S4 E36 - Marvi Lacar

Tune into our episode with the awesome Marvi Lacar. Marvi started her career as a photo journalist. She and her husband Ben Lowy now work together shooting award-winning photography and filmmaking specializing in authentic, documentary style storytelling. Came to the US from the Philippines and landed in the midwest in Kalamazoo Michigan. From there she gets herself to NY and finds her way to photo journalism. Learn how she got her break and also how she met Ben Lowy.

S4 E35 - Christina Peters

Tune into our chat with Christina Peters - she has quite a prolific and successful career as a food photographer, based in Los Angeles and also Delaware.

She has shot thousands of food images and her clients include: Arby's, Baja Fresh, Bath and Body Works,  Burger King, Campbell's Soups Souplicty Brand, Cesar Pet Food, Chipotle, Domino's Pizza, HarperCollins Publishers, Kraft, Libby's, Marriott Hotels, McDonald's, and many many more. She is also the founder of the first food photography membership site called The Food Photography Club. offering course, downloads and more on what it takes to be a successful food photographer. Please check it out thru the link and help raise money for FOW and their podcast. 

S4 E34 - Dixie Dixon

Tune in to listen to my chat with Dixie Dixon. She is an internationally renowned fashion, lifestyle, and commercial advertising photographer and film director based out of Dallas, Texas, as well as a Nikon brand ambassador. Most Recently, Dixie released Her New Book "Fashion And Lifestyle Photography” with a forward by supermodel Kathy Ireland. You are going to love her energy and wit and her experience in fashion photography is plenty.

S4 E33 - Nicole Morrison

Tune in to listen to Shelly and I's chat with Nicole Morrison. She is a San Francisco based food, lifestyle and product photographer. She creates colorful, bold images that help brands tell their story and stand out online. She is inspired by people and brands that are working towards a more sustainable and just planet by improving our food systems, paying people fairly, sourcing materials ethically, creating clean products for our bodies and plates, and reducing plastic and other harmful waste which is awesome and her work truly reflects this passion.

S4 E32 - Ella Sophie

Tune into our chat with Ella Sophie - she is a bay area photographer who is sticking to her passion for women, and really focusing her imagery to uplift women and the brands they are creating. She is a thoughtful, mindful soul, who has persevered through 2020 along with the rest of us and is coming out on the other side with more grace and work than she expected. Her instagram handle is @ellasophiephotographer.

S4 E31 - Ellie Pritts

Tune into our latest chat - Ellie Pritts is an internationally-recognized artist, creative director and colorist based in Los Angeles. In 2016 TIME Magazine named her one of the top photographers to follow on Instagram in the U.S. She helped launch Apple’s Instagram account, @apple and went on to work as an Art Director on the Shot on iPhone campaign worldwide and in 2019 Ellie founded Supermassive Social, a boutique social media marketing agency.

S4 E30 - Inti St. Clair

Season Four kicks off with our chat with Inti St. Clair. She is an award winning lifestyle photographer based in Austin Texas. She has travelled to over 50 different countries, and her work is so inspiring. It's playful, light filled and carefree and she, like her work, is a dream to know and work with too. Her way of giving back is her recent appointment to the national board of the APA. Some of her clients include - Alaska Airlines, T-Mobile, Microsoft, UPS, Ebay, PayPal, Walgreens, Hershey, McKesson, and Wrangler.

S3 E29 - Nan Whitney

Tune into my chat with the amazing prop stylist, Nan Whitney. She is based in SF and NYC and has been a styling guru for over fifteen years. She is specializing now in corporate and hospitality interiors, providing furnishings for model apartments and new luxury living buildings. I was so thrilled to talk to her as our paths have crossed many times in our careers and she is a stylist I love!

Thank you to Space for Arts for their continued support of our podcast. Check out all their spaces for your next project.

S3 E28 - Tracy & David

Tune into my chat with Tracy Boulian and David Ahntholz, the Southern California based husband and wife team behind Tracy + David

As former news photojournalists, they're passionate about telling stories and creating emotionally authentic images. They shoot still photography as well as directing motion too.  As people say, two eyes are better than one, and in this case four eyes is the perfect jam!

S3 E27 - Chrissy Lynn

Tune into my chat with Lifestyle photographer, ChrissyLynn. Creating lifestyle narratives for fashion, technology, wellness and education companies, her images are used in advertising and editorial campaigns, websites, marketing collateral, trade show and in-store print displays and fashion catalogs. She has an amazingly graceful demeanor coupled with her creative drive - making her an awesome fit for brands with a social mission to voice.

S3 E25 - Kendra Aronson

This is one of my favorite episodes of the season. Kendra Aronson and I spoke in the height of the corona virus but her energy and story of how she wrote, photographed, styled and published her own cookbook lifted my spirits greatly. This woman is a power house and when she gets an idea, nothing stands in her way to make it happen.

S3 E 23 - Sari Blum

Tune in to hear my chat with photographer, Sari Blum. She is a bay area photographer specializing in lifestyle, portraits and more, her passion to tell a story led her to starting The Wandering Portrait Bus. An amazing vehicle and more that has allowed her to continue to work and document the times during COVID and help people continue to capture their lives to share with their loved ones and more.

S3 E21 - Ellen Shershow

Tune in to our first episode of Season Three with the funny and talented pet photographer, Ellen Shershow. Ellen and I could have spent the whole time gushing over dogs and their amazing human qualities and how they are the best thing for our spirits, more so than people for sure - and we definitely did do that - but we also learned how she found her calling and why she sticks to it no matter what. Another great story of a photographer finding their passion and living their dream.

S2 E18 - Tracie Davis

Tune into my chat with one very talented lady, Tracie Davis. Tracie is a graduate from RISD, who then went to London to study historical and contemporary photography at the University of Manchester. She has interned at the Guggenheim and The Met and at one point immersed herself in the arena of Iranian photography and Islamic Feminism. Our conversation is a good one!

S2 E13 - Leah Fasten

Leah Fasten, is a lifestyle and portrait photographer based outside of Boston. She has had many amazing positions thanks to her persistence and even landed a job by walking into the office and interviewing to be an inhouse shooter without yet really having honed the craft. Her style of showcasing lifestyle for real - meaning, not hiding the messiness, or imperfectness of the day to day - being authentic visually which is a refreshing take in my opinion.

S2 E12 - Connie Conway

Connie Conway is a force to be reckoned with - starting her career as a photographer and working with A and M records and then deciding that wasn't the path, she started her production company. Fortunate to have been paired up with the awesome photographer, Hunter Freeman for the last 20 years, she has created quite an awesome little gig for herself. And she keeps her creative juices flowing by shooting her fine art photography on the side - her recent project L.A. after Sunset gives you some insight to her love for the grit and architecture that surrounds her daily life.

S1 E10 - Nathalie Gordon

Born and raised in London, British photographer Nathalie Gordon shoots Beauty and Lifestyle and is now based in Sunny Los Angeles. Her bright colors and high-sheen style of imagery represents her amazingly bright and modern attitude too. Tune in to hear her amazing journey that landed her in CA.

S1 E8 - Jamie Thrower

Jaimie Thrower is an LGBTQ photographer who found her voice through photography. She founded Studio XIII (thirteen) which was born out of the idea that she wanted to use her photography to support her LGBTQ community by honoring and sharing thier love stories with the world. She is based in Portland Oregon and she shared her story here.

To see her work please log in here.

Her instagram handle is @studioxiiiphotography

S1 E7 - Natasha Lee

Natasha is a Travel, Food & Lifestyle Photographer based in Los Angeles. Her journey to photography started with internship through art school at a production company where she became interested in motion and photography. 

To see her work log in at http://www.bynatasha.net/ or follow her on instagram @talktonatasha

S1 E5 - Smeeta Mahanti

Originally from Michigan and now resides in Berkeley, CA. Smeeta journey brought her to Berkeley California. Her photography began to really come to the forefront when she had her first child. The camera became her outlet and with encouragement from her network and the surprise gift from her husband, her confidence grew. Come listen as she tells you about her incredible journey into photography and what she's learned along the way.