Neutral Exposure Al Simmons

If you don’t know the name Glen E Friedman, you’ll almost certainly know his work, and if you don’t know the work you’ve not had your eyes open for the last 40 years. Glen is responsible for some of the most iconic imagery of the skateboarding, punk and hip hop scenes, and someone I've been a big fan of for a long time.

I first encountered Glen’s work when I picked up Keep Your Eyes Open off my brother’s bookshelf when I was about 15 - a collection of Glen’s work with the band Fugazi. At this stage I was shooting live music around Leeds and Bradford, and in keeping with the title of the book had my eyes opened by the intimacy and energy within the work, and the relationship that was there between photographer and band.

As someone who has been pretty well interviewed in the past, I didn’t want to ask Glen too much that he’d been asked already, and I think the result is a great chat. Hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!

You should find him on Instagram @glenefriedman, where you can see a host of his archive images, and also keep up to date with whatever he has in the works for the future.

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Nick Guttridge is primarily an architectural photographer, though in recent years has also started producing performance and portrait work in collaboration with dance artists. In the chat we talk about how Nick balances these two worlds. Nick started out as a product design student before getting started and building up his photography career, and we dig into where his sensibility for architectural photography came from, and how he's maintained his client relationships over the years. Of course, there's a bit of nerding out over gear as well.

You should check Nick's work out at www.nickguttridge.com and follow him on instagram @nickguttridge.

Great to spend the time chatting with Nick, and I hope you enjoy the conversation!

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Benji Reid is a photographer based in Manchester working on what he self-terms Choreophotlism, which blends dance choreography and physical theatre with his photography practice. We chatted about why Benji turned to photography about 15 yeas ago, and how his career and unfolded since then, and the challenges he’s faced along the way. We talk about moving from a world in which he was directing live productions within a team, to producing still imagery - often self portraits - within a 5x4 foot home studio.

You should check Benji’s work out at www.benjireid.com and follow him on instagram @benjireid.

I really enjoyed getting to know Benji in this chat, and I hope you dig the conversation!

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Yang Wang Preston is a landscape photographer based in West Yorkshire. Yan’s professional photography career started relatively recently, having previously worked in medicine, and this change in direction coincided with her moving from China to West Yorkshire. We chat about how her projects have found a balance between the artistic and academic worlds, particularly her projects Mother River and Forest which are both beautiful aesthetic works, while also being close cultural research studies of the changing Chinese natural and urban landscapes. It was great to hear also what Yan is working on at the moment to unpack her own sense of home in the post-industrial Northern English landscape she now calls home.

You should check out Yan’s work at www.yanwangpreston.com and find her on instagram @yanwangpreston.

Really Nice chat, I hope you enjoy it!

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Rachael Wright is a British photographer based in San Francisco, shooting publicity and portraiture within the editorial and advertising worlds. Rachael shares her journey into photography, which came via a stint in various PR roles for agencies and record labels, in the UK, Sydney and eventually in the States.
You should check out Rachael’s work at www.rachaelwright.com and you can follow her @rachaelwrightphoto on Instagram.
For anyone interested, I have some Neutral Exposure discount codes for Capture One Pro so if you’ve been thinking about how to get the most out of your images with the best RAW processing software on the market, get in touch and I can get you started. with 10% off. Drop me a line via Instagram @neutral.exposure or email me through the website www.asphoto.uk.
A really nice chat, I hope you enjoy it!
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This is a double drop week, with something a little different. This episode was recorded as a webinar for Teamwork and Phase One, which I hosted last week, where I was joined by landscape photographers Joe Cornish and Paul Reiffer, along with Lau Nørgaard from the R&D team at Phase One. It’s a super nerdy chat about Phase One camera systems, so a warning for anyone who doesn’t like tech talk, you might want to skip this one. Being someone who loves super nerdy camera talk, I enjoyed it a lot!
I have some Neutral Exposure discount codes for Capture One Pro software, so if you would like a cheaper route into using the best RAW processor on the market, drop me a line alsimmonsuk@yahoo.co.uk.
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