A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers
Ben Smith
55 episodes
1 week 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!
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.
Polish photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski on physics, philosophy, truth, freedom, progress, metaphor, bravery, wisdom and the appeal of lying in a hammock with a good single malt.
Australia-based German photographer Katrin Koenning on how the sudden tragic death of her best friend put her on the path of photography, her work as a ‘relational encounter’ …and a daily practice, having a ‘web of projects’, and her new book Between The Skin and Sea.
British photographer Ian Macdonald on how his love of drawing took him to art college, discovering photography, growing up and working in the industrial North East, his year as artist in residence at Eton College and his recent exhibition Fixing Time.
British documentary photographer Mike Abrahams on growing up in post-war Liverpool, Network Photographers, religious ceremony and the impetus behind his new book, This Was Then.
Ukrainian New Yorker Dina Litovsky @dina_litovsky on psychology, hacking the algorithm, shooting weddings, her Substack newsletter In The Flash, missing caviar, why photographers should stop calling themselves artists and how working for exposure is photography’s biggest Ponzi scheme.
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!
