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Photographer Mitchell Epstein has worked everywhere from Hanoi to Berlin to America’s old-growth forests. “As a photographer, it’s only in getting lost that you move forward,” he says. This piece was produced with the National Academy of Design and features music by Stephanie Jenkins. Person: Mikio Shinigawa. Place: Hanoi, 1994. Thing: a hydrangea.

Tonight on Person Place Thing: Heywood Gould, who wrote screenplays for Paul Newman (“Fort Apache, The Bronx”) and Gregory Peck (“The Boys From Brazil”).

Tonight on Person Place Thing: Thom Mayne, the celebrated architect, winner of the Pritzker Prize, not only builds internationally but thinks…

Tonight on Person Place Thing: Every musician relishes applause – who wouldn’t? But the principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic also finds…

Tonight on Person Place Thing: Sarah Carroll heads New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, safegarding 36,000 buildings. She discusses her…

Tonight on Person Place Thing, host Randy Cohen speaks with dancer and choreographer Karen Krolak. Krolak discusses her person – David Francis – her place…

Tonight on Person Place Thing: Poet, writer and educator Patricia Spears Jones. She is the editor of “The Future Differently Imagined” and the author of…

Tonight on Person Place Thing: Host Randy Cohen speaks with Louis Menand, an American critic, essayist, and professor, best known for his Pulitzer-winning…

Tonight on Person Place Thing, actor Penn Badgely, who is perhaps best known as Dan Humphrey in “Gossip Girl” and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix series…