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

French photographer Bertrand Meunier has spent most of the past three decades quietly working either editorially or on personal long-term documentary projects both internationally and, in more recent years, at home in France. He worked extensively in Pakistan and Afghanistan among other places, primarily for Newsweek magazine, but much of his time has been spent in China documenting the tumultuous...

Featuring: Brad Zellar Chris Campbell Bryan Schutmaat Dena Eber Pradip Malde Johnny Autry Tania Franco Klein Justin Herfst Tim Carpenter Reed Klass Todd Hido  Website | Instagram

Special report from the annual Photo London fair.  Featuring: Martin Parr (Ep. 91 & 197 ) Dr. Claire Hyman Tracy Marshall Grant Chris Dorley Brown (Ep. 97 ) James Hyman Simon Roberts ( Ian Parry Photojournalsim Grant ) (Ep. 43 ) Michael Benson Jillian Edelstein ( KIckstarter ) (Ep. 87 ) Gideon Mendel (Ep. 40 ) Alex Schneiderman  Website | Instagram

After taking a degree in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport,  Ivor Prickett  began working in Europe and the Middle East, striving to convey and denounce the effects of war on the civilian population – on the people whose lives it ravages and uproots, whatever side they may be on. Initially focused on the private, domestic sphere of war’s long-term social and humanitarian...

Working within the documentary tradition,  Stacy Kranitz  makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Her images do not tell the “truth” but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, pl...

Igor Posner was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). After the fall of the Soviet Union, he moved to California in the early 90s. He studied molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he first started to take pictures and experiment in the darkroom. Initial infatuation with picture-taking led Igor to explore the silent and haunting experience of walking after dar...

Antoine D'Agata is a French photographer and film director and a full member of Magnum Photos. His photographic subjects have mostly been those on the fringes of society and his work deals with topics often considered taboo, such as addiction, sex, personal obsessions, darkness, and prostitution. Born in Marseilles in 1961, Antoine left France in his early 20s and remained overseas for the next te...

Based in London, Emma Hardy is well practiced in capturing the nuances of everyday life. Her images reflect an often unnoticed drama behind the scenes. Coming from a theatrical background and having worked as an actress herself before focusing on photography, Emma cites her fascination with people’s behaviour, the tensions, interactions and quirky humour, as a driving energy in her work. Mainly se...

Nick Brandt ’s photographic series always relate to the devastating impact that humankind is having on both the rapidly disappearing natural world and now on itself, as a result of environmental destruction, climate change and human actions. In the East African trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across The Ravaged Land   (2001-2012), Nick established a style of portrait photography of animals...

Gregory Crewdson ’s photographs have entered the American visual lexicon, taking their place alongside the paintings of Edward Hopper and the films of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch as indelible evocations of a silent psychological interzone between the everyday and the uncanny. Often working with a large team, Crewdson typically plans each image with meticulous attention to detail, orchestratin...

Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952), the man who the Daily Telegraph declared to be, “arguably Britain’s greatest living photographer” is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world. His major projects have been rural comm...

Photographer, writer, and filmmaker,  Eugene Richards ,was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1944. After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in English, he studied photography with Minor White. In 1968, he joined VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America, a government program established as an arm of the so-called” War on Poverty.”  Following a year and a half in eastern Arkansa...

Aaron Schuman is an American photographer, writer, curator and educator based in the UK. He received a BFA in Photography and History of Art from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1999, and an MA in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the University of London: London Consortium at Birkbeck College in 2003. Aaron is the author of several critically-acclaimed monographs: Sonata , pu...

The traditional year-end summary of all the brilliant photographers who had a chat with me on the podcast in 2022. Happy new year! Alison McCauley Robert Gumpert Mimi Plumb Peter Fraser Eva Voutsaki Jem Southam Patrick Brown Alba Zari Pradip Malde Lewis Bush Greg Williams Joanne Coates Rich Joseph-Facun Sam Jones Bryan Schutmaat Kavi Pujara Ben Brody Anastasia Samoylova Stephen Shore Paddy Summerf...

Paddy Summerfield (born 1947) is a British fine art photographer who has lived and worked in Oxford in the UK all his life. Paddy is known for his evocative series’ of black and white images, shot on 35mm film, which co-opt the traditional genre of documentary photography to realise a more personal and inward looking vision. He has said his photographs are exclusively about abandonment and loss. A...

Stephen Shore 's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty-five years. He was the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, forty years earlier. He has also had one-man shows at George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute...

Anastasia Samoylova  (b. 1984, USSR) is an American artist who moves between observational photography and studio practice. Her work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism and the picturesque. Recent exhibitions include Eastman Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art; The Photographer's Gallery; Kunst Haus Wien; HistoryMiami Museum; and Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle. In 2022 Anastasia was shortl...

Featuring: Tom Booth Woodger Craig Easton Aaron Schumann Roger Deakins Keith Cullen from  Setanta Books Martin Amis from  photobookstore.co.uk  and  Photo Editions Tom Broadbent  from  The Photobook Club Collective Andi Galdi Vinko Martin Parr Matthew Killip Chilli Power Sam Binymin Alys Tomlinson Matt Martin  from  Photobook Cafe   Instagram    |  Martin Parr Foundation |    Royal Photographic So...

Ben Brody  is an independent photographer, educator, and picture editor working on long-form projects related to the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their aftermath. He is the Director of Photography for  The GroundTruth Project  and  Report for America , and a co-founder of  Mass Books . His first book,  Attention Servicemember , was shortlisted for the 2019  Aperture - Paris Photo Fir...

Kavi Pujara  (born Leicester, 1972) is a self-taught photographer. He has a BSc in Software Engineering and an MA in Screenwriting and he works as a film editor for the BBC alongside independently making personal, long-term documentary photo projects. His work has been included in the touring group exhibition Facing Britain, he was also one of the winners in the British Journal of Photography, Por...

Bryan Schutmaat  is an American photographer based in Austin, Texas whose work has been widely exhibited and published. He has won numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Aperture Portfolio Prize, and an Aaron Siskind Fellowship. Bryan’s prints are held in many collections, such as Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Pier 24 Photography, Rijksm...

Sam Jones  is an acclaimed American photographer and director whose portraits of President Obama, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Bob Dylan, Kristin Stewart, Robert Downey Jr, Amy Adams, Jack Nicholson, and many others have appeared on the covers of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, Time, Entertainment Weekly and Men’s Journal. His collection of candid celebrity portraiture,  The Here And N...

Rich Joseph-Facun  is a photographer of Indigenous Mexican and Filipino descent. His work aims to offer an authentic look into endangered, bygone, and fringe cultures—those transitions in time where places fade but people persist. The exploration of place, community and cultural identity present themselves as a common denominator in both his life and photographic endeavors. Before finding “home” i...

Joanne Coates  is an English, working class documentary photographer based in North Yorkshire, interested in rurality, hidden histories and class. She was born in the rural North of England, educated first in working class alternative communities, then at The Sir John Cass School of Fine Art and The London College of Communication from where she has a Ba Hons in Photography. Her practice is as muc...

Featuring: Susan Meiselas Kristine Potter Vanessa Winship Curran Hatleberg Klavdij Sluban