Welcome to the MMU Photography podcast, a weekly informal conversation with the guests that have been kind enough to join us during our wednesday morning village green lecture series. The lectures this term are centred around the theme of Photographic Communities. We will be welcoming a range of photographers, artists, organisers and academics to talk about the importance of working collectively in their research and practice. This is a space to consider photography and creative activity as essentially a collaborative activity. Anne is a British-Nigerian Visual Artist and independent Photo Editor focusing on representation and ethics within Photography. She started No Wahala magazine. www.nowahalamag.com We talk to Anne about her practice and the challenges of starting a project. The music this week is by Tuuka Palonen.

Welcome to the MMU Photography podcast, a weekly informal conversation with the guests that have been kind enough to join us during our wednesday morning village green lecture series. The lectures this term are centred around the theme of Photographic Communities. We will be welcoming a range of photographers, artists, organisers and academics to talk about the importance of working collectively in their research and practice. This is a space to consider photography and creative activity as essentially a collaborative activity. This week we talk with artist and filmmaker Gideon Koppel https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/gideon-koppel

London based artist Ibrahim Azab explores language, sculpture and performance within photography. Focusing on the photograph itself, he considers the photograph as an object which communicates through a visceral and physical process. Highlighting the act of “seeing” and the subconscious process. Significantly Azab’s work surrounds the subject of failure within photographic realism, playfully surfacing a phenomenological understanding of perspective, process and performance within the medium of photography. Ibrahim Azab is also a formal member of Relvolv Collective - http://revolv.org.uk/about/ Email: contact@ibrahimazab.com https://ibrahimazab.com

Welcome to the MMU Photography podcast, a weekly informal conversation with the guests that have been kind enough to join us during our wednesday morning village green lecture series. The lectures this term are centred around the theme of Photographic Communities. We will be welcoming a range of photographers, artists, organisers and academics to talk about the importance of working collectively in their research and practice. This is a space to consider photography and creative activity as essentially a collaborative activity. Emma Bäcklund is a Swedish artist whose practice includes photography, performance and installation. Bäcklund draws from her background in dance and interest in neuroscience to make work that is deeply influenced by both cognitive and physical experiences. She is interested in performative aspects of the photograph and the influence images have on habitual and gestural relations. She approaches photography as a corporeal process in which the audience’s own bodies often play an important role. Her focus continually returns to the ambiguities of both the physical and the photographic. Central aspects of Bäcklund’s research involve everyday bodily gestures, physical labour, the history of dance, philosophical theory and the image-culture. Recent works explore attempts to create situations of intimacy when social distance is everyday life. She is interested in how the still image can explore movement by situating the body in a sphere of fictive construction and turning it into an “image-body”. www.emmabacklund.com

Welcome to the MMU Photography podcast, a weekly informal conversation with the guests that have been kind enough to join us during our wednesday morning village green lecture series. The lectures this term are centred around the theme of Photographic Communities. We will be welcoming a range of photographers, artists, organisers and academics to talk about the importance of working collectively in their research and practice. This is a space to consider photography and creative activity as essentially a collaborative activity. Working across and amidst sculpture, moving image, and writing, their work draws from lived experience and stories stolen from eavesdropped conversations, to explore the edges of realities in constructing identity. Through storytelling and world-building, this work (re)searches for an alternative space beyond aggressively progressive capitalist time, seeking new worlds from the ashes of the present. https://www.jjchan.co.uk

Welcome to the MMU Photography podcast, a weekly informal conversation with the guests that have been kind enough to join us during our wednesday morning village green lecture series. The lectures this term are centred around the theme of Photographic Communities. We will be welcoming a range of photographers, artists, organisers and academics to talk about the importance of working collectively in their research and practice. This is a space to consider photography and creative activity as essentially a collaborative activity. Dr Jenny Baines is Senior Lecturer in Filmmaking at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is an artist working predominantly with 16mm film. She performs repeated, often absurd actions for the camera, pushing the limitations of the mechanism and her own physical endurance. Her looped and double-screen films explore the out-of-frame as a space of potential for continued action. http://jennybaines.co.uk

Welcome to the MMU Photography podcast, a weekly informal conversation with the guests that have been kind enough to join us during our wednesday morning village green lecture series. The lectures this term are centred around the theme of Photographic Communities. We will be welcoming a range of photographers, artists, organisers and academics to talk about the importance of working collectively in their research and practice. This is a space to consider photography and creative activity as essentially a collaborative activity. This week we talk with Polly Palmerini and Racheal Burns, who start the Museum of Half Truths. https://museumofhalftruths.co.uk We discuss developing a worldwide audience, collaboration and the relationship between a photographic and curatorial practice. The music was provided by Ben Moore.