RAWtalk Episode #106: An interview with the first Photographer I ever looked up to, Bruce Bennett
FroKnowsPhoto Photography Podcasts
Jared Polin
4.5 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2014
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
My first official photography class was in 1997 when I was in 10th grade. I recall a rack of photography magazines being near the teachers desk and one magazine always caught my attention. On the cover was this Einstein looking guy holding a really cool “white” lens standing on the ice in front of the net. The photographers name was Bruce Bennett and he has the destination of being the first photographer I ever looked up to. I consider him to the most recognizable photographer in NHL history.
There wasn’t a week that went by where I read and re read the article in “Unique Photo” magazine where Bruce talked about being a hockey photographer. From that point on I knew I wanted to be a Hockey Photographer and that Bruce was the one I wanted to emulate.
Well this week I had the honor and pleasure of interviewing Mr. Bruce Bennett. The interview takes place on the Philadelphia Flyers bench at the Wells Fargo Center before the opening night festivities. This interview ranks up there with one of my favorite to this point. Bruce and I share a love for photography and hockey and you will hear us tossing around random hockey knowledge and facts. The interview starts at 32:23
Do you know what Kerplunk is? If you don’t we start off the show with a quick game of Kerplunk. What other vintage games do you recall playing when you were a kid?
Stephen brings us all the photo news stories of the week that you just might find interesting. Stories include 2 million dollars worth of camera gear was stolen, a video time lapse with stacked video that will blow your mind, the donut selife is introduced and much much more. Be sure to check the site for all the photo news stories and more.
We take a quick look at a new photo book that was just released by Danny Clinch called, Danny Clinch. What a solid collection of images. If you love music or love candid images for that matter this book is going to give you a thrill. I am working on setting up an interview with Danny so if you can tweet at him and say you would like to see him on FroKnowsPhoto RAW talk that would be appreciated. @danny_climch
We wrapped up the show with Gear of the week and the Wheel Of Fro!!!!
A big thank you goes out to Rode Microphone, Atomos, Allen’s Camera, all the companies on the Wheel Of Fro and you guys.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, Stephen? |
| 0:01.6 | Which one? |
| 0:02.3 | You, you? |
| 0:02.9 | Eckert. |
| 0:03.2 | What's up? |
| 0:03.7 | You like the new lights that I got in the ceiling? |
| 0:05.7 | I do. |
| 0:06.9 | LED's finest, man. |
| 0:08.4 | They've been, uh, I guess, uh, they haven't been there for a while. |
| 0:12.8 | No, I've been dealing with, since you moved in. |
| 0:14.7 | Well, no, it's been about eight months since those, all the bulbs started to die in my office. Everyone was dead. One light left in my office. |
| 0:21.7 | Actually, they all died. |
| 0:22.7 | Actually, everyone was dead in the office. |
| 0:24.7 | But when he got up there to change him, one went back on, but we changed them all out. |
| 0:28.3 | My dad does lighting. |
| 0:29.2 | My brother does lighting. |
| 0:30.3 | It's just at 18-foot ceilings. |
| 0:32.2 | Are hard to get to you. |
| 0:32.9 | I've got a big-ass ladder in the hallway, but trying to get that stuff changed, but he changed it. And man, oh, manowitz, are those great lights. Well, for the longest time, you were using |
| 0:41.0 | your Westcott lights and bouncing them off the ceiling and just using that as, yeah, as just |
| 0:45.8 | your light at night. Yeah. And when you would come in here at night, it's like pitch black. Right. |
| 0:50.5 | You can't see anything. But now, now it's like up till the middle point, everything's really bright on this side. |
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