Red Lens podcast

Support Red Lens!Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/redlens  Red Lens Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos__________I started this podcast in 2022. It took me a while, but I’m excited to get to the 20th episode! On episode 20 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Minnesota activist and amazing movement photographer Ashley Taylor-Gougé. We talked about Ashley’s work as a movement photographer, when she got into photography, where the name ‘Watch Me Rise’ came from, and much more!The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/rock-zapatista-garage-punk-instrumental-instrumental-201262/ __________Follow Ashley Taylor-Gougé:Watch Me Rise on Instagram:  @watchmerisempls Watch Me Rise website:  watchmerisempls.com ___________Some things referenced in the episode: Have Heart - Watch Me Rise video (live at last show, 2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkyjcg5klkE Heather Vaught is the photographer who took the photo of everyone on stage at the end of the Have Heart show while they played ‘Watch Me Rise’, which Ashley refers to in the episode. Follow Heather here: https://www.instagram.com/heatherxedge/ Alexa Wilkinson is a movement photojournalist that Ashley cited as an inspiration. Follow Alexa here: https://www.instagram.com/framed.unrest/ In the interview we referred back to the conversation with Brooke Anderson in Red Lens Episode 17 - check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzKrcw1rF4 ___________Find Red Lens on these platforms:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@redlenspodcast/videos Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3c4t1K4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4pljJukathDC1VdlzUq4Go Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=717127 Spotify for Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/redlens

Support Red Lens!Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/redlens  Red Lens Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos__________On episode 19 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Jim Saah. Jim is a long-time Washington DC-based photographer and videographer. His photos of 1980s DC punk bands are iconic, including widely-recognizable images of seminal bands like Fugazi and Minor Threat. We talk about his book that brings together so many of his iconic DC punk band photos, In My Eyes: Photographs 1982-1997. We talk about some of his amazing experiences, like for example photographing Fugazi playing in a jail! We also talk about the politics of his photography including his years working as a photographer for the Teamsters union, where he documented union struggles and strikes around the country. You can also hear about his photography work in the 1990s in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt, his video work on two powerful documentary films with Scott Crawford: Salad Days (2014) and Creem: America’s Only Rock’n’Roll Magazine (2019), and much more. You don’t want to miss this episode! __________Jim Saah's InstagramJim Saah’s websiteOrder Jim Saah’s book ‘In My Eyes: Photographs 1982-1997’___________Some things referenced in the episode: Listen to Red Lens Episode 15 featuring Scott Crawford, who Jim worked with on the Salad Days and Creem documentaries Banned in DCSalad Days trailer Creem: America’s Only Rock & Roll Magazine trailerSebastião SalgadoBob GruenFarrah SkeikyThe intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it here. ___________Find Red Lens on these platforms:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@redlenspodcast/videos Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3c4t1K4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4pljJukathDC1VdlzUq4Go Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=717127 Spotify for Podcasters:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/redlens

Red Lens Needs Your Support! Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/redlens  Red Lens Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos__________On episode 18 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Jenny Toomey, Kristin Thomson, Derek Denckla, and Pat Graham. Many years ago we were all involved with Simple Machines Records. We did this interview while we were all in DC for the Positive Force DC 40th Anniversary activities in June. Because I recorded it on inferior equipment, the sound quality isn’t as good as usual. And due to time constraints the interview is shorter than previous Red Lens podcasts. Nevertheless, I think we covered some interesting ground. We talk about the recent box-set that Numero Records released of Jenny & Kristin’s band Tsunami, and their other recent efforts to better document the DIY punk and post-punk music scene. A lot of music from the 1990s has fallen into obscurity with vinyl, CD and cassette releases long out of print & because those bands and labels often closed up shop before digital file sharing or streaming services hit the scene. In the interview we talk about Simple Machines, Tsunami, the politically-tinged DC punk scene that birthed those things, and why it’s valuable to document and bring back to life some of the bands and records from the 1990s DIY music scene.Some things mentioned in the episode: Simple Machines RecordsTsunamiPositive Force DCFuture of Music CoalitionNumero Records Tsunami box set on Numero RecordsThe intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/rock-zapatista-garage-punk-instrumental-instrumental-201262/ __________Find Red Lens on these platforms:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@redlenspodcast/videos Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3c4t1K4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4pljJukathDC1VdlzUq4Go Spotify for Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/redlens

Red Lens Needs Your Support! Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/redlens  Red Lens Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotosOn episode 17 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Oakland-based movement photographer Brooke Anderson. Brooke is a freelance photographer and photojournalist based on unceded Ohlone land in Oakland, California covering movements for social, economic, racial, and climate justice. Brooke first fell in love with photography while documenting the struggles of the low-wage workers (hotel housekeepers, port truck drivers, recycling workers) she was working with as a union and community organizer. She is a proud union member of the Pacific Media Workers Guild CWA 39521 AFL-CIO. In the interview we talk about how she got into movement photography, the work she does in Oakland, and more! Follow Brooke Anderson online: Instagram: @movementphotographer Bluesky & X: movementphotogWebsite: movementphotographer.comSome things mentioned in the episode: Check out Brooke’s podcast ‘That’s How the Light Gets In’: Instagram | SpotifyCheck out the freelancers’ union Brooke is a member of, Pacific Media Workers Guild CWA 39521Listen to episode 6 of Red Lens featuring my interview with David Bacon where he also talks about being part of the freelancers union among many other things. Brooke mentions Yesica Prado, a Bay Area photographer who documents police sweeps of encampments. Follow her work on Instagram at @yesicas.lens or on Twitter @prado_reports. The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it here.__________Find Red Lens on these platforms:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@redlenspodcast/videos Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3c4t1K4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4pljJukathDC1VdlzUq4Go Spotify for Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/redlens

In the first episode of Red Lens Podcast, I interview Phil Ward. Phil is a Twin Cities-based photographer, and he is a co-founder of Move for Justice News. We talk about his movement photography, abandoned building photography & punk concert photography. We share stories and reflections from countless days in the streets dodging police tear gas & projectiles while documenting the powerful movement against police brutality that rocked the Twin Cities & the whole country after the police murdered George Floyd two years ago today, on May 25, 2020. Follow Phil's photography online at his website and on Instagram.Support Red Lens on Patreon & follow Red Lens on Twitter & Facebook.NOTE: This episode was originally published on May 25, 2022. It was reposted April 6, 2025 to replace a music clip that Spotify claimed was copyrighted, but other than that the content of the episode has not changed. The new intro/outro song for this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by⁠⁠ Joshua Hudes⁠⁠. You can ⁠⁠find it here⁠⁠.

On episode 16 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Shawna Kenney. Shawna is co-author of the oral history⁠ Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998⁠’ and publisher of the photo zine ⁠All Access: Bands on Film⁠. She is also the author of the memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, editor of the anthology Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers, and co-author of Imposters. On her website Shawna says she was “raised in the Washington DC area on a steady diet of Fugazi, I’ve always been a radical grrrl living in a capitalist world, digging for story.”We talk about all of the above and more in this interview! Shawna Kenney’s websiteShawna on InstagramShawna’s SubstackBuy Live at the Safari ClubBuy All Access: Bands on FilmShawna’s collection at the University of Maryland punk archive___________Support Red Lens! at Patreon or Buy Me a Coffee.___________The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it here.___________Find Red Lens Podcast on these platforms:PatreonYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotify Stitcher

Support Red Lens! Buy Me a Coffee Support Red Lens on Patreon __________ On episode 15 of Red Lens Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Scott Crawford. Scott is a documentary filmmaker whose documentaries have focused on rebellious music and political activism. He’s produced Salad Days (2014), Creem: America’s Only Rock’n’Roll Magazine (2019), and his newest production, Something Better Change. And for those interested in photography, he also created a photography book called Spoke to accompany the film Salad Days. The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it here. __________ Scott Crawford on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saladdazed/  ‘Something Better Change’ updates: https://www.instagram.com/somethingbetterchange_doc/  Trailer for ‘Something Better Change’: https://vimeo.com/802485222  ‘Salad Days’ website: https://www.saladdaysdc.com Buy the photography book ‘Spoke’: https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/spoke/ Trailer for ‘Creem: America’s Only Rock & Roll Magazine’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcCMNRTZpI ___________ Some things referenced in the episode:  University of Maryland punk archival collection: https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/4/resources/1748  Metrozine, Scott’s 1980s fanzine: https://archives.lib.umd.edu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=metrozine&button=  Video of Scott’s 1980s band Darkness at Noon performing in 1987 at DC Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-En2P1JDCos  White Panther Party: https://crossculturalsolidarity.com/the-white-panther-party/  MC5: https://rockhall.com/inductees/mc5/  Lester Bangs: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lester-bangs-truth-teller  ___________ Find Red Lens on these platforms: Patreon YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher

On episode 14 of Red Lens, I sat down for a conversation with Orin Langelle. Orin’s recently published photography book, Portraits of Struggle, highlights his photography going back to 1972. We talk about his book and his lifetime as a concerned photographer, highlighting and participating in struggles against war, and for indigenous, environmental, and economic justice. The intro/outro song in this episode is ‘Zapatista garage punk instrumental’ by Joshua Hudes. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/rock-zapatista-garage-punk-instrumental-instrumental-201262/ __________ You can find Orin’s work at langellephoto.org Buy his book Portraits of Struggle: globaljusticeecology.org/portraits-of-struggle/ The organization Orin Langelle co-founded is the Global Justice Ecology Project: globaljusticeecology.org Some people and things things mentioned in the episode: International Center of Photography: icp.org Cornell Capa: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/cornell-capa/ Robert Capa: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/robert-capa/ Vietnam Veterans Against the War: https://www.vvaw.org/ Sebastaio Salgado: https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgado Peter Beard - The End of the Game: https://peterbeard.com/the-end-of-the-game-the-last-word-from-paradise-exhibition-revisited/ W. Eugene Smith: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/w-eugene-smith/ Studio 54: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/war-disco-glimpse-glamorous-world-studio-54/ CEPA Gallery - Buffalo, NY: https://www.cepagallery.org/ Henri Cartier-Bresson: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/henri-cartier-bresson/ Anne Petermann: https://x.com/AnneGJEP/ Landless Workers Movement (Brazil): https://www.mstbrazil.org/content/what-mst Paolo Friere: https://freire.org/paulo-freire Breaking Green podcast episode ‘Artificial Intelligence and Generative Biology with Jim Thomas’: https://globaljusticeecology.org/breaking-green-ai-and-generative-biology-with-jim-thomas/ __________ Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/redlens  (make a one-time small donation here to support Red Lens) Support Red Lens on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos Find Red Lens on these platforms: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@redlenspodcast/videos Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3c4t1K4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4pljJukathDC1VdlzUq4Go Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83M2ExYWM4NC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?ep=14 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=717127 Spotify for Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/redlens

On episode 13 of Red Lens, I sat down for a conversation with long-time music photographer and an old friend, Pat Graham. In this episode, we cover a lot of ground from how Pat got started with photography, his punk photography in the late 1980s & 90s creating iconic images with bands like Bikini Kill, Fugazi, L7 and many more, through his tours as a photographer with Modest Mouse and his photographs of instruments, his approach to protest photography, his projects, books and more. I hope you enjoy it! You can find Pat’s work on Instagram at instapatgraham: https://www.instagram.com/instapatgraham/ Here are some things referenced in the episode:  Kiss Alive record cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive(Kissalbum)#/media/File:Kiss_alive_album_cover.jpg  Bob Gruen’s image of Tina Turner using the shutter drag method discussed in the episode: https://www.bobgruen.com/ike-tina-turner/?_gallery=gg-10-148  Charles Peterson - photographer of the Seattle music scene in the late 1980s and 1990s with iconic photos of bands like Mudhoney and Nirvana who also used the shutter drag method discussed in the episode: https://linktr.ee/Charles_Peterson  Pat Graham’s first photography book, Silent Pictures, published by Akashic Books: https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/silent-pictures/  Pat Graham’s second book, Instrument: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/instrument/author/graham-pat/  Johnny Marrs’s book Marr’s Guitars which is mostly photography by Pat Graham: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/marrs-guitars-johnny-marr?variant=41046832185378  Tees for Togo, t-shirt company run by Kathleen Hanna that raises money for girls in Togo: https://tees4togo.com/  Pat Graham’s photo of Kathleen Hanna on a Tees for Togo shirt: https://tees4togo.com/products/rebel-girl-book-tour-black-t-shirt Kathleen Hanna’s new memoir Rebel Girl: https://kathleenhannaofficial.com/book  The intro/outro song in this episode is called Beautiful Boom Bap by Music Unlimited. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/beats-beautiful-boom-bap-113776/ Support Red Lens on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos Find Red Lens on these platforms: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@redlenspodcast/videos  Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3c4t1K4  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4pljJukathDC1VdlzUq4Go  Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83M2ExYWM4NC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?ep=14  Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=717127  Spotify for Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/redlens

On episode 12 of Red Lens, I talked with Twin Cities-based movement photographer Andi Epperly. Andi runs Forward Photography and also takes photos for On Site Public Media. In this episode, we cover a lot of ground including shooting photos, shooting pool, and shooting guns. I hope you enjoy it!  You can find Andi's work on Instagram at Forward Photography: https://www.instagram.com/forward_photos_minneapolis/ You can also see some of her work at On Site Public Media: https://www.instagram.com/onsitepublicmedia/ The intro/outro song in this episode is called 'Beautiful Boom Bap' by Music Unlimited. You can find it at https://pixabay.com/music/beats-beautiful-boom-bap-113776/  Support Red Lens on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos  Find Red Lens on these platforms: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sigalphotos YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@redlenspodcast/videos Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3c4t1K4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4pljJukathDC1VdlzUq4Go Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83M2ExYWM4NC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?ep=14 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=717127 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/redlens