Our Team

Tom Jacob (Nikon Tom)

Tom Jacob (Spain) is a Nikon photographer, educator, and your podcast host, holding a camera in his hands for over 3 decades. Winning some awards along the way and published in various magazines, he specializes in Travel, Lifestyle and Macro photography (to a point where nature conservation becomes very important) and loves a good dose of humor which he tries to weave through the episodes with the guests. When not shooting pictures he tries to run this weekly podcast at night and his daughters make sure his other free time is put to good use!

Tetiana Malovana

Tetiana Malovana (Ukraine) is our producer and a real-time professional accountant to keep the whole podcast Team in good working order with calendars, schedules, and to-do lists! Apart she has a degree in Marketing to get the podcast seen where it needs to be seen. She has a keen love for photography and will try out all the genres we touch upon in our podcast with her phone. When not spending her free time on this podcast, she loves to go for long runs, burning energy to get new ideas, together with her dog Ukrop!

Rich Clark

Richard Clark (UK), is your co-host of this podcast, and a Harrogate based professional music photographer since 2013, specializing in capturing live performances all in the space of three songs. He can capture the atmosphere of rock bands and their fans quicker than they can jump, all with his camera in nearly pitch dark and ear deafening sounds. Of course, Rich some other amazing skills, which include shooting weddings, events and occasionally training himself to be a martial art teacher at his newly built outdoor patio. Rich has won some awards, works for music magazines and PR companies.

Beamly

A 5 star conversation

I loved chatting with Tom from The Camera Cafe Show about my work. He is a great podcast host and made me feel at ease and guided the talk in a relaxed conversational manner. He was well informed about my work and the experience was really fun. I would highly recommend his podcast. 5 stars from me

Beamly

What a great time!

Thanks Tom, I had a really great time talking with you on The Camera Cafe Show. It was rewarding to do a deep dive into the nether realms of photography with someone who really speaks the language. And I see you have a fine taste in photographers who have interesting things to say, like old friend Bob Krist. Talk about somebody who knows the travel photo world! I'm sure you enjoyed it and I'm sure Bob did, too. So thanks again. Jim

Beamly

"A Life on Two Wheels"

I found it very relaxing talking to host, Tom Jacobs, it brought out the best recollection of my memories as a cycling photographer. Tom's questions were inspiring and open-minded, and nothing was off the menu as far as my responses were concerned. The podcast produced a mixture of stories and anecdotes that reflected both my working career in photography as well as the exotic lifestyle that came with it. The technical aspects of the job were dealt with well but not too deeply, and as such both the sporting subjects I photographed - like Eddy Merckx, Tom Boonen, Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador and Bradley Wiggins - as well as discussions about food, travel and culture were all given their own prominence. One for the ages, as we English say!

Beamly

What a host!!

I sat with Tom for this podcast with a huge feeling of imposter syndrome, having listened to all previous episodes with global leading photographers. However, he is such a super host, he teases the info out of you with ease. It was a real pleasure to sit down & chat with him.

Beamly

Ms

I really enjoy listening to the Camera Cafe Show. Thanks Tom for being such a wonderful host and making your guests (including me) feel so comfortable!

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Gerry

I’ve just listened to my first episode of ‘The Camera Cafe Show’ (the Brian Matthews episode) Wow… I loved it. The show delivered a wide variety of topics discussed in some great depth. Absolutely loved the emphasis on how nature photography can relate to the promotion of sustainability and conservation in the natural world. Really interesting. I’ll most definitely be tuning in to catch up on the other episodes, keep up the fantastic work. Excellent.

Beamly

Creative

It was my absolute pleasure to talk with Tom on The Camera Cafe Show. I treasure finding like minded photographers who love the photographic process and storytelling as much as I do. While I've enjoyed being featured, Ive also gathered insights from the other photographers in the series. Each conversation is a glimpse into a different aspect of this wonderfully diverse hobby.

Beamly

Great working with Tom and listening to the pobcasts

Great to be involved in a high quality, brilliantly produced podcast (and fun) ('protecting biodiversity...' edition!) great to listen to other photographers and learn new approaches/styles/techniques and reasons why they take photos.

Beamly