Cover Photographer, TopBest Magazine — Q3 2025

In this episode of the DES_Photomag Podcast, we speak with Andrew McLeish, photographer and cover author of the 3rd Quarter 2025 TopBest Magazine.

In this episode of the DES_Photomag Podcast, we speak with Andrew McLeish, photographer and cover author of the 3rd Quarter 2025 TopBest Magazine.

The conversation begins with the story behind the cover image — an intimate photograph consciously inspired by the iconic portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Andrew reflects on how reference and memory can inspire an image without turning it into imitation, and how emotional honesty and restraint shaped his approach to the photograph.

We also discuss Andrew’s formation in photography, his early influences, and the evolution of his practice as an English-born photographer who has lived and worked in Paris for many years. The dialogue touches on cultural displacement, observation, and how living between places has contributed to a quieter, more deliberate photographic language.

As with all DES_Photomag Podcast conversations, this episode is less about outcomes and more about process, intention, and authorship — offering insight into how a single image can carry personal, historical, and editorial weight at once.

Andrew McLeish’s work is featured in the DES_Gallery, where a curated image connected to the magazine cover selection can be viewed.

Cover Photographer, TopBest Magazine — Q2 2025

In this episode of the DES_Photomag Podcast, we speak with Andreas Geisinger, photographer and cover author of the 2nd Quarter 2025 TopBest Magazine.

Trained as a sociologist and psychologist, Andreas approaches street photography as both an artistic outlet and a form of observation. During the conversation, we explore how his academic background informs his way of seeing — not as analysis in advance, but as awareness in the moment.

Inspired by Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Andreas reflects on the city as a stage, where people move between roles as actors and audience in an ongoing, unscripted drama. His photographs emerge from this tension: unposed, attentive, and grounded in everyday encounters.

We also discuss photography as a necessary counterbalance to professional life, and the camera as a tool akin to a pencil — a means of sketching moments rather than constructing narratives. The episode touches on patience, proximity, and the quiet discipline required to remain open to what unfolds.

As with all DES_Photomag Podcast conversations, this episode focuses on process, perception, and sustained photographic thinking, rather than outcomes or trends.

Andreas Geisinger’s work is featured in the DES_Gallery, where a curated image connected to his magazine cover selection can be viewed.

Cover Photographer, TopBest Magazine — Q1 2025

Tom Berth is the photographer behind the cover image of TopBest Magazine, 1st Quarter 2025.
His work stood out not for spectacle, but for its quiet tension.

In this first episode of the DES_Photomag Podcast, we sit down with Tom to talk about photography beyond outcomes: the rhythm of working slowly, the importance of restraint, and the moment when a photograph stops trying to impress and starts to resonate.