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

  • 196 Episodes
  • English
  • Last updated Oct 29, 2025
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55 Latest episodes

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.

233 - Chloé Jafé

Jun 19, 2024 • E233 • 01:08:13

French visual artist and photographer Chloé Jafé on photography as ‘a tool’, how a night of drinking took her to Japan, how tenacity and perseverance finally paid off, tattoos, the women of the Yakuza and her trilogy of books.

230 - Julia Kochetova

May 08, 2024 • E230 • 01:10:33

Ukraininan photojournalist and recent World Press Photo winnerJulia Kochetova on not being a war photographer, why it’s about the pictures she hasn’t taken, consent, ethics, her film ‘See You Later’ and how war has erased her capacity for joy.

229 - Michael Ackerman

Apr 24, 2024 • E229 • 01:08:32

Michael Ackerman on family history, photographing animals, and ‘life’, mood, longing, the impossible to-do list and transcending the facts while keeping a strong hold on a deeper truth.

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