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

Ben Smith

  • 184 Episodes
  • English
  • Last updated Jun 11, 2025
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52 Latest episodes

247 - Ed Sykes

Jan 01, 2025 • E247 • 01:18:35

British photographer and visual artist Ed Sykes on early days at The Independent, Operation Restore Hope, disillusionment, day jobs, darkroom practice and embracing mistakes.

244 - Stephan Vanfleteren

Nov 20, 2024 • E244 • 01:17:02

Masterful Belgian photographer Stephan Vanfleteren on memory, skin, light, photographing men, fear of success, the intensity of a collaborative portrait session and the beauty of dead animals.

242 - Polly Braden

Oct 23, 2024 • E242 • 01:16:53

British documentary photographer Polly Braden on her projects Leaving Ukraine, and Holding The Baby, working with film, working in China, securing funding, building partnerships and why artists need to be entrepreneurs.

241 - Agnieszka Sosnowska

Oct 09, 2024 • E241 • 01:20:29

Agnieszka Sosnowska on formative years in communist Poland, her life on a farm in rural Iceland, self-portaiture and the suckiness of documenting your own ageing, her attempt at exploring the experience of womanhood and the freedom of realising you don’t...

240 - Robbie Lawrence

Sep 25, 2024 • E240 • 01:19:33

Scottish photographer and director Robbie Lawrence on his relationship to painting and writing, how working commercially can be a ‘relief’, his ‘macrojournalistic approach’, the difference between myth and history, working digitally, his latest book, Long...

239 - Kiana Hayeri

Sep 11, 2024 • E239 • 01:13:44

Photojournalist Kiana Hayeri on moving to Canada from Iran as a teenager, how photography helped her bridge the culture and language gap, gender apartheid, winning awards, Afghanistan, goal setting and the dangers of ‘dilettante hit and run journalism’.

238 - Diana Matar

Aug 28, 2024 • E238 • 01:06:00

American photographer Diana Matar on her brush with Manuel Noriega, photographing absence, her latest book My America, why she shot the work on an iPhone, whether photographs can bear the burden of history, how she has intermalised a European sense of Ame...

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