4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Steve John Irby, aka Steve Sweatpants, is a renowned street photographer and cofounder of Street Dreams Magazine, a beautiful zine that is unlike anything of it's kind featuring up and coming photographers and crowd sourced photography in beautiful layouts and stories.
The majority of Steve's photographic work is derived from the endless source of inspiration found in his home turf in NYC with intriguing travel logs to round out what has become an insanely compelling portfolio that is behind his rapidly emerging recognition in the photojournalism community. Most recently his photography around the racial equality and BLM movement has been published in incredible places like GQ and the New Yorker.
Of course, we dive into Steve's journey from working in retail & playing video games to being on assignment for GQ and others. We also get into:
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0:45.9 | And I do everything I can to unpack their brains with the goal of helping you live your dreams in career and hobby and in life. |
0:53.3 | My guest today, Stephen John |
0:55.9 | Irby, aka Steve Sweatpants, is a renowned street photographer. He's also the co-owner and co-founder |
1:02.4 | of Street Dreams magazine. They've got headquarters in Brooklyn and Vancouver. And this publication |
1:10.3 | that he produces showcases up and coming photographers. |
1:14.3 | It also crowdsources photos via Instagram to create a physical and a digital zine, which is |
1:21.6 | unlike anything of its kind. |
1:24.0 | It is a beautiful zine. |
1:26.1 | And this sort of underpins Steve himself as a creator. Born in |
1:31.0 | Brooklyn and raised in Queens, the majority of Steve's photographic work is derived from the |
1:37.0 | endless source of inspiration found in his home turf with some intriguing travelogs to round out what has become an insanely compelling portfolio |
1:49.3 | that is behind his rapidly emerging recognition in the photojournalism community. |
1:57.1 | He shoots primarily in black and white, but most recently he's been published in incredible places like GQ and the New Yorker, specifically in response to the demonstrations for racial equality, the BLM movement worldwide that is everywhere, as it rightly should be right now. |
2:16.8 | So this episode is timely. It is relevant to any |
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