FRAMES Photography Podcast

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Joshua Herman, Editorial Director and driving force behind Act One: A Century in the Making, an ambitious publication that brings together photography and original essays to explore the first 25 years of the 21st century. You can visit the Act One Book website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Louisa Panetta, an Australian photographer, printer, and educator whose lifelong involvement with photography spans darkroom work, sports, weddings, portraits, and photographic retail, now brought together through her work at Prestige Prints. You can visit Prestige Prints website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with David Stein, a landscape and travel photographer whose work explores place, light, and the natural world, alongside a distinguished legal career as a partner at Withers, where he advises US and international families on tax, trusts, estate planning, philanthropy, and family governance. You can visit David's website here and his Withers profile here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Steve Gettle, an award-winning American nature and wildlife photographer whose four-decade career has taken him around the world, with work published by National Geographic, Audubon, the BBC, and other major outlets. You can visit Steve's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Robert Golden, an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and educator. He is the creator of Photography: Making Meaning, an online course exploring how photographers can develop deeper, more personal work. You can visit Robert's website here. Photography Making Meaning - Robert Golden's course on intentional photography Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove, an award-winning Belgian-Icelandic photographer based in Reykjavík, known for his dramatic landscape, wildlife, aerial, and especially volcanic photography from Iceland and other remote regions. You can visit Jeroen's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Tine Poppe, a Norwegian fine-art photographer known for her expressive use of flowers and the natural world to explore beauty, fragility, and mortality, while also addressing broader social, political, existential, and environmental concerns. You can visit Tine's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Giulio d'Ercole, an Italian photographer, documentary filmmaker, and educator whose human-centered work explores social realities, landscapes, and the deeper relationship between people and the world around them. You can Giulio's Rome Photo Fun Tours website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Melissa Farlow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer whose deeply human storytelling for National Geographic has explored the landscapes, cultures, and environmental challenges of the American West and beyond. You can visit Melissa's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Jody MacDonald, an award-winning adventure and documentary photographer whose powerful images combine breathtaking exploration with deeply human storytelling, capturing remote cultures, wild landscapes, and inspiring stories of resilience from around the world. You can visit Jody’s website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Dawn Hester, a retired professional photographer whose work moves between landscapes, macro, small towns, historic places, events, and sports. You can visit Dawn’s website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Cole Thompson, a Colorado-based black-and-white fine art photographer whose quietly dramatic images transform landscapes, objects, and historic places into deeply personal interpretations of light, form, and feeling. You can visit Cole's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Oriana Poindexter, an American-Italian photographic artist and marine scientist whose work combines photography, freediving, marine specimens, and alternative processes to explore the changing life of the ocean. You can visit Oriana's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Jens Krauer, a Switzerland-based street and documentary photographer whose work explores the rhythm, tension, and quiet complexity of everyday life in public space. You can visit Jens's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Richard Bernabe, an American nature, wildlife, and travel photographer, author, educator, and host of the Beyond The Lens podcast. You can visit Richard's Instagram profile here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Kristi Odom, Nikon Ambassador, wildlife photographer, filmmaker, and conservation storyteller, whose work brings viewers close to animals with both visual beauty and deep empathy. You can visit Kristi's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with D'Ann Boal, a Boulder-based photographer, Nikon Ambassador, and Profoto Ambassador specializing in newborn, child, family, maternity, and senior portrait photography. You can visit D'Ann's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Moose Peterson, a longtime photographer and educator whose work focuses on wildlife, wild places, and aviation, with a clear passion for visual storytelling and preserving both natural and aviation heritage. You can visit Moose's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Samantha Isom, a photographer and filmmaker whose work moves fluidly between portraiture, travel, lifestyle, underwater, and brand storytelling, with a polished, vivid, human-centered feel. You can visit Samantha's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Cliff Mautner, a Philadelphia–New Jersey photographer whose work blends a photojournalist’s instinct with dramatic light, emotion, and technical precision, especially in weddings, portraits, and events. You can visit Cliff's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Ashok Sinha, a New York–based photographer and filmmaker, who approaches architecture, interiors, and creative culture with a contemporary architectural eye, making images that are clean, spacious, and deeply attuned to a sense of place. You can visit Ashok's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Tim Soter, a Brooklyn-based photographer and bookmaker whose work fuses environmental portraiture, reportage, and a dry, intelligent sense of humor into photographs and projects that feel both sharply observed and deeply human. You can visit Tim's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Xiomaro, an internationally exhibited photographer whose work blends historically grounded images of iconic places with candid street photography that treats everyday urban life as future history. You can visit Xiomaro's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Justin Myers, a Canadian-American commercial automotive and adventure photographer based in Portland, Oregon, known for creating polished, story-driven imagery for global brands. You can visit Justin's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Eric Pickersgill, a North Carolina–based visual artist and educator whose work examines human behavior, memory, and the influence of technology through photography, video, installation, and conceptual art. You can visit Eric's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Robert Kalman, a New York–born documentary portrait photographer whose forty-plus-year practice uses large-format cameras to reveal the dignity and emotional truth of everyday people across America and the world. You can visit Robert's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Tom Walker, a Southern California–based fine-art photographer best known for cinematic sailing and regatta images, alongside street, infrared, and storm-chasing work that leans hard into light, wind, and atmosphere. You can visit Tom's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Damian Shields, a Scottish landscape photographer and visual professional based in Glasgow, originally born in Toronto and raised in Scotland. You can visit Damian's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Lizzie Shepherd, a professional landscape, nature, and travel photographer, writer, and teacher based in North Yorkshire, whose work and workshops reveal both grand and hidden scenes of the natural world. You can visit Lizzie's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Karen Hutton, an award-winning international landscape and travel photographer, mixed-media artist, educator, author, and professional Fujifilm X-Photographer. You can visit Karen's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Cole Walliser, a Canadian filmmaker, director, and photographer best known for his high-speed “GlamBOT” red-carpet videos and creative visual work with top artists and brands. You can visit Cole's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Eric Chan, a Senior Principal Scientist on the Adobe Camera Raw, where he develops techniques for editing photographs. You can visit Eric's personal website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Nick Brandt, a London-born photographer whose globally exhibited work confronts the human and environmental crises of our time. You can visit Nick's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Paul Mobley, an American portrait photographer known for both commercial work and documentary projects, including the books American Farmer, Everyday Heroes, and American Firefighter. You can visit Paul's website here. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Matt Irwin, a Melbourne-based photographer and filmmaker who’s worked commercially, published his own fine-art books, and shares production and editing insights via his YouTube channel. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Chris Niccolls, the host of the PetaPixel YouTube show and co-host of the PetaPixel Podcast. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Hugh Brownstone, a photographer, writer, and YouTuber known for his thoughtful, human-centered approach to street and urban photography. You can visit Hugh's website here. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Deborah Ory and Ken Browar, the Brooklyn-based husband-and-wife duo behind the NYC Dance Project, a celebrated collaboration at the intersection of dance, fashion, and portraiture. You can follow the NYC Dance Project on Instagram here. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us F...

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Nat Ward, a photographer whose work spans bold installations, conceptual projects, and experimental collaborations, merging place, materiality, and identity into immersive visual narratives. You can visit Nat's website here. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Christopher Wharton, an artist-photographer whose passion for movement, born from skateboarding imagery in the late ’80s, continues to inform his dynamic visual storytelling—most recently recognized as a 2025 Photo Laureate nominee. You can visit Christopher's Instagram account here. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Fi...

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Kino Seido, a Japanese documentary photographer whose work explores identity and memory through the intersections of people, places, and time. You can visit Kino's website here. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Joyce DiDonato, who, alongside her distinguished career as a Grammy‑winning mezzo‑soprano, curates a richly expressive photo gallery—featuring portraits, backstage scenes, travel snapshots, masterclass moments, and editorial‑style visual storytelling drawn from her artistic journey. You can visit Joyce's website here. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying internationa...

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Toby Binder, an award-winning documentary photographer with experience in areas of war and crisis. You can visit Toby's website here. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Martin Zweierlein, a physics professor at MIT and a pioneer in quantum gas research. In 2025, his team became the first to photograph individual, freely moving atoms, capturing stunning images of quantum behaviors like fermionic anti-bunching and bosonic clustering. This breakthrough offers rare visual proof of long theorized quantum effects. You can visit Martin's page at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology here. This podcast is brought to...

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Paul Hart, a celebrated British landscape photographer and master printmaker who has dedicated over three decades to exploring the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. You can visit Paul's website here. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Sarah Sense, a Chitimacha and Choctaw artist known for weaving her photographs into traditional basket patterns, blending image, memory, and Indigenous history into powerful visual narratives. You can visit Sarah's website here. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Romeu Marques, a Portuguese photographer based in Caldas da Rainha, known for his light painting, abstract landscapes, and experimental in-camera work. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Lowell Wolff, a fine art photographer whose work blends documentary curiosity with artistic vision, capturing everything from Gulf Coast waterbirds to haunting infrared landscapes and soulful human portraits. Click here to visit Lowell's website. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send...

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Oliver Farshi, a Brooklyn-based photographer exploring intimate, transitional moments in human life. Click here to visit Oliver's website. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Rebecca Kiger, a documentary photographer from West Virginia, whose work explores life, justice, and identity in Appalachia. Click here to visit Rebecca's website. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership. Find out more and join FRAMES here. Send us Fan Mail