Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton

Feb 24 2025 212 ep. 58 mins 39

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Real Photo Show with Michael Chovan-Dalton is a podcast about photographers and the related arts.

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Tabitha Barnard | Jake Benzinger | Dead Trees Speak to Me

Feb 24 2025 43 mins

Jake Benzinger (Wych Elm) and Tabitha Barnard join me to officially launch my series on publishers and authors where I explore the relationship that builds between publishers, editors, designers, and photographers and to hopefully provide some insight as to how photobooks are being made. Tabitha’s book, Dead Trees Speak to Me, was Jake’s first photo book that was not his own an

Daniel Power | Yolanda Cuomo | Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking

Feb 10 2025 59 mins

Daniel Power of PowerHouse Books and Yolanda Cuomo of Yolanda Cuomo Design join me for my 200th episode to talk about their famed collaborations including their latest, Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking (PowerHouse). This was a really fun and enlightening episode. It is filled with great history and great humor from two incredibly influential figures in photograph

Shen Wei | A Season Particular

Jan 09 2025 44 mins

Artist Shen Wei joins me to talk about his book, A Season Particular (TBW Books). We talk about Shen's mixing of body and flora as representative of his own cultural identity and exploration of desire and intimacy. Shen and I discuss the process of editing and making this book with Paul Schiek as well as what Shen had learned when he worked with Lesley A. Martin on his first monogr

Reuben Radding | Heavenly Arms

Dec 24 2024 53 mins

Reuben Radding | Heavenly Arms Photographer and educator, Reuben Radding, joins me to talk about his book, Heavenly Arms (Red Hook Editions). We cover the entire process of producing this book beginning with selecting and sequencing the photos, working with a publisher, crowdsourcing funds, and finally, how the process will impact Reuben's future work. http://www.reubenradding.com

2024 Chico Review Attendees

Dec 20 2024 75 mins

Here are the final recordings I made at the 2024 Chico Review with the wonderful attendees who come to Chico to share their work and their stories with incredible reviewers. I had the opportunity to spend a short amount of time with over 20 attendees. These conversations come from our first interactions for me and the guests with each other and I did not see the work before the rec

2024 Chico Review Attendees

Dec 08 2024 48 mins

Here are some of the recordings I made at the 2024 Chico Review with the wonderful attendees who come to Chico to share their work and their stories with incredible reviewers. I had the opportunity to spend a short amount of time with over 20 attendees. These conversations come from our first interactions for me and the guests with each other and I did not see the work before the r

JF Bouchard | The New Cubans

Nov 27 2024 43 mins

My guest today is photographer JF Bouchard. JF and I talk about his book, The New Cubans (powerHouse Books) and how he became aware of and how he approached photographing a lesser known subculture in Cuba that consists of younger Cubans who are non-conformist and more gender diverse. JF describes his goal towards collaborating in a way in which he is both working for himself but al

2024 Chico Review Attendees

Nov 18 2024 33 mins

Here are some of the recordings I made at the 2024 Chico Review with the wonderful attendees who come to Chico to share their work and their stories with incredible reviewers. I had the opportunity to spend a short amount of time with over 20 attendees. These conversations come from our first interactions for me and the guests with each other and I did not see the work before the r

Lydia Panas | The Mark of Abel

Nov 11 2024 42 mins

Visual Artist and educator, Lydia Panas and I have a wonderful conversation about her work including her books, Falling from Grace (self published), The Mark of Abel (Kehrer Verlag), and Sleeping Beauty (MW Editions). We talk about her use of allegorical themes as a way of pushing back against them and we talk extensively about how she works with and connects with her models and ho

Abelardo Morell | Reinventing Photography

Oct 28 2024 39 mins

Abelardo Morell joins me to talk about his storied career and incredible passion for photography and art history. We talk about Flowers for Lisa, published by Abrams Books and Tent-Camera, published by Nazraeli Press, including the inspiration and the inventiveness of these works and the work that came before and after. Abe's work has long been fundamental to my teaching practice a