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Hip to Be Square

In this week’s episode we speak with photographer Brian Adams, about how listening to his intuition led him to medium format film photography and encouraged him to start a company of his own at a young age. This same intuition turned to action has carried him through a career with Getty Images and has informed his work bringing attention to the tragedy of the disappearing Alaskan Native coastal villages, being stolen by the erosion of global warming.

About Brian Adams

Brian Adams is a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, New York specializing in environmental portraiture and medium-format photography. His work has been featured in both national and international publications, such as The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, The Guardian, The Observer, and many others, and his work documenting Native Alaskan villages has been showcased in galleries across the U.S., including the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the Alaska …

They Bailed But They’re Back

In this week’s episode, we speak with photographers Brody Dezember and David Salomone about their roller coaster relationship with Pictage. We examine all the ups and downs of that relationship in our investigation of how a company can cast off past failings and regain the trust of its displaced evangelists.

About Brody Dezember

Brody is a Utah native, but dreams of living someplace in Montana.  There is something about the rivers and mountains that makes him love being there.

He stepped into photography when he was an early teen and has loved photographing everything from landscapes to some of the most outrageous weddings all over the country.  Over the past 7 years he has grown his business to being one of the most sought after studios in the state, but it hasn’t always been easy.  In the beginning he worked overnight shifts at a retail job and spent the …

A Better Place to Be

In this week’s episode we speak with photographer Kirstie Tweed, owner of Orange Girl Photographs, about how a small town can surprise you with a turn of events you couldn’t have imagined. Kirstie shares the decisions that brought her to a small town in rural Canada and how following her heart and intuition has yielded far greater results than all the planning and logic in the world could have.

About Kirstie Tweed

I was given the name Orange Girl in high school for driving a 1973 orange superbeetle, dying my hair orange and wearing orange everyday, the name and my love of orange has stuck with me. I attended art school in Canada before moving to San Francisco to work in an art galley and exhibit my fine art work. I moved to New York for a brief year to work for a fashion photographer and photograph musicians before …