For Tape no.1 I sat down with writer, curator, historian, walking photographic encyclopedia, and guinea pig, George Slade. We talked about his history in photography, his passion for the medium and his camaraderie with Minnesota photographers. Recorded during Click! Photography Festival, October 2018. All conversations are recorded face-to-face. These are… the Diffusion Tapes.

Show notes:

PhotoNOLA

Photolucida

Click!

Aline Smithson

Lenscratch

Brian James Culbertson

Photo-eye

Photo-eye book reviews by George

re: photographica

Minnesota Center for Photography

Photographic Resource Center

Alec Soth

Little Brown Mushroom

Alec Soth and George Slade conversation at Walker Art Center

Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alec Soth

Tom Arndt

Alan Trachtenberg

Ben Lifson

Aperture

Magnum

Ted Hartwell

Temple Smith

Mary Virginia Swanson

Nan Richardson

Contact by Jake Shivery

Jake Shivery

Contact book review by George

McNight Artists Fellowships

Tobia Makeover

Murmurations Exhibit

TC Photo

George’s Linkedin

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In Tape no2 I chat with Lori Vrba. Vrba is a multimedia/mixed media photographer, curator, retreat host, and fire eater. We talk about her journey in life, personal work, family, her friendship with Keith Carter, some notable exhibitions and her involvement with Pigs Fly Retreats and Click! Photography Festival. Recorded during that very festival, October 2018. All conversations are recorded face-to-face. These are… the Diffusion Tapes.

Show notes:

Lori Vrba

PhotoNOLA

Click! Photography Festival

The Light Factory

Keith Carter

Keith Carter 50 years book

Cassilhaus

Nasher Museum of Art

Texas Monthly magazine

Jennifer Yoffy

Lori Vrba - Piano Farm

Piano Farm exhibit video from Crusade

Piano Farm walkthrough from Blue

PDN magazine

The Louise Vitry House - History

A Gallery for Fine Art Photography

Fox Talbot Museum: TRIBE exhibition

Interview with Roger Watson, curator of the Fox Talbot Museum

Pigs Fly Retreats

Anne Berry

Murmurations Exhibition

Heidi Kirkpatrick

Tobia Makeover

Bryce Lankard

Horse and Buggy Press

Center for Photographic Art - Tribe Exhibition

The Diffusion Tapes Theme Song + Music Video

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In Diffusion Tape no.3, I visit with mixed media photographer and educator Heidi Kirkpatrick at her home and studio in Portland, Oregon. We talked a little about her history, her evolution from 2-d photography to 3-d photo objects, her camaraderie with fellow photographers, her themes of femininity and family history and how teaching has been one of the most rewarding parts of her photo career.

Recorded Nov. 2 2018. All conversations are recorded face-to-face. These are… the Diffusion Tapes.

Show notes:

Heidi Kirkpatrick

Photolucida

Lori Vrba

Diffusion Tape no.2: Lori Vrba

Anne George

Oregon College of Arts and Craft

Phil Harris

Blue Moon Camera: Drinking with Jake

Click! Photography Festival

Jim Leisy

Susan Kae Grant

Barbara Ciurej

Ryan Zoghlin

Lishui Photography Festival

Photolucida covers the 2013 Lishui Festival

Murmurations Exhibition

Griffin Museum of Photography

Bear Kirkpatrick

Lacock Abbey

Fox Talbot Museum: TRIBE exhibition

Northwest Academy

Newspace Center for Photography

Center for Photographic Art: Tribe Exhibition

Portland Art Museum: brown bag series

Portland Photo Month

Rockland Colloid

The Diffusion Tapes Theme Song + Music Video

Heidi’s Portrait by William Anthony

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In Diffusion Tape no.4 I had a sit down with Katharine T. Jacobs. I caught up with her while she was visiting Portland this past December. Katharine filled me in our her photo history, shared some personal stories, her challenges, and unpacks some of her photography baggage.

Recorded Nov 2, 2018. All conversations are recorded face-to-face. These are… the Diffusion Tapes.

Show notes:

Katherine T. Jacobs

San Jose MFA Program

Montana State University

California College of the Arts

Blue Moon Camera and Machine

Portland Community College

Type 55 film

Oregon College of Art & Craft

Ursula Barton

American Strangers series

Rainbow Festival

New 55 film

Stepmotherhood series

Heavy Handed series

Lyceum Portland

Fuji Instax

Ray Bidegain

Katherine’s Instagram

The Diffusion Tapes Theme Song + Music Video

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In Tape no.5 I visited photographer and educator Ray Bidegain at his home here in Portland, Oregon. We talked about his youth, his journey from commercial to fine art and his general thoughts on the craft of photography. Ray also turned the tables on me for the last few minutes of the chat.

Recorded January 29th, 2019. All conversations are recorded face-to-face. These are… the Diffusion Tapes.

Show notes:

Raybidegain.com

Finding Beauty

Brooks Institute

University of Arizona

Irving Penn

Richard Avedon

Helmut Newton

Edward Weston

The Kramer

Ruth Bernhard

Devon Rawlings

Keith Carter

The Daybooks of Edward Weston

Susan de Witt

Lyceum Portland

Emmitt Gowan

Portland Art Museum

Portland Photo Council

Maxine Sferra - tintypist

One Twelve Publishing / Diffusion

Lori Vrba

Ray’s Instagram

Photolucida

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For Tape no.6 Heather Evans Smith was in town to give an artist lecture at the Portland Art Museum and I was happy to sit with her for an evening recording session. We explored creative beginnings, the development of her artistic voice, plus she shared some entertaining anecdotes from her journey thus far.

Recorded March 21st, 2019, All conversations are recorded face-to-face. These are… the Diffusion Tapes.

Show notes:

Heather Evans Smith

Heidi Kirkpatrick

Portland Art Museum - Brown Bag Lectures

Series: The Heart and the Heavy

Series: Alterations

Series: Seen Not Heard

Series: Domesticated

Series: Self Portraits

Book: Seen Not Heard

Edward Scissorhands

Tim Burton

Twin Peaks

David Lynch

Photo: Let My Machine Talk to Me

Film inspired by “Let My Machine Talk to Me”: Chucked

Click! Photography Festival

Murmurations Exhibition

Outakes:

Family Ties

Growing Pains

Kirk Cameron

Michael J Fox

Sit Ubu Sit

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Back in March of this year I had the pleasure of sitting down with photographer, writer, and podcaster Mike Sakasegawa while he was in Portland attending a conference. I became aware of Mike a few years back because of his own podcast called Keep the Channel Open where he primarily converses with photographers and writers. In our conversation we talk about his work, the authenticity of photography, his podcasting projects, and his progression as a photographer, writer, and activist. And of course we had to dissect his famous viral lemon video.

Recorded March 27th, 2019, All conversations are recorded face-to-face. These are… the Diffusion Tapes.

Show notes:

Blue as guest on Keep the Channel Open podcast

AWP Conference

Medium Photography Festival

Mike Sakasegawa website

Keep The Channel Open Podcast

Likewise Media

Likewise Fiction Podcast

Series: All Good Things

Series: It Forgets you

Aline Smithson

Jeff Ascough

Blake Andrews

The lemon video

Little Shop of Horrors

Jerry Takigawa

Center for Photographic Art

Matika Wilbur

Matika Wilbur as guest on Keep the Channel Open podcast

The Lie Beneath the Story of My Family’s Asian American Dream

Toni Morrison

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Welcome to Diffusion Tape no. 8 with the photographer, curator, editor, writer, and educator Aline Smithson. Smithson wears many hats and in our conversation, we talked about the cultural evolution of photography, female representation in the medium, archiving in a digital world, portraiture, Smithson’s personal art history, her family, and the importance of play in the creation of photography. Aline Smithson is a Los Angeles based artist best known for her conceptual portraiture and a practice that uses humor and pathos to explore ideas of childhood, aging, and the humanity that connects us. She is the founder of the highly popular photo site Lenscratch. Recorded April 27th, 2019, All conversations are recorded face-to-face. These are… the Diffusion Tapes.

Show notes:

Aline Smithson

Photolucida

Shadows and Stains

Lenscratch

Plates to Pixels

Fraction

Flak Photo

Jonas Yip

Book: Self and Others

Lenscratch: Mixtapes

She Shoots Film

RL Grime

PDN

Blake Andrews

Fugue State

Jeff Phillips: Lost and Found

Richard Diebenkorn

Gordan Stettinius

Susan Burnstine

Evanescent Energy

Amani Willett: The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer

Aint-bad

Kris Graves Projects

Los Angeles by Aline Smithson

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