A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers (members)
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A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers (members)

Ben Smith

  • 181 Episodes
  • English
  • Last updated Apr 02, 2025
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53 Latest episodes

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...

237 - Abdul Kircher

Aug 14, 2024 • E237 • 01:09:35

Abdul Kircher on his early life “dragging bags of weed around the house”, paternal abuse, generational trauma, obsessiveness, self-flagellation and sometimes ‘truly hating photography’.

236 - Louis Quail

Jul 31, 2024 • E236 • 01:14:46

British documentary photographer Louis Quail on his childhood with a schizophrenic mum, his book Big Brother and its subject, Justin, how he found his way into photography, his career as a jobbing editorial photographer and the importance of tolereance.

235 - Debi Cornwall

Jul 17, 2024 • E235 • 01:11:15

Debi Cornwall on her twelve years as a civil rights lawyer, working around restrictions, the ightbulb moment that took her to Guantanamo Bay, the performance of American power and her current solo show in Arles.

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