Pals with Bill Wadman

Society & Culture

About

I'm Bill Wadman, a commercial portrait photographer in New York City with a lot of amazing and accomplished friends. Occasionally I'll record an hour long interview with one of them about what they do, how they got here, and why it's important to them

Episodes

  • Episode 45: Karen Dahlstrom - Singer-Songwriter

    Karen recently released her new album "Love These Days". It's a lovely, meditative, and often deeply personal record that I've had on repeat for the past few weeks. You should to. Find it on all the streaming platforms, or better yet, to t…

  • Episode 44: Clay Williams - Photographer

    Photographer Clay Williams is well known in culinary circles. He's spent much of the last decade photographing food and the people who make it in NYC and around the world. We discuss how he got his start photographing food carts and restau…

  • Episode 43: Matt Carr - Portrait Photographer

    Today we're in Matt Carr's kitchen discussing his beginnings in photojournalism in the midwest, how photography took him to Alaska and Prague and London, and what happens in the photo press rooms at Sundance.

  • Episode 42: Noah Prince - Gaffer

    Noah Prince has worked as a gaffer, best boy, and electrician in the TV and film industry for more than a quarter century. We discuss lighting for movies, growing up in Cambridge, making career decisions when your first dream doesn't lead…

  • Episode 41: Dr Benjamin Brush - Neurologist

    Ben Brush is interested in just about everything, just like me, except that he's got the bona fides to back it up. Having worked in research labs on brain machine interfaces and then spent the last 10 years between Harvard Medical School,…