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The Camera Cafe Show

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Brewing up inspiration for your photography journey! Love photography? So do we! The Camera Café Show brings you entertaining conversations with photographers from around the world, exploring the stories behind their pictures, careers and creative journeys. From National Geographic legends and documentary photographers to wildlife, landscape and travel photographers, photojournalists, conservation photographers and emerging voices, host Tom Jacob talks with guests about photography, creativity,

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35:27

Carolyn van Houten: Photojournalism. On Being...

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2026/09/27

There are photo assignments where the story is difficult. There are assignments where the conditions are difficult. And then there are the ones that remind you that there can still be hope and joy in the middle of everything else.In Part Two of my conversation with photojournalist Carolyn van Houten, we continue her journey into some of the stories that have taken her around the world — from a missile attack in Ukraine, to women under the Taliban in Afghanistan, to speeding bullets in Somalia, or

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45:34

Carolyn van Houten: Photojournalism. On Being...

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2026/09/20

A photograph can win an award. It can tell a story. And sometimes, it can change what happens to the person in the frame. Photojournalist Carolyn van Houten has seen all three.Carolyn spent almost nine years as a staff photographer at The Washington Post, until the entire photography staff was laid off earlier this year. It seemed like a good moment to finally sit down and hear the story behind the photographer. And what a story it is. Once Carolyn decided that photojournalism was what she wanted

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37:14

Peter Mather: Photographing the Elusive Wild North...

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2026/08/30

Wolverines. The Yukon. Lots of snow. And a wildlife photographer who once happened to be a math teacher. Welcome to the wild world of Peter Mather! 🐺❄️📸In Part One of my conversation with Peter, we head north to the Yukon and follow the story of how he turned a love of the wilderness into a life photographing some of Canada's most elusive wildlife. Peter has spent years chasing stories rather than simply chasing pictures, and his work has taken him deep into the Yukon, earned him a World Press

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37:03

Sue Flood: And Now for Something Completely Wild...

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2026/08/23

Welcome to the Adventure Emporium. Antarctica? Penguins? Michael Palin? Shackleton's Hut? We seem to have the lot. Sadly, we're completely sold out of comfy couches 😄 If Part One was the story of how photographer Sue Flood found her way into the BBC, Part Two is where things get seriously wild! We follow the next chapter of her extraordinary life, building a career around photography, conservation and some of the most remote places on Earth. Along the way, Sue's story brings together some pretty

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38:41

David Valdez: My Years with George H.W. Bush (Part 1)

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2026/08/02

When President George H.W. Bush told him to “jump”, he of course did... which seems like a perfectly good way to start another episode of The Camera Café Show 😄📸In Part One of my conversation with former Chief Official White House Photographer David Valdez, we travel back to where his remarkable journey began—from discovering photography almost by accident in the U.S. Air Force to eventually finding himself behind the camera for George H.W. Bush. David takes us into those early years

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37:11

Bruce Dale: Planning for the Unplanned (Part 2)

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2026/07/26

What happens when you strap a camera to the tail of a jumbo jet?😅📸 In Part Two of my conversation with former National Geographic photographer Bruce Dale, we continue our conversation by uncovering the stories behind some of his most iconic National Geographic photographs. It turns out getting the shot was only half the story. Long before the shutter clicked, Bruce was designing, building, testing, and refining entirely new ways to make seemingly impossible images possible. We talk about the

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46:18

Bruce Dale: Planning for the Unplanned (Part 1)

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2026/07/19

Did you read National Geographic magazine as a kid in your bedroom, dreaming about all those faraway places? The only difference is that some end up spending thirty years travelling the world and photographing those very places—all because they never stopped exploring 🌍📸 In this first part of my conversation with former National Geographic staff photographer Bruce Dale, we travel back to his childhood in Ohio and follow the unexpected road that took him from riding freight trains and newspaper

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69:10

Ian Berry: The Boy Who Wanted To See The World

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2026/07/12

As a teenager, Ian Berry left England to see the world. A few years later, he had joined Magnum Photos and would go on to spend more than six decades documenting people, places, and some of history's defining moments with his Leica. Together we travel across continents and through more than sixty years of photography, talking about his encounters with Henri Cartier-Bresson, joining Magnum, Ian's books, the people he met along the way, and the lessons he learned from a lifetime behind the camera

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36:35

Meryl Meisler: Street Photography and Boogie Nights...

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2026/07/05

Retirement usually means less work, fewer surprises, and a cleaner attic. Unless, of course, you're a photographer with a lifetime of negatives waiting upstairs. And that's exactly where we continue our conversation today 😊 In Part 2 of my conversation with photographer Meryl Meisler, we move beyond the disco dance floors and into the remarkable second chapter of her life. After spending more than thirty years as an art teacher, Meryl found herself rediscovering decades of photographs that would

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40:29

Meryl Meisler: Street Photography and Boogie Nights...

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2026/06/28

Remember the wild hairstyles, the fancy dance moves, and the nights when Studio 54 ruled New York? Well, today's guest was there... camera in hand, and thankfully she kept the negatives! In this first part of my conversation with Meryl Meisler, we travel back to the beginning of a remarkable photographic journey. Best known today for her street photography and photographs of the '70s disco era, Meryl spent decades documenting the people around her, never imagining that these everyday moments would

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60:39

Pedaling the Whooper Highway: Mike Forsberg & Andy Caven

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2026/06/21

Most people look at bird migrations on maps. A photographer and a biologist decided to follow one on bicycles...for 2,500 miles!When I first reached out to Mike Forsberg, the plan was to talk about his remarkable photography career and decades of conservation storytelling. Then I discovered that Mike and his friend Andy Caven were about to set off on a bicycle journey from the Texas Gulf Coast to central Saskatchewan, following the migration route of the endangered whooping crane. Suddenly, that

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39:09

Ukraine: Living Inside the Story — Oksana Parafeniuk...

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2026/06/07

For most photojournalists, war is something they travel to. For others, it's the reality of the place they call home. In Part 1 of this special two-part conversation, I sit down with Ukrainian photojournalists Oksana Parafeniuk and Iva Sidash. Iva was on our show in 2023, one year after the Russian invasion, but since then her photography journey has taken her further, studying at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. Oksana, meanwhile, has gone from being a fixer to becoming

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66:41

Pascal Maitre: Photojournalism Beneath the Headlines

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2026/05/31

Crossing the Afghanistan border in disguise at night was once just part of the job 🌍📸 In this episode I sit down with legendary French photojournalist Pascal Maitre — whose work over the last four decades has taken him to places such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan ,more than forty countries throughout Africa, and worked in South America, Russia, the Middle East, Latin America and numerous other regions over the last four decades. And over this +40 year career, his photography has

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41:19

David duChemin: Confessions Beyond the Rubber Chicken...

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2026/05/24

Style is easy to imitate. Voice is something else entirely.In this second part of my conversation with David duChemin, we move deeper into creativity, artistic identity, social media, fear, and the challenge of making work that actually feels honest in a world full of comparison and noise. We talk about the difference between style and voice, the pressure to imitate what everyone else is doing, wildlife photography, curiosity, inspiration, and why sometimes the hardest thing creatively is simply

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37:44

Chris Johns: Shaping How Millions See the World (Part 2)

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2026/05/10

Former Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic Chris Johns returns in part two of this conversation — taking us behind the scenes of how some of the world’s most powerful stories are shaped. If you haven’t listened to part one of my conversation with Chris yet, I’d really recommend going back and starting there first. It gives you the full picture of how this story unfolds.We pick up right where we left off, diving into stories from photographers in the field, what really happens behind the images

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36:25

Chris Johns: Shaping How Millions See the World (Part 1)

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2026/05/03

Former Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic Chris Johns joins the show to share how storytelling, photography, and life experience come together to shape how millions of people see the world. In this first part of our conversation, Chris takes us back to where it all began — from growing up on a small farm in Oregon to discovering photography almost by accident, and how those early experiences set the foundation for a lifetime in visual storytelling. We also talk about his early years working in

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35:35

Ian Wood: A New Hope for Badgers

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2026/04/19

Sometimes, a story doesn’t just stay a story — sometimes, something actually changes.Wildlife photographer Ian Wood returns to our Show with powerful updates following our first conversation. After winning the People’s Choice Award at Wildlife Photographer of the Year with his now well-known badger image, Ian has continued to push the story forward — recently winning the documentary category at the British Wildlife Photography Awards with a six-image series focused on the badger cull in

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39:51

Robert Madden: Planes, Trains & National Geographic...

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2026/02/22

Some photos take a lifetime to get. Others almost melt your shoes!In Part 2 of this conversation with former National Geographic staff photographer Robert “Bob” Madden, we dive straight into the stories behind the photographs. From documenting an erupting volcano in Hawaii to capturing what may be one of the last images of the Kauai ʻōʻō bird, and photographing in the Amazon with the Yanomami, this episode spans decades of travel and storytelling in the field. We also hear about Bob’s time working

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48:47

Robert Madden: Planes, Trains & National Geographic...

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2026/02/15

Some assignments take you around the world on small roads. Others land you on a highway with your plane.In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, former National Geographic Staff photographer Robert “Bob” Madden takes us back to his beginnings, the golden era of the magazine and into the stories behind two remarkable images — including his famous Guatemala earthquake bush-plane crash photograph, later selected as one of National Geographic’s 50 most iconic pictures, and the return of the Apollo 11

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72:08

Nancy Borowick: Holding Love Through a Camera

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2026/02/08

What does it mean to Hold Love through a Camera? In this moving episode, documentary photographer Nancy Borowick shares the story behind The Family Imprint and how photography helped her stay close during loss.We talk about photography as presence, as armor, and as a way to stay close during life’s most fragile moments. Nancy reflects on trust, ethics, grief, and how storytelling can transform personal loss into something that resonates far beyond one family. This is an emotional yet uplifting

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