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In episode 25 of Exposures , Seamus Murphy speaks with Jocelyn Bain Hogg about An Education , a body of work made while Bain Hogg was a student at Lancing College in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The project began when photography became an escape from the pressures and social hierarchies of boarding school. Working first with an inherited Rolleiflex from his father, Bain Hogg used the darkroom...

To Experience “Naidurra” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In Episode 24 of Exposures , Kenyan documentary photographer Billy Miaron speaks with Chona Mwemba about Naidurra , his story from the Maasai Mara National Reserve . The project is rooted in pastoralist Maasai life, where livestock herding, movement, and preservation of the natural environment shape social and economic systems. Miaron traces his own path...

To Experience “At Her Brother’s Grave” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In episode 023 of Exposures , O-Young Kwon discusses the development of At Her Brother’s Grave . Kwon describes the project as an effort to examine the “psychological effects the war is leaving behind.” The conversation follows his movement through Poland and into western Ukraine, including his encounter with Tetiana on a train to Lviv and...

In this episode 022 of Exposures , Scott Wallace speaks with Eros Hoagland about El Salvador, Central America, and the changing conditions of conflict reporting across the last four decades. The discussion moves through the practical and ethical conditions of reporting during the Salvadoran civil war: access to guerrilla forces and army commanders and the constant pressure of working in a country...

To Experience “LONG SUN DOWN” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In episode 021 of Exposures , photographer and publisher Kris Graves discusses Long Sun Down as well as his daily practice across photography, publishing, bookmaking, and art documentation. He also explores the long-term concerns that shape his work: the American landscape, structural discrimination, and the visible and less visible systems that org...

To Experience “Krokodil” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In episode 20 of Exposures , David Simon-Martret speaks with Paul Geddis about the slow, deliberate process behind his and partner Blanca Galindo’s photographic work and the making of Krokodil . The conversation centers on reporting within situations marked by addiction, vulnerability, and fear, and on the ethical demands of photographing people whose li...

In Episode 019 of Exposures , Valerie Plesch, in conversation with Tasneem Alsultan, speaks about the long aftermath of war and the human collective scarring that persists after international attention has moved on. In discussing her recently published story, Kosovo, After the War , Plesch describes how her own family history shaped her approach to reporting: her mother’s family fled Vietnam in th...

To Experience “Between the Lines” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In Episode 018 of Exposures Jason Howe reflects on the kind of work that has defined his career: slow, proximity-based photography built through time, trust, and sustained presence. He speaks about his early years traveling through Latin America, his long engagement with conflict photography in Colombia and Afghanistan, and his belief that meani...

We begin 2026 with a six-part series centered around themes of place, movement, and conflict . These issues demand deeper human-centered context, as displacement, political instability, and environmental pressure increasingly define daily life for millions. To Experience “Substitute Mother” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In episode 017 of Exposures , documentary photographer Greta Rico speaks with Sofía Aldin...

We begin 2026 with a six-part series centered around themes of place, movement, and conflict . These issues demand deeper human-centered context, as displacement, political instability, and environmental pressure increasingly define daily life for millions. In Episode 16 of Exposures, Tracy Dong speaks with Salgu Wissmath about Reassemblage , her photographic study of the Vietnamese-German diaspor...

We begin 2026 with a six-part series centered around themes of place, movement, and conflict . These issues demand deeper human-centered context, as displacement, political instability, and environmental pressure increasingly define daily life for millions. In Episode 15 of Exposures , Zambian photographer Chona Mwemba turns his attention to a force so constant it often disappears from view: every...

We begin 2026 with a six-part series centered around themes of place, movement, and conflict . These issues demand deeper human-centered context, as displacement, political instability, and environmental pressure increasingly define daily life for millions. In Episode 014 of Exposures DJ Clark speaks with Alex Gist about A Conspiracy of Guileless Humanity , Gist’s recent body of work developed in...

We begin 2026 with a six-part series centered around themes of place, movement, and conflict . These issues demand deeper human-centered context, as displacement, political instability, and environmental pressure increasingly define daily life for millions. In Episode 013 of Exposures Ecuadorian photojournalist and visual artist Johis Alarcón speaks with documentary photographer Greta Rico to disc...

To Experience “Shaboura” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In episode 012 of Exposures , photojournalist Tasneem Alsultan speaks with veteran visual journalist DJ Clark about Shaboura , a formative body of work produced in Gaza in the early 1990s that emerged from Clark’s decision to relocate to Palestine during the First Intifada, a choice that shaped his career and his understanding of proximity in conflict re...

To Experience “Youth of Belfast” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In epidsode 011 of Exposures , Veejay Villafranca talks with documentary photographer Toby Binder about his long-term project Youth of Belfast . They discuss how this important and maximally acclaimed work developed over many years, how slow the early stages were and how gaining access and trust took time (and cigarettes). Toby and Veejay also di...

To Experience “Vanishing With the Waves” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In episode 010 of Exposures , Bangladeshi photojournalist K M Asad joins DJ Clark to reflect on his journey from a student at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute to becoming one of Southeast Asia’s most respected visual storytellers and a World Press Photo Award winner. Trained under the legendary Shahidul Alam , Asad came of age in a g...

To Experience “El Inquilino” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP Photographer and educator Tom Griggs joins TOTIM to discuss El Inquilino , a series made in Mexico City during the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally planning a short stay, Griggs spent three years photographing daily life as the city quieted and adapted. He describes how the project evolved from his background in fine art into a form of expanded document...

To Experience “Child Brides of China” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In Episode 008 of Exposures , Yen Duong discusses her project Child Brides of China , which documents the trafficking of Vietnamese girls into forced marriages. The work examines the socioeconomic and structural factors that sustain these networks, including gender imbalance, poverty, and limited legal protections. Duong also reflects on her...

To Experience “The Olive Grove” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In Episode 007 of Exposures, MaryLynne Wrye speaks with Yen Duong about her project The Olive Grove , documenting life in and around the refugee camps on the island of Lesvos. Their conversation explores the harsh realities within the camp, the ethical challenges faced by photographers working with vulnerable communities, and the dangers and respo...

To Experience “Saudi Tales of Love” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In Episode 006 of Exposures , Tasneem Alsultan discusses her project Saudi Tales of Love , where she documents the private, often unseen experiences of love, marriage, and divorce in Saudi Arabia. Her work challenges stereotypes by highlighting the personal stories of women navigating tradition, modernity and social change. Through intimate po...

To Experience "Park Fire’ 24" DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In Episode 005 of Exposures , Noah Berger discusses his career as a photojournalist and his extensive coverage of California’s wildfires. He reflects on the technical and safety challenges of working in hazardous fire zones while offering insights into both his process and the broader professional responsibilities of reporting on natural disasters....

To Experience "Life on the Edge" Pt. 1 DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In Episode 004 of Exposures , Natisha Mallick discusses her reporting in rural West Bengal, India, where she documents the high risks of childbirth in communities with limited or no access to medical care. Mallick’s work explores the resilience of mothers, the role of unofficial caregivers, and the systemic gaps that contribute to one of th...

In Episode 003 of Exposures , Greta Rico interviews documentary photographer Seth Berry about his work in Honduras. Berry shares his multi-year effort to document the harsh realities of life in the Aguan Valley — a region of natural beauty overshadowed by corporate exploitation and government complicity. His story, In the Valley of Death , is now available on the TOTIM app . Seth Berry Seth is a d...

To Experience "Coup d'état" DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In episode 002 of Exposures, photojournalist Tasneem Alsultan interviews Eros Hoagland about his decades long career as a conflict photographer including his work in Haiti covering the violent overthrow of the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. “Coup d'état” is now available on the TOTIM app . Eros Hoagland Eros Hoagland is a California-born photoj...

To Experience “Signos” DOWNLOAD TOTIM APP In episode 001 of Exposures, photojournalist DJ Clark interviews Veejay Villafranca about his work covering the ecological and humanitarian fallout of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. “Signos” is now available on the TOTIM app . Veejay Villafranca Veejay Villafranca is a Manila-born documentary photographer and lecturer. He began as a staff photographer...