A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers
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294 - Vladimir Karamazov
4 november 2026 · 1 uur 18 min
Born in Sofia (Bulgaria), Vladimir Karamazov graduated classical drama theatre at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts. He has a 25 years career as a professional actor and part of the company of the Bulgarian National Theater “Ivan Vazov”. He has performed many roles in theatre cinema and television, but has always loved photography making it his occupation since 2019. He looks for the images, the places, the atmosphere of the plays in which he has performed. And looks for special people with dramatic and interesting stories. Photography helps him understand humanity in its complexity and scale, and reveals the true nature of it. Over the past few years, he has won a number of photography competitions, including from Sony World Photo Awards, the British Journal of Photography and Lensculture. Lees meer
Vladimir recently published his debut photobook with GOST books, For the Grace of God, which takes takes us into the notorious Belene Prison, located in northern Bulgaria on the border with Romania; the most heavily guarded facility of its type in the country. The work focusses primarily on inmates serving life sentences without parole.
On episode 294, Vladimir discusses, among other things;
First night nerves as an actor.
Thinking only about photography.
The potential for identity crisis as actor turned photographer.
How acting taught him about narrative.
Learning from Anders Petersen.
How he became curious about life inside prison.
And how he found his way into the project.
Solving the question of what a prisoner without parole looks like.
Learning a lesson in forgiveness.
Getting help from George Georgiou and Vanessa Winship.
An insight into the childhoods of prisoners as the source of their criminality.
Not wanting to give his phone number and changing his mind about doing that.
Next project on a prison for young offenders.
A story of hope for a prisoner who was released after 26 years in prison.
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293 - Christina Assi
21 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 21 min
Christina Assi is a Lebanese photojournalist and photo editor. After losing a leg in an Israeli tank attack in southern Lebanon in October 2023, she began campaigning for journalists' safety. Lees meer
Christina was born in Lebanon. Growing up there in the 1990s, she lived through the instability of the civil war that she documented in multiple stories. In 2005 she moved to Doha, capital city of Qatar, with her family. Christina graduated from the Notre Dame University-Louaize in Lebanon with a bachelor's degree in communications and journalism. In 2018, she began to work for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Cyprus as a photo editor.
On 13 October 2023, while live reporting on a column of smoke on the Israeli-Lebanese border along with six other journalists, she was a victim of an Israeli tank shell attack in Alma al-Shaab. The attack involved two strikes and resulted in Christina losing her right leg.One of the two explosions killed her best friend, Reuters correspondent Issam Abdallah. Five more of their colleagues were wounded. All journalists were wearing bulletproof vests and helmets, clearly marked as press. Christina demands that the attack be considered a war crime.
Since then, Christina became a campaigner for journalists' safety, giving numerous interviews and propelling a rehabilitation programme for people with similar life-altering injuries. On 21 July 2024, with colleague, journalist Dylan Collins, she carried the torch in Vincennes, France, ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic games, representing the journalists who died in the line of duty.
At the end of 2024, the BBC included Assi in its list 100 Women, which recognises the most influential women in the world each year.
On episode 292, Christina discusses, among other things:
Early memories of growing up in Lebanon
Her first job as a photo Editor for AFP in Cypress
Buying her first camera with the prize money from a photography competition
First opportunites with photography assignments
Being sent to Leban…
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292 - Reuben wu
7 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 20 min
Reuben Wu is a multidisciplinary artist who explores new ways of telling compelling stories about the world we inhabit. Lees meer
His work with aerial lighting and long-exposure photography has defined a singular style in contemporary landscape photography and belongs in the Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the MoMA.
His practice spans fine art and creative collaborations with brands.
Reuben was born in Liverpool to parents who had immigrated from Hong Kong. Following their guidance, he pursued Industrial Design at university, though his academic focus often took a backseat to DJing, collecting records and enjoying Sheffield’s vibrant music scene.
After graduating, his passion for music led him back to Liverpool’s creative community, and with Daniel Hunt, Mira Aroyo, and Helen Marnie, he formed the band Ladytron in 1999. Their first single earned Single of the Week in the NME. Soon they were signed to a label and invited on a world tour, at which point Reuben left his job at an industrial design consultancy to dedicate the next decade to music.
When Ladytron took a break, Reuben again faced the challenge of reinvention. Though uncertain, he committed to pursuing photography professionally. After years of persistence and occasional strokes of luck, he established himself in the field, bringing his own visual perspective shaped by his design and musical background.
Reuben works globally and lives in Chicago, USA.
On episode 292, Reuben discusses, among other things:
His creative family
Industrial design
Musical success with Ladytron
The challenge of reinventio
How his incredible light paintings came about
The role of serendipity.
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291 - Iva Sidash
23 september 2026 · 59 min
Iva Sidash is an independent documentary photographer and visual storyteller from Ukraine. Born in 1995, she focuses on deeply personal narratives shaped by the realities of war. Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, she has documented intimate stories of fragility, resistance, and memory that unfold behind the frontlines. Lees meer
Her work merges artistic sensibility with documentary practice, revealing the human experience through a lens of emotion, nuance, and resilience.
A graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York, Iva is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers and Women Photograph. She is the recipient of the 2024 Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, a Women Photograph fellowship, and the Chris Hondros Award at the Eddie Adams Workshop.
Her photographs have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, INSIDER, Der Spiegel, and The Financial Times. Her exhibitions span both solo and group presentations across the United States and Europe, highlighting her growing
international recognition as a compelling voice in documentary photography.On episode 291, Iva discusses, among other things:
Daily normality in Kyiv
How a car accident led her to street photography
How she transitioned from street photography to documenting the war
The power of trying to portray life during wartime
Ethical concerns
Her project What Is Unseen and what the title means
Winning the Ian Parry Grant (and being in that ‘family’)...
…And the Chris Hondras award
Going to the ICP in New York
Her story there about injured Ukrainian soldiers undergoing rehabilitation on Staten Island
Future plans for other projects she’s interested in, including diaristic work
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290 - Richard Sharum
9 september 2026 · 1 uur 23 min
Richard Sharum is an editorial and documentary photographer based in upstate New York. Mainly focusing on socio-economic or social justice dilemmas concerning the human condition, his work has been regarded as in-depth, up-close and personal. Lees meer
Selected exhibitions have occurred in Kyoto, Japan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Reggio Emilia, Italy, New York City, Boston, Chicago and Dallas, and his work has been added to the permanent collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and The Wittliff Collection, as well as others.
Richard's commissions include those by The Meadows Foundation, Centers for Community Cooperation, Harvard Law School, Student Conservation Association, Children's Medical Center (Oncology), Children's Cancer Fund.
His publications include those by LFI (Leica International), British Journal of Photography, LensCulture, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Publico (Portugal), El Pais (Spain), Observer (UK), The Wall Street Journal, B+W Photo Magazine, Huck Magazine, Glasstire, PATRON, Creative Review, among others.
Richard has published two photobooks, Campesina Cuba and Spina Americana, both with GOST. His third, American Homicide, will be released early in 2027, also by GOST. The last two of these titles will be joined in 2028 by American Avenue, to form a trilogy of books entitled Of Thee I Sing.
He is represented by The Hulett Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
On episode 290, Richard discusses, among other things:
His goal of reaching a wider audience among the general public.
Team window vs. team mirror
His new book American Homocide
The fascination for true crime among the public
How murder affects all the groups involved
Getting access to the detective squad he embedded with
The portrayal of violence on screen
His obsession with time
The need to be empathetic and open
The impact of being exposed so many murder victims
The murder detectives he got to know and photograph
Corresponding with the perpetrators
Part three of his planned trilogy, Amer…
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289 - Clémentine Schneidermann
26 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 8 min
Clémentine Schneidermann is a French photographer living and working between Paris and South Wales. She recently completed a practice-based PhD at the University of South Wales, Cardiff entitled Photographing Children in a Social Context: Narratives and Strategies (2021). Clémentine works on long term projects & commissions and is interested in new creative practices in social documentary photography. Her approach is collaborative and playful, with an interest in communities and childhood, as well as our relationship to identity and culture. She is a co-founder of Bleak Fabulous with Charlotte James, a photography-based creative studio working across different disciplines with an emphasis on communities and collaboration. Lees meer
On episode 289, Clémentine discusses, among other things:
How having a camera made it acceptable to stare at people
Studying in Switzerland… and then Newport, Wales
Falling in love with Wales immediately
Her book project, I Call Her Lisa Marie
Her project Ffasiwn
Collaborating with kids… and Charlotte James
Getting involved with Alexander MacQueen
Her forthcoming book marking ten year of Ffasiwn
Bleak Fabulous - trying to create stable income
Winning the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize
Work she has done in Greenland
Her other collaboration: The Emmas
Referenced:
Mary Ellen Mark
Sebastian Bruno
Bruce Davidson
David Barnes
Ken Grant
Paul Reas
Lina Hashim
Jacob Aue Sobol
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288 - Aria Shahrokhshahi
12 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 13 min
Aria Shahrokhshahi (b. 1996) is a British-Iranian multi-disciplinary artist, whose practice has been shaped by a deep fascination with the intricate dynamics of diverse communities and the complexities of the human condition. With a focus on social structures and the human experience, Shahrokhshahi's work serves as a critical exploration of the relationships and power dynamics that inform everyday life. Lees meer
Aria’s debut photobook, Wet Ground, featuring images from Ukraine shot over a period of several years both before and after the Russian invasion in Feburary 2022, was published in April 2026 by Loose Joints.
He is currently putting the finishing touches to a feature documentary film entitled While We Heal, which also focusses on the war in Ukraine and explores the themes of healing, loss, and resilience.
On episode 288, Aria discusses, among other things:
Formative experiences (11 different schools!) growing up in Nottingham
How walking around the city with a camera was the start of his photography journey
Negative feedback Facebook group / YouTube channel
Early education at the Photo Parlour lab (later named Sequence) from Dan Wheelan
Using large format and why the decision to shoot B&W came out of the cost of film
Falling in love with Ukraine
It not being enough to just take pictures
Why ‘Ukraine, I guess?’ was an informal category of picture during editing
Having nothing to say about war but being interested in what happens around it
The way in which war rearranges the social hierarchy
Poem by Charlotte Shevchenko-Knight
How the title ‘Wet Ground’, and the book itself, came about
The importance of collaboration
The feature length doc he is making in Ukraine
The importance of having a commercial practice
Referenced:
Lee Friedlander
Laytoya Ruby Frazer
Don McCullin
Tim Hetherington (Which Way Is The Front Line From Here)
Shelby Lee Adams
Minor White
Alec Soth
Gregory Halpern
Nigel Shafran
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Myriam Boulos
Sohrab Hu…
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287 - Lorenzo Meloni
29 juli 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
Lorenzo Meloni is an Italian photographer. Lees meer
He has documented some of the defining conflicts of the 21st century across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. For more than a decade, he has worked in territories marked by wars, revolutions and profound political and social transformations, developing a visual practice that views conflict not merely as an event, but as a historical, material and cultural process.
In recent years, his work has expanded beyond the battlefield. Revelation, an ongoing project, explores how science and technology are changing our relationship to the material world.
In 2022, he published the monograph We Don’t Say Goodbye, a fragmented narrative on the rise, dominance and fall of the Islamic State as a territorial entity. TIME named it one of the 20 Best Photobooks of 2022.
On episode 287, Lorenzo discusses, among other things:
How he has changed his way of working
'Starting as a revolutionary and becoming a deserter'
How his photography journey began in Yemen
How the power of photography is metaphorical not descriptive
His interest in borders and history
His book, We Don’t Say Goodbye. The theme of repetition. And why the cover is orange
The caliphate and Islamic State
His now project, Revelation
Focussing on one thing at a time
Dealing with the instability of a freelance life and keeping some freedom
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286 - Ximena Borrazás
15 juli 2026 · 1 uur 9 min
Ximena Borrazás is a Uruguayan photographer and documentary filmmaker born in Montevideo in 1992. She focuses on armed conflicts, migration, and humanitarian crises. Her work combines visual sensitivity with a strong commitment to social justice, often addressing the experiences of women and displaced populations. Lees meer
She has published with major international outlets, including National Geographic, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, DW, France 24, Al Jazeera, and the Associated Press, and has worked with institutions such as UNHCR, UNESCO, and IOM.
Ximena’s project in northern Ethiopia documents the devastating aftermath of the Tigray conflict, one of the deadliest wars of the 21st century. Her images portray survivors of sexual violence, displaced families, and the enduring effects of famine and trauma. This work earned her the 2024 Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence, the Gentex Corp Personal Safety Award from the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, and the Africa Mundi Award for best photographic publication in Planeta Futuro of El País.
Her long-term documentary project The Scars of War, which began in Tigray, combines photography, testimony, and documentation to investigate conflict-related sexual violence through a forensic lens. Rather than treating sexual violence as an isolated act, the project traces it as a weapon of war, examining physical, psychological, and social evidence left behind, and the systems, or lack thereof, that respond to it.
Ximena is currently based in Ukraine where, aside from continuing to photograph, she has a full-time job as a Liaison and Communications Officer with the United Nations.
On episode 286, Ximena discusses, among other things:
Working for the UN in Ukraine
Her first experience of visiting the Polish border
The nature of working amidst drone warfare
Challenges of being a freelancer in a conflict zone
Why she doesn’t really want to be a photographer
The experience of being in Kyiv on a daily basis
Her life before photography
Ea…
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285 - Sam Faulkner
1 juli 2026 · 1 uur 16 min
Sam Faulkner is a London-based photographer and the founder of Print Swap, an iOS app. where photographers and visual artists exchange gallery-quality physical prints directly. No buying, no selling, no follower counts. Lees meer
Sam came to photography the hard way, travelling into Afghanistan in 1994 with a battered Canon, a few rolls of film and very little plan. His work has since moved between reportage, portraiture and long-form photographic projects, including Unseen Waterloo, his battlefield portrait series exhibited at Somerset House.
Print Swap began with a gap Sam’s own wall and a long-held habit among photographers: trading prints of each other's work. In a world of endless images and thin attention, it is built on a simple belief: a print on the wall changes the relationship.
In episode 285, Sam discusses, among other things:
How his new app., Print Swap, came to fruition.
How he got into reportage photography in search of adventure.
Kashmir and Afghanistan - talkng your way in and talking your way out.
Coming back with the six rolls of film that won him the Ian Parry Award.
The influence of Nick Danziger’s book Danziger’s Adventures.
Changes in the industry.
His global story about ‘the war on drugs’.
Lessons learned from shooting Mario Testino.
The threat of AI and the issue of trusted brands within the news media.
His decision to step back from photojournalism.
His new working life directing commercials.
His Unseen Waterloo project.
Referenced:
David Hurn
Jonas Bendiksen
Ian Teh
Omar Ashtawy
Neil Burgess
Nick Danziger
Aidan Sullivan
Mario Testino
Stephen Dupont
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284 - Harriet Logan
17 juni 2026 · 1 uur 36 min
Harriet Logan is a multi-award winning photographer who spent the first half of her career working on international assignments in places such as Sudan, Angola, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and Somalia for a range of international newspapers and magazines. Lees meer
She subsequently turned her attention to working commercially on advertising campaigns for various big brand clients, including The Pictet Group and Canon, alongside some of the worlds largest advertising agencies.
Today she curates the Incite Project, an issue driven collection of photographs broadly based around the subject of world events and conflict.
Harriet is also the executive director of The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant which has run for over 30 years and which she won in 1992. The grant has a mission to support young and emerging Photojournalists.
She co-parents 4 boys with her husband Mark, an owl, a peregrine falcon, three dogs, a dressage horse, and a bunch of sheep, cows, chickens and pigs.
On episode 284, Harriet discusses, among other things:
Her journey into photojournalism from art college in the USA
Her early project on an Aids patient, with whom she became close
Beginners luck at the Poll tax riots in London in 1990
Ending up in southern Sudan…and then Somalia
Winning the The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant and how it changed everything
The reality of being a female photojournalist in the 90’s
An example of the danger of inadvertantly fucking over your subject
He story about victims of rape in Kosovo during the Balkans conflict
Being sent to Afghanistan for the first time by The Sunday Times…
…And returning four years later to find the women and girls she had photographed there
A close call on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad
Motherhood, falling out of love with being a photographer, and the decision to quit photojournalism
Becoming the Executive Director of the The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant
The new Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence
How The Incite Project ca…
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283 - Henri Kisielewski
3 juni 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
Henri Kisielewski is a self-taught photographer whose work is concerned with the porous boundary between fact and fiction in documentary media. Lees meer
His practice has been recognised and supported by several grants and awards, and he has exhibited in group shows and festivals internationally. In 2025, he was shortlisted for both the Prix Élysée and Grand Prix Images Vevey.
In 2021, Henri was employed by Magnum Photos to conduct the first complete review of their historic archive - he remains the only person to have seen the nearly 1 million images within. Informed by this experience, and his studies in human geography, Henri’s work operates at the intersection of real-world issues and their modes of representation.
His first book Non Fiction was published by Le Bec en l’air in 2024. It was selected by Clément Chéroux as one of his ten books of that year and shortlisted for the Prix Nadar in 2025.
Henri is also the founder of Soft Eyes, a new photography lecture series which runs three times a year at Reference Point in London. It aims to open up space for community and dialogue outside of institutional frameworks, inviting artists.
On episode 283, Henri discusses, among other things:
How A Small Voice has been part of his photographic education.
How he came to assist Magnum photographer, Olivia Arthur.
And run a dilapidated hotel for three years.
How a year in Valencia changed his life.
His decision to spend money on a.) a trip to Ibiza or b.) a camera.
Returning to the hotel for his first proper photo project.
Learning to edit from Olivia Arthur.
How his book project Non Fiction came about.
Photography and documentary media’s relationship to truth.
The cast of characters who appear in Non Fiction.
The amazing story behind his new book project, Agloe N.Y.
Post-truth America.
The new photography event in London he is curating, Soft Eyes.
Referenced:
Alexander Meurice
Erasmus Programme
Joan Wakelin Bursary
Charlie Engman
Bruce Eeesly
Melanie Mues
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282 - Richard Young
20 mei 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
Richard Young is a photographer who was once known as the “king of the paparazzi”. Lees meer
His portfolio is a who’s who of some of the biggest stars in film, music, stage and popular culture from the past fifty years. From gatecrashing Elizabeth Taylor’s party for Richard Burton’s 50th at the Dorchester to later being invited to photograph her Damehood celebrations. He can count the first photographs of Paul Getty Jr. after his kidnapping as just one of his many scoops.
He was born in Hackney to a Jewish family and his father ran a hosiery stall in Berwick Street market for more than sixty years. Richard has dyslexia and after being expelled from school at fourteen, he went to Soho and landed a job in fashionable clothes shop frequented by Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, David Hockney and Francis Bacon.
A two-year stint in New York followed, working as a studio assistant at Electric Lady Studios, before he returned to London and found himself in a bookshop handed a camera and told to get on with photographing authors.
For the past fifty years, he has lived a nocturnal, high octane life of private jets, parties and exclusive events, eventually becoming as much a fixture in the world of celebrity as the people he photographed.
Richard lives in London with his wife Susan. His photography gallery is in London and has visitors from around the world.
On episode 282, Richard discusses, among other things:
Wanting to escape school
Learning that trust is currency
Crashing Richard Burton’s birthday party
And how the proceeds from the resulting picture bought him his first house
How his journey into photography began with a roll of blank film
Adventures in New York and Paris
Having a guardian angel
Still being sent on jobs at 79
Turning up to Freddie Mercury’s party in drag by mistake
How he navigated the switch to digital
Why he reccommends that young photographers experiment with film
Photographing flowers …and the east end of London
The importance of saying sorry when…
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281 - Ilvy Njiokiktjien
6 mei 2026 · 1 uur 11 min
Ilvy Njiokiktjien is a Dutch photojournalist, filmmaker, podcast host and educator who has been creating and sharing stories for almost two decades. She is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands and is a contributing photographer to VII Foundation. Ilvy is committed to documenting the social and political issues that shape our world. Her work is characterized by a sensitive eye and a compassionate and personal relationship with her subjects. Lees meer
For nearly 2 decades, she chronicled South Africa’s first post-apartheid generation. Ilvy became intrigued by these young adults and portrayed them in her own, personal and intimate style. “Equality is there on paper, but a majority of young people believes white South Africans still have better chances, as the legacy of centuries of inequality is still there.” The result is the project Born Free – Mandela’s Generation of Hope, which sparked a documentary, an interactive website, a book, feature articles, and a traveling exhibition.
Her work with Ukraine’s LGBTQ community in March 2022 tells the tale of people’s loves and fears – and their resolve in the face of Russian aggression. Ilvy’s latest project on co-housing follows people who opt to live in non-traditional groups or who welcome extended family members into a shared home.
Ilvy was the first woman to win the Dutch Silver Camera Award for photographer of the year and was named the first ever Photographer Laureate of the Netherlands in 2013. In addition to numerous awards from international organizations such as World Press Photo and POYi, Ilvy’s images have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, The Guardian, Stern, Der Spiegel, TIME, and other major outlets. She has exhibited at Visa pour l’Image in France, New York’s Photoville, and museums and festivals around the world.
On episode 281, Ilvy discusses, among other things:
Her foray into podcasting for Canon
The pattern of her work life
How things have changed since she started
Col…
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280 - Jon McCormack
22 april 2026 · 1 uur 21 min
Jon McCormack is - as plainly stated on his Linked-In profile - a Photographer, Nerd, Educator and Conservationist Lees meer
His photographic work is deeply informed by his upbringing in the stark, untamed landscapes of the Australian Outback, where early life among sheep and cattle fostered a profound respect for nature’s rhythms of resilience and fragility. Beginning as a teenager photographing quiet, often-overlooked moments in the bush, he developed a photographic voice rooted in patience, attention, and ecological empathy. Today, his images explore the intricate patterns and emotional textures of wild places, seeking to inspire both wonder and a sense of responsibility, and are widely published and used by global conservation organizations to advocate for the protection of fragile ecosystems.
In addition to photography Jon is also actively involved in conservation and social good organizations. He is a member of The Explorer’s Club, a founding board member of Sealegacy, co-founder of his non-profit in Kenya, The Kilgoris Project and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Alongside his creative work, Jon has a day job as a tech nerd. He is Vice President of Camera & Photos Software Engineering at Apple in California, leading the software team responsible for the iPhone camera.
His new photobook entitiled Patterns: Art Of The Natural World, is published by Damiani and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Vital Impacts, the non-profit founded in 2021 by photographer Ami Vitale and visual journalist Eileen Mignoni to advance conservation through visual storytelling, community partnership, and strategic investment in local solutions.
On episode 280, Jon discusses, among other things:
His formative experiences on a remote Australian farm and how that influenced the person he became
Discovering his love of mathematics… and of nature… and photography
How his ‘impossible to predict' career in tech began at a conference in Manchester, UK
How is current role with …
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279 - Dragana Jurišić
8 april 2026 · 1 uur 10 min
Dragana Jurišić is a photographer, writer and filmmaker. She has exhibited extensively and won numerous awards. Dragana’s work is in several significant collections, including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Arts Council Collection, the Irish State Art Collection (OPW), the Bank of Spain, and others. Lees meer
Her first book, YU: The Lost Country, received accolades worldwide. Her second book, Museum, a collaboration with Paula Meehan, was published in July 2019 and is now in its 2nd edition. Her Own, published in December 2022, received outstanding reviews in El País, The Irish Times and RTE Culture. Dragana is currently working on her first feature-length documentary, The Last Balkan Cowboy (working title).
In episode 279, Dragana discusses, among other things:
Her forthcoming debut documentary.
How everything she’s done is an attempt at making sense of her experience during the Balkan war
Her book YU: The Lost Country
The influence of Rebecca West’s book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
How she would measure the success of the new film
Wanting to reach as large an audience as possible
The imposter syndrome she felt as a first time film maker
Being ‘ergonomic’ about the way she approaches making
The story of her Aunt and her book Her Own
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278 - Nederlands Foto Museum Special
25 maart 2026 · 1 uur 1 min
Featuring: Lees meer
Sjef van Duin, Librarian
Roderick van der Loos, Interim Director
Zippora Elders, incoming General & Artistic Director
Grace Wong-Si-Kwie, Head of Presentations and Public Outreach
Guinevere Ras, Curator of opening exhibition Awakening in Blue
Martijn van den Broek, Head of Collections
Joop De Jong, Guest Curator of opening exhibition, Rotterdam In Focus
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277 - Zackary Canepari
11 maart 2026 · 1 uur 21 min
Zackary Canepari is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow whose work moves between documentary film and photography. He began as a photojournalist in India and Pakistan before creating the Sundance-screened series California Is a place, a portrait of the golden state unraveling at the edges. Lees meer
He later co-directed the feature documentary T-Rex (SXSW), following teenage Olympic boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields as she fought her way toward gold; the film was adapted by MGM into the narrative feature The Fire Inside. His Guggenheim-supported project Flint Is a place expanded documentary storytelling across film, photography, archival material, and immersive media, earning a World Press Photo Award and recognition as Multimedia Photographer of the Year at POYi.
His monograph REX won POYi Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Prize.
Zackary's documentary Fire in Paradise won an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. He received a second Emmy for directing The Gallagher Effect for The New York Times Presents (FX/Hulu).
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In episode 277, Zackary discusses, among other things:
How he started in photography
The experience of cutting his photographic teeth in India
The complicated question of whether it's a good time to be a filmmaker
His early project California Is a place, with his collaborator Drea Cooper
Learning the ropes through experience
His first feature documentary, T-Rex, and being smiled upon by the documentary gods
Flint Town
Thoughts & Prayers
Fire in Paradise
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276 - Jessica Dimmock
25 februari 2026 · 1 uur 11 min
Jessica Dimmock’s work focusses on humanistic and intimate storytelling. She is the recipient of numerous international awards for her photography and video work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three World Press Photo Awards for short films, The Inge Morath Award from Magnum, the F Award for Concerned Photography from Forma and Fabrica, The Infinity Award for Photojournalist of the Year from the International Center of Photography, and The Kodak Award for Best Cinematography at the Hamptons International Film Festival. She is a Sundance Edit and Story Lab Fellow, and her first feature film The Pearl was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival and was executive produced by Impact Partners. Her clients include HBO, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Microsoft, The UNFPA, Aperture, Showtime and PBS. She is the co-director of the Netflix series Flint Town as and directed on the reboot of Unsolved Mysteries and AppleTV’s Home. Lees meer
In 2007 Jessica produced a photobook entitled The Ninth Floor (Contrasto).
Her most recent film, co-directed with her partner Zackery Canepari, is Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America, focussing on the USA's $3 billion active shooter preparadness industry and its effects on teachers and students, released in 2025.
In episode 276, Jessica Discusses, among other things:
Current projects
Her attraction to dark subject matter
Her TV mini series Captive Audience
Forming close relationships with her subject
The random coffee shop interaction that changed her direction forever
The chance encounter that led to her first big photography project and subsequent book, The Ninth Floor
How the musician Moby played a part in her journey
Serendipity and her project The Pearl
The challenge of landing lucrative commercial work
The Netflix series she co-directed, Flint Town
Her most recent film Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America
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275 - Philip Blenkinsop
11 februari 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
On episode 275, Philip discusses, among other things: Lees meer
His ‘cabinet of curiosities’ studio space
A recent, powerful urge to photograph in Australia
Why he left the newspaper world there in favour of Thailand
His early project “The Cars That Ate Bangkok”
His sense of anger at injustice
His ‘near death experience’ on Sleeping Dog Mountain
Process, shooting on film, and working close to the subject
The influence of Koudelka’s book Exiles
The ways in which his old home of Bangkok has changed since he was there
Why he moved to France
Website | Instagram
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274 - Joachim Ladefoged
28 januari 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
Joachim Ladefoged is a Danish photographer born in 1970. He has worked as a professional since 1991, and is a member of the international photo agency VII. Today he is a staff photographer at the Danish Daily Jyllands-Posten, but over the years he has worked regularly for magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, Mare, The New Yorker and TIME. Lees meer
Joachim has received numerous awards for his work from institutions such as Visa D'Or, World Press Photo, POYi, Eissie, and Agfa, as well as Picture of the Year in Denmark. Over the years he has published 3 monographs, Albanians, Mirror and Time After My Time.
Joachim photographs everything with the same inventiveness and diligence, whether sports, war or commerce. His highly accomplished career has seen him master complex, violent news stories, commercial assignments, daily news, and rich, vibrant, and spectacular feature stories. Joachim is credited with being one of the driving forces behind the new wave of Danish photojournalism.
In episode 274, Joachim discusses, among other things:
Having arthritis as a teenager and the impact it had on his life (good and bad)
Starting his career as an intern at a local newspaper
Moving on to ‘the best job in the world’ at national newspaper Politiken
Winning the World Press Photo award
Words of wisdom received from Magnum legend Constantine Manos
Getting into Magnum… and being chucked out again
Being part of ‘the new wave of Danish photojounalists’
Why changing direction on becoming a father was “the right decision, but a hard decision”
Why three photographers were just made redundant on his newspaper
His approach to shooting and lighting portraits
His book project Time After My Time
Photographing his kids with the iPhone
Instagram
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273 - Lee Shulman
14 januari 2026 · 1 uur 10 min
Lee Shulman is a visual artist, filmmaker, and founder of The Anonymous Project, one of the most significant archives of vernacular color photography in existence. Since 2017, the project has amassed nearly one million Kodachrome slides from the 1940s to the early 2000s — intimate, everyday images that might have otherwise been lost to time. Through curation and transformation, Lee reanimates these personal photographs, weaving them into compelling narratives that explore memory, family, love, and cultural shifts across generations. Lees meer
Lee’s career also extends into film direction, notably with his debut feature documentary, "I Am Martin Parr," released in 2025. This film chronicles a road trip with renowned photographer Martin Parr, revisiting iconic locations from his oeuvre. Shulman's prior collaboration with Parr on the "Déjà View" project, which paired Parr's distinctive photographs with images from The Anonymous Project, laid the groundwork for their working relationship. The documentary provides an affectionate portrayal of Parr's artistic process and enduring work ethic, further cementing Lee’s engagement with the broader discourse of photography.
Born in London in 1973, Lee lives and works in Paris. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and Rencontres d’Arles, and is held in major collections such as the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Photo Elysée in Lausanne.
Website | Instagram
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272 - Year In Review 2025
31 december 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
Featuring: Lees meer
Ed Sykes
Ian Howarth
Dina Litovsky
Joseph Michael Lopez
Mike Abrahams
Ian Macdonald
Katrin Koenning
Tomasz Tomaszewski
Mackenzie Calle
Marc Wilson
Paul Seawright
Mohamed Bourouissa
Anna Arendt
Marjolein Martinot
Rankin
Tony Docekal
Eli Reed
Merlin Daleman
Mike Brodie
Paul Sng
Ed Kashi
Rachel Elizabeth Seed
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271 - Rachel Elizabeth Seed
17 december 2025 · 1 uur 5 min
Rachel Elizabeth Seed is a Brooklyn and Los Angeles-based nonfiction storyteller working in film, photography, and writing. Lees meer
In 2025, she won the Truer Than Fiction Spirit Award for her debut feature film, A Photographic Memory, which is also a New York Times Critics Pick.
Rachel’s work has received support from the Sundance Institute, Chicken + Egg Films, the Jewish Film Institute, the California Film Institute, Jewish Story Partners, NYFA, Field of Vision, the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, the Maine Media Workshops, the Roy W. Dean grant, the National Arts Club, IFP, and many others.
Formerly a photo editor at New York Magazine, her photography has been exhibited worldwide, including at the International Center of Photography, and she was a cameraperson on several award-winning feature documentaries. Rachel’s writing has been published by No Film School, the Sundance Institute, and Talkhouse and she is Executive Director / Co-founder of the Brooklyn Documentary Club, a NYC-based filmmaker collective with 250+ members.
In episode 271, Rachel discusses, among other things:
A summary of her mum’s character
nature vs. nurture
Her mum’s Images of Man interviews for ICP/Scholastic
What inspired her to make a film
How her own story became interwined with her mum’s
Discovering a family archive of super 8 footage
How she recreated the interviews using actors
The importance of working with good editors
The challenge of funding and financing
Key advice for anyone wanting to make a personal documentary
The fine balance between collaboration and having the courage of your convitions as director
Writing for narration as opposed to for reading
Sharing her personal stories as the film evolved over a ten year period - How to balance life and art
‘Selling the film’ and what that means in practice
The Brooklyn Documentary Club
Moving to L.A.
Projects she has in development
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270 - Paris Photo 2025 Special
3 december 2025 · 50 min
Featuring: Lees meer
Yasuhiro Ogawa
Marshall To
Lua Ribeira
Gianluca Gamberini (L'artiere books)
Eleonora Agostini
Pia-Paulina Guilmoth
Aletheia Casey
Books/Projects mentioned:
Lost in Kyoto, Yasuhiro Ogawa
Blank Notes, Marshall To
44 Irvine Street 1970-1971, Susan Meiselas
Agony In The Garden, Lua Ribeira
Calling The Bird Home, Cheryl St. Onge
Another England, Phil Toledano
A Study On Waitressing, Eleonora Agostini
Flowers Drink The River, Pia Paulina Guilmoth
Fishworm, Pia Paulina Guilmoth & Jesse B. Saffire
A Lost Place, Aletheia Casey
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269 - Ed Kashi (#2)
19 november 2025 · 1 uur 12 min
Ed Kashi is a renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker and educator who has been making images and telling stories for 40 years. His restless creativity has continually placed him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling. Dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times, a sensitive eye and an intimate and compassionate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his intense and unsparing work. As a member of VII Photo, Ed has been recognized for his complex imagery and its compelling rendering of the human condition. Lees meer
Ed’s innovative approach to photography and filmmaking has produced a number of influential short films and earned recognition by the POYi Awards as 2015’s Multimedia Photographer of the Year. Ed’s embrace of technology has led to creative social media projects for clients including National Geographic, The New Yorker, and MSNBC. From implementing a unique approach to photography and filmmaking in his 2006 Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook, to paradigm shifting coverage of Hurricane Sandy for TIME in 2012, Ed continues to create compelling imagery and engage with the world in new ways.
Along with numerous awards from World Press Photo, POYi, CommArts and American Photography, Ed’s images have been published and exhibited worldwide. His editorial assignments and personal projects have generated fourteen books.
In 2002, Ed in partnership with his wife, writer + filmmaker Julie Winokur, founded Talking Eyes Media. The non-profit company has produced numerous award-winning short films, exhibits, books, and multimedia pieces that explore significant social issues.
In 2019, The Enigma Room, an immersive installation, premiered at NYC’s Photoville festival, and has since been seen in Israel, the Netherlands, South Korea, and New Mexico, USA.
HIs new book is, A Period In Time: Looking Back While Moving Forward, 1977 - 2022.
In episode 269, Ed discusses, among other things:
Wanting to contribute to positive c…
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268 - Paul Sng
5 november 2025 · 1 uur 19 min
Paul Sng is a bi-racial British Chinese filmmaker based in Edinburgh, Scotland whose work focuses on people who challenge the status quo. He has directed six feature documentaries, including Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche (winner of BIFA 2021 Best Documentary, BIFA 2021 Raindance Discovery Award), Tish (Sheffield DocFest 2023 Opening Gala film) and Reality Is Not Enough (Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 Closing Gala film). Paul strives to make bold and creatively ambitious films that connect emotionally with audiences, working collaboratively with great teams to tell stories about outsiders and amplify rebellious voices. In 2022 he was named as a BAFTA Breakthrough Artist and directed Folding, his first short drama film, funded by Screen Scotland and BFI Network. Lees meer
In episode 268, Paul discusses, among other things:
Growing up in London with a single mum
Having outsider syndrome… and imposter syndrome, and using that to your advantage
His educational history, including a couple of false starts
Making a feature as his first ever film with the ‘confidence of ignorance’
The importance of finding a good Producer (and what their job involves)
The important questions he asks himself in considering whether to make a film
Structure and working with an editor
Applying the same narrative principles to documentary as are prevalent in fiction
The creative treatment of actuality
Finding an audience
Currently in production, Little Warrior
Referenced:
Trainspotting
Symposium, Plato
Bruce Lee
Jackie Chan
David Yip
John Woo
Wong Kar-Wai
Colin McArthur
Sleaford Mods
Nathan Hannawin
Bruce Robinson
Orson Welles
Rebecca Mark-Lawson
Jennifer Corcoran
Moonage Daydream
The Atrocity Exhibition, JG Ballard
The Man In The White Suit
Emma Butt
Website | IMDB page | Instagram
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267 - BoP Festival 2025
22 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 4 min
Fearturing: Lees meer
Merlin Daleman
David O’Mara
Jem Southam
Martin Parr
Christoph Bangert from Photobus
Ayesha Jones
Mark Power
Tom Shaw
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266 - Mike Brodie
8 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 12 min
Mike Brodie’s first monograph, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity was published by Twin Palms more than a decade ago in 2013, depicting his fellow rail-riders and drifters in a rebellious and wildfire pursuit of adventure and freedom. “Brodie leapt into the life of picture-making as if he was the first to do it,” Danny Lyon wrote about the book in Aperture. Next came Tones of Dirt and Bone, a collection of earlier SX-70 pictures Brodie made when photography first led him to hopping freights, when he was known as “The Polaroid Kidd.” And then Brodie seemed to disappear from the art world as suddenly and mysteriously as he’d first appeared. Maybe his vanishing was another myth. Maybe it was just a necessary retreat. “I was divorcing myself from all that,” he says. “I was growing up. I was pursuing this other life.” Lees meer
In Nashville he became a diesel mechanic. Fell in love. Moved across the country again. Got married. Bought land on the long dusty Winnemucca road Johnny Cash sang about. Started his own business. Built a house. Put down roots. And when that life exploded, the open road called again. Throughout almost all of it, his cameras were with him, and at last those pictures are coming to light.
If Michael Brodie’s first monograph was a cinematic dream, his latest, Failing, again published by Twin Palms in 2024, is the awakening and the reckoning, a raw, wounded, and searingly honest photographic diary of a decade marked by love and heartbreak, loss and grief — biblical in its scope, and in its search for truth and meaning. Here is the flip side of the American dream, seen from within; here is bearing close witness to the brutal chaos of addiction and death; here are front-seat encounters with hitchhikers and kindred wanderers on society’s edges, sustained by the ragtag community of the road. Failing often exists in darkness but is tuned to grace. Brodie’s eye stays forever open to the strange and fleeting beauty that exists in forgotten places — the open country and…
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265 - Merlin Daleman
24 september 2025 · 1 uur 4 min
Merlin Daleman (b.1977) is a British photographer who has spent most of his adult life living in the Netherlands. He attended South Devon College, Torquay, the University of Central England (now Birmingham City University) in the UK, and graduated from The Royal College of Art in The Hague, the Netherlands. He works as a freelance documentary photographer for leading Dutch publications, including NRC Handelsblad, Dagblad Trouw, Financieel Dagblad, and De Groene Amsterdammer. He is the recipient of awards including the Silver Camera awards for Documentary Photography in the Netherlands in 2008 and 2010 and had received grants from the EU Journalism Foundation Grant and the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship. His debut photobook, Mutiny, published by GOST Books in August 2025, builds on his long-term projects, such as the new black lung epidemic in Kentucky, USA and exploring the lives of families separated by labour migration in Ukraine. Lees meer
In episode 265 Merlin discusses, among other things:
How the Mutiny project came about
How he funded it and set about shooting it
Some of the stories behind images in the book
Black lung story in Appalachia
How a major motorycle accident helped his photography
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264 - Eli Reed
10 september 2025 · 1 uur 25 min
Eli Reed was born in the US in 1946 and studied pictorial illustration at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, graduating in 1969. In 1982, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. At Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, he studied political science, urban affairs, and the prospects for peace in Central America. Lees meer
Eli began photographing as a freelancer in 1970. His work from El Salvador, Guatemala and other Central American countries attracted the attention of Magnum, he was the first African American photographer, and indeed the first person of colour, to join the agency, becoming a full member in 1988.
In the same year, Eli photographed the effects of poverty on America’s children for a film documentary called Poorest in the Land of Plenty, narrated by Maya Angelou. He went on to work as a stills photographer for major motion pictures. His video documentary Getting Out was shown at the New York Film Festival in 1993 and honored by the 1996 Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame International Film and Video Competition in the documentary category.
Eli’s special reports include a long-term study which became his first, highly acclaimed book, Beirut, City of Regrets; the ousting of Baby Doc Duvalier in Haiti (1986); US military action in Panama (1989); the Walled City in Hong Kong; and, perhaps most notably, his documentation of African American experience over more than 20 years. Spanning the 1970s through the end of the 1990s, his book Black in America includes images from the Crown Heights riots and the Million Man March. In 2015, he published his first career retrospective, A Long Walk Home.
Eli has lectured and taught at the International Center of Photography, Columbia University, New York University, University of Texas and Harvard University and is a member of Kamoinge, the collective of black photographers founded in 1963 and the longest continuously running non-profit group in the history of photography.
On episode 264, Eli discusses, among ot…
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263 - Tony Dočekal
27 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 23 min
Tony Dočekal (Amsterdam, 1992) is a photographer and visual artist. Her work explores identity, belonging, and the friction between autonomy and societal expectations. Working intuitively, she combines personal encounters with quiet observations. Her images balance intimacy and distance, often showing how personal stories and landscapes reflect larger systems. Lees meer
Tony’s first book, The Color of Money and Trees, was published by VOID in 2024 and launched at Paris Photo. The work was also exhibited at Biennale Images Vevey alongside her debut short film, Pearls on Credit. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from ArtEZ University of the Arts.
In episode 263 Tony discusses, among other things:
Her Czech dad and Dutch mum’s history
Dealing with the ‘weight’ of the photographic history of the American road trip genre
The advantage of being an outsider
Getting a dream gig early on - a photobook book about alternative schools
Going to Lesbos to cover the refugee crisis
Working with the unhoused for Dutch non-profit the Sheltersuit Foundation
The story behind her picture of a man in a pink frilly dress…
… And the one of 9-year-old Lyric in front of a plate of beans
The short film she made
The amazing 70’s-built house she has bought with her partner
Referenced:
Josef Koudelka
Website | Instagram
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262 - Rankin
13 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 35 min
John Rankin Waddell, or just Rankin, as he is more commonly known, is a British photographer, publisher, and film director. Best known for work that is on the cultural cusp and leading future trends, he has produced rule-breaking campaigns for brands such as Rolls Royce, Unilever, L’Oréal, Lego, and Samsonite; created wide-reaching projects for charities including Women’s Aid and Macmillan; and shot music videos for the likes of Miley Cyrus, Rita Ora, and Kelis. Lees meer
As a photographer, Rankin’s portfolio ranges from portraiture to documentary. He has shot The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Kate Moss, Kendall Jenner, Zendaya and Queen Elizabeth II, to name only a few. In 2023, Rankin photographed King Charles III to mark the monarch’s 75th birthday for The Big Issue magazine.
As a publisher, Rankin co-founded the seminal magazine Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack in 1990, and has since published the likes of AnOther and AnOther Man, alongside over 40 books and the fashion and culture publication Hunger.
His photography has been published everywhere from his own publications to Elle, Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Wonderland, and exhibited in galleries globally, including MoMA, New York, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Rankin lives in London with his wife Tuuli and their dogs.
In episode 262 Rankin discusses, among other things:
The magazine and show Faik, a first foray into AI
His love/hate relationship with AI imagery and why he uses it anyway
The way in which AI will also transform the music industry
The importance of critical thinking
The early days - starting Dazed & Confused
Using the magazine as a ‘Trojan Horse’
Being confrontational
Being a ‘dick’ and taking cocaine
Being saved by photography and fatherhood
Imposter syndrome and the benefit of losing it
Making a conscious decision not to be an ‘artist’
Teaching himself photography
Collaboration
Rankin Live - photographing 'normal' people
Being prolific
Personal Projects
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261 - Marjolein Martinot
30 juli 2025 · 1 uur 3 min
Marjolein Martinot is a Dutch photographer, based in France. She was always been drawn to photography from an early age, and has continued using and exploring the medium throughout her life, while raising a family of six children. Her photography touches on the poetic, while striving to remain authentic and true at the same time. She aims to evoke sentiments by using and mixing different photographic approaches and analogue cameras. The prime focus of Marjolein’s work is on everyday life: family, friends, and the places and things that touch her. She currently works on personal projects and commissions. Her debut photobook, Riverland, was very recently published by Stanley Barker. On whose website the blurb states: Lees meer
“During times of darkness and moments of deep turmoil in her personal life, Dutch photographer and mother of six, Marjolein Martinot, found herself lost, searching for a renewed sense of self. Each evening, she sought solace in nature, walking to a nearby river in the South of France with her camera in hand. There, she captured the quiet beauty of the natural world in the golden light of dusk, forming connections with the animals and families she encountered at the river’s edges—jumping, splashing, climbing, and swinging from the trees.
What began as a ritual of aimless wandering and photographing soon became a form of visual journaling—a quiet meditation on healing and transformation. The water, ever-flowing and unpredictable, mirrored her own emotional state, while the families she met, however briefly, embodied the warmth and belonging she longed for.
Through these intimate, unguarded moments—children mid-leap, ripples catching the last light of day, trees bending towards the water, and horses galloping in the fading glow—Martinot began to piece together a new sense of self. Her photographs, though deeply personal, transcend autobiography, offering a universal reflection on resilience, connection, and the subtle magical beauty of the everyday.”
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260 - Anna Arendt
16 juli 2025 · 1 uur 10 min
Anna Arendt is a photographer and visual artist living and working in Berlin whose images explore memory, silence, loss, and the invisible links between personal history and larger events. Her work often moves between personal, historical, and symbolic worlds, shot in black-and-white to capture places where the past and present meet. Lees meer
Anna was born in the German Democratic Republic and was 24 when The Wall fell, at which time her daughter was two. Her parents were born 1940 in Germany, children of war. Both of her grandfathers had been soldiers, who had been in Poland between 1940 and 1942. One came back 2 years after the war was over, the other one never returned.
As a child Anna found a secret shelf that contained photo albums of her family. "It is where I discovered the power of a picture. A picture taken in summer 1940. A young family, my grandmother, her baby and my grandfather in a German uniform. A picture full of contradictions, carrying ambivalent feelings even today."
Anna graduated with a degree in Fine Arts and Set Design and then received a one-year grant from the DAAD to study photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. For 15 years, she worked as a set and costume designer for opera, drama, and puppet theater, collaborating with directors at theaters across Germany and Switzerland.
Anna recently published her first book, Vanishing, with Charcoal Press. Photographed mostly between Germany and Poland over 15 years, the work slides back and forth through time like a blood memory. Walking naked through the dark forest, wolves circling, howling. A daughter becoming a mother becoming a grandmother becoming a child. Haunted villages, and souls in jeopardy. The harsh reality of the past merges seamlessly with moments of rapture that feel plucked from a Grimm fairy tale.
Photography has now become the center of Anna’s creative life. She continues to develop long-term projects that reflect her search for meaning in places marked by beauty, pain, …
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259 - Mohamed Bourouissa
2 juli 2025 · 1 uur 25 min
Mohamed Bourouissa is an Algerian-born French artist (b. 1978) who lives and works in Paris. Mohamed's practice moves between photography, video, sculpture, and installation, often blurring the lines between these mediums. His work explores social issues, power dynamics, and the representation of marginalized communities. Lees meer
He often engages with or embeds himself into specific communities for extended periods, spending significant time with individuals and groups to understand their experiences and perspectives before then creating collaborative works that challenge societal structures and explore the complexities of identity.
Mohamed's work frequently addresses the tensions between different social contexts, particularly those related to race, class, and immigration, often questioning how different social groups are represented in media and art, challenging stereotypes and seeking to offer alternative narratives.
His work has been exhibited in major museums and biennials worldwide, and in 2020 he received the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for his retrospective exhibition featured in the Arles Festival the previous year.
Mohamed currently has a major solo show at Fondazione MAST in Bologna Italy, curated by Francesco Zanot. The exhibition is entitled Communautés and features four notable works produced over a twenty year span between 2005 and this year - Péripherique, Horse Day, Shoplifters and Hands.
In episode 259, Mohamed discusses, among other things:
The sense of community growing up in the Parisian suburbs
His early experiences as a graffiti artist
His first project, Nous Somme Halles
The 2005 riots that preceded Péripherique
Why he decided to stage images… and why he sketches the images out first
The theme of masculinity and his own experience of growing up without a father present
The challenges of being a dad
Knowing that he wanted to be an artist
How artists must value their own work and learn to say no
His project Horse Day and…
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258 - Paul Seawright
18 juni 2025 · 1 uur 25 min
Paul Seawright is Professor of Photography and Deputy Vice Chancellor at Ulster University in Northern Ireland. His photographic work is held in many museum collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Tate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, International Centre of Photography New York, Arts Councils of Ireland, England and N.Ireland, UK Government Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. In 2002 he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum London to undertake a war art commission in Afghanistan and his photographs of battle-sites and minefields have subsequently been exhibited in North America, Canada, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Korea, Japan and China. In 2003 he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art and in 1997 won the Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Prize. He is represented by the Kerlin Gallery Dublin. Lees meer
Paul was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to higher education and the arts.
In episode 258, Paul discusses, among other things:
The influence of studying at Farnham..
and Martin Parr…
…And being at Newport
Not taking a position
‘Allusive documentary’
The danger of losing the meaning
The ethical considerations of working on foreign soil
The essential business of research
How do you find your next project?
His USA projects Volunteer and Things Left Unsaid
The importance of titles
His work from Rwanda, Beasts of Burden
Referenced:
Thomas Joshua Cooper
Anna Fox (Ep. 166)
Ken Grant (Ep. 128)
Chris Shaw
Martin Parr (Eps. 91 & 197)
Peter Fraser (Ep. 172)
Paul Graham (Ep. 149)
Jem Southam (Ep. 174)
Chris Killip (Ep. 94)
Victor Burgin
Anne Williams
Newport
Daniel Meadows (Ep. 116)
Clive Landen
Ivor Prickett (Ep.204)
Anastasia Taylor Lind (Ep.68)
Rich Gilligan
James Mollison
Paul Virillo
Parr and Badger
Robert Adams, The New West
Ian Walker, Desert Stories, or Faith In Facts
Baudrillard
Calvino, Invisible Cities
Gilles …
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257 - Photo London 2025 Special
4 juni 2025 · 1 uur 2 min
Featuring: Lees meer
Francis Hodgeson
Maria Sukkar
Sophie Parker
Ami Bouhassane
Tom Hunter
Silvana Trevale (but not Gabriel Pinto).
Zed Nelson
Featured in the Positions exhibition:
Adam Rouhana (@adam.rouhana), Aikaterini Gegisian (@aikaterini_gegisian), Babak Kazemi (@babakkazemi1), Bibi Manavi (@bibimanavi), Ippolita Paolucci (@ippolitapaolucci), Kalpesh Lathigra (@kalpeshlathigra), Karim El Hayawan (@karimelhayawan), Mieke Douglas (@miekedouglas) and Roberto Conde (@robconde33)
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256 - Marc Wilson
21 mei 2025 · 1 uur 11 min
London-born British photographer Marc Wilson’s images document the memories, histories and stories that are set in the landscapes that surround us. His long term documentary projects include The Last Stand (2010-2014), A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust (2015-2021) and The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue (2021-2023). Lees meer
Marc’s aim is to tell stories through his photography, focusing at times on the landscape itself, and the objects found on and within it, and sometimes combining landscape, documentary, portrait and still life, along with audio recordings of interviews and sounds, to portray the mass sprawling web of the histories and stories he is hoping to tell.
Marc has published 6 photo books - Travelogue 2 (2024), The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue (2023), Remnants (2022), A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust (2021), Travelogue 1 (2018), and The Last Stand (2014).
Solo exhibitions include those at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, Side Gallery, Newcastle, The Royal Armouries Museum and Focal point Gallery in the UK and Spazio Klien in Italy.
Marc’s work has been published in journals and magazines ranging from National Geographic, FT Weekend, Leica LFI, Source, Raw Magazine, Wired, Dezeen and others, he also works as a visiting lecturer at various universities in the UK and has given talks about his work both in the UK and abroad.
In episode 256, Marc discusses, among other things:
What he’s working on
Getting arrested in Moldova
His work in Ukraine
New book Travelogue 2 - A Thousand Days of Longing
Travelling 25,000 miles for his project The Last Stand
His initial failed attempt at shooting his holocaust project A Wounded Landscape
His adventures in self-publishing and tips for those considering it
His route into photography
Loneliness and ‘wandering lost’
His project Remnants
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255 - Mackenzie Calle
23 april 2025 · 1 uur 10 min
Mackenzie Calle is a freelance documentary photographer and National Geographic Explorer based in Brooklyn. In 2024, she was awarded first prize in the World Press Photo Open Format category award (North & Central America) for her project the Gay Space Agency, and was a finalist for the Sony World Photography Awards. Lees meer
She was selected as a Magnum Foundation Counter Histories Fellow in 2022. That same year, she was named one of the Lenscratch 25 to Watch and was shortlisted for the PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant. In 2023, she was named as a Lens Culture Emerging Talent Award winner and received the Dear Dave Fellowship.
Mackenzie is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Cinema Studies and was awarded the Director’s Fellowship to attend ICP’s Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program. She was selected to Eddie Adams Workshop class XXXV. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at CUNY’s College of Staten Island. Prior to her freelance career, she was a photo producer at NBC Universal.
Her work has been exhibited at Fotografiska Stockholm, Photoville, Pride Photo Festival, and Noorderlicht International Photo Festival.
Clients include National Geographic, The Washington Post, GAYLETTER, Discovery, MSNBC, and The Wall Street Journal.
In episode 255, Mackenzie discusses, among other things:
Winning the WPP open category
Tangible and intagible benefits of winning
Her journey to photography
How the idea for the Gay Space Agency came about
How she set about making images to tell the story
The goal to disseminate the story as widely as possible
Her experience of doing the Eddie Adams Workshop
Letting the story tell her what it wants
Experimentation being the fun part
Her love of sport...
...and TV
Referenced:
Sally Ride
Francis French
Billie Jean King
Christina De Middel
Erika Larson
Website | Instagram
“For me, it’s letting the story tell me what it needs. So it’s not so much going in with a preconceived notion. You obviously g…
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254 - Tomasz Tomaszewski
9 april 2025 · 1 uur 30 min
Tomasz Tomaszewski has a Ph.D from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and is a member of the Union of Polish Art Photographers, the Visum Archiv Agency of Hamburg, Germany, the National Geographic Creative Agency of Washington D.C., and the American Society of Media Photographers. Lees meer
He specializes in journalistic photography and has had his photos published in major newspapers and magazines worldwide including National Geographic Magazine, Stern, Paris Match, GEO, New York Times, Time, Fortune, Elle, Vogue. He has also authored a number of books, including Remnants: The Last Jews of Poland, Gypsies: The Last Ones; In Search of America, In the Centre, Astonishing Spain, A Stone’s Throw, Overwhelmed by the Atmosphere of Kindness, Things that last, and has co-illustrated over a dozen collective works.
He has held numerous individual exhibitions in the USA, Canada, Israel, Japan, Brazil, Madagascar, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Indonesia and Poland. Tomasz is the recipient of many Polish and international awards for photography. For over thirty years he has been a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine USA in which eighteen of his photo essays have been published. Tomasz has taught photography in Poland, the USA, Germany and Italy.
Tomasz’s most recent book, The World Is Where You Stop was published in 2023 by Blow Up Press.
In episode 254, Tomasz discusses, among other things:
His insecurity about his English
Truth
The wisdom of age
His father’s advice ‘don’t forget about art’
Progress
His discovery of photography
Spending five years working on his first book, smuggled to the states and published in NY.
Spending time in the USA
His new book The World Is Where You Stop
Metaphor
Photography not being dialectical
The appeal of a good single malt
His teaching academy
Bravery as the mother of all qualities
His dream to play the piano and how music is pure mathematics
Referenced:
Raymond Chandler
Aristotle
Uffizi Museum
Susan …
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253 - Katrin Koenning
26 maart 2025 · 1 uur 13 min
Katrin Koenning is a visual artist from Germany whose work travels across still and moving images and text, at times including found materials, painting and collage. Pursuing intimacy and interconnection her work centres around practice as relational encounter. Most stories evolve through years and use returning as a way of drawing closer. Different series often intersect, merging in and out of each other. In her extended image-dialogues, Katrin uses fragments and slippages to suggest narrative spaces, communities and lived experiences that are allied, fluid and multiplicit. Many of her series render non-human human entanglement and intimate kin, positing imaginaries with a greater-than-human world. Lees meer
Katrin has been the recipient of multiple awards, such as the Bowness Photography Prize. Her work is regularly exhibited in Australian and international solo and group exhibitions including presentations at Ishara Art Foundation Dubai, Chobi Mela, Paris Photo, Hamburg Triennial of Photography, Museum of Australian Photography, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australian Centre for Photography and the National Gallery of Victoria (2023). Koenning’s images have been published in The New Yorker, Vogue.com, Zeit Magazine, The Guardian, New York Times, Esquire Italy, Der Spiegel, Yucca Magazine, California Sunday and many other places. Her work is held in numerous institutional and private collections both in Australia and abroad; most recently her large-scale installation While the Mountains had Feet [2020 — 2022] was acquired in whole by the National Gallery of Victoria.
Katrin regularly teaches workshops in photographic practice and thinking, working closely with many institutions and festivals locally and across the Asia-Pacific region such as Angkor Photo Festival (Siem Reap Cambodia), Photo Kathmandu (Kathmandu, Nepal), The Lighthouse (Calcutta, West Bengal), Myanmar Deitta (Yangon, Myanmar), Australian Centre for Photography, Perth Centre for Photography, Centre…
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252 - Ian Macdonald
12 maart 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
Ian Macdonald (b. 1946) is an internationally acclaimed photographer born and raised in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, UK. He studied Graphic Design and Printmaking at Teesside College of Art in 1968 and went on to study Painting and Photography at Sheffield School of Art, Photography and Graphic Design at Birmingham Polytechnic and Education at Lancaster University. He pursued photography alongside drawing – his first love - painting and printmaking. Lees meer
Since 1968, Ian has consistently photographed the people and places of Teesside, one of Europe’s most heavily industrialised areas in the north east of England. His love of the region, the beauty of the landscape – great expanses of wildness nestling among industrial settings - and his solid admiration for the people working and living amongst this environment has resulted in a completely honest and passionate depiction of a place and its community.
“The most successful of my photographs seem to be a product of an exploration into my environment and the people I live and work amongst and an excitement generated in me by what I confront. Sometimes by-product would seem a more appropriate term, because only rarely do images really come near to saying anything about the strength, humour, vitality, atmosphere, pathos and despair which seems to make up what goes on around us all. Always, I am spurred on by a tingling sensation at the possibility, this time, perhaps, the image may really say something”.
Ian’s work has been included in various publications, such as England Gone, Smith’s Dock Shipbuilders, Images of the Tees, Eton and The Blast Furnace. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in many private and public photography collections around the world. In 2024 Ian had a major retrospective entitled Fixing Time, covering the first twenty years of his work, displayed across two venues in the north east of England - Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.
Ian is cu…
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251 - Mike Abrahams
26 februari 2025 · 1 uur 2 min
British photographer Mike Abrahams has worked as a freelance photographer for over 40 years having become renowned for his sensitive eye in documenting the lives of ordinary people often in extraordinary situations. Lees meer
In 1981 he was a cofounder of Network Photographers the Internationally renowned picture agency and his work has taken him around the world. His photographs have been published in all the major international news media.
In 2024, Mike’s much anticipated book This Was Then, was published by Bluecoat Press and has been described as a lyrical portrait of humanity in adverse circumstances. It features photographs taken from 1973 to 2001 in cities from Liverpool to Glasgow. Blackburn to Bradford, Northern Ireland to the coalfields of Kent and London.
Mike’s work on Faith - A Journey with Those Who Believe, published in 2000, was the culmination of five years work, documenting the extremes and passion of Christian devotion throughout fourteen countries. Awards for this work included the World Press Photo Award in 2000, and the book Faith designed by Browns, was a finalist in the Design Week - Editorial Design: Books. It has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and Europe.
Colin Jacobson, picture editor of The Independent Magazine, described Mike’s body of work from the conflict in Northern Ireland and published in the book Still War, in 1989 as "Documentary photography at its best - imaginative, comprehensive, confident and concerned". His coverage of the troubles in Northern Ireland was the subjects of a Television documentary Moving Stills.
Other important assignments have included coverage of the division of Cyprus, Migrant labour in Southern Africa, the Intifada in the Occupied Territories, the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the rise in the influence of the religious in Israeli politics, the Cult of Assad in Syria, Northern Ireland and documenting Another Britain.
In episode 251, Mike discusses, among other things:
Disc…
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250 - Joseph Michael Lopez
12 februari 2025 · 1 uur 15 min
Joseph Michael Lopez - JML, (b. 1973) is an independent photographer born in New York City to a Puerto Rican father and a mother who escaped the Cuban Revolution in 1967. He earned his MFA in 2011 at Columbia University. Lopez began his career as an analog cinematographer on the critically acclaimed Bruce Weber film, Chop Suey (2001). Currently, Joseph divides his time between long-form projects, teaching, and commercial work. His photographs have appeared on the covers of M, The Magazine for Leica M Photography, Leica Fotografie International, The Sunday Review of The New York Times, New York magazine and The New Yorker, among others. Lees meer
Joseph’s photographs were on exhibit in “Cuban Photography after 1980: Selections from the Museum’s Collection”, at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In 2016, a commissioned series of his photographs of New York neighborhoods, “New York at Its Core: Future City Lab”, was installed at The Museum of the City of New York. Photographs from JML NYC, the series from which this commission originated, have also been published in the book Bystander: A History of Street Photography, by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz. JML’s first book JML NYC 02-23 was published by GOST in the fall of 2024.
In episode 250, Joseph discusses, among other things:
Relocating to Rome from NYC
His intro to NYC via assisting Bruce Weber
His early career as a professional assistant
Shooting with his Leica as a ‘coping mechanism’
The challenge of creating a cohesive narrative from 20 years of single images
His Dear New Yorker project
Why B&W is where his heart is at
How what we see is who we are
His approach towards light and sun
Using digital vs. film
Assisting Mitch Epstein
How his opinion on grad school has changed
Controversy surrounding Columbia University prof. Thomas Roma
His plans for working in Rome and going forward
Referenced:
Bruce Weber
Danny Lyon, Knave of Hearts
Tod Papageorge
Chuck Kelton’s darkroom
Mitch Epstein
Thomas Rom…
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249 - Dina Litovsky
29 januari 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
Dina Litovsky is a Ukrainian-born photographer living in New York City since 1991. Dina's imagery can be described as visual sociology. Her work explores the idea of leisure, often focusing on subcultures and social gatherings. Lees meer
Dina is a regular contributor to National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, New Yorker, GQ and New York Magazine. In 2020 Dina won the Nannen Prize, Germany's foremost award for documentary photography. Other awards include the PDN 30, New and Emerging Photographers to Watch; POYi; NPPA Best of Photojournalism, International Photography Awards and American Photography.
Selected exhibitions include group and solo shows at the Museum of the City of New York; Noordelicht Festival, Netherlands; Annenberg Space for Photography, LA and the Anastasia Photo Gallery, NYC.
In 2022 she started writing the Substack newsletter In The Flash, an ongoing dialogue about the art and craft of creating and thinking about images. In her weekly posts, she discuses the creative process, focusing on the WHY of photography — intent, meaning, and inspiration. She shares her insights into the world of a professional photographer as well as all the things that make her tick and inspire her to create, from photography to art to music.
Dina holds a bachelor in psychology from NYU and an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, NY.
In episode 248, Dina discusses, among other things:
Moving to the U.S. from Ukraine at 12 years old
The immigrant dream of her parents for her to study medicine
The formative experience of earning her first $40 for shooting a portrait
Why she couldn’t hold down a job in her early life
Coming out of wedding photography retirement to write a piece about it
How working on personal work was the key to getting good editorial clients
Untag This Photo and Bacherolette being the projects that got her attention
How her background in psychology plays into the way she approaches shooting her projects
Her experience of …
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248 - Ian Howorth
15 januari 2025 · 1 uur 11 min
Ian Howorth is a documentary photographer based in Brighton, UK. His work deals with themes of identity and culture. Through Setanta Books, Ian sold out his first book, Arcadia, in 2019 and published his second, A Country Kind of Silence, in 2023. Ian’s work has been featured in publications including The Guardian, The New York Times, It’s Nice That and Huck. Lees meer
In episode 248, Ian discusses, among other things:
Striving to spend as much time as possible not compromising
The benefits of having a full-time job
His Instagram strategy
His previous life as a videographer
An early fascination for film stock
Influence of cinema
The contrast between his trips to Peru and Cuba
His first book Arcadia
His origin story in which he lived in 9 homes across 3 countries
His adventurous dad’s influence on him (and his brothers)
Having to adapt to a move from Peru to Miami at 12
His relationship with England and the things he is drawn to photograph there
Combining documentary with fiction and not wanting to feel constricted
His second book A A Country Kind of Silence
Referenced:
Zed Nelson
Phil Toledano
Robbie Lawrence
Max Miechoswski
Stephen Shore
William Eggleston
John Divola
Gregory Crewdson
Sean Tucker
Willam Verbeeck
National Film & Television School
Paris Texas
Tania Franco Klein
Bill Callaghan
Website | Instagram
“Wim Wenders and Robby Müller [In Paris Texas] happened to hit on something that made sense artistically but also looks beautiful aesthetically, and that for me is the perfect marriage. Not everyone can achieve it, but that to me became very important. I wasn’t doing that. I wasn’t smart enough to do that. But at the same time I knew the power of colour - I knew what it did, I understood my emotional response to it. And that was enough for me to pursue it at the time, and I would figure it out later.”
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247 - Ed Sykes
1 januari 2025 · 1 uur 19 min
Ed Sykes is a photographer and visual artist based in London. Lees meer
Ed’s practice focuses on landscape and changes to the environment as a result of natural processes and human activity. This approach is in conjunction with a re-working of photographic materials and a disruption of traditional photographic production. The processes and effects of climate change are often replicated during the image making process itself. The series 1000 Degrees used a blow torch to melt photographic negatives at a heat similar to the furnaces that propelled the Industrial Revolution. The work Hanging By A Thread pushed this same notion to the picture frames which were sourced secondhand and then the wooden surrounds were charred in a similar way to the subject matter of wildfires. Other approaches have involved sanding and abrasion echoing the effects of coastal erosion and also the use of soluble paper, the dissolution of an image in water, mimicking flood damage.
Ed was the recipient of an Arts Council grant for the project Eco Matters and Sustainable Processes. This saw Ed travel along Britain’s east coast and to some of Europe’s fastest eroding coastlines, embedding a new creative approach to climate change, environment and the anthropocene. In 2021 he was nominated for Prix Pictet Award with1000 Degrees, a response to the historical, industrial exploitation of natural resources in UK.
In episode 247, Ed discusses, among other things:
Early days on The Independent
Going to Somalia for ‘Operation Restore Hope’ and being disillusioned by it
Moving towards portraiture for magazines…
…and fashion
Having to take a day job and the feelings that brings up
Resetting, getting a 4x5 and doing it ‘without compromise’.
Environmental themes and concerns
Darkroom practice
His Arts Council grant to pursue the project Eco Matters and Sustainable Processes
Using plant-based developer and Agfa Record Rapid paper for the project Rock
Accepting and embracing mistakes as part of the creativ…
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246 - The Year In Review 2024
18 december 2024 · 1 uur 22 min
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Richard Kalvar
Natalie Keyssar
Lorenzo Castore
Edward Burtynsky
Mitch Epstein
Nicole Tung
Linda Troeller
Valerie Belin
Michael Ackerman
Julia Kochetova
Chloé Jafé
Debi Cornwall
Louis Quail
Abdul Kircher
Diana Matar
Kiana Hayeri
Robbie Lawrence
Agnieszka Sosnowska
Polly Braden
Stephan Vanfleteren
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245 - Paris Photo Fair 2024 Special
4 december 2024 · 1 uur 27 min
Featuring: Lees meer
Bieke Depoorter
Jesse Lenz
Lucas Foglia
Sergio Purtell
Richard Sharum
Mark McLennan
Alex Webb
Rebecca-Norris Webb
Michal Iwanowski
Dragana Jurisic
Lisa Barlow
Toma Gerzha
Gregory Halpern
Mark Steinmetz
Maxime Riché
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