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254 - Tomasz Tomaszewski 1:30:22

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Tomasz Tomaszewsk i 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 . 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 Sontag Nasim Taleb James Nachtwey Garry Winnogrand Cartier Bresson Keith Jarrett Website | Instagram | Interview in ‘Hot Mirror’ “Most of the time when I was working for Geographic, I wanted my photographs to serve a purpose, to tell a story, or explain a person to another human being. But this time I only wanted to capture surprise, maybe, wonder, occassionally joy, amusement, but also discomfort. In short, anything but a desire to tell a story.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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253 - Katrin Koenning 1:13:29

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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. 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 for Contemporary Photography, Museum of Australian Photography, Palmtree Workshops (Santorini Greece, forthcoming), and others. Katrin lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on unceded Boon Wurrung Woi Wurrung Country. In episode 253, Katrin discusses, among other things: Ankor Photo Festival in Cambodia Working on her practice daily Coming out of “the most difficult year of her life” Why she chose to shoot Polaroids during that time Responding to the suicide of her cousin’s husband How the sudden death of her best friend put her on the path of photography How she took pictures with the camera she inherited from him which were all blank Having a ‘web’ of ‘projects’ Her practice as a relational encounter Her new book Between The Skin and Sea Her engagement with environmental issues Younger photographers being more inward looking Her current engagement with the indigenous community of Riverdale Referenced: Photo Katmandu Chobi Mela RMIT National Gallery of Victoria Website | Instagram “This is always the way that I work, I look at what the thing is that is at stake, and what am I trying to talk about? And actually also very much like I’m listening to the thing that I’m trying to talk to. So what does it want from me? You know, what does the story want from me and what does the situation around it ask of me? And therefore how do I need to approach it?” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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252 - Ian Macdonald 1:07:32

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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. 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 currently working on a series of forthcoming books with GOST Books. In episode 252, Ian discusses, among other things: His recent dual exhibitions, Fixing Time , in the North East of England How his fascination for drawing took him to art college His discomfort with his work being put in the documentary pigeonhole Finding it hard to approach your subjects A brief description of the area he grew up and photographed in His transition from drawing to photography Greatham Creek and the portrait (above) that made him excited His early memories of his grandfather and father and wanting to celebrate and document their history His year spent as artist in residence at Eton College His reasons for choosing to teach in a school and not at art college Referenced: Len Tabner Cesare Pavese Bruce Davidson Bill Brandt Vic Allen, Dean Clough Gallery Graham Smith Martin Parr Chris Killip Tom Wood Max Beckman Goya Titian Delacroix Website | Short film about Ian by Jamie Macdonald “When I first went to Greatham Creek, there was no history anywhere about it. I couldn’t find anything written down. So I wrote a lot down. I talked to people. I went into pretty deep research into archives in the local library and stuff like that. And I guess this was part of the drive for [photographing] both the shipyard and the furnace. Because maybe I did have an inkling, because there was nothing about the creek - where’s the stuff about the furnace?… about the men who worked there, like my dad and granddad? Where is their history? And I wanted to celebrate their history. I wanted to celebrate what they were. I wanted a record, a document, a memory of them. And that’s what drove me to do it.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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251 - Mike Abrahams 1:02:01

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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. 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: Discovering the darkroom at 12 Growing up in post-war Liverpool The infamous Toxteth Riots of the early 80s Network Photographers agency The story of the IRA bombing His interest in religious ceremony Going back to his archive of British work for the new book, This Was Then The impetus behind it The sustainability of of a long-term career Personal work that he is still doing Referenced: Eugene Smith David Douglas Duncan Larry Burrows Tim Page Network Photographers John Sturrock Mike Goldwater Judah Passow Chris Davies Laurie Sparham Steve Benbow Martin Slavin Barry Lewis Red Saunders Sid Shelton Roger Hutchins Chris Killip Daniel Meadows Peter Marlow Peter Van Agtmael Website | Instagram “You can go here, there and everywhere, and I have travelled a lot and it’s been interesting and fascinating, but you’re always the outsider coming in. You don’t really know the story. It’s glamorous, it’s exotic, it’s fascinating, but I think it’s much harder to photograph your home turf. You come to it with quite an honest perspective. It’s the land you’re living in, you’re conscious of the differences in the country between the north, south, east and west, the regions… it’s kind of embedded in you, the differences.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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250 - Joseph Michael Lopez 1:15:16

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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. 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 Roma Mohammad Rasoulof Website | Instagram “Essentially, it’s about saying something and having a voice and having a perception of the world that is, like singing a loud song you know, your pictures have to say something. And how do you separate yourself from all the noise that’s out there already? You have to have an obsessive, emphatic way to perceive things. I think to a certain extent what we see is who we are in a way.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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249 - Dina Litovsky 1:08:30

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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. 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 being questioned in a classroom setting - why she does the newsletter Her post about why photographers should stop calling themselves artists Her approach to Instagram and how she set out to build a huge audience How her Substack newsletter began with an invitation from Meta Her strategy around building community rather than earning income Why working for exposure is photography’s bigges Ponzi scheme The importance of pursuing personal work Her projects Fashion Week and Meatpacking Website | Instagram “I’m an introvert with a social phobia. So I would never draw attention to myself. But with a camera I could actually go where I wanted to go and photograph and confront people, with a shield. And so I think I was using it more as my own self therapy, like I wanted to be in the middle of the party, and I wanted to be on this dancefloor with the young women, but I couldn’t. And so with a camera I was there just photographing it.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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248 - Ian Howorth 1:11:18

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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 . 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.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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247 - Ed Sykes 1:18:35

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Ed Sykes is a photographer and visual artist based in London. 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 with 1000 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 creative process Referenced: Brian Harris Kalpesh Lathigra James Nachtwhey Paul Lowe Chris Steele Perkins Delilah Sykes Rodrigo Arantia Website | Instagram “As a photographer, you want something that drives you on. You need to find something that is close to your heart. And if you have that, you’re gonna go the distance. You’re gonna persevere, you’re gonna get up at four in the morning with the slim chance of getting one picture, because it’s important to you.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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246 - The Year In Review 2024 1:21:41

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Featuring: 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 Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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245 - Paris Photo Fair 2024 Special 1:27:29

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Featuring: 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 Website | Instagram Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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244 - Stephan Vanfleteren 1:17:02

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Stephan Vanfleteren 's career began as a staff photographer for the Belgian newspaper De Morgen. He continued to contribute to its weekend magazine as a freelancer until 2009. His radical black and white social documentary work covers the disappearing phenomena of everyday life in his homeland, Belgium. Over the years, Stephan has worked in conflict zones such as Kosovo, Rwanda and Afghanistan and he is a six time winner of the prestigious World Press Photo awards among a number of other international prizes. Stephan's intense portrait photography captures the essence of humanity in subjects ranging from the ordinary man to top politicians, sports idols and celebrities. He has exhibited in Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, Liverpool and Verona and his books include: Elvis & Presley (Kruse Verlag, 2001) a road trip across America dressed as Elvis Presley with photographer Robert Huber; Flandrien (Mertz, 2005) on the Flemish obsession with cycling; Belgicum (Lannoo 2007) an enigmatic portrayal of Belgium and Portret 1989-2009 (Lannoo 2009). His most recent books are Atelier published by Hannibal Books, an ode to the ability to observe, represent, elevate, and ultimately, connect, and Present , a journey through his oeuvre, with expansive personal reflections and stories from three decades of encounters and photography, from street photography in world cities like New York to the genocide of Rwanda, from storefront façades to the mystical landscapes of the Atlantic wall, from still lifes to intense portraits, and Charleroi – Il est clair que le gris est noir. In episode 244, Stephan discusses, among other things: Memory Photographing (older) men Skin… and light Cutting his teeth in the newspaper world Flandrien book Rwanda Being scared of success Still getting nervous Atlantic Wall The intensity of collaboration with a subject Being perceived as a ‘traitor’ for shooting colour His project with Robert Huber, Elvis and Presley Dead animals Photographing his dad post mortem Moving to digital from film Charloi residency and his book Charleroi – Il est clair que le gris est noir Referenced: SebastiãoSalgado James Nachtwey Gilles Peress Robert Huber Website | Instagram “I was very scared of success. That was maybe my luck. Success was something I had difficulty dealing with. People are complimenting you on your work at the beginning and I’m just accepting that but it was difficult. And it helped me because I never arrived. I was on my way and the doubts were still there. If you think you know how to do it, it’s time to leave. Sometimes if I think ‘ok, I can do that pretty well, Of course other people can do it better, but it’s time to change, to have another approach…’ So I had that in the early beginning, that feeling that I have to change. I love to begin something new.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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243 - Unseen Festival 2024 Special 1:10:14

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Featuring: Javier Hirschfeld Moreno Francesco Zizola Melissa Schriek Chilli Power Self Publishers United Bryan Schutmaat Tiffany Jones Atong Atem Website | Instagram Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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242 - Polly Braden 1:16:53

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Polly Braden is a documentary photographer whose work features an ongoing conversation between the people she photographs and the environment in which they find themselves. Highlighting the small, often unconscious gestures of her subjects, Polly particularly enjoys long-term, in depth collaborations that in turn lends her photographs a unique, quiet intimacy. She works on long-term, self-initiated projects, as well as commissions for international publications. Polly has produced a large body of work that includes not only solo exhibitions and magazine features, but a number of books published by Dewi Lewis, including Holding The Baby (2022), Out of the Shadows: The Untold Story of People with Autism or Learning Disabilities (2018), and China Between (2010), and two published by Hoxton Mini Press: London’s Square Mile: A Secret City (2019) and Adventures in the Lea Valley ), (2016). Polly teaches regularly at The University of Westminster and London College of Communication (LCC), she is a winner of the Jerwood Photography Prize , The Guardian Young Photographer of the Year, 2002, and the Joanna Drew Bursary 2013. Polly is nominated by Hundred Heroines 2020 and she has exhibited at numerous venues internationally. Her most recent solo exhibition, of her project Leaving Ukraine , just ended at the Foundling Museum in London, where it was on show from March 15th to October 20th 2024. In episode 242, Polly discusses, among other things: Exhitibition at the Foundling Museum, Leaving Ukraine and how it came about Some of the people she focussed on Holding The Baby , her project on single parents Jena’s story Why she has started working with film projects Her introduction to photography Her first trip to China: “an exercise in isolation” Her project on Chinese factories and their workers Great Interactions book on people with learning disabilities Her current project she’s working on Securing funding, building partnerships and being an entrepreneur Referenced: Patrick Sutherland Cheryl Newman Katz Pictures Becky Sexton Website | Instagram “I’m not someone who wanted to just jump in, point a camera at someone and walk away. I think I’ve always been someone who wanted it to feel very collaborative. Whether you’re on the street and you’ve made eye contact and you feel like someone’s ok with it, at the very basic level, to now as I get older, when I’d be as interested in someone doing all the work and me just being a vehicle through which someone can tell their story.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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Agnieszka Sosnowska was born in Warsaw, Poland and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and a MFA from Boston University. She is currently an elementary school teacher. She lives on farm in East Iceland. She is recognised for her self portraits that span 30 years. Currently she is working on series that embodies her life as an immigrant in Iceland. She uses the camera to take inspiration from a land that is otherworldly. “ I grew up in Boston and traveled to Iceland 25 years ago on a whim”, says Agnieszka. “I fell in love and remained. With my Icelandic husband I chose to live in nature, not visit it. This decision has not been without tests. Together we have made a life that I feel we are only beginning. Everyday, I search for corners of quiet. When there, I stop and listen for a long time. These places exist around our farm, with friends, and the students I teach. These places are my everyday. They are my everything.” Agnieszka has been the recipient of a number of grants, including a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship to Poland and an American Scandinavian Fellowship to Iceland. She was awarded the Hjálmar R. Bárðarson Photography Grant by the National Museum of Iceland. Her series was awarded the Director’s Choice by the Center awards in 2017 and she has been in the Top 50 of Critical Mass on three occasions. Her work has been exhibited in the National Museum of Iceland and the Reykjavik Museum of Photography. She is represented exclusively by Vision Neil Folberg Gallery in Jerusalem. Earlier this year, Agnieszka released her debut photobook, För, published by Trespasser Books and already sold out. Her collaboration with Icelandic poet Ingunn Snædal, entitled RASK , is currently being exhibited at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography until Decembet 2024. In episode 241, Agnieszka discusses, among other things: Early years travelling to Communist Poland Wanting to assimilate into the USA as an immigrant Early education in photography at Mass. Art Her early interest in self-portraiture Not having a plan… but being a hard worker The trip to Iceland that changed her life… …and her decision to move there A description of where she lives The hardest thing to adapt to being the Winters The first things she started to photograph there Self-portaiture and the suckiness of documenting ageing The freedom of realising that you don’t have to work on distinct ‘projects’ ‘Myth of a Woman’ - her attempt at exploring the experience of womanhood Collaborating with her students on portrait sessions The last picture in the book Her collaboration with Icelandic poet Ingunn Snædal, RASK , currently an exhibition at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography Referenced: Cindy Sherman Margaret Johnson Laura McPhee Ingunn Snædal Barbara Bosworth Website | Instagram “I wanted to grow. I just didn’t know how. And I think the only way you grow is not by thinking about it but by doing it and making the mistakes. And I made a lot of mistakes. And thank God I did because in doing the mistakes I started to get more to having the self-portraits be more real. And that’s really hard to do. Especially I think as me having done it for so long, and also getting older in front of a camera, as a woman, it’s hard.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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Robbie Lawrence is a London based Scottish photographer and director represented by Webber Represents . Robbie is acutely attentive to the way images tell a story. Working with a painterly softness and sensitivity to his subjects, he deals in detail and nuance. From portraiture, travel and documentary to editorial work, he places the human experience front and centre to create thoughtful, abstract images, with an emphasis on narrative. Recent books include Blackwater River and A Voice Above The Linn published by Stanley/Barker . Stills gallery in Edinburgh hosted the first UK institutional solo exhibition by Robbie in 2022, bringing together a snapshot of life post-Brexit across Scotland’s cities, rural locations and coastal towns. Robbie’s new book, Long Walk Home , was just released (September 2024) by Stanley/Barker . Clients Include: UN, Apple, Nike, Hermes, Gucci, The New Yorker, Du Monde, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, I-D and many others. In episode 240, Robbie discusses, among other things: His recent assignment at The Olympics His internship in Paris and his time in New York His relationship to painting and writing Building a career to encompass commercial and personal work How working commercially can be a ‘relief’. His ‘macrojournalistic approach’ His first book project, Blackwater River His second book, A Voice Above The Linn Collaboration with poet John Burnside His new book about the Highland Games, Long Walk Home . Why he threw away three years worth of work and began again Working digitally with ‘manual’ lenses The difference between myth and history A reading from John Burnside’s essay in the book Referenced: The Tokyo Olympiad , Kon Ichikawa The French , William Klein John Burnside Renton’s rant on why it’s ‘shite being Scottish’ from the movie Trainspotting Website | Instagram “I like the variety […] I like being on set. You become more like a director. As a photographer you’re almost the emotional heartbeat of a set. It’s interesting because at school and university I really found exams hellish from an expectation point of view. Like, I would put myself under a lot of pressure. And I would describe some of those more pressurised commercial jobs almost like a school exam where you expected to produce something of quality under a very tight time constraint. As a physical experience it can feel similar, and I suppose maybe it’s just experience that I can now recall moments where I’ve overcome those kind of stresses. So I like the shift.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month. For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here . Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here .…

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