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

  • 200 Episodes
  • English
  • Last updated Feb 02, 2026
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274 - Joachim Ladefoged

Jan 28, 2026 • E274 • 01:15:05

Joachim Ladefoged is a Danish photographer born in 1970. He has worked as a professional since 1991, and is a member of the international photo agency VII. Today he is a staff photographer at the Danish Daily Jyllands-Posten, but over the years he has worked regularly for magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, Mare, The New Yorker and TIME.

Joachim has received numerous awards for his work from institutions such as Visa D'Or, World Press Photo, POYi, Eissie, and Agfa, as well as Picture of the Year in Denmark. Over the years he has published 3 monographs, Albanians, Mirror and Time After My Time.

Joachim photographs everything with the same inventiveness and diligence, whether sports, war or commerce. His highly accomplished career has seen him master complex, violent news stories, commercial assignments, daily news, and rich, vibrant, and spectacular feature stories. Joachim is credited with being one of the driving forces behind the new wave of Danish photojournalism.

In episode 274, Joachim discusses, among other things:

  • Having arthritis as a teenager and the impact it had on his life (good and bad)
  • Starting his career as an intern at a local newspaper
  • Moving on to ‘the best job in the world’ at national newspaper Politiken
  • Winning the World Press Photo award
  • Words of wisdom received from Magnum legend Constantine Manos
  • Getting into Magnum… and being chucked out again
  • Being part of ‘the new wave of Danish photojounalists’
  • Why changing direction on becoming a father was “the right decision, but a hard decision”
  • Why three photographers were just made redundant on his newspaper
  • His approach to shooting and lighting portraits
  • His book project Time After My Time
  • Photographing his kids with the iPhone

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