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Prime Lenses

A camera is just a tool, but spend enough time with photographers, and you’ll see them go misty-eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small, fast prime that they had in their youth. Prime Lenses is a series of interviews with photographers talking about their photography by way of three lenses that mean a lot to them. These can be interchangeable, attached to a camera, integrated into a gadget. I’m interested in the sometimes complex relationship we have with the tools we choose, why

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Episode 86 - Ted Forbes

Prime Lenses ·

2025/11/02

My guest today is Ted Forbes. A photographer and educator from the US who has made videos online for over 16 years. He released a book last year summarising his thoughts and feeling about the art form and spends much of his time on workshops traveling the world and sharing knowledge. I’ve watched Ted’s videos for pretty much all of those 16 years so the opportunity to spend a hour speaking with him was a real treat, I think you’ll get a kick out of our chat.More about this show:A camera is just a

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It Feels like the Beginning Again - AJ Woomer & Dan...

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2025/10/29

In this special episode I speak with AJ Woomer and Dan Rubin about AJ’s first book of photography, It Feels Like The Beginning Again.More about this show:A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small fast prime that they had in their youth. Prime Lenses is a series of interviews with photographers talking about their photography by way of three lenses that mean a lot to them. These can be

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Episode 85 - Davide De Martis

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2025/10/26

Davide De Martis is an Italian photographer known for his portraiture of cars and people. He is a student of the visual arts and a treat to spend time with. I tracked Davide down because when I was in Germany at the Leica event, someone had driven there in a very fancy Lamborghini with Italian plates. I posted a picture to socials and was challenged by a listener to find the owner of the vehicle and ask them what the story was. It turns out that Davide shoots for the famous Italian car brand and had

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Street Scenes with Phil Penman

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2025/10/22

This week, a special extra episode with Phil Penman to talk about his new book, Street Scenes.More about this show:A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small fast prime that they had in their youth. Prime Lenses is a series of interviews with photographers talking about their photography by way of three lenses that mean a lot to them. These can be interchangeable, attached to a camera,

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Episode 84 - Jasper Fforde

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2025/10/19

Jasper Fforde is a writer based in Wales. He writes absurdist fiction which I love, but I only recently discovered after 20 years of reading his books, that he’s also a photographer. Shooting film pretty much exclusively he has a collection of amazing vintage film cameras that rivals any selection I’ve ever come across.In the episode we talk about Alice Longstaff’s photos and you can find out more about her by listening to a previous episode. I couldn’t find the Red Square photographer

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Migration Patterns with Brandon Ruffin

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2025/10/15

This week I was able to sit down with friend of the show Brandon Ruffin to talk about his new book, Migration Patterns. In this first book, Brandon shares images that help us to understand his family journey, his heritage and will encourage readers to reflect on where we come from and where we’re going.We also discuss Rahim Fortune’s book Hard Tack, Jamel Shabazz’s A Time Before Crack and Shin Noguchi’s In Color Japan.More about this show:A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with

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Episode 83 - Ellie Rothnie

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2025/10/12

Ellie Rothnie is an award winning wildlife photographer based in the UK but as you’ll hear spends more time on the road than at home. A passionate photographer, she picked up a camera along side a “real job” before ditching the nine to five of agency life for one making photos, leading workshops and experiencing the incredible beauty that our natural world has to offer.More about this show:A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they

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Episode 82 - Mathieu Bitton

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2025/10/05

This week I’m in London to speak to Mathieu Bitton, a photographer I’ve admired for some time and was lucky enough to meet in Germany earlier this year. He took time out from his work on tour with Dave Chappelle to talk to me about his love of vintage lenses and his home city of Paris as depicted in his new book, Paris Blues.More about this show:A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small fast

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0:56:57

New Glass, Old Soul

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2025/10/01

This week I was able to sneak in an extra episode, talking about the new Hektor lenses from Leitz Cine. Seth was gracious enough to sit down with me for a little bonus episode. More about this show:A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small fast prime that they had in their youth. Prime Lenses is a series of interviews with photographers talking about their photography by way of three lenses

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Episode 81 - Bil Brown

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2025/09/28

Like many folks I like to talk to on the show, Bil Brown is a multi-media artist. He studied writing and poetry but things changed for him when he saw a Leica round Allen Ginsberg’s neck. I was initially interested in how Bil’s commercial and political work coexisted but as you’ll hear, like me he loves to just dive in and our conversation is very wide ranging covering composition, motivation, gear, it’s a whole thing. This one’s densely packed and we keep returning to why we make photos and I

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Episode 80 - Laurence Bouchard

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2025/09/21

This week my guest is Laurence Bouchard, a British photographer based in Tokyo. He captures the rain soaked streets in incredible detail, his images are also most graphic illustration as much as they are photos and I wanted to speak to him about he approaches the futuristic city he calls home, what it was like to be in a short film shot on vintage glass, and whether he’s fully acclimatised now he’s 20 years into his time in Japan.More about this show:A camera is just a tool but spend enough time

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Episode 79 - Pete Souza

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2025/09/14

Pete Souza is a former Whitehouse photographer, serving during the latter part of the Reagan Presidency, but was better known to me as the head of photography for the Obama Whitehouse where he and his team made an archive of almost two million images, made history by capturing the first official presidential portrait on a digital camera, and captured moments big and small for posterity. Pete has also had an interesting post presidency, as a private citizen he is outspoken and uses his images to

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Episode 78 - Goughie

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2025/09/07

My guest today is Goughie, a photographer and YouTuber in the UK who shoots a variety of photo projects on his various systems to share with his audience online. From posting to a small number of folks back in 2019, he has grown his following and as you’ll hear, I think has a healthy balance to his work online. It’s in service of the photos he wants to make, not the other way around.More about this show:A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty

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Episode 77 - Silvergrain Classics

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2025/08/31

My guests today are Charys Schuler and Marwan El Mozayen from Silvergrain Classics. In an age of AI and digital consumption on ever increasing numbers of screens, they are charting a path in the opposite direction. Analogue photography of all kinds is celebrated every quarter in their beautiful magazine which they produce in Germany and send around the world. They are also half of a new company Silver Bridges, helping to bring back the wonderful Widelux camera, a favourite of many photographers and

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Prime Lenses - The One Where Iain Talks With Friends

Prime Lenses ·

2025/08/27

This is a midweek mini episode to go along with the newsletter this week. I’m speaking with a few friends about upcoming projects. Hope you enjoy it! Guests - Tom Oldham & @hann_onfilmMore about this show:A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them go misty eyed when they talk about their first camera or a small fast prime that they had in their youth. Prime Lenses is a series of interviews with photographers talking about their photography by way of

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Prime Lenses Episode 76 - Two Strangers Trying not to...

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2025/08/24

Welcome to a slightly different format this week as my guests are Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett, Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter. They are the creative team behind Two Strangers Trying not to Kill Each Other, a documentary following the life of Maggie and Joel, two artists reckoning with aging, their relationship with one another and their work. A chance encounter with Jacob and Manon in the Café in Wetzlar resulted in an invitation to London to record with all four of them to talk about making

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Prime Lenses Episode 75 - Mynxii White

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2025/08/17

Mynxxi White is a photographer and filmmaker from New York City. Specialising in celebrity portrait and commercial work she started out as a makeup artist and then creative director but was frustrated by some of her collaborators to the point that nearly 10 years ago she picked up the camera herself and hasn’t looked back. We missed each other in Germany earlier this year so I’m thrilled that we got to sit down and talk about our shared love of image making, the work she’s looking to take on next

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Prime Lenses Episode 74 - Jack Lodge

Prime Lenses ·

2025/08/10

Jack Lodge is a landscape and wildlife photographer based in the south of England. This conversation is well timed as he’s gradually moving from purely landscape to wildlife with a little bit of astral in there for good measure, and if I had to guess I wouldn’t be surprised if film showed up at some point in the not too distant future. He was lovely company, I hope you enjoy this chat with Jack.More about this show:A camera is just a tool but spend enough time with photographers and you’ll see them

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Prime Lenses Episode 73 - 2bitboy

Prime Lenses ·

2025/08/03

This week on the show I spoke with Sam aka 2bitboy, the creator of the 2bittoy, a modification kit for the gameboy camera. You can 3D print this add on kit, take the innards of your Gameboy Camera out, put them in this shell and then use the camera with a variety of lenses. This was exactly the sort of madness I wanted to delve into and Sam was kind enough to give up some of his weekend to talk to me about it. This is nerdy in the best ways possible. I hope you enjoy it.More about this show:A camera

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Leica 100 Special Episode 4

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2025/07/30

For the next four weeks, in addition to the regular Sunday episode, I’ll be dropping a special episode with interviews from a recent event I attended. Leica invited me to their centenary celebrations at the end of June, they were celebrating 100 years on continuous camera manufacture and they invited a few of their closest friends to attend and celebrate with them. I was invited to interview a number of special guests and so I’m going to present to you four twenty-five minute episodes. 100 minutes

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