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On this week\u2019s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome back an old friend of the show, photographer Mark Mann. Mann is known for a catalogue of portrait work that includes celebrities, musicians, and politicians of the highest regard. In our previous episode with Mann, we discussed photographing Bill Murray, Jennifer Aniston, and President Obama, but like many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying quarantine not only put a halt to our normal photo routines, but forced us to rethink how and why we make photographs.

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For Mann, this \u201crethinking\u201d has brought forth a grand project that he created over the course of 2020 and takes dance\u2015in all its many forms\u2015as its subject. In this intimate and humorous conversation, we speak with Mann about reassessing his early career decisions, about trying new techniques, and how he came to produce a series of portraits that included some of the most important contemporary dancers and legends of the art form. We discuss the cameras, lighting, and techniques that he utilized and how his normal approach to portraiture and even editing was set aside to create this series.

We also speak with Mann about his other recent endeavor, the educational YouTube channel \u201cComplicated Things,\u201d which is designed to give photography enthusiasts insight into portrait technique and to the \u201cinner workings of the photo industry,\u201d which Mann knows very well.

Guest: Mark Mann

Photograph \xa9 Cory Rice

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/podcasts

https://www.youtube.com/c/complicatedthings

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