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

  • 202 Episodes
  • English
  • Last updated Dec 10, 2025
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59 Latest episodes

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.

228 - Valerie Belin

Apr 10, 2024 • E228 • 01:06:12

French photographic artist Valerie Belin on on the dual influence of American minimal art and Italian baroque art, presence and absence, the theme of beauty, how women are ‘attacked’ by stereotypes, comic books and the importance of Photoshop to her pract...

227 - Linda Troeller

Mar 27, 2024 • E227 • 01:12:10

American photogrpaher Linda Troeller on modelling for Ansel Adams, a lifetime of self-portraiture, nudity, prudishness, women’s lib, the erotic life of women, living in the Chelsea Hotel for 20 years and how Alexander MacQueen influenced her visual palett...

226 - Nicole Tung

Mar 13, 2024 • E226 • 01:09:55

Photojournalist Nicole Tung on working in Ukraine, drone warfare, risk management, social media and the question of whether photojournalist is an ‘important’ job.

225 - Mitch Epstein

Feb 28, 2024 • E225 • 01:22:24

Esteemed American photographer Mitch Epstein on New York, editing, India, Garry Winogrand, working on films and trial and error.

224 - Edward Burtynsky

Feb 14, 2024 • E224 • 01:33:45

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky on ‘moving through grief to land on meaning’, ambiguity through scale, lessons learned from entrepreneurship, vertical integration and the importance of hope.

223 - Lorenzo Castore

Jan 31, 2024 • E223 • 01:32:58

Italian photographer Lorenzo Castore on formative experiences, a picture that changed everything, the importance of finding stories and making life an adventure and his lifelong project Time Maze.

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