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

Ben Smith

  • 193 Episodes
  • English
  • Last updated Sep 03, 2025
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56 Latest episodes

263 - Tony Dočekal

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...

262 - Rankin

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.

261 - Marjolein Martinot

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...

260 - Anna Arendt

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.

259 - Mohamed Bourouissa

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’.

258 - Paul Seawright

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.

257 - Photo London 2025 Special

Jun 04, 2025 • E257 • 01:01:52

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.

256 - Marc Wilson

May 21, 2025 • E256 • 01:11:14

British photographer Marc Wilson on Ukraine, A Thousand Days of Longing, failed attempts, wandering lost, adventures in self-publishing and getting arrested in Moldova.

255 - Mackenzie Calle

Apr 23, 2025 • E255 • 01:09:33

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.

254 - Tomasz Tomaszewski

Apr 09, 2025 • E254 • 01:30:22

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.

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