A Visual Journalism Discussion Network
Our own Travis Keyes, long-time co-host of Around the Lens, recently released his first-ever feature film, “Bulls.” No, this isn’t a documentary about the Chicago Bulls and their triumphant rise with Michael Jordan at the helm (that docu-series is actually called “The Last Dance”), although I would probably watch that documentary; it’s actually the story […]
On this week’s episode of Around the Lens Roundtable Discussions, our guests Mark Johnson, clinical professor, photojournalism, chief technology officer, The University of Georgia, College of Journalism and Mass Communication, out of Athens, Georgia, and Rick Friedman, freelance photojournalist, discuss teaching photojournalism and photography in an era of low job prospects and heavy AI usage. […]
I had the pleasure of speaking with Ron Newcomb on Around the Lens Interviews the other day. We talked about the struggles filmmakers face in raising money to make their visions a reality. The one thing Ron emphasised the most about money as it relates to filmmaking is that it isn’t a problem, it is […]
A Reddit user asked me how to request the use of someone’s work to use in their podcast. Essentially they wanted to know how to license someone’s work. I’ve been through this process myself, and I’ve been approached to provide my work to an organization. Anyway, I wrote up a detailed response for them and […]
ATL panelist Rick Friedman was the subject of a short documentary by the Digital Photo Academy & Celebrating Senior Shutterbugs. It’s an incredible interview and it was seriously inspiring! This man has been behind the camera for over five decades, capturing every U.S. President from Carter to today. What a career it’s just mind-blowing. He […]
On this week’s episode we invite Joe Giordano and Daniel Dreyfus to the program to talk about resurgence of film, shooting fires and protests, and documentary films we either have seen or want to see in 2025. Get the show on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/around-the-lens/id1057459541 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3gDf7UyZPXE2rAQsVX4k2W Pocket Casts: https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/around-the-lens/b3cc1260-815a-0133-2d64-6dc413d6d41d iHeart: https://iheart.com/podcast/30984965/ Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/Around-the-Lens-id5452034?country=us Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/around-the-lens-168736 Podcast Index: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/216757 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a97400a2-1089-4aa8-9747-18a411c46f4a/around-the-lens
Guess what? Around the Lens is officially 10 years old! What better way to celebrate than to reinvigorate the platform with a new podcast. This new podcast is called Roundtable Discussions and as the name implies, there are roundtable discussions with photography, photojournalism and filmmaking professionals who discuss interesting and relevant topics related to our […]
Nov. 10, 2025, marks 10 years to the DAY that Around the Lens began. To celebrate the show, the platform, and the community, we’re bringing back Around the Lens in a big way. So what are we doing to help celebrate the show, and what are we doing to revive it? First and foremost, we’re […]
Around the Lens host, David J. Murphy sat down with Michael Edrington editor of Relentless Courage: Ukraine and the World at War, the latest book from Blue Star Press and one of the first photo books about the war in Ukraine. They discussed the genesis of the book, the process of choosing the photojournalists and […]
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