Is That Really Photography

The Alternative Photography Podcast

We love all forms of Photography that are a little different. From the earliest processes through to the latest non-mainstream digital.

Host Mara Robinson

Season 2 is HERE!

Rob Halliburton

Listen now to Season 2 Episode 5 with photographer Rob Halliburton about founding the Camera Donation Project and how receiving the gift of photography from his mother has been a major influence in his life.

Meet the Season 2 Guests

Gillian Allard - Season 2 Episode 1

Rob Halliburton

It’s Episode 5 of Season 2 and I’m talking with Rob Halliburton about the gift of photography and how he came to found the Camera Donation Project.

Kerry Lynne Palmer Episode Artwork

Kerry Lynne Palmer

It’s Episode 4 of Season 2 and I’m talking with Kerry Lynne Palmer about Guilded Photography, her journey to becoming a photographic artist and developing her guided technique.

Season 2 Episode 3 Esther Towler

Esther Towler

It’s Episode 3 of Season 2 and I’m talking with Esther Towler about Encaustic Photography. Combining it with her Equine Photography and her career so far.

Daniel Pemberton and Forgotten Film Archive

Daniel Pemberton

It’s Episode 2 of Season 2 and I’m talking with Daniel Pemberton about working with long expired film and how he came to found Forgotten Film Archive

Gillian Allard - Season 2 Episode 1

Gillian Allard

It’s Episode 1 of Season 2 and I’m talking with Gillian Allard about her career, working with Alternative Surfaces and Winning Sky Art Masters of Photography TV Show

Meet the Season 1 Guests

Sophie Sherwood

In Episode 7 I’m talking to Sophie Sherwood about Bristol Folkhouse, Managing their Community Darkroom and moving towards more Environmentally Sustainable Analogue Photography

Stephanie Johnson

In Episode 6 I’m talking to Stephanie Johnson about ICM Photography, nurturing your creativity and founding ICM Photography Magazine.

Roberto Aguilar

In Episode 5 I’m talking to Roberto Aguilar about Platinum Palladium, his long photographic career and love affair with Alternative Processes.

Angela Chalmers

In Episode 4 I’m talking to Angela Chalmers, Author of the book Creative Cyanotypes, about finding her muse and accidentally becoming an author.

Andy Martin

In Episode 3 I’m talking to Andy Mart about documenting his home city with film photography at night, and how he discovered the wonderful world of wet plate collodion and tintypes.

Jo Howell

In Episode 2 I’m talking to Jo Howell about using Analogue Photography to work with the community, the language of photography and attracting unwanted attention while out and about with homemade cameras.

Meet Your Host

Mara Robinson – Episode 1

Why on earth am I hosting a podcast? Good question and the answer isn’t a short one – although I’ll try and be brief. My whole life I’ve been obsessed with photography in all its wonderful forms. I’ve scoured junk shops for old photographic equipment to ‘rescue’, almost knocked myself out investigating old jars of light-sensitive chemicals from the 1940s and met some of the most wonderful and fascinating people. This is all far to much fun to keep to myself, so I want to share it all with you. There’s always something new to learn about and new friends to be made.

What is Alternative Photography?

Well, simply put anything and everything that doesn’t fall into the mainstream. If it involves capturing images in some form using light then it’s either photography or a photographic process. This includes the early printing processes and any of the modern cousins that use light sensitive chemical reactions such as in a traditional darkroom. Analogue photography such as film and plate photography. We’re also interested in ways of using digital cameras that fall outside of the mainstream such as Intentional Camera Movement (or ICM) photography. As for defining light, we’re including visible light, infrared and ultraviolet.

That also not an exhaustive list as there is always something new to discover. That’s what the ‘Is That Really Photography’ Podcast is about. Exploring, Experimenting, Learning and having Fun.

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Rob Halliburton

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