In this episode (originally aired as Hey, It’s Me #15: “It’s Okay”) Rachel talks with Mike Sakasagawa about why she’s putting Commonplace on a hiatus and how she feels about it.
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In this episode (originally aired as Hey, It’s Me #15: “It’s Okay”) Rachel talks with Mike Sakasagawa about why she’s putting Commonplace on a hiatus and how she feels about it.
Rachel talks to photographer and (her former) photography teacher Lois Conner about Conner’s path to becoming a photographer, working at the UN, her yearly trips to China, teaching, the challenges and delights of a two-decade-long project of photographing pregnant women and the work of organizing the vertical and horizontal large format (nude) portraits into a book—To Be—published by Artiere in 2024. Conner talks about teaching, about being a straight cis woman photographing nude women, the circle as an artistic format, how a technical mistake led to the appearance of the Venus of Willendorf in her darkroom on a very hot night in Pennsylvania, and much more. The two talk about one of Rachel’s favorite topics: the ethics of representing people in art, and how much Lois’s teaching and the medium of photography influenced Rachel’s development as a poet.
Commonplace Podcast
In this episode (originally aired as Hey, It’s Me #15: “It’s Okay”) Rachel talks with Mike Sakasagawa about why she’s putting Commonplace on a hiatus and how she feels about it.
