Episode 2 of Loveheadhouse the Photography Podcast is a conversation with Ron Jude, a photographer who teaches at the University of Oregon and who has published ten photobooks—with an eleventh called 12 hz coming out this September from the publisher MACK.

Ron was born in Los Angeles in 1965 and grew up in the mountains of Central Idaho in the small town of McCall. He has exhibited in museums and galleries around the country as well as in Berlin, Moscow, London, and South Korea, and has lectured about his work in places such as The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Fotomuseum Antwerp. In 2019 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Ron is represented in Los Angeles by Gallery Louisotti and Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin.

Below you’ll find the podcast recording, images from his books discussed in the podcast (as well as links to those books), plus links and information about some of the writers, artists, and photographers mentioned in our conversation. Please give it a listen if you can.

from Ron’s book emmett

Robert Adams, a photographer Ron mentions

Ever since the “New Topographics” show at the George Eastman House in 1975-76, Robert Adams (b. 1937) has been a major presence in photography. His concerns about the American West and the impact of human actions on the landscape are evident in the dozens of photobooks he has authored, as well as at multiple books of essays. He lives with his wife and artistic co-conspirator Kerstin Mornestam in Astoria, Oregon.

Doug mentions John Cage

John Cage (1912 - 1992) was a musical composer who taught for a while at Black Mountain College along with his lover Merce Cunningham, the dancer and choreographer. Cage is famous for his interests in Zen Buddhism and in chance operations, and his work and essays have had a deep influence on generations of artists and writers.