This week Paul chats with Morgane of Petite Visuals. Morgane is a Fashion/Documentary/Wedding photographer who has a keen interest in art direction.

David Hume is the inaugural winner of the SALA SOLO Photographic Opportunity.

This art ‘prize’ was devised by Paul Atkins, Gavin Blake and Patty Chehade as a collaborative opportunity to develop and show a new body of work with the guidance of all three prize givers. The prize directly includes mentoring from Gavin Blake of the Centre for Creative Photography (CCP) the printing and framing of the artwork buy Atkins Lab, and the staging of the exhibition at Praxis Art Space.

This week Rowena joins Paul for a bunch of pointy questions aiming to find out how she has developed her family documentary photography work.

Paul interviews Rick Liston, a wedding photographer who has made it his mission to not only give his clients the best experience, but to make the business of wedding photography run as smoothly as possible.

Another stroll in the park with Frank draws out conversation about Succession the TV show and making art.

In the first interview recorded in a year or more, Paul talks with Kym Vulling from the Refocus Retreat.

Refocus Retreat was first run in 2014, it is a female focussed conference that has survived the ons and offs of COVID and the challenges that our representative industry bodies have been through.

We’re back at it again, totally not recorded at the same time as the episode 36!

Paul is on the line with New York photographer Steven Laxton. Steven move away from Adelaide 20 years ago to be where he could practice his art at the highest level.

Ha ha! Finally we get our little podcast rolling again. We’ve tweaked the format to separate our chats with the interviews. This will give listeners some more choice and enable more episodes to hit the airwaves.

The Adelaide Fringe Festival was in town and Paul sat down with Sydney based festival and event photographer Robert McGrath. Robert has been covering Fringe Festivals as both a photographerr for many years and has added writing to broaden his offerings.

In a first for the podcast, Paul interviews the six members of PRISM, a group exhibition formed as part of a biennial class the Centre for Creative Photography runs. Lead by Gavin Blake, it is a heroic undertaking to bring a group of students through the process of staging a truly cohesive show.

In a Skype call with Martine Perret, the conversation follows Matrine’s career and then swings from humanitarianism to photojournalism to fine art and back.

In a long awaited sit down with one of Atkins’ web gallery partners, Paul catches up with Derek Clapham, Engineering Czar and Co-founder of Fotomerchant.

Leanne McPhee is Paul’s guest for this episode. Leanne is a photographer who predominantly works in the field of alternative processes. She has recently written and had published a book on the Chrysotype process.

This week Paul catches up with long time friend Terry Hann, one of the more innovative photographers who both works full-time running a successful photographic business and puts a great deal of his personal time into chasing more artistic photographic pursuits.

This week Paul speaks with AIPP Victoria President Emily Black. Emily is a people photographer who began as a darkroom technician in photography department of News Limited press.

Following the Shimmer theme, Paul speaks with Tony Kearney, featured artist at the 2020 Shimmer Festival. Tony is best known for his grand black and white portraits.

This week Paul speaks with one of Australia’s most awarded wedding photographers, Kelly Tunney.

In an other fabulous face to face chat, Paul speaks with David Hume, a visual artist showing at the 2020 Shimmer Festival.

Paul speaks with visual artist Gee Greenslade on perfection and failure and the cycle of self discovery we find ourselves in.

Reaching across the Pacific Ocean and half the continent of North America to Toronto, Paul Skypes with portrait photographer David Williams.

Paul Skypes in with Jannah Dryden from Album Registry. Jannah is a creative juggernaut who made one of the best modern innovations for professional photographers.

This week Paul chats with his art mentor Gavin Blake, owner and senior lecturer at the Centre For Creative Photography in South Australia.

Artist, photographer, poet, curator, dead things wrangler Judith Nangala Crispin is Paul’s guest for this week’s podcast. Judith talks about life in art and connections with her country, from Turkey to the Tanami to her home in Canberra.

Paul catches up with Sam Oster, a photographer who has made a career being fabulously distracted yet produces outstanding work.

Paul Skypes into Margaret River Western Australia to chat with Walkley Award winning photo journalist David Dare Parker.

Paul and stylist/photographer Lucia Braham for a chat about her career and La Dolce Vita.

Paul catches up with internationally recognised photographic artist, heretic, occasional collector of the dead and digger of graves, founder of the Ballarat International Foto Bienale and all round free radical, Jeff Moorfoot OAM.

Episode 16 of the Atkins Labcast Paul interviews founder and curator of the International Wedding Photographer of the Year competition, Luke Simon.

In the second face to face interview, Paul catches up with Murray White, an editorial photographer originally based in South East Asia. Murray has worked for publications such as The New York Times, Penthouse, The Australian Weekend Magazine and The Bulletin.