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The Feature Shoot Photography Podcast Returns for 2023!

Feature Shoot Photography Podcast is back for 2023! In the latest episode, we hear from two different photographers about some of the single images that have followed them throughout their lives and careers. Chris Stein, the co-founder and guitarist of the rock band Blondie, takes us back to New York’s Lower East Side in the 1970s, while the documentary photographer Maggie Steber shares an indelible memory from a funeral in Haiti in the 1980s.

The photography podcast is hosted by Feature Shoot founder, Alison Zavos, and sponsored by our friends at MPB, the world’s largest platform for buying, selling, and trading used camera and video gear.

Sophie Gamand Uses AI to Give Rescue Dogs Their Ears Back

“I know it sounds cheesy, but each time I have added ears to one of these dogs, my heart burst. Especially when the expression on their face suddenly makes sense with the ears. To me, it really feels like these dogs are missing something. And when the AI tool gave them a pair of ears that so perfectly matched them, it felt very emotional. Like coming full circle, erasing human stupid acts.”—Sophie Gamand

From the 1970s to Now, Mariette Pathy Allen Traces Transgender Stories

“I got very little respect for this work for a long time,” Mariette Pathy Allen tells me, remembering her early days photographing and collaborating with gender-nonconforming people throughout the United States. “Publishers thought the subject was too limited. Galleries didn’t find the pictures very exciting because my images de-sensationalized the subject matter.” 

A Photographic Journey to the World’s Most Magical Libraries

At Biblioteca Joanina at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, the bats come out after dark. The magnificent library, adorned in ceiling frescos and gold leaf, is home to irreplaceable treasures, including a first edition of the epic poem The Lusiads (one of only twenty in the world) and a Latin Bible from 1492. The bats help preserve these volumes, flying through the stacks at night and eating insects that would feed on the books. It’s just one of dozens of unforgettable tales contained within the pages of Temples of Books, a book by Marianne Julia Strauss and gestalten, featuring exquisite architecture photography from around the world. 

Rare and Ancient Creatures Revealed in Underwater Photography

“Exploring the strange and wild world of hellbenders is nothing short of science fiction,” David Herasimtschuk, a conservation photographer specializing in freshwater environments, says. These ancient salamanders, whose presence in mountain streams dates back more than 160 million years, can grow to more than two feet long—though their wrinkled skin does a good job of blending in with their surroundings.

Henry Leutwyler Traces the Life & Legacy of Philippe Halsman

Halsman belonged to a time when you made photographs by hand, and for that reason, the objects of his professional life seem especially personal. Irene Halsman recalls an apartment filled with photographic equipment—and the many wet prints set out to dry on boxes in their apartment; they weren’t allowed to have a dog or cat for that reason (though they did have two turtles).