#51 Todd Korol, Live and Breathe Photography

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Living and working in and out of Calgary Canada, Todd is all about photography, if ever someone lived and breathed their passion it’s Todd. That passion shines through in this week’s chat and we hope you all enjoy it as much as we did.

Things we chatted about on the show:

Loads of photographers came up in conversation and here are some links:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-Gibson

https://helmut-newton-foundation.org/en/helmut-newton/

http://www.maryellenmark.com/

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/abbas/

https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/person/george-mobley/

We chatted about Todd’s LF images of rodeo folks and how he took inspiration from photographer Kurt Markus.

https://www.kurtmarkus.com/cowboy

Todd recently restored a 1917 5x7 wooden camera and got his bellows made by Custom Bellows in the UK.

http://www.custombellows.co.uk/products.html

Another National Geographic Photographer William Albert Allard.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/william-albert-allard-on-the-passion-from-within

Melissa Renwick.

https://fotofilmic.com/portfolio/melissa-renwick/

Todd shared some landscape diptychs recently on his YouTube channel and we discussed the work of Elliot Dudik (thanks to Greg Obst) and his Broken Land images.

https://www.eliotdudik.com/

Canadian photographer Melissa Renwick and her surfer portraits.

https://www.melissarenwick.com/stories-1#/changing-tides/

Large Format photographer Barbara Bosworth.

https://www.barbarabosworth.com/about-the-artist

Richard Avedon’s work – in particular “In the American West”

https://americansuburbx.com/2011/01/richard-avedon-richard-avedons-in.html

Shout outs to:

Erik’s appearance on the Home Made Camera Podcast.

http://homemadecamera.com/erik-mathy-makes-homemade-lenses/

https://www.analogforevermagazine.com/niniane-kelley

Books by Geoff Dyer.