Today’s guest is Ada Trillo a queer, first-generation Mexican-American artist who merges documentary and fine art in her photography. Growing up on the border between Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, inspired her to explore national and metaphorical borders of inequality in her work. She focuses on walls of inclusion and exclusion, such as those based on climate and violence related to migration, as well as internal exclusions resulting from long-standing barriers of race, class, gender, and trauma that have been influenced by colonization.

Trillo’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of renowned museums and institutions including the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Ada Trillo was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography 2024, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship in 2022, The Eddie Adams Workshop Canon Award in 2022, The Female In Focus award in 2020, The Leeway Foundation Transformation Award, The Me & Eve Grant with the Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe. Additionally, she received First Place in the editorial category at the Tokyo International Foto Awards.

Trillo’s first monograph, La Caravana Del Diablo: On the Run from the Northern Triangle to America, was published by Komma (Netherlands) in 2021. It is a powerful account of seven years of traveling with refugees and migrants from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trillo’s Photographs have been published in renowned publications, including The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones. Trillo has showcased her work globally, including in New York City, Philadelphia, Luxembourg, England, Italy, Germany, and Japan. She holds degrees from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan and Drexel University in Philadelphia. Trillo is also a member of The Diversify Photo Community.

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 Conservation photographer and Filmmaker, Kristi Odom, has worked in some of the earth’s most remote locations to help document stories that will help protect our planet’s biodiversity. She is an internationally awarded photographer, an associate fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Nikon Ambassador and a motivational speaker.

She believes strongly in the power of photography to help create positive change and ultimately help protect the planet’s wildlife. A photographer and filmmaker, her work focuses on connecting people emotionally to animals and celebrating those who fight to protect the natural world.

Her accolades include over 60 international photography awards. She also was included in National Geographic’s 2021 collection for Best Animal Photos and her work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Her work has appeared either online and/or in print for the following clients: National Geographic, Washington Post, New York Times, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Nikon, Microsoft and Outside Magazine.

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Wendel White. Photo Credit: Carmela Cólon-White  

Newark, New Jersey native Wendel White has made significant accomplishments both in and out of his home state. As a documentary photographer whose primary focus is the Black experience in the United States, White’s captivating work has been displayed in locations as varied as the New Jersey State Museum, San Francisco, California’s The Arts at CIIS, and Charlotte, North Carolina’s Mint Museum. Another major career accolade of White’s is that he has taught at Stockton University for over 35 years and is now a Distinguished Professor of Art there.

One of the more recent accomplishments of White’s is his 2021 receipt of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from Harvard University‘s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. White utilized this fellowship for Manifest | Thirteen Colonies, a photo project centered around African American material culture from the Thirteen Colonies and Washington, D.C. Manifest | Thirteen Colonies is available for preorder here.  White’s new exhibition of Manifest: Thirteen Colonies will be launching May 16, at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.

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Phillip Toledano. Source: LensCulture

A self-described conceptual artist, Phillip Toledano is an acclaimed creative known for work spanning a variety of mediums that include photography, videography, sculpture, and painting. With poignant photo projects including “When I Was Six” and “Days With My Father,” Toledano has proven his unique ability to convey deep understanding of complex emotions and situations. With 65,000 followers and counting on his Instagram account (where much of his work is shared), the public’s interest in and connection with the creative endeavors Toledano has to share is evident.

Toledano will be in NYC at The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) exhibition on April 28 signing copies of his new book, Another America, which is available here. Utilizing AI to generate photographs set in the 1940s and 50s, Toledano’s Another America poses a modernly produced, alternative view of our nation’s history. You can find him @ 3PM L’Artiere | Booth P22.

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Kaitlin Newman. Photo Credit

Baltimore native Kaitlin Newman is a multifaceted photojournalist whose work in the field began at 16 years old on her high school’s newspaper staff. Since earning both a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science in Journalism from Towson University, Newman’s photojournalistic career has developed to span sports, entertainment, and protest photography as well as becoming a Professor of Photojournalism at her alma mater. Additionally, Newman serves as Assistant Photo Editor and Staff Photojournalist for The Baltimore Banner and has had work published in the The Los Angeles Times, The Weather Channel, BuzzFeed News, and more.

Kaitlin was one of the first photographers on site at the recent Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore.  She tells the story and the deeper human interest stories that followed in Baltimore, including the story of the last truck to clear the bridge before it fell.

Keep up with Kaitlin Newman by following her Instagram, @kaitlinobscura.

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Carey Wagner. Photo Credit: Steve Remich

New York City-based Carey Wagner is a documentary photographer that recently became the President of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), an organization she has been involved with since 2001. Wagner is also a two-time International Reporting Project Fellow for her work in The New York Times and PRI’s The World and produced the Letters of Hope campaign with the humanitarian non-profit organization CARE. In addition to her acclaimed photographic work, Wagner has found success in the filmmaking realm as an additional cinematographer on The Long Night, a documentary film set in Seattle, Washington revolving around domestic minor sex trafficking. With such extensive experience documenting relevant social issues, Wagner has shared her knowledge with others as both a Nikon School Instructor and workshop teacher at Italy’s IF/Academy.

NPPA offers a highly discounted rate of only $25 for students to join.

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Eugene Richards. Photo Credit: Jocelyn Bain Hogg.

Our 100th Episode! This is the first of our Masters Episodes in which we will speak with the giants, masters of their craft, the inspirations, mentors and great ones.

In celebration, our 100th episode is a conversation with the great Eugene Richards, truly a master of his craft. After earning a degree in English from Northeastern University, Richards began studying photography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Minor White. Richards’ career since has included filmmaking and documenting poverty, rural life, breast cancer, an emergency room, and much more. A particularly notable work of Richards is 1994’s Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, the rawness of which got him blacklisted for daring to show the real impact of crack cocaine. Contributing to Richards’ esteem are his memberships to both Magnum Photos and VII Photo and numerous awards that include his 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship and the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award in 1981.

Cover of In This Brief Life.

In September 2023, Richards released his 17th book, In This Brief Life, which contains over 50 years of unseen work (spanning his entire career to the present day). Signed copies of In This Brief Life are available for purchase here.  And listen in as we have BREAKING NEWS about his next 2 books!!

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Tamir Kalifa (image credit)

Throughout his extensive photographic career that now spans over a decade, Tamir Kalifa has captured a variety of significant events within the nation in beyond. Dealing with subject matters such as the impacts of violence and political happenings, Kalifa’s work often appears in acclaimed publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post.

A specific area of interest for Kalifa has been Texas. Having spent five months in the Uvalde, TX, community after the infamous Robb Elementary School mass shooting in 2022, Kalifa wrote a gut-wrenching article in light of its year anniversary for The New York Times. Even before his coverage of Uvalde, Kalifa had spent three months working with victims of the El Paso, TX, Walmart shooting in 2019. Photo collections like “El Paso Strong” and “Texas, Our Texas” are additional testaments to Kalifa’s deep-rooted relationship with the state.

A recent accomplishment of Kalifa’s is the 2024 American Mosaic Journalism Prize, which honors reporting excellence in the areas of underrepresented and/or misrepresented groups in the United States. Currently, Kalifa is in Tel Aviv, Israel on assignment documenting their side of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict due to his inability to travel into Gaza to cover Palestine.

Keep up with Tamir on Instagram or explore some highlights via his Linktree.

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Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson. (Credit: Esha Chiocchio)

Mary Virginia Swanson is an acclaimed photographer whose endeavors within the field expand to education and entrepreneurship. After earning her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University in 1979, Swanson held photography-centric roles in both California and New York City. In 1990, however, Swanson returned to Arizona (where she remains today) and created her own photography license managing agency called Swanstock. Now, Swanson works as an independent art consultant, teacher, and non-profit advisor.

Among Swanson’s most recent accomplishments is the 2023 release of the third edition of Publish Your Photography Book, which she co-authored with Darius Himes. Published by Radius Books, Publish Your Photography Book offers practical insight as to how one can publish a photography book of their own and even includes a removable workbook to further aid in the process. Purchase Publish Your Photography Book here.

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Greta Pratt joins the podcast this week to discuss her work, which explores themes of American patriotism, colonialism, myth, and identity as well as memory and climate change. Having had solo exhibitions as recent as 2021 at the Andrews Gallery at The College of William & Mary in addition to her first in 1994 at the Minneapolis Photographer’s Gallery in Minnesota, Pratt’s work has been displayed and enjoyed for decades.

An image from Nineteen Lincolns.

Pratt has published four books, the most recent of which is 2020’s Nineteen Lincolns, which highlights nineteen different members of The Association of Lincoln Presenters that were each tasked with presenting “his idea of Lincoln for the camera.” Accompanying each evocative portrait are personal insights from each Lincoln impersonator about what exactly inspired their pursuance of becoming impersonators.

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