A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers (complete member-only archive)

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Julia Kochetova  (b. 1993) is a Ukrainian photojournalist and documentary filmmaker based in Kyiv. Her work focuses on firsthand storytelling as a method, researching topics of the war generation, post-traumatic stress disorder, and feminism.  Julia studied journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University (UA) and Mohyla School of Journalism (UA), alongside participating in IDFAcademy (NL). As a...

Michael Ackerman  was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1967. When he was seven years old his family emigrated to New York City, where he grew up and began photographing at the age of eighteen. Michael has exhibited internationally and published five books, including  End Time City , by Robert Delpire, which won the Prix Nadar in 1999. His other books are  Epilogue  (Void, 2019)  Half Life (Delpire, 20...

A student at the École Beaux-arts de Versailles (1983–1985), and then at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges (1985-1988), French artist  Valerie Belin  obtained the French higher national diploma in visual expression in 1988 and also holds a diploma in advanced studies (DEA) in the philosophy of art from the Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne (1989).  Initially influenced by various...

Linda Troeller ’s art projects focus on self-portraits, women's and social issues. For 20 year she lived in the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York City, curating an exhibition for the 125th Anniversary, “Chelsea Hotel Through the Eyes of Photographers”, and publishing a monograph of her own entitled  Living in the Chelsea Hotel . Other publications include  Healing Waters ,  The Erotic Lives of W...

Nicole Tung  is a freelance photojournalist. She graduated from New York University, double majoring in history and journalism, and freelances for international publications and NGOs, working primarily in the Middle East and Asia. After covering the conflicts in Libya and Syria extensively from 2011, focusing on the plight of civilians, she spent 2014 documenting the lives of Native American war v...

Mitch Epstein  helped pioneer fine-art color photography in the 1970s. His photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art; The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Tate Modern in London. In October 2024, Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, Italy w...

Edward Burtynsky  is regarded as one of the world's most accomplished contemporary photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent over 40 years of his dedication to bearing witness to the impact of human industry on the planet. Edward's photographs are included in the collections of over 80 major museums around the world, including the  National Gal...

Italian photographer  Lorenzo Castore ’s work is characterised by long term projects focusing on his personal experience, memory and the relationship between individual stories, history and the present time. In 1992 at the age of 19 Lorenzo moved from Rome to New York where he began to photograph in the streets. After a formative trip to India in 1997, he had a brief foray into photojournalism, co...

Natalie Keyssar  is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work focuses on the personal effects of political turmoil and conflict, youth culture, and migration.  She has a BFA in Painting and Illustration from The Pratt Institute. Natalie has contributed to publications such as  The New York Times Magazine ,  Time ,  Bloomberg Business Week ,  National Geographic  and  The New...

Ambiguity is at the forefront of  Richard Kalvar ’s photography. Richard, who describes context as the “enemy”, seeks mystery and multiple meanings through surprising framing and meticulous timing. He describes his approach as “more like poetry than photojournalism – it attacks on the emotional level.” Richard has done extensive personal, assignment and commercial work in the United States, France...

Featuring: Aaron Schumann Eugene Richards Martin Parr Gregory Crewdson Nick Brandt Emma Hardy Antoine D’Agata Igor Posner Stacy Kranitz Ivor Prickett Bertrand Meunier Curran Hatleberg Trish Morrissey Moises Saman Yelena Yemchuk Benjamin Rassmussen Ian Berry Luca Locatelli Corinne Dufka Max Pam Leonard Pongo

Leonard Pongo  is a Belgian-Congolese photographer and visual artist. His long-term project  The Uncanny , shot in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has earned him several international awards and world-wide recognition and was published as a  book by GOST earlier this year (2023) as a result of Leonard receiving the  ICP GOST First Photo Book Award  in 2020. Leonard’s work has been published worl...

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Max Pam  is an Australian photographer born in 1949 in suburban Melbourne, which as a teenager he found to be grim, oppressive and culturally isolated. He found refuge in the counter-culture of surfing and the imagery of  National Geographic  and  Surfer Magazine and became determined to travel overseas. Max left Australia at 20, after accepting a job as a photographer assisting an astrophysicist....

Corinne Dufka  is an American photojournalist, human rights researcher, criminal investigator, and psychiatric social worker. Following completion of her master's degree in social work, Corinne worked as a humanitarian volunteer and social worker in Latin America. She volunteered with Nicaraguan refugees during the country's revolution, and with victims of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. She then...

Italian photographer  Luca Locatelli  describes himself as an environmental visual storyteller.  For more than a decade Luca has aimed to open a debate about the environment and our future with his work by synergizing art, science, and journalism to explore the world’s most promising solutions to the climate crisis. As an artist, Luca is concerned with trying to translate complex scientific data i...

In episode 214: An audio clip from each of the  top 10  most downloaded episodes of all time (as of September 2023). 10 - Tom Craig ( Episode 130 ) 09 - Martin Parr #2 ( Episode 197 ) 08 - Tom Wood ( Episode 160 ) 07 - Todd Hido ( Episode 103 ) 06 - Chris Killip ( Episode 094 )05 - Paul Graham ( Episode 149 ) 04 - Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb ( Episode 105 ) 03 - Stephen Shore ( Episode 192 ) 0...

Ian Berry  was born in 1934 in Lancashire, England. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960, and his photographs were used in the trial to prove the victims' innocence. Henri Cartier-Bresson invited Ian to join Magnum in 1962, when he was based in Paris. He m...

Benjamin Rasmussen  is a Faroese/American photographer living in Denver, Colorado. After growing up in the Philippines and studying photography at Ateneo de Manila University, he moved to the United States to explore contemporary American identity. His practice is research and photography based and centers on the intersection of law, history and sociology. Benjamin works for magazines including  T...

Yelena Yemchuk 's output as a visual artist is immediately recognizable, regardless of medium. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Yelena immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was eleven. She became interested in photography when her father gave her a 35mm Minolta camera for her fourteenth birthday. Yelena went on to study art at Parsons in New York and photography at Art Center in Pasadena...

Moises Saman  is widely considered to be one of the leading documentary and conflict photographers of his generation and has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 2014. His work has largely focused on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Moises was born in Lima, Peru, from a mixed Spanish and Peruvian family and grew up in Barcelona, Spain. He studied Commun...

Much of the work of Dublin-born Irish photographer  Trish Morrissey  is a study of the language of photography through still and moving images, using performance and wit as tools to investigate the boundaries of photographic meaning. Although most of Trish’s work features her as the protagonist, she does not consider the photographs to be self portraits per se, though they can be read that way. Sh...

Curran Hatleberg  is an American photographer based in Baltimore, MD. He attended Yale University and graduated in 2010 with an MFA. Influenced by the American tradition of road photography, Curran’s process entails driving throughout the United States and interacting with various strangers in different locales. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at the Whi...