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Eddie is joined by Emerzy Corbin to unpack the techniques of photography in the club today, new technological developments in the craft, and the treasured canon of cameras and communities they've worked with. Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater Subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitt...

Connect: https://otchere.shop/ For this episode, Eddie catches up with Tee Max, who documented the ascending icons of the Hip-Hop scene with Eddie (and who forms part of the titular image of Spirit Behind the Lens). Tee and Eddie talk their origins in music and photography, their encounters with icons such as Biggie Smalls, and the future of the craft today. teemaxphotography.com Support Zer0 Book...

Get the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/how-the-railways-will-fix-the-future-rediscovering-the-essential-brilliance-of-the-iron-road/ Railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world for us all. The world’s railways were almost entirely created by capital and empire for extraction and exploitation, so what right d...

Connect: https://otchere.shop/ Eddie is joined by Holly-Marie Cato to talk about her photographic origins photographing the riots of the early 2010s, how her background in architecture informs her use of space and light in artistic practice, and her experiences in Jamaica and capturing the cultural legacies of colonialism and the diaspora in finding the space for documentary photography today. htt...

Eddie speaks to Johny Pitts, photographer and author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe. They dive into the Afropean diasporic experience as captured through the medium of the image, the growing exclusion of the working class from contemporary arts and media, and the technological heyday of photography in Japan from Johny and Eddie's experiences of working with the iconic Konica film. Suppo...

Connect: https://otchere.shop/ Eddie discusses the work of legendary photographer Eve Arnold, who produced era-defining photographs of political and cultural icons such as Malcolm X, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, and James Brown. To do so, Eddie is joined by printer of Eve's work, Danny Pope, and her grandson and curator Michael Arnold. The trio discuss the impact she had on the artistic d...

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Connect: https://otchere.shop/ In this episode, Eddie speaks to photographer Jermaine Francis about his style of "Post-Documentary" photography, representation, capturing the landscape of Black life across the diaspora, and their collective experiences of practicing the craft throughout their long and vibrant careers. Links for Jermaine: https://www.jermainefrancis.studio/ instagram.com/...

Connect: https://otchere.shop/ Eddie is joined by fellow Repeater author Mattie Colquhoun, writer of Narcissus in Bloom, to discuss photography as a site of self imagination and self transformation through the icon and the image. Mattie's links blog: xenogothic.com book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/narcissus-in-bloom/ Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon...

Connect: https://otchere.shop/ In the first episode of Spirit Behind the Lens: The Conversations, Eddie Otchere is joined by Giles Price to discuss his beginnings in photography whilst serving in the Armed Forces, his post-service career in fashion and the arts, and his work in drone photography, covering the impact of the civil war in Syria and beyond. Links:  Giles' website: https://www.gil...

Adam from Acid Horizon joins Phil Burton-Cartledge to discus 'The Party's Over: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak' out on Verso Books. Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2630-falling-down?_pos=1&_psq=party&_ss=e&_v=1.0 The Fall of the Tory Party - from Thatcher to Sunak Today, it is not a question of if, but when? What we are wa...

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Buy the book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313576/the-searchers-by-beckett-andy/9780241394229 From the acclaimed author of Promised You a Miracle and When the Lights Went Out, the untold story of British politics in modern times, through the triumphs and disasters of its five most radical figures 'A breath of fresh air: a vivid eye for detail meets narrative pacing that seems effortless.&a...

The book: https://agitpress.net/books/p/a-thousand-little-machines Digitised copies of A/traverso: https://archive.leftove.rs/documents/grid/title/A/traverso In 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity, creativity and violence would send shockwaves throughout Italian society. These rebellions, belonging to the autonomia movement, were characterised by a mass refusal of wage-labour and pow...

Federico's 'The Last Night' on Zer0 Books: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-night Technic and Magic: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/ We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality&ap...

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Buy the Book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-bloch The utopian project lies in ruins, but perhaps in our present moment, there are elements from the history of thought that can provide fresh resources for utopianism. In this groundbreaking introduction, Jon Greenaway explores the work of German philosopher Ernst Bloch, whose complex and chal...

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Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-night Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labour superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains stronger than ever as a mantra of universal submission. This book develops a fully-fledged theory of radical atheism, a...

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Absent Signifier (David's free metal band): https://www.instagram.com/absentsignifierband?igsh=ZzhvbWpvczg5aWkw Can Lacanian theory explain our enjoyment of musical genres? Adam and Craig of Acid Horizon sit down with musicologist David Burke to discuss what makes metal phallic, why dance music is akin to the Other's jouissance, and more. Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon:...

Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/against-vortex-zardoz-degrowth-utopias Alongside scientific knowledge and collective effort, building a degrowth ecological society will require a different set of stories and myths than the big and fast Promethean fables we’re accustomed to. Using Boorman’s Zardoz as a tool, Against The Vortex unearths the artistic and intellec...

Adam of Acid Horizon dives into the work of Carl Neville to explore the Terminator series as a parable of radicalization, how struggles in the present show the future of our current predicament, and how to fight back. Books by Carl Neville: Eminent Domain (Repeater): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/eminent-domain/ Classless: Recent Essays on British Film (Zer0): https://www.collectiveinkbooks.co...

Many leftists today know the name of the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta, but few know much about him. In this conversation, one of the foremost scholars on his life and ideas, Davide Turcato, discusses Malatesta’s activities during his long London exile from 1900-1913, his revolutionary theory of the armed strike, and his complicated relation to the Marxism of the second international. Buy the...

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