17 Best Photojournalism Podcasts to Listen to (2026)

For over 40 years, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist David Swanson has covered war zones (from Bosnia to Afghanistan to Iraq), natural disasters (the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, the LA Fires) and even red carpets. But, while David's photos can tell you what it looked like standing where he stood in order to take those news photos, they can't tell you what it felt like standing there. Those are the stories this podcast will tell! Journalism doesn't get any more personal than this. Or more compelling. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

Around the Lens is a weekly round table discussion show dedicated to news, topics and gear related to photojournalism, broadcast journalism, documentary film making and visual journalism. Learn more about the show at www.aroundthelens.com. more

A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone

Fortnightly in-depth interviews featuring a diverse range of talented, innovative, world-class photographers from established, award-winning and internationally exhibited stars to young and emerging talents discussing their lives, work and process with fellow photographer, Ben Smith. The most recent 50 episodes are on this free feed, 200+ more are in the archive! TO ACCESS THE FULL ARCHIVE OF PAST EPISODES + SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE CONTENT, BECOME A MEMBER FOR £4 PER MONTH! more

The Official Journal of Street and Documentary Photography

With each episode, street photographer Valerie Jardin brings you a new facet from the exciting world of street photography. You'll learn the art, technique, tools and psychology related to this new era of street-wise photojournalism. more

The Eyeshot Podcast on Street & Documentary Photography is a critical platform dedicated to contemporary street photography and documentary photography . Produced by Eyeshot — an independent publisher focused on publishing and visual culture — the podcast features in-depth conversations on photographic practice, authorship, editing, and publishing. Rather than promotional interviews, each episode examines how photographers construct meaning: how they approach the street, develop long-term documentary projects, edit bodies of work, and position themselves within social and cultural contexts. In a time shaped by speed and image saturation, the podcast creates space for reflection, responsibility, and visual literacy. It positions street and documentary photography not simply as genres, but as ways of engaging with reality. A growing archive for photographers, editors, and readers committed to thinking photography seriously. Website | Youtube | Instagram more

Black Photojournalism is a podcast featuring conversations between contemporary artists, journalists, historians, and photographers about a period in the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the presidential campaigns of 1984 when Black-owned media transformed how people were able to access seeing themselves and their communities. Hosted by renowned author and journalist Mark Whitaker, the series explores this period of urgent social change and civil rights advocacy in different cities and regions around the nation. Episodes roll out every other Wednesday from October 22, 2025 to January 14, 2026. Listen at carnegieart.org or wherever you get your podcasts. more

Mutimedia podcast that merges photojournalism with audio recording.

This October, the Catholic Courier, which is the Catholic newspaper for the 12-county diocese of Rochester, NY, will mark its 135th anniversary of its founding. To celebrate this milestone, the Rochester Catholic Press Association, which publishes the Catholic Courier, will host an art-gallery style exhibition offering a retrospective of historic and artistic photojournalism from the archives of the Catholic Courier and predecessor titles.To coincide with this exhibition, the Catholic Courier will bring you a special limited series podcast with past and present Catholic Courier photographers. more

Hosted by historian Hirah Azhar, this podcast explores the fascinating story of war imagery, and how it has shaped public perceptions of conflict. Drawing on conversations with a wide range of guests - including researchers, curators/archivists, photojournalists, artists, and filmmakers - this podcast moves across time and media, unearthing the stories behind the images that have defined our understanding of war. The War We See offers a critical, urgent, and thought-provoking lens on the images that continue to shape scholarship and society. New episodes released every other Wednesday. more

TOTIM Exposures is a forum for photojournalists and industry adjacent professionals to interview featured contributors to the TOTIM app. Each episode covers the photographer's background, career path, and approach to their work. Conversations focus on photographic technique, the purpose and intention behind each story, and a detailed debrief of how the story was produced and executed. The podcast is intended for anyone interested in the process and challenges of documentary photojournalism. totim.substack.com more

Photojournalism on the radio...sort of. The photography centric podcast is hosted by veteran photojournalist Todd Mizener with help from fellow photogs Todd Welvaert and Meg McLaughlin. Our goal is to both entertain and inform with our personal experiences or via interviews with a wide variety of guests. Mizener is the former Director of Photography for the Dispatch/Argus, a mid-sized daily newspaper, located in western Illinois along the banks of the Mississippi River in Moline, Ill. He is currently the Marketing & Communications Director for the D/A and Quad-City Times. We all get asked questions about our jobs and the podcast lets us answer some of those questions. It also affords us the opportunity to connect with readers, aspiring photographers, and learn a thing or two from our guests. The podcast is also an extension of our historically strong intern teaching program. Please email your questions and/or topic suggestions to ****@gmail.com and don't forget to tune each week for a new episode. more

Anastasia Photo: The Conscientious Lens is produced in New York by documentary and photojournalism gallery Anastasia Photo. The series sheds greater insight into the work and mission of our photographers. more

Released regularly, the Richard Flint Photography podcast features photography news, photo projects, website and podcast links, multimedia, videos, photography articles, upcoming exhibitions, photographic awards and more. The photography podcast is released regularly (around six episodes a year plus a number of special bonus podcasts focusing on books, photography locations and other photography-related subjects. The podcast covers all sorts of photography-related topics and issues including photography books, photographers, classic and contemporary photojournalism plus lots more. more

Podcast about Photography, Photojournalism, Technology, Editing

This podcast is meant to be an offshoot of Provoke Papers, a photojournalism based thematic quarterly print newspaper. The topics of the podcasts take from the issues and articles of that have found space in the paper. It generally involves the writers/photographers/cartoonists/artists themselves talking about the behind-the-scenes of a story. The idea is to promote 'charcha', 'adda' via discussion. Anti-exclusivity. Pro-accessibility. This is our way to interact with our visual readers through the ear. more