Emulsions Podcast

Stephen Shore talks to us about having integrity in your work and evolving as an artist, mastering a style and avoiding repeating yourself just for money and status, his journey through large format photography, new ways of visualizing and problem solving in your work, the balance needed for great composition, his next big film photography project and more!

Mike Brodie talks to us about growing up in the BMX and punk scene leading to photography, capturing freight hopping culture and community on film, Polaroid and 35mm, making photo books, taking time away from the art world, his new book, “Failing” and more!

Richard Kern joins us as we discuss Antonioni’s “Blow-Up,” the photographer-as-rockstar, Carlo Di Palma’s cinematography, context and abstractions in art films, the Hasselblad, changing youth culture upon the movie’s release and more!

We talk with cinematographer, Sharif El-Neklawy, about Eric Rohmer's first movie in color, legendary cinematographer Nestor Almendros, Sharif breaks down lighting set ups, how to make a micro budget movie feel elegant and elevated, the French life of leisure in the South of France and more!

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Join us as Hollis tells Stephen about his five favorite film photographs, what it reveals about a person when they share their favorites, the commonality of different photographers from different decades, subconscious attraction to certain styles, how art and the story behind it can be a mystery and more!