I have followed Zack Whitford on Instagram for as long as I can remember, in fact I think he was one of the first I followed after joining Instagram. You know how you have photographers whose work you like because it makes you feel an emotion, just makes you smile? Well, Zack is one of those photographers whose work speaks to me on multiple levels.

His images span from travel and humanitarian, to rock stars and red carpets, and all of it, every single image, makes me stop. For some, I just love the moment he’s captured, while for others I find myself dissecting the angle, the light, and the subject on a deeper level.

As a music photographer, my first introduction to Zack was his work as the tour photographer for Aerosmith. His dad is Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford, and I’d say that Zack’s talent with a camera is equal to that of his dad’s with a guitar. Whether the creativity gene is an inherited trait or not, Zack has it.

If you stop after calling Zack a music photographer then you’ve missed the point. Zack is a documentary, commercial, event & music photographer. His website has portfolios for Street, Music, Portrait, and Lifestyle and his work has been seen in Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Rolling Stone, GQ, Billboard Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, and People Magazine to name a few.

There is a quote in his bio, where he is talking about training to be a stage actor when he was younger. His acting teacher said something that, looking back now, seemingly changed his life.
“As actors, you are investigators of humanity”
The way Zack tells it, that statement made him realize that he had a fascination with “seeking out the contrasting emotional moments that occur within ourselves, and between one another: The monumental disquiet that we work so diligently to mask, and the allure of human triumph”.

Read that again… “The monumental disquiet that we work so diligently to mask, and the allure of human triumph”. Wow. I love that. That. Is. Deep. Now, contrast that with an interview I found of Zack with HuffPost where he says at one point ” Most people love dogs. I’m not really interested in people who don’t like dogs”. I agree with him on that!

The problem, from a podcast point-of-view, when setting up an episode with someone like Zack is picking the photo we break-down. It wasn’t easy but, luckily, Zack was patient with me. Of the image we settled on, Zack said “that’s one of my personal favorites, and the story behind it is good”, so as I am writing this I am really looking forward to sitting down and chatting with L.A.based photographer Zack Whitford.

Join photographer Zack Whitford and me as we discuss his life as tour photographer, his humanitarian work, and his beautiful black & white image of Steven Tyler and Amiee Preston in the rain, on this Behind the Shot.
Connect with Zack
Website: zwhitford.com
Instagram: @zack.whitford
Facebook: @zwhitford
Twitter: @zwhitford
Vimeo: @zwhitford
Zack’s Photographer Picks
Kes Glozier: @kesglozier
Ryan Muirhead: ryanmuirhead.com
Alan Schaller: alanschaller.com

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Usually, I struggle when I write these. To start with, I’m not a writer, but more importantly I want each post to convey to you how much I admire the guest I am writing about. Today however, I gained inspiration from my guest, Leah Horstman.

Leah is someone I have followed on Instagram for a long time, and a prime example of when Instagram helps me find new creatives to follow. She was a music photographer whose work I admired, so following her @lah_rockshots accounts was a given, but then the unexpected happened. I saw her @lahorstman account that focuses on her landscape and commercial work.

I want to talk about something Leah said to me that reminded me of something I mention on this show a lot, but let’s back up first. Leah Horstman learned to love photography from her father, who was an avid travel photographer, and who gave her a Minolta XRT101 at age 14. She studied photography in High School, and had a photo of Half Dome published in 1980. After college things changed. Leah traded the photographer life for horses. She competed in the event of “Cutting”, and even won a few world titles. Unfortunately, due to an illness, that life came to an end too. But, as he had done years before, Leah’s dad once again suggested that she pick up a camera.

I think her dad might have known how good she was, because just a few years later Leah entered the Nature Conservancy’s Annual Photo Contest – along with over 17,000 others that year. Her image “Xmas on the Merced” won the grand prize, and was named their “photo of the year”. That image went on to hang in the San Diego Natural History Museum too.

It seems that Leah was destined to get a lot of these awards. In 2018 National Geographic emailed her to say they were interested in her image of a longhorn steer in Gainesville TX titled “Quintessential Texas”. Seems they were working on an article about the history of Texas and felt this image would make a great addition to the piece. Her image “Ice Climber” won the International SD Photo exhibition’s Best of Show in 2019, and recently she was published in the Harper Collin’s pocket book, “Canada”.

Leah’s day job is working for Professionals Choice, a company that manufactures horse products. Her years of riding gives her a unique eye for the timing and composition needed for horse events. This is where her love of these two worlds collide, and while her horse riding competition days may be in the past, she was recently asked by 37X World Champion Bob Avila to take the portrait of him that is now hanging in the AQHA Hall of Fame for his 2021 induction. It’s almost as though life guides us to where we belong.

Her commercial work has led to her working with “Buggy Whip”, which still requires timing, but for dune buggies instead of horses. That connection led to her working with NASCAR driver Kyle Bush.

Leah’s path through photography is exactly as we often hear it described… do the work, and make the relationships. Be the person clients know they can call on and trust, and the the work will find you.

Speaking of relationships, I mentioned that I originally found Leah because of her music photography. That came about because of someone she was dating that was in a band.

And this brings us to that thing Leah said to me that I mentioned above. While picking the image for this episode we were mostly looking at her horse images when Leah said she had an idea. She suggested we could touch on “not being afraid of shooting iconic spots… just do[ing] it in your own style and put[ting] your own twist on it”. That resonated with me.

If you have listened to Behind the Shot for any length of time you might have heard me use the phrase “photographic voice”, or “creative voice” for those in areas other than photography. I firmly believe that when people talk about find their “style” that what they really need is to find their voice. Style, to me at least, leans towards the processing side of creativity.

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Trying to write a post about Ryszard Horowitz has proven to be tougher than I had imagined. Ryszard Horowitz is a legend, literally. His life, and his journey through the art of photography, is almost impossible to distill down to a blog post. There is simply no way I do him, and his legacy, justice here. Still, I will try…

Ryszard Horowitz was born in Krakow, Poland four months before the Nazis invaded his homeland, and his entire family ended up being sent to a series of concentration camps. Miraculously, they survived, and at the war’s end they were amongst the few Jewish families who were able to re-establish their lives in Krakow. Ryszard is one of the youngest known survivors of Auschwitz, and to be listed on Schindler’s list.

His path to becoming the artist that he is started with studying art at the High School of Fine Arts in Krakow, before going on to mjor in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1956, when the government awarded subsidies to encourage new and original art forms, Krakow emerged as a center of avant-garde jazz, painting, theater and filmmaking. Ryszard, who was seventeen at the time, took full advantage of being at the heart of the action and consequently became fascinated with American photography.

In 1959, he finally achieved his ambition of immigrating to the United States and enrolled at New York’s famed Pratt Institute. While still a student at Pratt he was given a scholarship to be apprenticed to Alexey Brodovitch, one of the most influential figures in the world of editorial design and photography at the time. In 1967, having worked for a number of film and design companies and as an art director for Grey Advertising, he opened his own photography studio. Photography would be his lifelong career and passion.

Ryszard’s work has been exhibited, published and collected around the globe, and he has been awarded every major accolade that can be bestowed on a photographer. Take a few minutes to scroll through the list on his Bio page, it’s amazing. His awards include the Gloria Artis Gold Medal of Merit to Culture Awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland, and Doctor Honoris Causa Awarded by Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. As a music photographer, his images of American jazz legends like Dave Brubeck, Aretha Franklin, Duke Ellington, Thelonios Monk, Count Basie, and Louie Armstrong are amazing. His creative works, in both analog and digital will blow your mind.

He is recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography predating digital imaging – yes, before digital and photoshop – using techniques such as darkroom retouching, multiple film exposures and manipulation of his camera. His complex photographic composites have been compared to the surrealist artworks of Magritte and Dalí. A former Canon Explorer of Light, Ryszard is a current member of Canon Legends, and he was inducted to the International Photography Hall of Fame in November 2017. Go look at the names in the Hall of Fame… Ryszard is one of the best to ever practice this art.

Join International Photography Hall of Fame Inductee, and Canon Legends member, Ryszard Horowitz and me as we chat about his life, his photography, and his complex photographic composites, on this episode of Behind the Shot.
Connect with Ryszard
Website: ryszardhorowitz.com
Facebook: @RyszardHorowitzStudio
Instagram: @ryszardhorowitz_studio
International Photography Hall of Fame
Inductees of Photography: iphf.org
Documentary on Roman Polański and Ryszard Horowitz
Polański, Horowitz. Hometown: imdb.com
Ryszard’s Books
PHOTOCOMPOSER, 2009
All That Jazz , 2012
Ryszard’s Photographer Picks
Yasuhiro Wakabayashi: wikipedia.org
Irving Penn: irvingpenn.org
Richard Avedon: avedonfoundation.org
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