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Venture • Observe • Connect with Deanne Fitzmaurice — Episode 3: Steve Winter

Venture • Observe • Connect with Deanne Fitzmaurice — Episode 3: Steve Winter

On this episode of the VOC podcast, Deanne talks BIG cats with award-winning Nat Geo photographer, Steve Winter. Friends for many years, Deanne and Steve were housemates in college together. Deanne and Steve discuss how he got started photographing big cats, and about the inherent risks when you're documenting some of the most powerful, and endangered, predators on earth.

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Connecting With Família Portuguesa

Connecting With Família Portuguesa

I’ve found myself in many historical places throughout the U.S. and I’ve always been fascinated by the stories of old buildings and architecture. But I hadn’t seen old until I visited Portugal.     My wife’s parents were born and raised in Northern Portugal. They both moved to Connecticut independent of each other, where they met and married in the early 1980s. Ever since my wife and I were married in 2016, we had dreamed of visiting Portugal together to see where her parents are from. She has been many times, but this was my first visit.     We had the...

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Venture • Observe • Connect with Deanne Fitzmaurice — Episode 2: Matthew Jordan Smith

Venture • Observe • Connect with Deanne Fitzmaurice — Episode 2: Matthew Jordan Smith

Episode 2 of Venture • Observe • Connect with Deanne Fitzmaurice is now live! Featuring Deanne's conversation with noted celebrity, fashion, and beauty photographer, Matthew Jordan Smith, this story revolves around the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin. Matthew tells the story of how he first began shooting Aretha, what kind of music she liked to listen to while being photographed, and what it was like to be ferried around the streets of NYC with Aretha behind the wheel. You can listen to the podcast version on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or just give it a watch right here right...

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Venture • Observe • Connect with Deanne Fitzmaurice — Episode 1: Ami Vitale

Venture • Observe • Connect with Deanne Fitzmaurice — Episode 1: Ami Vitale

Recently, Think Tank co-founder, Deanne Fitzmaurice, pitched us an idea: What if we created a podcast / interview series in which she connects with some of the amazing photographers she's gotten to know over the course of her career to talk about how they got started in photography, the pivotal moments along their journeys, the backstories behind some of their most iconic photos, the projects they're most excited about right now, and to offer some advice for photographers and creators just starting out. Ya know, that sort of thing. Deanne finished talking and asked us what we thought... And with that,...

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