Available Light
Between 2016 and 2019, I ran a podcast exploring the history, culture, and madness of photography. The episodes are archived here.
Episode 1
The Banality of Color
Why looking at the past in color is such an uncanny experience.
Episode 2
New Vision
Photographic lessons from a radical 1920s approach to art.
Episode 3
The Fourth Dimension
What the Decisive Moment means for originality.
Episode 4
Anterior Future
Tina Modotti’s portrait is all the more powerful because we’ll know what will happen to her.
Episode 5
Hyperreality
We like to say that the camera doesn’t lie. But the reality it captures isn’t quite true either.
Episode 6
Introspection
Why a Chilean photographer quit fame in pursuit of mysticism and solitude.
Episode 7
Photopoetry
Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo captured something that cannot be seen.
Episode 8
Historical Distance
Vitas Luckus was too revolutionary a photographer to be accepted. But his is no ordinary rebel’s story.
Episode 9
Identity
Gerda Taro didn’t just help invent one of the world’s most famous photographers. Briefly, she was him.
Episode 10
Presence
I traveled to Stockholm to ask photographer Anders Petersen how he takes his photos — and got some very different answers than I expected.