs to Hear | A Conversation with Roxy Vail
Season 1 · Episode 7
Monday, January 19, 2026 • Duration 49:51
A Model’s Perspective Every Photographer Needs to Hear Roxy Vail talks about the good, the bad & the ugly working with photographers
If you do photography for any amount of time, you’re most likely going to do some work with models. So I thought it would be good to hear a model’s perspective about her experiences working with photographers -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.
So in this episode of Get the Picture, host Brad Sigal and model Roxy Vail explores dynamics between photographers and models.
I’ve had the good fortune to work with Roxt Vail for several years. Her outspokenness about issues she and other models too often face including sexual harassment and assault, racism, and general disrespect, is sobering and powerful.
I hope this episode helps more photographers understand that the vast majority of women and femme models have experienced creepy men with cameras treating them inappropriately and/or harmfully. And I hope that Roxy sharing some of her experiences and the experiences of other models helps more photographers learn ways to proactively treat models with the respect and dignity they deserve so that there can be principled and productive collaboration.
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