Episode 84: How They Weaponize Your Passion with Max Cooper

Send us Fan MailJoin me for an hour long conversation with one of my oldest friends and favorite collaborators, photographer Max Cooper.  You'll hear plenty of stories of our past escapades as well as me giving him shit 1 or 4 times.  Sorry Max, you just bring it out in me.  What you'll hear:Why he chooses to practice more archaic forms of his discipline like pinhole photography, in spite of having plenty of modern equipmentHow me and Max hung one of his shows in 2020 exactly the day before everything shut down so no one could see it (lololol)Hear me force him to say I'm the best collaborator ever.What makes something a collaboration?  If you're getting paid, is it a collaboration?What makes a terrible collaborator (spoiler, it's being late and/or unprepared)A trained photojournalist turned fine artist, wildlife photographer (he'll say no but i say yes and it's my podcast, so...) hear what created this shift in his career focus.  If you listen to nothing else, listen to this.  25:50On photographing a ghost town in the middle of the Appalachian mountains.  Several times.A function of myth 39:33Why I won't go camping with Max again 41:34The function of smoking pipes, and how Max became an accidental youtuber 44:31His current show at the Buncombe County Register of Deeds, honoring the 10th year anniversary of North Carolina's legalization of same sex marriage.  The 22 photos on exhibit were taken on the day of the court's decision and document this historic event with frank intimacy (if you're local to Asheville, go see it in the month of June 2024!).His advice to aspiring photographers 57:00You can find a prolific amount of Max's work on his Patreon,  follow him on Instagram, or check out his website at https://www.maxcooperphoto.com/Don't go back to sleep.xoRachelSign up here for monthly blasts and functional wooFind me on InstagramSupport this podcast on Patreon