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Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton2024 Chico Review AttendeesHere are some of the recordings I made at the 2024 Chico Review with the wonderful attendees who come to Chico to share their work and their stories with incredible reviewers. I had the opportunity to spend a short amount of time with over 20 attendees. These conversations come from our first interactions for me and the guests with each other and I did not see the work before the recordings. That meant the description of the work had to be fine tuned just as it does for a portfolio review. So what you will here is similar to a portfolio...
2024-09-2129 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonMark Alice Durant | Summer of the White FoxI visited Mark Alice Durant at his home in Maryland to talk about his book, Summer of the White Fox, and After, published by Saint Lucy Books. We talk about how Mark came to photography and why he started his own publishing imprint. Summer of the White Fox, and After is a memoir and a monograph, with a touch of history and philosophy weaved into the essay. It is a recounting of grief and loss that enveloped Mark and his family through distinct events and all during the pandemic. It is also a story about experiencing love and care...
2024-09-0648 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonTim Carpenter | LittleTim Carpenter and I met up at the 2024 Chico Review to talk about his latest book Little, published by The Ice Plant. We talk about how Little is the last in a trilogy of Tim’s books, Local Objects and Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road, both also published by The Ice Plant. Even though Tim was on PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf in 2023 to talk about To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die, and we do not take a deep dive into that work, we do end up having an amazing philisophical discussion about photography, his work, and his sty...
2024-07-2627 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonGreg Gulbransen | Say LessPhotographer and Pediatrician, Greg Gulbransen joins me to talk about his book, Say Less, published by Gost Books. Greg and I talk about how facing tragedy in his personal life and being a children’s doctor all lead to this exploration of gun violence. Greg is a unique guest in that he is both a full-time working doctor and had great success with fashion photography. He approaches his medical work and his documentary photo work with similar ideals and practice and we talk a good deal about that. Just a small trigger warning, the life-altering event Greg describes from his...
2024-07-1147 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonShana Lopes | SFMOMAShana Lopes, PhD, Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA, joins me to talk about how being a curator perfectly combined her love of photography and art history. We talk about working with both historical and contemporary artists and the questions that need to be answered in order to provide proper context for the work whether done posthumously or with a current artist. We mention some past, current, and upcoming show during our conversation and three of those shows are linked below.
https://www.instagram.com/lopesshana/ |
https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/a-living-for-us-all/ |
https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition...
2024-06-2748 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonHarlan Bozeman | ElainePhotographer and educator, Harlan Bozeman and I recorded at Penumbra Foundation at the end of his residency there. Harlan is a 2024 Catchlight Global Fellow and we talk mostly about his work in Elaine, Arkansas that was recognized by Catchlight. The years of work that Harlan created and still creates in Elaine is now called “Out the E” and Harlan speaks extensively about how this town, its people, its history, and the photographs he’s made has impacted his life and his own identity. We also talk about Harlan’s family ties to the Wadmalaw Island and Gullah communities.
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2024-06-141h 05
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonAllie Haeusslein | Pier 24Writer, Curator, and Director of Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, Allie Haeusslein, joined me at the 2024 Chico Review and we discussed how writing about and curating photography became her passion and we talk specifically about the show, Stacy Mehrfar: The Moon Belongs to Everyone at Filter Photo, to highlight Allie's approach to curating and working with artists. We also talk about how Chris McCall invited her to be the Co-Director at Pier 24, and Allie reflects on her time at the famed institution, working with Chris McCall, and on the last show, Turning the Page, before Pier 24 closes its doors...
2024-05-3134 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonTom Griggs | A Creature ObeysPhotographer, writer, and educator, Tom Griggs, and I met at AIPAD to talk about his book, A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants, published by Mesaestándar. A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants is an exploration of generational depression experienced through Tom’s paternal side of his family. It weaves together text and images from Tom with text and images from his father to tell a spiritually infused story of his family. We also talk about his newest book, El Inquilino, Mexico City, published by Kris Graves Projects which was revealed at AIPAD the very day we were the...
2024-05-1722 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonBen Brody | Attention ServicememberContinuing with my recordings at the 2024 Chico Review, Ben Brody joins me to talk about his two books, Attention Servicemember and 300m both published by Mass Books which was started by Ben and Peter van Agtmael. We talk about Ben’s experience as an Army photographer during the American war in Iraq and why he chose to be a civilian freelance photographer during the war in Afghanistan. Ben and I talk about how Attention Servicemember and 300m are part of his self-reckonining with his role in creating propaganda. We also talk about his work with The GroundTruth Project, an or...
2024-05-0349 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonRaymond Meeks | InhabitantsAs part of an ongoing series recorded at the 2024 Chico Review, I recorded with photographer Raymond Meeks to discuss his latest book, The Inhabitants published by MACK with an extended poem by George Weld. Ray and I talk about how this work, which traces the passages of refugee crossings inside Spain and France, profoundly affected Ray's approach to making work and how he views his role as a photographer. This episode picks up where Sasha and Ray left off back in episode 51 on PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf.
http://www.raymondmeeks.com
https://www.mackbooks.us/products/the-inhabitants-english-edition-br-raymond-meeks-george-weld
2024-03-3041 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonMichael Joseph | Lost & FoundReturn guest, Michael Joseph, talks about his new book, Lost & Found, published by Kehrer Verlag. You may already know the work from the Travelers series on his Instagram account. This is a beautifully laid out and printed book and we get into many of the details and decisions that went into making this book. First, the decision to publish this series, connecting with an editor, the fundraising, what kinds of text would be used, all the design elements, and finally having it in hand. Michael generously shares each step along the way. We also catch up on how Michael’s...
2024-03-1447 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonDavid De Lira | Exactly What You Run FromDavid De Lira (he/they) is a queer, BIPOC, lens-based artist and educator born and raised in northern Mexico. He is currently based in Schenectady & Syracuse, New York. I met David at the Biennial Homecoming show at RIT this past winter. David’s work explores their connection and relationship to a white queer community that he married into with their partner. David’s photographs of this community are often made within or accompanied by images of northern landscape that is equally new to David’s life. We talk about how David came to be where he is and how David’...
2024-03-0141 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonLouis Chavez | New IntimaciesPhotographer, Louis Chavez and I have a conversation about New Intimacies, Louis’ photographic study of gay cruising. It is inspired by Peter Hujar’s work but takes a more experimental approach with more inspiration by writings of José Esteban Muñoz. We also discuss Louis’ work as a curatorial assistant at the George Eastman Museum and, as your teaser, you just might learn a little bit about the Situationist International and Pscyhogeography. Louis was also kind enough to send a video slideshow on the Real Photo Show YouTube channel so you can see the work while listening.
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2024-02-1236 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonMikko Takkunen | Hong KongPhotographer and New York Times Photo Editor, Mikko Takkunen, joins me today to talk about his upcoming book, Hong Kong, published by Kehrer Verlag with an essay by Geoff Dyer. Hong Kong is Mikko’s farwell to the place where he worked for over 5 years the New York Times desk’s Asia photo editor. It is also where he started his family and witnessed some of the greates social upheavals in the country’s recent history. We talk about how this book is not a social or political statement but an observation and an embrace of a place he loves...
2024-01-1552 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonJesse Lenz | The SeraphimPhotographer, founder of Charcoal Book Club and Press, and the Chico Review, Jesse Lenz, is my guest today. We talk about his upcoming book, The Seraphim, the second book in a series of seven that Jesse calls The Seven Seals septology. We break down what that means and how Jesse sees this life long septology as connected to and inspired by his family, his home, and his life. Jesse and I also talk a lot about the way he has setup his life to make photos, to promote the work of others through the Charcoal Book Club and Press, a...
2023-12-221h 07
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonErin Hoyt | Filter PhotoErin Hoyt is the Director of Operations at Filter Photo, owns and operates a successful wedding photography studio, and is a cotemporary photography collector, and a photographer. Erin learned photography and business outside of academia through internships, work experience, and just being highly self-motivated. We talk about all of these things and about Erin settling in after her recent move to Atlanta.
https://www.filterphoto.org
https://erinhoytphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/erinhoytphotography/
https://www.instagram.com/emariehoyt/
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2023-12-0236 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonDan Bassini | I Still Feel ItPhotographer and former student, Dan Bassini and Michael talk about how Dan has been cutting his own path in photography through sheer will and the use of an old plastic camera. Dan talks about his series, No Invite, a fashion/portrait zine made annually during Fashion Week in New York. Dan also shares the stories behind his current books, Cruel Summer, I Still Feel It, and we talk about an upcoming book and show. Michael and Dan also reminisce a little about his time at Mercer and some funny stories from Michael’s very early teaching days there.
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2023-10-0751 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonLara Shipley | Desire Lines
Photographer and educator, Lara Shipley talks about her book, Desire Lines, published by Overlapse. Desire Lines combines imagery and text, both contemporary and historical, as a vehicle to have a thoughtful and contemplative discussion about immigration. It looks at our current humanitarian crisis at the southern border and views it through the larger context of human migration and shifting borders. Lara and I also talk about her current collaboration with Antone Dolezal called The Naked Truth, a story about a Victorian Spa founded by a snake oil saleseman and which eerily resembles the disinformation media world that w...
2023-07-3044 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonUmberto N. Nicoletti | ASYLUMPhotographer, director, designer, and composer, Umberto Nicoletti talks about his first monograph, Asylum, published by Rizzoli New York. Umberto uses his skills as a fashion and celebrity portrait photographer to share the experiences of members of LGBTQI+ refugee community and to portray them, not as victims, but as role models who have survived acts of violence and discrimination from the countries they left and the countries from which they requested asylum.
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https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9788891835925 -
https://youtu.be/PrpkwqC4ZmI (book trailer)
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2023-07-1433 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonNigel Baldacchino | ASYMPTOTENigel Baldaccino is a multi-media artist and architect based in Malta. Michael and Nigel talk about his interest in architecture and how it influences his work. Nigel also discusses how his experience with anxiety disorder affects how he interacts with the world and makes art. Michael makes a lot of references to Nigels projects in this episode so you may want to check his website while listening. Also, be sure to watch Nigel's video on the Real Photo Show YouTube channel.
https://nigelbaldacchino.com
https://maltabiennale.art
https://www.youtube.com/@realphotoshow
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2023-06-3048 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonEmma Hardy | PermissionsPhotographer Emma Hardy and Michael talk about her first monograph, Permissions, published by Gost. Emma talks about recognizing how inauthentic family photos seemed to her even at a very early age. This desire for authenticity when photographing her children and her life has been a driving force in her personal work as well as a guiding principle in her commercial work.
Permissions, is a tender document of motherhood and childhood, love and yearning, and leaving home. The images in the book are gathered and distilled from Hardy’s personal archive and span a period of 20-years. -Gost Book...
2023-06-1050 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonStephen Hilger | In the AlleyMichael visits with photographer and educator, Stephen Hilger at his studio in Brooklyn to talk about his upcoming book, In the Alley, published by Purple Martin Press. Stephen was a guest on the show all the way back on episode 47 so we don’t spend a lot of time on his history but we do talk alot about the alleyways in Beverly Hills and the creative decisions that went into making this leporello book.
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http://www.stephenhilger.com
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2023-05-2638 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonIgor Posner | CargóPhotographer and Red Hook Editions partner, Igor Posner joins Michael for a discussion about his book, Cargó, published by Red Hook Editions. Igor is a self-taught photographer whose work explores the psychological impacts of migration and changing immigrant neighborhoods. Michael and Igor talk about how his projects come together and the way he needs to reinvent and change what he does in order to keep making work.
https://igorposner.net
https://www.redhookeditions.com/books-1/carg
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2023-05-1938 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonRafael Vilela | CatchLight | Forest RuinsPhotographer, co-founder of Media NINJA, and CatchLight Fellow, Rafael Vilela talks to Michael about some of his amazing visual stories from Brazil. Rafael shares the story behind Invisible Gravediggers, the forgotten workers of the pandemic, and he talks about his current work, Forest Ruins, an ongoing project that addresses the role of cities in the climate crisis from the perspective of the Guarani Mbyá Indigenous people in the city of São Paulo. Forest Ruins is what brought Rafael to the CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit both as a CatchLight Fellow and recently as a panel speaker along with Anastasia Sa...
2023-05-0341 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonAnastasia Samoylova | CatchLight Summit | FloodZonePhotographer, Anastasia Samoylova joins Michael to talk about the 2023 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit: The Change We Want to See. This year’s summit emphasizes the unique power of photography, visual journalism, and creative practices to drive social impact. Ana will be talking about her book, Floodzone published by Steidl along with photographer, Rafael Vilela. Their panel is titled Picturing New Frontiers: Environmental Storytelling. Ana and Michael talk about how Ana went from photography to Environmental Design, and back to photography and how her experiences growing up in Russian and living in Florida shapes her work and how she thinks ab...
2023-04-2139 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonShae Detar | Another WorldMixed-Media Artist, Shae Detar and Michael talk about her debut monograph, Another World published by Skeleton Key Press. They take a deep dive into Shae’s process from selecting locations, inviting women to be photographed, to hand painting the final images. Shae and Michael also talk about how the book is a celebration of the female nude as well as a personal introspective look at loss and recovery from a repressive religious experience.
https://www.shaedetar.com
https://shaedetar.myshopify.com/collections/all
SHAE DETAR is an award winning and widely published American artist who me...
2023-04-111h 26
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonAlexandra Huddleston | Traces of TimeAlexandra Huddleston is a photographer, writer, and walking artist. Michael and Alexandra talk about her latest book, Traces of Time, walking the Jardins de l’Abbaye de la Cambre in summer, a hand-bound, limited edition artist’s book. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and Bamako, Mali, her upbringing has led her to explore landscape and culture from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. Between 2009 and 2014, she walked thousands of kilometers on pilgrimage in Spain, France, and Japan, journeys that led to her current walking art practice. She has won a Fulbright Grant, and her work...
2023-03-2655 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonVal Dagrain | Trenton to New OrleansToday’s episode features a former student of Michael’s, Val Dagrain who is finding his way in the film and tv industry after leaving Trenton, New Jersey, and after years in the music business as a rapper. Val is working in New Orleans as a PA, a data manager, a camera assistant, and now coming full circle from his days with Michael, starting as an on-set photographer, the job he has been working towards.
https://www.instagram.com/valdagrain/
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2023-03-1342 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonEric Kunsman | Felicific CalculusPhotographer, RIT Professor, and owner of Booksmart Studio, Eric Kunsman talks about his ongoing multi-faceted and social activist project, Felicific Calculus, Technology as a Social Marker of Race, Class, & Economics in Rochester, NY. Eric discusses how the work started and was influenced by his experiences growing up in declining steel town and later, as an adult, his family faced a dire financial crisis. Eric and Michael also talk about their connection at Mercer County Community College.
https://www.erickunsman.com
Bonus Content: https://youtu.be/9dZ_vpIY1gg
More Vidoes about Eric’s work: https://www.youtube.co...
2023-02-2053 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonAnne Immelé | Jardins du RiesthalPhotographer and curator, Anne Immelé and Michael have a fascinating coversation about curating shows that take into account both sight and sound. We also talk about Anne’s new book, Les Jardins De Riesthal or Riesthal Gardens, a series of poetic portraits of family and landscape within a community garden that Anne tended to with her family for a period of 15 years.
http://www.anneimmele.fr
https://charcoalbookclub.com/collections/recent-books/products/les-jardins-de-riesthal
Bonus Content: https://youtu.be/hppeViU9kaM
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2023-01-2147 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonVanessa Winship | SNOWIn this episode of Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton, Michael and photographer, Vanessa Winship, have a wonderful conversation about two bodies of work she made in the United States, She Dances on Jackson, published by MACK, and her most recent book, SNOW, published by Deadbeat Club. Vanessa talks about how both of these books began, the former as a proposal and the latter as an assignment. Vanessa also describes her experience of traveling around the United States and witnessing both beauty and turmoil.
https://www.vanessawinship.com
https://deadbeatclubpress.com/products/vanessa-winship-snow
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2023-01-0550 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonJennifer Cabral | Rio/MineJennifer Cabral is an artist and Library Collection Photographer. Jennifer took part in a group show at the JKC Gallery, curated by me and Ryann Casey, titled The Road Home. Jennifer shared work that included the project, Mine_IRA which explored the trauma of the destruction of homeland caused by industrial mining as well as the trauma from experiencing sexual abuse. This work has continued in a trilogy of projects that we discuss on the show. This is the first episode to include a new bonus segment called, Two Photos that Changed Me, in which the guest will talk...
2022-12-1952 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonAra Oshagan | How The World Might BeAra Oshagan joined Michael in the JKC Gallery to talk about his work and his book, displaced, published by Kehrer Verlag. Ara is a descendant of family that was displaced by the Armenian Genocide and he was born in Beirut, Lebanon where his family was displaced again by the Lebanese Civil War. We talk about how his conceptual and documentary work about displacement and diaspora are so closely tied to his lived experience. The link to the flip-book in the notes will be helpful for you to see some of the work we discuss in this episode.
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2022-11-2338 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonPradip Malde | From Where Loss ComesPradip Malde joined Michael Chovan-Dalton and Ryann Casey for a live show at the JKC Gallery to talk about his book, From Where Loss Comes, published by Charcoal Books.
From Where Loss Comes is an unblinking look at how sacrifice and belonging are deeply rooted in the human experience. Sixty photographs and close to 9,000 words consider pain and suffering that is private, sacrificial, and yet rattles against values that are thought of as being inalienable — our fundamental human rights. It is a story of the root causes of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C).
Pr...
2022-11-0650 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonPhoto Show Live with Wendy EwaldMacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowship awardee Wendy Ewald virtually visits with Michael Chovan-Dalton to talk about Wendy’s books, The Devil is Leaving His Cave, recently published by MACK and the expanded reissue of Portraits and Dreams, also published by MACK. We talk about Wendy’s interest in collaboration and how you have to let go of some of your expectations.
Slideshow: https://youtu.be/h3roT2U5aWc?t=1175
https://wendyewald.com
https://www.mackbooks.us/products/the-devil-is-leaving-his-cave-br-wendy-ewald?_pos=2&_sid=1e30512e0&_ss=r
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2022-10-1743 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonRiley Goodman | From Yonder Wooded Hill
Riley Goodman and Michael Chovan-Dalton talk about Riley’s first monograph, From Yonder Wooded Hill published by Fall Line Press.
YouTube link for artist presentation: https://youtu.be/iZTxlEnHlzU?t=1140
_From Yonder Wooded Hill _investigates what we choose to remember versus what chooses to remember us. Based in the Patapsco River Valley of Maryland and expanding to his ancestral West Virginia and North Carolina, Riley Goodman brings to life the customs and legends on which he was raised to weave a tale as old as the hills.
Riley Goodman, raised in the Patapsco Riv...
2022-07-1824 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonRich-Joseph Facun | Photo Show Live
Rich-Joseph and Michael Chovan-Dalton talk about how he accidentally became a photographer and his two new books, Black Diamonds pub by Fall Line Press and Little Cities pub by Little Oak Press.
See the slideshow of Rich-Joseph's work at: https://youtu.be/OcYXvfkshT8
https://facun.com
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Rich-Joseph Facun is a photographer of Indigenous Mexican and Filipino descent. His work aims to offer an authentic look into endangered, bygone, and fringe cultures—those transitions in time where places fa...
2022-06-2728 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonAlanna Airitam | Putting Flowers Back In The Ground
Photographer Alanna Airitam and I have a fabulous conversation about how she left the corporate world, taught herself photography, and how it may have saved her life. We talk about Alanna's breakout work, The Golden Age, and the process by which anger, frustration, and responding to injustice inspires her to make beautiful and important imagery.
The Golden Age is showing at the Center for Creative Photography starting April 2022. Link below.
https://www.alannaairitam.com
https://www.instagram.com/alannaairitam/
https://ccp.arizona.edu/events/3696-alanna-airitam-golden-age
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2022-03-3052 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonHappy New Year & Thank You
Thank you everyone for listening to the show and I hope we have a healthier New Year.
-Michael
(My apologies if this episode showed up twice. I had a corrupted audio file.)
2021-12-2900 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonHannah Kozak | He Threw the Last Punch Too Hard"Forget about stunts, owning my story was the bravest thing I ever did."
Hannah Kozak is a photographer and a Hollywood stuntwoman. When Hannah was 9 her mother left the family for a man who turned out to be abusive towards her mother. Hannah witnessed this abuse and it eventually lead to Hannah's mother being hospitalized with permanent brain damage. Hannah's book, He Threw the Last Punch Too Hard, is a story about Hannah and her mother and her journey of forgiveness and dealing with domestic abuse. Hannah and I have an amazing conversation about her life, this...
2021-02-1351 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonBronx Documentary Center | The End of Truth -Ep.123Michael Kamber and Cynthia Rivera of the Bronx Documentary Center call in to talk about several events coming up at the BDC for this short series pre-election episode. Here are the events you should support or attend if you can.
https://www.bronxdoc.org
6TH ANNUAL PHOTO AUCTION BENEFIT
VIRTUAL CELEBRATION
THURSDAY OCT 22, 2020 | 7PM
The Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) is proud to present our 6th Annual Photo Auction Benefit.
To give back to the many Bronx photographers who work with us, we're sharing 50% of proceeds with Bronx photographers in need of...
2020-10-2116 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonDuquann Sweeney | Counter Narrative -Ep.120"I was thinking about that lately…as far as black photographers in general, will it always be a counter-narrative…"
Duquann Sweeney is a photographer and a community organizer in Jersey City, NJ. He is a founder of The Royal Men Foundation which provides mentoring services, health and educational workshops, and works with the county courts to provide alternative sentencing for people accused of minor crimes. I've posted a link to The Royal Men Foundation in the show notes. Duquann and I talk about a series he is working on following a Doula and her client, an expecting moth...
2020-08-2834 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonDeborah Jack | Drawn by Memory - Ep.119"When the green comes in, the grass comes back first, and then the smaller shrubs. It's always this sort of hopeful space…I always feel that nature reminds us that after trauma there's regeneration."
Deborah Jack is a multimedia artist. Her current work deals with trans-cultural existence, memory, the effects of colonialism and mythology through re-memory. Deborah was born in the Netherlands and grew up in the Netherlands/Saint Martin. She went to grad school at SUNY Buffalo, NY and currently resides in Jersey City where she coordinates the photography program at New Jersey City University. We ta...
2020-08-141h 03
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonHabiyb Ali Shu'Aib | Beloved Home - Ep.118"There's a small neighborhood that's called Wilbur Section…It's known for crime, gang activity, drug usage, murders, unsolved homicide, and this is where I am from and this is what formed and shaped me…I want to give something back to my community. I want people to acknowledge themselves and know that they are beautiful."
Habiyb Ali Shu'Aib is a Trenton, NJ based photographer who has been photographing life in Trenton since he was 9. His work is a mix of portraits of neighborhoods and portraits of people. The Covid shutdown and the Black Lives Matters marches and prot...
2020-07-2648 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonPhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - TeaserHere's an introduction and a short clip from PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, a new show that I am producing for Sasha about some of the more existential questions that artists think about but don't always talk about. Subscribe to it on your favorite podcast service or listen to it at photowork.podbean.com.
2020-07-1709 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonMartin Bough | Curiosity & Music - Ep.117"You really have to understand the times we live in and…the things that you push against are the things that make you who you are." Martin Bough is a photographer, a teacher, and a Jazz musician. He has been photographing since 1962 but that is not where this story begins. Martin is 92 years old and he was already an accomplished saxophone player and a highly skilled printing press operator before he took up the camera. Martin is a storyteller and you will not hear me very much in this episode because he has a unique way of talking about his li...
2020-06-281h 06
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonTamara Torres | Who Does Art Belong To - Ep.116"I can't take that (art) with me when I am gone, but I can certainly pass the message and leave behind how important art is as a tool to get better from trauma in life and just move forward." Tamara Torres is an Afro-Latina feminist artist and community activist based in Trenton, NJ. Tamara and I were going to record last year when her work was in the JKC Gallery, but she had to jet off to two more shows, one in Chicago and another in London before we had the chance. We recorded with, guest co-host and former guest...
2020-06-071h 13
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonRoss Kasovitz | K&M Camera Past, Present, & Future - Ep.115"I can tell you stories upon stories about endless amounts of people who have come through from Roy DeCarava, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank, Larry Clark…all the icons of the fine art photo community…everybody…Helen Levitt and Mary Ellen Mark. Just amazing artists…my father's been in it from the beginning." Ross Kasovitz grew up around some of the most well known photographers and artists for all of his life. He is the son of Peter "Itzik" Kasovitz of K&M Camera. Ross and I talk about how he came to take over the business, how he helped transfor...
2020-05-2240 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonEmily Hanako Momohara | Fruits of Labor - Ep.114"My grandmother's family were all incarcerated at Minidoka, one of the WWII Japanese-American camps, and I just felt like there were few communities that stood up for them at that time and with the privilege that I have now, with being fourth generation American, I certainly can speak out on those issues that were pivotal to my own family." Emily Hanako Momohara was part of a panel talk at this year's SPE Conference titled 21st Century Family. She spoke about her work, Fruits of Labor: A Legacy of Immigration and Agriculture, which draws a connection from her own great-grandparent's history...
2020-05-091h 09
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonRoula Seikaly I Photos without People - Ep.113"There is suddenly, in some ways, a whole new branch, a whole new subject for photography…How will notions of isolation, loneliness, communication…be addressed photographically and are those photographic subjects? " Roula Seikaly and I recorded at the SPE Conference in Houston just before everything began to be cancelled and public places were shut down. I called Roula to start the show because of all of the changes since we recorded, so there is a phone conversation at the start to check-in and then the original recording follows. Roula has been involved as a writer and curator with so many grea...
2020-04-181h 25
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonJohn D Freyer | Building Recovery Capital - Ep.112"I say that as a person who shifted from being an artist/activist to someone who has really taken the activism part of my practice and my life and put it front and center." John Freyer is an artist, activist, and Professor of Cross Disciplinary Media at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. We met up at the Society of Photographic Education conference in Houston shortly after his panel talk titled, We Want Our Pictures Back, with Arthur Fields, Graham MacIndoe, and John. They discussed their journeys through recovery and how that impacted their photographic practices, including the...
2020-04-0259 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonMatthew Leifheit | Ocean Meets the Bay - Ep.111Matthew Leifheit | Ocean Meets the Bay "I think people are increasingly asked to choose many paths at once, so my professional practice class has been retitled, How to Become a Self-Cleaning Oven. " Matt Leifheit is a photographer, magazine editor, book editor, and publisher. He is the founder of Matte Editions which produces Matte Magazine and a growing number photo books, including Slow Morpheus by my guest co-host and friend of the show, Rachel Stern. Matt, Rachel, and I talk about Matt's latest work and future book about Fire Island which is deeply connected to gay history and culture in...
2020-03-161h 21
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonSVA The Culture of Community: A Latinx Photo Symposium - Ep.95MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media, in collaboration with El Museo del Barrio, presents the final program in the Scheimpflug Lecture Series of the spring 2019 semester entitled The Culture of Community: A Latinx Photo Symposium. This episode is from a recording of the Latinx Photo Symposium event. The Real Photo Show was part of the early planning for the show. The show was organized by Liz Zito with discussions led by MFA grads Jordan Cruz and Carla Maldonado. The discussion was moderated by El Museo del Barrio Curator, Susanna V. Temkin and the guests were artists Veronica Sanchis Bencomo...
2019-06-211h 15
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonMichael Joseph | Travelers - Ep.93"I think they see themselves as a second family, a found family, a supportive family and they're young in a way where they are exploring the world and seeing things for the first time, it's very exciting, it's intoxicating…" Michael Joseph was in town for his solo exhibition "Lost and Found" at Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery. Michael has some amazing stories about how the "Travelers" work took shape and about the connections he made along the way. We spend a good amount of time talking about one of the more well known Travelers, Knuckles, and how Knuckles' journey ga...
2019-05-261h 02
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonAaron Turner | Center for Photographers of Color - Half Frame - Ep.89Aaron Turner started @photogsofcolor on Twitter to promote Photographers of Color and we talk about that back on episode 50, but now this social media idea is becoming an actual Center for Photographers of Color at the University of Arkansas. We talk about all of the amazing changes and successes for Aaron in this half-frame episode of Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton. https://www.aaronturnerphotography.com/ https://www.instagram.com/aturn_arkdelta/ https://twitter.com/AaronRTurner_ Visit realphotoshow.com @realphotoshow on Twitter/IG/FB
2019-03-2832 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonNoyes Arts Garage | RAW 2018 - Ep.78This episode was recorded with a live audience at the Noyes Arts Garage reception for the 2018 RAW exhibition that I juried. The episode is actually broken into three parts. The first two parts are at the show during the reception and first I speak with Saskia Schmidt, the Director of Education, and Michael Cagno, the Executive Director of the Noyes. In part two I speak with two of the three juror selected artists, Krista Svalbonas and Sherman Fleming, and in part three you will hear a phone conversation with Jessica Orlowicz because she could not attend the reception. The RAW...
2018-10-3142 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonAaron Berger - Episode 69"That was at the very end of Thailand, I was just starting to think I didn't want to play poker anymore and I was starting to be drawn to something maybe a little more creative which I had never done in my whole life…" Aaron Berger taught himself photography by studying the tech specs that are included with photos on Flickr® and looking at photographers such as Garry Winogrand on the internet. His path to photography started with a realization that he was not going to be a professional soccer player which lead to a lucrative career in internet pok...
2018-06-0752 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonGordon Stettinius | Candela Books + Gallery - Episode 66"There is sort of a desert in Richmond Virginia, there was no photo gallery, there are a couple of blue-chip galleries…but my feeling is I could talk circles around them…where photography is concerned, but I'm still trying to learn the business, that they are very good at." Gordon Stettinius is an artist and the founder of Candela Books + Gallery. He started Candela to help publish and promote well-known, but maybe underrepresented artists, as well as to promote new, and mid-career artists who are pushing boundaries with their practices. It's a big part of Candela's annual open call and exhi...
2018-04-2246 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonJoseph Michael Lopez - Episode 63"I don't think I was really ready to break out as a photographer, but I was ready to break out as like my own spirit." Joseph Michael Lopez is a documentary photographer. His interest in photography started while he was a cinematographer. Joseph is mostly self-taught and his work often involves concerns for social justice which is a character trait he attributes to the life story of his mother who escaped Cuba in 1967. Joseph's work has appeared on the cover of M, The Magazine for Leica M Photography, The Sunday Review of The New York Times, New York magazine...
2018-03-041h 07
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonGabriela Herman | The Kids - Episode 55"I literally went from, I wasn't able to say the words out loud…my mom is gay, to basically writing it in the Times and screaming it to the whole world." Gabriela Herman does something that is rare among photographers, she makes a living with her photography. Gabriela talks to Michael about some of her career milestones, including getting some photojournalism work through Craigslist. Her new book ,The Kids (The New Press), which explores the lives of kids who grew up with LGBTQ parents also allowed Gabriela to achieve some personal milestones as well with her own parents. This ep...
2017-11-0744 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonMichael Kamber | Bronx Documentary Center - Episode 52"Photography is magic…it has incredible and really unparalleled power to represent and define people, communities, and individuals...kids see that and they want to do that and they want to be part of that." Former conflict photographer Michael Kamber founded the Bronx Documentary Center. The BDC is dedicated to providing free photographic education to Bronx middle and high schoolers, as well as education for adult Bronx photographers. Michael believes in the value of photography to educate and inform and he also believes that anyone willing to put in the work should have a place to learn the craft and sh...
2017-09-041h 09
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonGary Schneider - Episode 48"I realize I have a kind of self-consciousness about my history, about having grown up in Apartheid South Africa and mostly my work is outside of race…" Gary Schneider is the Director of the Graduate Program at Mason Gross School of the Arts. The Harvard Art Museum has recently acquired a historic collection of printer proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab that Gary and his lifelong partner John Erdman owned for 30 years. In addition to the proofs Gary and John are donating their personal vintage and modernist collection of photos. Michael, Kai, and Gary discuss this and how various ch...
2017-06-161h 26
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonMichelle Leftheris - Episode 46"Well I'm just going to work at this lab for the rest of my life, I'll be a lifer…because my life is over at the ripe old age of twenty four…and then I got a call from the Chair up at RISD…" Michelle Leftheris is a multimedia artist and has been a faculty member and the Coordinator of Curriculum at the School of Visual Arts MFA Photo/Video/Media program for about 11 years, but that is about to change this August as she embarks on the next chapter in her life as a full-time faculty member at Middle...
2017-05-151h 25
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonSpring Cleaning | April Fools - Episode 43Our 1st April Fools Show - Hope you enjoyed it! - Kai and Michael respond to all of the great listener feedback on iTunes and start their spring with a new format and guest-free show. Check out our photo news, lens reviews, and developer debate. We also check-in with thePhotoShow roving reporter, Kerry Van Pacings, fresh from the Las Vegas PCM Show. In this episode: New cameras, new lenses, photo world news, Kai and Michael go head to head on our favorite developers, and news from the bulletin board. Visit www.thephotoshow.org We are realphotoshow on Twitter/IG/FB...
2017-04-0129 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonGeoffrey Berliner | Penumbra - Episode 42"As time marches on where we've become more of a technical society…we've become removed…alienated from making things, there's also a sense of a lack of community…and I think that's what we do at Penumbra, the idea that we bring people together…" Photo Credit: © Gabriela Hnizdo Geoffrey Berliner is the Executive Director of the Penumbra Foundation. An impressive organization devoted to both historical and alternative photographic processes. Kai and Michael sat down with Geoffrey at Penumbra after taking a tour of the facilities which included a beautiful portrait studio with floor to ceiling window light, great workspaces, a storefron...
2017-03-161h 26
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonJeff Mermelstein - Episode 40"We know how beautiful of a machine that is, but right now mine is at home and for me to get to that point or to that break, was not easy…the whole notion of that rangefinder and that 35mm - 1.4. That whole thing is forever a part of me." Jeff Mermelstein is, for lack of a better term, a New York street photographer. He is the recipient of an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship and the European Publishers award. His books include Sidewalk and Twirl/Run. Kai and Michael spoke with Jeff about what it means to use Instagram as...
2017-02-121h 20
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonLucas Thorpe | Libby Pratt - Baxter St - Episode 39"We spend a lot of time fundraising because a lot of this grant money goes directly to the artist so we need to make that up with…how do we pay for our rent, how do we pay for the lights, how do we pay me?" -Libby Pratt Lucas Thorpe hosted a panel discussion on non-profits and the arts back in December of 2016 and one of his panel members was Libby Pratt, Director of Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York. Just before his panel Kai and Michael sat down with Libby and Lucas to get a pr...
2017-01-301h 14
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonJeffrey Henson Scales - Episode 38"I was sort of like the teenage cub photographer of the Black Panther paper. They let me move around with all of the leaders of the party, I would ride around with them and take pictures and work on the newspaper." Jeffrey Henson Scales has been photographing since he was 11 years old and he started working for the Black Panther Newspaper as a young teenager. When he was 14 Time magazine ran one of his Black Panther photos. His interests would then turn to filmmaking, stage management where he would work with Minny Ripperton, and creating iconic album covers with...
2017-01-161h 26
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonPen + Brush - Tricia Wright - Episode 36"It's not always just the gender, it's the lives women lead and that makes it very difficult to be part of the commercial route…you don't fit the model of the young artist, in my case being deeply immersed in the domestic world raising a family, unable to pursue the things that the artistic model demands." -Tricia Wright Pen + Brush, a nearly 123-year-old non-profit focused on creating access to the art world for emerging and mid-career women artists, draws on a deep network of galleries, non-profits, organizations, and associations to support their mission. The network functions to build a support sy...
2016-12-211h 07
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonYola Monakhov Stockton - Episode 34"That very same day that I started I was shot by an Israeli soldier. I was shot with an…M6 or M16 rifle…and I almost certainly should have died..." Yola Monakhov Stockton has so many great stories to tell. Born in the former Soviet Union, grew up in NYC, became a conflict photographer, got shot, transitioned to the art world, published a book, and now teaches in Buffalo. Kai and Michael had a fantastic, and a touch long, conversation with Yola just after she finished up her panel discussion at Photoville on photography and education. Photo of Yola by Nick...
2016-11-162h 01
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonSPQR Editions - Thomas Roma / Susan Kismaric - Special"Books make us feel less alone…That's why I make books." -Thomas Roma A special release from thePhotoShow without your co-hosts. Thomas Roma and Susan Kismaric held a conversation about publishing photo books and Roma's launch of SPQR Editions. The talk took place at Affirmation Arts in NYC where SPQR's first five books on were on display and for sale with the photographers on hand to sign all of the books. The books are by Yoav Horesh, Jeffrey Henson Scales, Stephen Hilger, Dennis Santella, and thePhotoShow's very own Kai McBride. Michael Allen, the director of Affirmation Arts will introduce th...
2016-10-3134 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonRichard Bram - Episode 32Michael and Kai met up with Richard Bram while he was getting ready to move from New York to London. Richard's book, Richard Bram New York, had just been published and symbolically it had become Richard's summation of his time as a street photographer in New York City. We discussed his early induction into In Public, a street photographer collective, where he met Matt Stuart, his start as a PR photographer, and how he taught himself photography at a public library. Photo of Richard Bram by John Maloof Links: Website: http://www.richardbramphoto.com Peanut Press Books: http://peanutpressbooks.com...
2016-10-021h 14
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonJoe Aguirre - Kramer O'Neill - Episode 30Joe Aguirre and Kramer O'Neill join Kai and Michael for the first multi-guest show. Joe and Kramer both belong to different photo collectives. These modern day international photo clubs/societies have grown simultaneously with the rise of sharing photos through zines, blogs, and social media. Joe and Kramer also share their ideas about what being called a street photographer means, if it means anything at all. Links: Joe Aguirre Website: http://www.joeaguirrephotography.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joe_aguirre_/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joe.aguirre Twitter: https://twitter.com/thoughtlesshero Tumblr: http://joe-aguirre.tumblr.com Kramer O'Neill...
2016-09-061h 30
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonWendel White - Episode 28"Even for my students that naturally have a lot of enthusiasm and interest in the natural landscape, we talk about the natural landscape in political terms because there's no part of the world, no matter where you go, that hasn't been impacted by both the presence of humans but also the political decisions and impact that human beings make." Wendel White is the Distinguished Professor of Art at Stockton University in his life-long state of New Jersey. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships. He had just finished his...
2016-08-051h 33
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonSasha Wolf - Episode 27"Right now I know that for me the gallery model isn't working and so I go into this new chapter with much more confidence in what I am going to be doing day to day than I actually do right now." Sasha Wolf is well known in the photography world for her gallery and her passion for photography. Kai and Michael sat down with Sasha just a couple of weeks before the final closing of her gallery in the Lower East Side of New York. The gallery closed on a high note with great reviews for the Sasha Rudensky show...
2016-07-231h 13
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonElinor Carucci - Episode 26"It's almost the opposite of daring…I find life to be difficult sometimes, this is my way of dealing with it. I photograph the deepest fears, or happiness, or joys, or flaws or whatever, and I share them with the world and then they are no longer a secret. There is something very healing and liberating about it." Elinor Carucci is a photographer because she discovered from her very first photographs that this process had the potential to create a deeper and more complex understanding of her life and the people who are in her life. Elinor uses photography as a...
2016-07-091h 23
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonGreg Miller | Unto Dust - Episode 25"There's this idea for me of like time travel…the closest we get to time travel is this awareness that photographers have …that things will change…and also I've lived long enough that now I can look back 30 years ago…and I've lost some people over the years like there's been people that you know and I'm kind of like I can't believe I didn't take a picture that day." Greg Miller is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, an instructor for the International Center of Photography, and one of the hardest working photographers in the business. His work has been widely publishe...
2016-06-241h 46
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonClaudio Nolasco - Episode 24"I left The Cooper Union completely kind of broken just because of the conversations that I was having in terms of things like race, in terms of things like who gets to make art…and I ended up working construction for a year." Claudio Nolasco sits down with Kai and Michael at Patrice Helmar's home in the Bronx just before a Camera and Supper Club presentation. Claudio speaks about his life in terms of transitions. The challenges he faced as he transitioned from a boy growing up in the Dominican Republic to boy living in a gang filled neighborhood in Br...
2016-06-101h 39
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonAndré Liohn - Episode 22"Do you come home like troubled in your head, yes, but you come back home, you have the comfort of home…but here Brazil is home and now I need to learn to leave it behind again…" André Liohn is an incredible war and documentary photographer. He has seen some of the worst violence that humans can inflict on one another. His experiences have helped shape him into a deeply philosophical photographer. He considers the act of photographing and sharing those photographs as one that carries the responsibility of treating people with respect and dignity. Michael & Kai catch up with...
2016-05-131h 22
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonMatt Stuart - Episode 21"What I tell my students is…the one thing we can not teach and they can not buy is time, and time is the key to it, you just have to keep going out there…you have to be extremely positive, you can’t go out there thinking nothing is going to happen" Matt Stuart is an extremely positive person. He's the kind of photographer where, after you have a conversation with him, you just want to run outside and make photographs. One of his favorite accusations about his photographs is that he must have set it up. He loves...
2016-04-251h 09
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonGiancarlo T. Roma - Episode 20"When you're essentially trying to get baseballs and magazines signed everyday for seven days, it does kind of become its own thing and takes on a life of its own. What you're doing more than anything is collecting, you know you're in a collector's mentality...That's something I guess I was born with, but having explored it, I definitely understand the idea of being a completist." Giancarlo T. Roma grew up in a family of creative and talented people. His parents are Thomas and Anna Roma and his grandparents are Lee and Maria Friedlander. Names that you know or...
2016-04-111h 48
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonSusan Kismaric - Part 1 - Episode 19"My sister and I would take our money [meant] for the collection box and drive downtown in Parkersburg West Virginia...and buy the New Yorker for that week and two candy bars and then we would drive the car to the city park and sit and read the New Yorker...and eat our candy bars and then go home and pretend we'd gone to mass." Michael & Kai sit down with Susan Kismaric in her Manhattan apartment for a two part episode of the show. Susan was a curator in the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art and...
2016-03-1657 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonPolina Shubkina - Episode 18"They didn't really care about communism at all, but they were just doing it because it was giving them an opportunity for better living, so they were just being smart about it. But they were atheists, because it was super super strict back then...and if you didn't want to disappear, if you didn't want to go out to camp or whatever you had to be an atheist." Michael and guest co-host, Dennis Santella, have an internet conversation with Polina from her home in Prague. We have a fascinating conversation that weaves in and out of her photographic projects and...
2016-02-221h 17
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonRachel Stern - Episode 17"...the piece I had there had a big pillow pile in the middle of the room and all of a sudden at a certain point I looked over and the pillow pile was filled with children like it had become like the ball pit of open studios..." Michael and Kai sit down with Rachel at Columbia University to discuss her show, Love 2016, that she curated at the Leroy Neiman Gallery in New York. Rachel is currently an MFA student at Columbia School of the Arts in her second year. We talk about the differences between creating work and creating...
2016-02-091h 23
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonCharles Traub - Part 2 - Episode 16"...as the hick from Louisville who went to Chicago I always wanted to be in New York and I was in fact doing my Lunchtime photographs in Chicago at that moment, I loved the idea of working on the streets of New York, and frankly, most candidly, the job didn't seem like a sales job to me, because it wasn't, it was a curatorial job, it was a way to make a statement about what photography is or was and I thought it would be wonderful..." We pickup our conversation with Charlie as he enters the gallery world with Light...
2016-01-181h 05
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonCharles Traub - Part 1 - Episode 16"My father would say, 'son you just don't see it.' What's to see, I would respond. 'It's in the horizon line.' Didn't get it. Flip forward 10 years...I'm a senior in the University of Illinois...and as always the case...photography was in the basement of the basement and as I went down the stairs...above the transom was a long panorama of the Illinois landscape. I looked at it and said, oh my god, what a beauty, that's what my father was fucking talking about." Charlie Traub has an amazing life and career in photography. He has...
2016-01-111h 08
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonJeff Hirsch - Foto Care - Episode 15"A lot of my thanks have to go to Bob (Fishkin) because he was in many ways a surrogate father figure to me besides my own dad, because he offered me opportunities that no one else had before." Kai and Michael visit Jeff Hirsch at his famed camera store, Foto Care in NYC. Jeff lays out the storied history of Foto Care from its start as the Underground Gallery on 10th Street where Duane Michals had his first solo exhibition to being one of the few camera stores left in New York that still takes pride in having relationships...
2015-12-2757 min
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonKathy Shorr | SHOT - Episode 14"...she has like her cheerleading jacket inside glass and kind of on an easel, and all kinds of pictures of her daughter, and a swing outside on the lawn that has a plaque on it..." Kathy Shorr started out in photography by photographing her children and being told they were pretty good photographs. From there she took a night class at the School of Visual Arts and was told by her professor that the photos were very good, and after making sure her professor wasn't just being nice, she enrolled full-time at SVA where she graduated with honors. Kathy has...
2015-11-291h 08
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonEileen Quinlan - Episode 13"So I was obsessed with smoke on a number of levels and I had to smoke like 20 cigarettes an hour in order to produce these pictures which was supposedly going to help me quit." Eileen Quinlan's photographic work explores the history, the tradition, and the boundaries of the medium itself. She has had amazing success as a working artist, Eileen is represented by Campoli Presti in London and Miguel Abreu in New York. She and her husband, Cheney Thompson, moved to Brooklyn to an old garage that they shared with friends to help pay for the rent and then...
2015-11-041h 21
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonEpisode 12 Origins: Thomas Roma - Part 2"I'm looking at my son's grandfather's pictures and...I felt like I was trying to explain to him who his grandfather [is.] I didn't mean to do it, I've never talked about Lee's pictures in front of Lee before." Part 2 of our conversation with Thomas Roma begins with Tom continuing to speak about the time he spent with Garry Winogrand, Tod Pappageorge, Paul McDonough, and Lee Friedlander. Also, Tom had just come back from São Paulo, Brazil before this episode so I gave him a call to talk about that experience to start the show. Hosts: Michael Chovan-Dalton and K...
2015-10-231h 04
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonEpisode 12 Origins: Thomas Roma - Part 1"There's this expression, 'The Decisive Moment,' I'm sure it functioned for a while, but the question in a photograph isn't when, it's why...I want people to look at my photographs and the 'why' is there, it's how I teach photography, it's all one thing for me." Thomas Roma has been a teacher and mentor to many photographers, including me. His list of accomplishments, which includes fourteen and counting monographs, is far too long to even try to include here, but you can check them out on his website linked below. This episode went long so it will...
2015-10-141h 15
Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-DaltonEpisode 11 Origins: Tony Chirinos"So when I found out that the flash didn't really affect the roosters at all, then that's when I started photographing." Tony Chirinos calls in to talk about how he got started in photography and his ten year graduation plan at Miami Dade College where he now teaches photography. His journey into the medical world helped him produce his haunting photos of surgery, surgical instruments, and morgues. As a child his father used to tell him stories about his life that included experiences with cockfighting. Tony always thought that his father was embellishing the stories for drama until he...
2015-10-101h 04