Depth of Field: Michael Freeman

Depth of Field: Michael Freeman

Michael Freeman

Michael Freeman is one of the photographers I had wanted to interview for a long time. His book on composition, “The Photographer’s Eye” had become the first book I hand to new photographers. It is destined to become the classic treatise on composition – a must read for every photographer.

Michael is one of the most widely published photographers in the world. He has worked for most major international magazine and book publishers in a long career. A leading photographer for the Smithsonian Magazine for three decades (more than 40 assignment stories), He has also published more than 120 books on subjects as varied as Angkor, Sudan, ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia, the Shakers, and contemporary Japanese design and architecture. His 50 books on the practice of photography are standard works, and have sold almost two million copies in more than 20 languages. His contribution to teaching is the photography courses at the UK’s Open College of the Arts, now to degree level in the national curriculum. London-based, Michael Freeman travels for half of each year on shooting assignments, principally in Asia. His latest large-format reportage book is The Tea Horse Road, the result of a two-year exploration of one of the longest trade routes in the ancient world, between China and Tibet.

Visit his blog HERE.
His Open College of the Arts educational support website we talk about in the interview HERE.

You can listen to more Depth of Field podcasts HERE.

About The Author

Matt Brandon

Matt is a Malaysia based assignment photographer. Well known as a photographer and international workshop instructor, Matt’s images have been used by business and organizations around the globe. Matt is also a Fujifilm Malaysia brand ambassador. Matt is a contributor to National Geographic, National Geographic Traveller and other major publications.

3 Comments

  1. Ed

    Please do chat again with Michael sometime. It was an excellent episode of DoF and it sounded like the last couple of issues you threw out there could have gone on much longer. I can imagine some people getting a bit tired of the ethics and thought you and he put into all of the discussions but I personally love them. You have to think about these things so you know where the boundaries are push as we only move forward by examining and experimenting, with ethics, photography, art, or science.

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  2. Fernando C. Silva

    Matt, what a great podcast! Thanks for these 70 minutes.

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  3. Steve Davies

    Hi Matt, great show, is it possible to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes?

    Steve.

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