Just The Photographer with David Swanson30 Juli 2025

Just The Photographer: Who, What, Where, How - And Most Importantly WHY

For over 40 years, PULTIZER PRIZE winning photojournalist David Swanson has covered war zones (from Bosnia to Afghanistan to Iraq), natural disasters (the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, the LA Fires) and even red carpet events like the Oscars. But, while David's photos can tell you what it looked like standing where he stood in order to take those news photos, they can't tell you what it felt like. Those are the stories this podcast will tell! Journalism doesn't get any more personal than this. Or more compelling.

David Swanson

Over the course of his 40+ year PULITZER PRIZE winning career, David Swanson has pointed his cameras at everything from wars (Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq) to natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina, the Earthquake in Haiti) to Red Carpet Events like the Oscars. Of course, in order to point his camera at those events, David had to be in all those places confronting wars, natural disasters and red carpet events. David cut his photojournalism teeth covering local news around York, PA where he grew up. He began his career interning at newspapers like The Los Angeles Times before settling in for the long haul at The Philadelphia Inquirer for whom David covered Bosnia, Katrina, Iraq and Afghanistan (among other news events).

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Season 2 Promo

In season one of my podcast, “Just The Photographer”, I told you about my journalistic compulsion to go to dangerous places – like lower Manhattan on 9-11, war zones like Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan,...

18 Aug 2min

S1E15 Another War Zone

THE BLURB: One of the reasons David started this podcast was to tell his story while he still could. David has just been diagnosed with tongue cancer; half his tongue will be removed (and rebuilt usin...

9 Dec 202514min

S1E14 When Liohn Roars

THE BLURB: Andre Liohn is a conflict photographer (conflict being his specialty) who suddenly began asking himself "why am I doing this?" After risking his life to cover wars from Libya to Ukraine, An...

20 Nov 202540min

S1E13 Death Becomes Her

THE BLURB: Amanda Villegas has been a photographer most of her working life. But, when her partner Chris Davis developed a rare, aggressive bladder cancer, she went from being a decorative photographe...

7 Nov 202529min

S1E12 A River Runs Through Me

THE BLURB: One of the best ways to de-stress from covering war zones and natural disasters is fly fishing. In this episode, David tells how he first discovered fly fishing, how the movie "A River Runs...

24 Okt 202522min

S1E11 What Noah Knows

THE BLURB: Photographer Noah Berger stands out among photojournalists. He's got a great eye and an outside-the-box approach to finding the right angles. He also stands out because he stands six foot s...

10 Okt 202532min

S1E10 Getting Shot To Get The Shot

THE BLURB: NICK STERN's no stranger to literal battle. Like David, he's covered war zones, natural disasters and civil unrest. Also like David, Nick's been wounded on the job. Multiple times, as you'...

3 Okt 202534min

S1E9 Almost, Almost Famous

THE BLURB: In this episode, David takes you another kind of war zone - red carpets. Covering the Oscars may be less death-defying than covering a war, but there are challenges nonetheless. David also ...

26 Sep 202524min