Street Shots Photography Podcast

"Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors." ― W. Eugene Smith “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ― Scott Adams   In this first episode of 2026, Antonio and Ward ease into the new year by talking about making physical photo objects and what it feels like to see work finally leave the screen. Ward shares the experience of producing a small, full-bleed black-and-white zine from his recent time in Japan, focusing less on explanation and more on mood, sequencing, and how images start to speak to each other once they’re paired on the page. They talk about living with images, resisting the urge to over-edit, and trusting instinct over feedback loops or social media response. The idea of the zine as a tactile object keeps coming up—not just as a container for photos, but as something meant to be held, revisited, and experienced slowly. Antonio then shifts to a different kind of learning curve, talking about taking a drone pilot co