app03 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:54:51 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The How This Works show - Episodes Tagged with “Photography” https://www.howthisworks.show/tags/photography Tue, 30 May 2023 09:15:00 -0400 Talking shop with 100 people about their work and associated craft — exploring what they actually do, why they do it that way, and what changed along the way. Host Skipper Chong Warson sits down with folks to understand what's going on in their world right now. Season two explored product, design, and facilitation. The third season follows people actively building things right now. New episodes every few weeks. Part of How This Works co. en-us episodic What do people actually do all day? Skipper Chong Warson Talking shop with 100 people about their work and associated craft — exploring what they actually do, why they do it that way, and what changed along the way. Host Skipper Chong Warson sits down with folks to understand what's going on in their world right now. Season two explored product, design, and facilitation. The third season follows people actively building things right now. New episodes every few weeks. Part of How This Works co. yes subject matter experts, learn, learning, subject matter expert, expert, experts, amateur, professional, stories, story, lessons, lesson, work, home, education, educate, passion, passions, day in the life, walk in someone else's shoes, expertise, craft Skipper Chong Warson skipperchong@me.com Zolt Levay https://www.howthisworks.show/025-zolt-levay fe70d0d9-0f82-46aa-8e6d-a9b9d87d871f Tue, 30 May 2023 09:15:00 -0400 Skipper Chong Warson full 2 Skipper Chong Warson In this episode, Skipper chats with Zolt Levay about his work as a nature photographer, both out in space and on our terrestrial world here on Earth 53:18 no <p>Zolt Levay is a photographer who has produced astronomical images from the Hubble Space Telescope and has spent a career describing the process of producing engaging color images from Hubble data. Now, he has his sights set on matters closer to home, working on more terrestial matters. </p> <p>During this conversation, Skipper and Zolt talk about how images are produced from the Hubble Space Telescope, the importance of being curious, how professional telescopes don't "see" in color, the size of 24 million soda straws, Ansel Adams, the notion of time travel, and his more recent hobby of astrophotography.</p> <p>Stay tuned until the end for a clip on how to pronounce Zolt's first and last name the Hungarian way. Special Guest: Zolt Levay.</p> Hubble Space Telescope, telescopes, photographer, astronomer, James Webb Space Telescope, Ansel Adams Zolt Levay is a photographer who has produced astronomical images from the Hubble Space Telescope and has spent a career describing the process of producing engaging color images from Hubble data. Now, he has his sights set on matters closer to home, working on more terrestial matters.

During this conversation, Skipper and Zolt talk about how images are produced from the Hubble Space Telescope, the importance of being curious, how professional telescopes don't "see" in color, the size of 24 million soda straws, Ansel Adams, the notion of time travel, and his more recent hobby of astrophotography.

Stay tuned until the end for a clip on how to pronounce Zolt's first and last name the Hungarian way.

Special Guest: Zolt Levay.

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]]> Zolt Levay is a photographer who has produced astronomical images from the Hubble Space Telescope and has spent a career describing the process of producing engaging color images from Hubble data. Now, he has his sights set on matters closer to home, working on more terrestial matters.

During this conversation, Skipper and Zolt talk about how images are produced from the Hubble Space Telescope, the importance of being curious, how professional telescopes don't "see" in color, the size of 24 million soda straws, Ansel Adams, the notion of time travel, and his more recent hobby of astrophotography.

Stay tuned until the end for a clip on how to pronounce Zolt's first and last name the Hungarian way.

Special Guest: Zolt Levay.

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]]> Sarah Sudhoff https://www.howthisworks.show/021-sarah-sudhoff c191e395-eb85-4cdf-ab28-1835c15c10a3 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 06:00:00 -0400 Skipper Chong Warson full 1 Skipper Chong Warson In this episode, Skipper chats with Sarah Sudhoff about her work as an artist and her background as a photographer 1:23:33 yes <p>Skipper talks to Sarah Sudhoff about how she works as an artist, her background as a photographer, arts administrator, and photo editor — and how all of that plays into her work today.</p> <p>Recorded late on a Sunday night, Skipper and Sarah talk about her identity as being half Cuban, how she got her first camera in the fifth grade, how being in a military family influenced her world and personality at a young age, being both the science nerd and the jock, and how she studied astronomy in college before she decided to pursue photography as her bachelor's degree — though she'd really like to work with NASA still. Following that, she worked for Citysearch before landing at Time magazine and received a M.F.A. in Photography from Parsons School of Design in New York.</p> <p>We get into how she wears many hats as an artist, how she multi-tasks as a single parent in her home life, how she collaborates in her work with others, and the necessary resilience of applying for as well as receiving/being rejected for exhibitions, grants, endowments, and fellowships. She and Skipper also talk about the notion of making daunting life decisions at 19 versus 29 or 39. We also talk about several of her works in particular: <a href="https://www.sarahsudhoff.com/current-work" rel="nofollow noopener">Point of Origin</a>, her most recent <a href="https://www.sarahsudhoff.com/el-recuerdo" rel="nofollow noopener">El Recuerdo</a> project which started as a response to <a href="http://nancylittlejohnfineart.com/exhibitions/deborah-brown/" rel="nofollow noopener">Deborah Brown’s paintings</a> but then evolved to be a tribute to her grandmother and Sarah's biracial heritage, <a href="https://www.sarahsudhoff.com/the-reading-brain" rel="nofollow noopener">The Reading Brain</a>, <a href="https://www.sarahsudhoff.com/60poundsofpressure" rel="nofollow noopener">60 Pounds of Pressure</a>, <a href="https://www.sarahsudhoff.com/will-you-hug-me-forever" rel="nofollow noopener">Will You Hug me Forever</a>, and her upcoming work Labor Pains. </p> <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/554966494" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <p><em><a href="https://vimeo.com/554966494" rel="nofollow noopener">Video from El Recuerdo: Rope</a> by <a href="https://www.sarahsudhoff.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">Sarah Sudhoff</a></em></p> <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/552231278" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <p><em><a href="https://vimeo.com/552231278" rel="nofollow noopener">Video from El Recuerdo: Water</a> by <a href="https://www.sarahsudhoff.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">Sarah Sudhoff</a></em></p> <p>Sarah says that she's finally feeling worthy to apply for a Guggenheim and MoMA this year — to which we say, Break a leg!</p> <p>When pressed, she talks about how art is hard and her advice for her two children if they wanted to go into some kind of artistic profession.</p> <p>Stay tuned for a bit after the outro music where after Skipper rambles on for a bit and Sarah asks simply, What's the question? Special Guest: Sarah Sudhoff.</p> 60 pounds of pressure, artist, conceptual, editorial, el recuerdo: rope, el recuerdo: water, grants writer, grants writing, grave, helicopters, labor pains, nancy littlejohn fine art, people, point of origin, project, rope, the reading brain, will you hug me forever, work Skipper talks to Sarah Sudhoff about how she works as an artist, her background as a photographer, arts administrator, and photo editor — and how all of that plays into her work today.

Recorded late on a Sunday night, Skipper and Sarah talk about her identity as being half Cuban, how she got her first camera in the fifth grade, how being in a military family influenced her world and personality at a young age, being both the science nerd and the jock, and how she studied astronomy in college before she decided to pursue photography as her bachelor's degree — though she'd really like to work with NASA still. Following that, she worked for Citysearch before landing at Time magazine and received a M.F.A. in Photography from Parsons School of Design in New York.

We get into how she wears many hats as an artist, how she multi-tasks as a single parent in her home life, how she collaborates in her work with others, and the necessary resilience of applying for as well as receiving/being rejected for exhibitions, grants, endowments, and fellowships. She and Skipper also talk about the notion of making daunting life decisions at 19 versus 29 or 39. We also talk about several of her works in particular: Point of Origin, her most recent El Recuerdo project which started as a response to Deborah Brown’s paintings but then evolved to be a tribute to her grandmother and Sarah's biracial heritage, The Reading Brain, 60 Pounds of Pressure, Will You Hug me Forever, and her upcoming work Labor Pains.

Video from El Recuerdo: Rope by Sarah Sudhoff

Video from El Recuerdo: Water by Sarah Sudhoff

Sarah says that she's finally feeling worthy to apply for a Guggenheim and MoMA this year — to which we say, Break a leg!

When pressed, she talks about how art is hard and her advice for her two children if they wanted to go into some kind of artistic profession.

Stay tuned for a bit after the outro music where after Skipper rambles on for a bit and Sarah asks simply, What's the question?

Special Guest: Sarah Sudhoff.

Links:

]]> Skipper talks to Sarah Sudhoff about how she works as an artist, her background as a photographer, arts administrator, and photo editor — and how all of that plays into her work today.

Recorded late on a Sunday night, Skipper and Sarah talk about her identity as being half Cuban, how she got her first camera in the fifth grade, how being in a military family influenced her world and personality at a young age, being both the science nerd and the jock, and how she studied astronomy in college before she decided to pursue photography as her bachelor's degree — though she'd really like to work with NASA still. Following that, she worked for Citysearch before landing at Time magazine and received a M.F.A. in Photography from Parsons School of Design in New York.

We get into how she wears many hats as an artist, how she multi-tasks as a single parent in her home life, how she collaborates in her work with others, and the necessary resilience of applying for as well as receiving/being rejected for exhibitions, grants, endowments, and fellowships. She and Skipper also talk about the notion of making daunting life decisions at 19 versus 29 or 39. We also talk about several of her works in particular: Point of Origin, her most recent El Recuerdo project which started as a response to Deborah Brown’s paintings but then evolved to be a tribute to her grandmother and Sarah's biracial heritage, The Reading Brain, 60 Pounds of Pressure, Will You Hug me Forever, and her upcoming work Labor Pains.

Video from El Recuerdo: Rope by Sarah Sudhoff

Video from El Recuerdo: Water by Sarah Sudhoff

Sarah says that she's finally feeling worthy to apply for a Guggenheim and MoMA this year — to which we say, Break a leg!

When pressed, she talks about how art is hard and her advice for her two children if they wanted to go into some kind of artistic profession.

Stay tuned for a bit after the outro music where after Skipper rambles on for a bit and Sarah asks simply, What's the question?

Special Guest: Sarah Sudhoff.

Links:

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