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

  • 205 Episodes
  • English
  • Last updated May 27, 2026
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52 Latest episodes

272 - Year In Review 2025

Dec 31, 2025 • E272 • 01:08:18

A compilation of clips from all the guests who featured on the podcast in 2025

271 - Rachel Elizabeth Seed

Dec 17, 2025 • E271 • 01:05:00

American filmmaker, Rachel Elizabeth Seed, on the feature documentary she made about her mum (and herself), A Photographic Memory.

269 - Ed Kashi (#2)

Nov 19, 2025 • E269 • 01:12:01

Ed Kashi on, contributing to positive change, why he donated his archive to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, a lesson learned on assertiveness, journal entries, identity politics, advocacy journalism and his new retrospective book, A Period...

268 - Paul Sng

Nov 05, 2025 • E268 • 01:18:45

British Chinese filmmaker Paul Sng on early challenges, outsider syndrome, the 'confidence of ignorance', structure, narrative principles, the creative treatment of actuality, and finding an audience.

267 - BoP Festival 2025

Oct 22, 2025 • E267 • 01:04:17

A Special report from Bristol's annual BoP (Books On Photography) Festival, organised and hosted by the Martin Parr Foundation.

266 - Mike Brodie

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.

265 - Merlin Daleman

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.

264 - Eli Reed

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...

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...

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