A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers
Ben Smith
55 episodes
4 days ago
Fortnightly in-depth interviews featuring a diverse range of talented, innovative, world-class photographers from established, award-winning and internationally exhibited stars to young and emerging talents discussing their lives, work and process with fellow photographer, Ben Smith. The most recent 50 episodes are on this free feed, 200+ more are in the archive!
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Fortnightly in-depth interviews featuring a diverse range of talented, innovative, world-class photographers from established, award-winning and internationally exhibited stars to young and emerging talents discussing their lives, work and process with fellow photographer, Ben Smith. The most recent 50 episodes are on this free feed, 200+ more are in the archive!
TO ACCESS THE FULL ACHIVE OF PAST EPISODES + SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE CONTENT, BECOME A MEMBER FOR £5 PER MONTH!
Returning for a second chat, the man who the Daily Telegraph declared to be, “arguably Britain’s greatest living photographer”, Martin Parr, on formative influences, scraping into Magnum by one vote, taking lots of bad pictures, and why he may eventually ditch his DSLR in favour of his phone.
Martin Parr with a quick photobook trivia quiz and on his new Foundation, Magnum, his distinctive style and why he sold 12,000 photobooks to Tate Modern.
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Ed Kashi on, contributing to positive change, why he donated his archive to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, a lesson learned on assertiveness, journal entries, identity politics, advocacy journalism and his new retrospective book, A Period In Time.
British Chinese filmmaker Paul Sng on early challenges, outsider syndrome, the 'confidence of ignorance', structure, narrative principles, the creative treatment of actuality, and finding an audience.
American photographer Mike Brodie on his period of juvenile prosperity, romanticism vs. misery, the push/pull of ’normal’ life, exploitation and ethics, grief and loss, success and its downside, and his strong desire to photograph machines.
African American photographer and Magnum Photos member, Eli Reed, on mentors, luck, how working in a hospital was good preparation for the kind of work he did, how his project Black In America came about and a teaser on the book he is in the process of writing.
Dutch photographer and visual artist Tony Dočekal on Josef Koudelka, dealing with the weight of the photographic history, the advantage of being an outsider, working with the unhoused for non-profit the Sheltersuit Foundation, and the story behind the picture of a man in a pink frilly dress.
British photographer Rankin on critical thinking, being confrontational, the Trojan Horse of Dazed & Confused, being ‘a dick’ and taking cocaine, how he was saved by photography and fatherhood and the benefits of losing your imposter syndrome.
France-based Dutch photographer Marjolein Martinot on her debut book Riverland, getting through Covid, fairy tales, seeking comfort in nature during difficult times, raising and photographing her six children, and being a tightrope walker in her mum's circus as a kid.
German photographer Anna Arendt on growing up in the GDR, being ‘connected’ to pictures, wolves, family history and mystery, and allowing the photograph to tell her what it wants to be and where.
Algerian-born French artist Mohamed Bourouissa on community, graffiti art, staging images, masculinity, the challenges of fatherhood, valuing your own work, art as a playground and why he’s an ‘extremely bad photographer’.
Northern Irish artist and academic Paul Seawright on resisting the ‘dramcentric’ imagery of Northern Ireland, not taking a position, ‘allusive’ documentary, the danger of losing the meaning, and the importance of research… and titles.
The annual pilgrimage to the Photo London fair, in the year of its 10th anniversary, and a visit to A Bigger Book Fair at Peckham24 in an attempt to sell some unwanted photobooks.
British photographer Marc Wilson on Ukraine, A Thousand Days of Longing, failed attempts, wandering lost, adventures in self-publishing and getting arrested in Moldova.
Mackenzie Calle on winning a World Press Award, her project the Gay Space Agency, experimentation being the fun part, tall person sports, her love of TV, and letting the story tell her what it needs.
A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers
Fortnightly in-depth interviews featuring a diverse range of talented, innovative, world-class photographers from established, award-winning and internationally exhibited stars to young and emerging talents discussing their lives, work and process with fellow photographer, Ben Smith. The most recent 50 episodes are on this free feed, 200+ more are in the archive!
TO ACCESS THE FULL ACHIVE OF PAST EPISODES + SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE CONTENT, BECOME A MEMBER FOR £5 PER MONTH!
