Dave Jordano: The Secrets of a Documentary Photographer

Robin Schimko: Street Photography, YouTube & the Algorithm Problem

Robin Schimko, also known as The Real Sir Robin, joins Eyeshot 50mm for a direct conversation on street photography, YouTube, algorithms, AI, flash, gear culture, and what happens when social media starts shaping the way photographers see. In this episode, Robin reflects on the difference between being a street photographer and playing the YouTube game, questioning how algorithms reward repetition, imitation, silhouettes, POV videos, gear obsession, and easily consumable images. He also discusses why good street photography is not about perfection, why AI may push photography toward a dangerous idea of the “perfect image,” and why the real value of the medium still lies in instinct, presence, failure, and visual identity. He talks about a decade with the same Leica Q and 28mm lens, gear as costume, photographing around the shock at Thailand's Vegetarian Festival, the biggest beginner mistake he sees in workshops, what it takes to make a living without diluting the work, and why in the age of AI a flawed real photograph matters more than a perfect generated one.

Chuck Patch: Analogue Street Photography, Winogrand & the Decisive Moment

In this episode, American street photographer Chuck Patch reflects on a lifetime of image-making, from his first camera and darkroom experiences to his years working with museums, archives, and photographic collections. The conversation moves through his influences, including Garry Winogrand, Walker Evans, Vivian Maier, Joel Meyerowitz, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, while opening a deeper discussion on what makes a street photograph last over time. Patch speaks about the beauty of mundane subjects, the limits of perfect composition, the shift from black and white to color photography, and why authenticity in photography has changed across generations. He also reflects on the role of Flickr and online photography communities, the fear of criticism, the value of amateur photography, and the difference between the traditional “decisive moment” and a more emotional, social, and narrative understanding of street photography. This is a conversation about street photography as attention, memory, community, intuition, and emotional connection.

Sandra Cattaneo Adorno: Why Street Photography Is Not About the Street

Sandra Cattaneo Adorno joins Eyeshot 50mm to discuss street photography, memory, Brazil, abstraction, light, and the freedom of starting photography later in life. In this episode, Sandra reflects on how the street can become more than a place to document reality. Through color, reflections, bodies, gestures, gold, silver and fragments of everyday life, her work transforms ordinary moments into something poetic, personal and dreamlike. From Rio de Janeiro to New York, she shares how photography changed the way she sees the world and why street photography can move beyond the decisive moment.

Dave Jordano: The Secrets of a Documentary Photographer

In this episode, we sit down with acclaimed documentary photographer Dave Jordano. Dave Jordano did not come to documentary photography through the street. He came through still life, three decades of commercial work in Chicago with an 8x10 camera, planning every detail, controlling every light. When he returned to personal work around 2000, he brought that patience with him: the tripod, the long study, the frame decided before the shutter. He is, by his own account, the opposite of a street photographer. In this episode of Eyeshot 50mm he talks about treating the world as a still life, about why he refused to photograph Detroit as a fashionable ruin when "people still live here", about consent as a slow method built on conversation and returned prints, and about the one rule that held a fifty-year life together: love what you do, and treat it as a gift, not as work.

Paulie B: More empathy, more time. Less gear, less POV

n this episode of Eyeshot 50mm, Paulie B discusses street photography, shooting strangers, ethics, New York, Walkie Talkie, visual clichés, and why he is not trying to be Daniel Arnold. Paulie B is a photographer, filmmaker, and creator of Walkie Talkie, the YouTube series that has opened up the process of street photography to a wider community. In this conversation, he reflects on what it means to photograph in public today: when to approach, when to disappear, how to deal with confrontation, and why being a street photographer requires more than one way of seeing. From the pressure of photographing New York to the responsibility of making images of strangers, from social media comparison to the clichés of contemporary street photography, this episode is a direct and honest conversation about process, fear, ethics, community, and the future of street photography.