A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers (exclusive member content)
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A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers (exclusive member content)

Ben Smith

  • 204 Episodes
  • English
  • Last updated Feb 18, 2026
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276 - Jessica Dimmock

Feb 25, 2026 • E277 • 01:11:18

Jessica Dimmock’s work focusses on humanistic and intimate storytelling. She is the recipient of numerous international awards for her photography and video work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three World Press Photo Awards for short films, The Inge Morath Award from Magnum, the F Award for Concerned Photography from Forma and Fabrica, The Infinity Award for Photojournalist of the Year from the International Center of Photography, and The Kodak Award for Best Cinematography at the Hamptons International Film Festival. She is a Sundance Edit and Story Lab Fellow, and her first feature film The Pearl was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival and was executive produced by Impact Partners. Her clients include HBO, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Microsoft, The UNFPA, Aperture, Showtime and PBS. She is the co-director of the Netflix series Flint Town as and directed on the reboot of Unsolved Mysteries and AppleTV’s Home.

In 2007 Jessica produced a photobook entitled The Ninth Floor (Contrasto). 

Her most recent film, co-directed with her partner Zackery Canepari, is Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America, focussing on the USA's $3 billion active shooter preparadness industry and its effects on teachers and students, released in 2025.

In episode 277, Jessica Discusses, among other things:

  • Current projects
  • Her attraction to dark subject matter
  • Her TV mini series Captive Audience
  • Forming close relationships with her subject
  • The random coffee shop interaction that changed her direction forever
  • The chance encounter that led to her first big photography project and subsequent book, The Ninth Floor
  • How the musician Moby played a part in her journey
  • Serendipity and her project The Pearl
  • The challenge of landing lucrative commercial work
  • The Netflix series she co-directed, Flint Town
  • Her most recent film Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America

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