The Photowalk

In today's FOCUS EDITION, meet Giles Penfound, former head of press photography for the British Army. Early in 2017 I made a film with Giles and during the cast you’ll hear him make reference to the photographs that he shows within that film. If it weren’t for his graphic description of the images, this episode may just have resided as that film, but the ability to transpose this to sound only is testament to how Giles describes his life as a photographer.

I first met the photographer Steve Shipman in 2013. He was attending a photography workshop I was hosting about still images and sound combined, ironically. I’d been shooting professionally less than a decade. He’d been photographing for considerably more time. He was the ninth name to book on and I made a note about him; ‘Very proficient photographer, really nice chap too.' Meet Steve Shipman, one of the most generous photographers I have had the pleasure to know.

Tom Stoddart is my guest in this first Focus Edition for Photography Daily. Known and respected widely as one of the world’s most respected photojournalists, his photographs of conflict and unrest, famine and pivotal historical moments such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of President Mandela, and the siege of Sarajevo undeniably shaped and still form public opinion. The documentary opens, and closes in fact, where it all began for him decades ago; a small fishing village in