The Richard Flint Photography Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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

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

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

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

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

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