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FromA Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers

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FromA Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers

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4 minutes

Released:

Sep 10, 2015

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Podcast episode

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Photographer, Ben Smith introduces a new weekly photography podcast: 'A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers' and answers a few 'frequently anticipated questions.'

Released:

Sep 10, 2015

Format:

Podcast episode

Titles in the series (56)

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. Music: © John Moody.

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179 - Photo London 2022 Special: Special report from the annual Photo London 2022 shindig at Somerset House. Pic: ©Anastasia Samoylova by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
59 min listen
182 - Greg Williams: British photographer, Greg Williams on the “transformative” impact of having a huge Instagram folllowing, colloboration with his subjects, his early taste of conflict photography, James Bond, keeping it simple, and show jumping bunny rabbits. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
76 min listen
184 - Joanne Coates: English documentary photographer Joanne Coates on class, social mobility, Northern culture, community, tall poppy syndrome and being diagnosed with autism. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
66 min listen
178 - Chico Review 2022 Special (pt.2): Part 2 of my special report from this year’s annual Chico Hot Springs portfolio review in Montana, USA. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
57 min listen
000 - Ben Smith (intro): Photographer, Ben Smith introduces a new weekly photography podcast: 'A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers' and answers a few 'frequently anticipated questions.' by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
4 min listen
180 - Pradip Malde: Photographer and educator Pradip Malde on resilience, boarding school, Scotland, loss, Haiti and the joys of digital. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
77 min listen
181 - Lewis Bush: British photographer, academic and educator, Lewis Bush, on making abstract subjects visible, the perils of calling people out for ethical transgressions, number stations, blueprints, space colonisation and his forthcoming book, Depravity’s Rainbow. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
76 min listen
191 - Anastasia Samoylova: Russian-born, Miami-based American photographer Anastasia Samoylova on Miami, collage, abstraction, climate anxiety and her reasons for having a strong work ethic. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
67 min listen
190 - BoP Bristol 2022 Special: A special report from the third annual BoP Bristol photobook festival at the Martin Parr Foundation, in conjunction with the Royal Photographic Society. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
60 min listen
186 - Sam Jones: Acclaimed American photographer and documentary film-maker, Sam Jones, on the unholy trinity of skateboarding, bands and zines, confidence, making documentaries and finishing what you started. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
78 min listen
210 - Moises Saman: Magnum Photographer Moises Saman on the catalyst that was 9/11, learning the ropes in Afghanistan, his eight days captive in Abu Ghraib prison, surviving a helicopter crash, the myth of objectivity, trying to show a more nuanced picture, “the framing of the frame”, and facts, truth & questioning. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
83 min listen
100 - Ben Smith: To mark the 100th episdode, it's... me! On the early days, first breaks, regrets, voice memos, the podcast and my long-term project: 'Indicative Only'. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
75 min listen
183 - Les Rencontres d’Arles 2022 Special: A special report from this year’s annual Rencontres d'Arles photo festival. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
62 min listen
192 - Stephen Shore: Legendary American photographer Stephen Shore on experimentation, ambition, the three phases of mastering a discipline and being attentive in the midst of life. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
94 min listen
187 - Bryan Schutmaat: American photographer Bryan Schutmaat on finding the commonalities between people and place, the close relationship between photography and poetry, the pros and cons of talking about your work as an artist and why the American West ‘breaks his heart’. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
63 min listen
198 - Gregory Crewdson: Gregory Crewdson on the abiding themes in his work, how every artist has one story to tell, the significance of nudity, the relationship between true beauty and sadness, and windows. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
65 min listen
195 - Aaron Schuman: American photographer, curator, writer and educator, Aaron Schuman on takeaways from assisting Annie Leibowitz and printing for Wolfgang Tilmans, documentary, balance, seeing the world through clear, fresh eyes and how a letter to Richard Avedon changed everything. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
87 min listen
188 - Kavi Pujara: Self-taught Photographer, Kavi Pujara, on family history, his early years in Leicester, screenwriting, Brexit, Britain’s colonial past, patriotism and Parr. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
83 min listen
185 - Rich-Joseph Facun: Rich-Joseph Facun on Appalachia, how he ended up living in rural Ohio, becoming a dad at 17, his book Black Diamonds and why doing a follow-up with no people in it is ‘scary’. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
73 min listen
197 - Martin Parr (#2): 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. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
82 min listen
199 - Nick Brandt: English photographer Nick Brandt on why he moved to the USA, his 18 ‘wasted’ years making commercial films, his level of optimism over climage breakdown and how he goes into each project both ‘excited and scared shitless’. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
76 min listen
189 - Ben Brody: Ben Brody on joining the army as a route to photography, reappropriating the reappropriated, vernacular vs. ‘professional’ images of war and his new book, 300M. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
79 min listen
208 - Curran Hatleberg: American photographer Curran Hatleberg on saying yes to everything, being open and vulnerable to what might happen, trying to capture the 'atmospheric intensity' of Florida in Summer and how he learnt a formative lesson in trusting strangers. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
59 min listen
196 - Eugene Richards: American documentary photographer Eugene Richards on why he self-publishes, the 'obsessive experience' of revisiting his contact sheets, being out of touch with what journalism is, tips on getting to know the subjects of a story, and why he left Magnum. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
86 min listen
193 - Paddy Summerfield: British photographer Paddy Summerfield on Mother and Father, early years, abandonment, loss, and hope, lyric writing and why seven other photographers have been traipsing around his garden. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
84 min listen
200 - Emma Hardy: British photographer Emma Hardy on beauty and lyricism, trying to transmit how she felt in her work, the issue of permission and consent and whether art is more pure if it’s done for the joy of it. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
79 min listen
207 - Bertrand Meunier: French documentary photographer Bertrand Meunier on climbing, China, the reverse angle, memory and passion. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
77 min listen
204 - Ivor Prickett: Irish photojournalist Ivor Prickett on how he got started, needing to get closer to the source, Mosul, Ukraine, the times he wanted to quit and why he didn’t and the implications of AI for photojournalism. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
79 min listen
194 - The Year In Review 2022: The traditional year-end summary of all the brilliant photographers who had a chat with me on the podcast in 2022. Happy new year! by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
58 min listen
216 - Corinne Dufka: American photojournalist and human rights researcher, Corinne Dufka on her journey from social worker to photojournalist, baptism by fire in Bosnia, the epiphany that led her to walk away from photojournalism, curiosity, compassion, having an impact and why she doesn’t do ‘hopeless’. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
75 min listen

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230 - Julia Kochetova: Ukraininan photojournalist and recent World Press Photo winnerJulia Kochetova on not being a war photographer, why it’s about the pictures she hasn’t taken, consent, ethics, her film ‘See You Later’ and how war has erased her capacity for joy. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
71 min listen
229 - Michael Ackerman: Michael Ackerman on family history, photographing animals, and ‘life’, mood, longing, the impossible to-do list and transcending the facts while keeping a strong hold on a deeper truth. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
69 min listen
228 - Valerie Belin: French photographic artist Valerie Belin on on the dual influence of American minimal art and Italian baroque art, presence and absence, the theme of beauty, how women are ‘attacked’ by stereotypes, comic books and the importance of Photoshop to her practice. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
66 min listen
227 - Linda Troeller: American photogrpaher Linda Troeller on modelling for Ansel Adams, a lifetime of self-portraiture, nudity, prudishness, women’s lib, the erotic life of women, living in the Chelsea Hotel for 20 years and how Alexander MacQueen influenced her visual palette. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
72 min listen
226 - Nicole Tung: Photojournalist Nicole Tung on working in Ukraine, drone warfare, risk management, social media and the question of whether photojournalist is an ‘important’ job. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
70 min listen
225 - Mitch Epstein: Esteemed American photographer Mitch Epstein on New York, editing, India, Garry Winogrand, working on films and trial and error. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
82 min listen
224 - Edward Burtynsky: Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky on ‘moving through grief to land on meaning’, ambiguity through scale, lessons learned from entrepreneurship, vertical integration and the importance of hope. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
94 min listen
223 - Lorenzo Castore: Italian photographer Lorenzo Castore on formative experiences, a picture that changed everything, the importance of finding stories and making life an adventure and his lifelong project Time Maze. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
93 min listen
061 - Brian Griffin: I've taken this chat (originally published as Episode 061 on 6th September 2017) out of the archive to repost here as a tribute to the wonderful Brian Griffin, who sadly has died aged 75 and will be greatly missed by many. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
77 min listen
222 - Natalie Keyssar: American freelance photographer Natalie Keyssar on what is happening in Gaza, how she views her Jewish identity, her Ukranian roots, her love of Venezuala and why she wants her work to tell you how it feels. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
68 min listen
221 - Richard Kalvar: Esteemed American Magnum photographer Richard Kalvar on playing with things he has trouble dealing with, humour, changing public attitudes towards being photographed, his new book of pictures, Selected Writings, and why his interest is in single images that stand alone. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
73 min listen
220 - Year in Review 2023: The traditional year-end summary of all the wonderful photographers who had a chat with me on the podcast in 2023. Merry Christmas and happy new year! by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
72 min listen
219 - Leonard Pongo: Belgian-Congolese photographer and visual artist Leonard Pongo on his book The Uncanny, the limits of photography to show the truth, defining which stories matter and sensory overwhelm. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
73 min listen
218 - Paris Photo 2023 Special: A Special report from the 2023 Paris Photo fair. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
84 min listen
217 - Max Pam: Australian photographer Max Pam on being saved by surfing, Diane Arbus, the magic of film, failing to get into Magnum, typhoid fever and ‘marrying up’. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
84 min listen
216 - Corinne Dufka: American photojournalist and human rights researcher, Corinne Dufka on her journey from social worker to photojournalist, baptism by fire in Bosnia, the epiphany that led her to walk away from photojournalism, curiosity, compassion, having an impact and why she doesn’t do ‘hopeless’. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
75 min listen
215 - Luca Locatelli: Italian 'environmental visual storyteller', Luca Locatelli, on the circular economy, technological and nature based solutions to the climate crisis, food, fast fashion, creating disorientation in the viewer and how a drip down the Amazon changed his life. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
89 min listen
214 - The 1 Million Downloads Episode: A special celebratory episode to mark the small milestone of A Small Voice podcast reaching one million total dowloads. ????????. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
100 min listen
213 - Ian Berry: English photographer Ian Berry, on his new book, Water, the importance of luck, getting into Magnum after tea with Henri Cartier Bresson, what you can learn from contact sheets, the huge changes in photography and everything being ‘too woke’. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
71 min listen
212 - Benjamin Rasmussen: Faroese/American photographer Benjamin Rasmussen on growing up amidst deeply religious roots, the Faroe Islands being too picturesque, the dark side of his American family, book banning, Trump and his optimism for photography. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
76 min listen
211 - Yelena Yemchuk: Ukranian artist Yelena Yemchuk on the “immigrant parent bullshit story”, discovering her calling at art school, Smashing Pumpkins, returning to Ukraine in 1990 and how on visiting Odesa for the first time it was love at first sight. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
77 min listen
210 - Moises Saman: Magnum Photographer Moises Saman on the catalyst that was 9/11, learning the ropes in Afghanistan, his eight days captive in Abu Ghraib prison, surviving a helicopter crash, the myth of objectivity, trying to show a more nuanced picture, “the framing of the frame”, and facts, truth & questioning. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
83 min listen
209 - Trish Morrissey: Dublin-born, UK-based Irish artist Trish Morrissey on family albums, body language, the performative side of her practice and exploring the female experience. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
79 min listen
208 - Curran Hatleberg: American photographer Curran Hatleberg on saying yes to everything, being open and vulnerable to what might happen, trying to capture the 'atmospheric intensity' of Florida in Summer and how he learnt a formative lesson in trusting strangers. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
59 min listen
207 - Bertrand Meunier: French documentary photographer Bertrand Meunier on climbing, China, the reverse angle, memory and passion. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
77 min listen
206 - Chico Review 2023 Special: A special report from the annual Chico Hotsprings Portfolio Review which took place in Montana, USA in March. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
46 min listen
205 - Photo London 2023 Special by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
88 min listen
204 - Ivor Prickett: Irish photojournalist Ivor Prickett on how he got started, needing to get closer to the source, Mosul, Ukraine, the times he wanted to quit and why he didn’t and the implications of AI for photojournalism. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
79 min listen
203 - Stacy Kranitz: American photographer Stacy Kranitz on the grey areas, violence as catharsis, blurring her professional and personal lives, stereotypes and representation and how she ‘accidentally’ ended up living in her car for three years. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
68 min listen
202 - Igor Posner: Russian-born New York-based Igor Posner on his night walks, the New York Photo League, the language he employs, his two books and how his mum inadvertently sabotaged her own hopes by gifting him a camera. by A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
69 min listen

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000 - Ben Smith (intro)

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Titles in the series (56)

More Episodes from A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers