A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers (exclusive member content)
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A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers (exclusive member content)

Ben Smith

  • 194 Episodes
  • English
  • Last updated Oct 15, 2025
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54 Latest episodes

Oct 08, 2025 E266 01:12:10

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.

Sep 24, 2025 E265 01:03:51

Netherlands-based British photographer Merlin Daleman on Brexit, his new book Mutiny, and how a serious motorcycle accident improved his photography.

Sep 10, 2025 E264 01:24:51

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 wr...

Sep 09, 2025 E33 01:02:36

Pulling this episode out of the archive in memory of the great Chris Steele-Perkins who has sadly died peacefully in his sleep aged 78. RIP, Chris.

Aug 27, 2025 E263 01:23:15

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 pic...

Aug 13, 2025 E262 01:34:42

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.

Jul 30, 2025 E261 01:03:14

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 cir...

Jul 16, 2025 E260 01:10:21

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.

Jul 02, 2025 E259 01:24:50

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’.

Jun 18, 2025 E258 01:25:28

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.

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