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

Greg Williams is one of the most trusted and acclaimed photographers in entertainment—his name and candid portraiture synonymous with authentic glamour. Greg established his reportage style as a photojournalist in the ‘90s—covering war zones in Burma, Chechnya and Sierra Leone. An assignment for the Sunday Times Magazine gave Greg his first access to the film industry and he has now shot ‘specials...

Originally from London,  Lewis Bush  studied at the University of Warwick, worked as a researcher for the United Nations HIV/AIDS taskforce in Geneva, and in 2012 started to develop his own research led photographic projects. In his work he looks for ways to visualise powerful agents, practices and technologies, and the links that connect them. To do this he employs a wide range of research strate...

Pradip Malde is a photographer and a professor at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, where he is the co-director of the Haiti Institute. Much of his work considers the experience of loss and how it serves as a catalyst for regeneration. He is currently working in rural communities in Haiti, Tanzania and Tennessee, designing models for community development through photography. Pradip...

Special report from the annual Photo London 2022 shindig at Somerset House. Featuring: James Hyman Emma Blau Brett Rogers , The Photographer’s Gallery Deanna Lawson Max Miechowski David Campany (on the work of Anastasia Samoylova ) Alys Tomlinson Aletheia Casey Jillian Edelstein Matt Stuart

Part 2 of my special report from this year’s annual Chico Hot Springs portfolio review in Montana, USA. Featuring attendees: Torry Brown - Website / Instagram Todd Rigos - Website / Instagram Dena Eber - Website / Instagram Hunter Lacey - Website / Instagram Erinn Springer - Website / Instagram Caroline Suzman - Website / Instagram Lori Ordover - Website / Instagram Kyle Makrauer - Website / Insta...

Featuring attendees: Elijah Howe -  Website  /  Instagram Tracy L. Chandler -  Website  /  Instagram Ana Hop -  Website  /  Instagram Andrea Koesters -  Website  /  Instagram Shannon Cavarocchi -  Website  /  Instagram Myriam Abdelaziz -  Website  /  Instagram Mayita Mendez -  Website  /  Instagram Jono Terry -  Website  /  Instagram Leslie Hakim-Dowek -  Website  /  Instagram Trey Horvath -  Webs...

Alba Zari  is a visual artist working with photography, video and sound. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1987 where she lived until the age of eight. She later moved to Italy, first to Trieste and then to Bologna, where she graduated from university with a degree in film. She went on to study documentary photography at the International Center of Photography in New York city, and then continued...

Patrick Brown  has devoted himself to documenting critical issues around the world often ignored by the mainstream media. His groundbreaking project on the illegal trade in endangered animals won a  World Press Photo Award  in 2004 and a multimedia award from  POYi  in 2008. Patrick’s book  Trading to Extinction  was nominated in the ten best photo documentary books of 2014 by  AmericanPhoto . In...

Born in Bristol in 1950, Jem Southam is one of the UK's most renowned landscape photographers, working predominately in the South West of England where he lives.  Jem’s richly detailed works document subtle changes and transitions within the landscape, allowing him to explore cycles of life and death, decay and renewal, through spring and winter, and also to reveal the subtlest of human interventi...

Eva Voutsaki is a Greek photographer and educator based in Brighton, England. She spent her early childhood in Drakona, a small village in Crete, before moving to Chania aged 15 to attend a better school. Eva holds a degree in Law, an MA in Photography, a foundation in Art Therapy and a PGCE in Further Education. Mythology, memory, fantasy and the unconscious form the basis for her creativity. Her...

Born 1953 in Cardiff, Wales, Peter Fraser acquired his first camera at the age of 7 and after a false start studying Civil Engineering, at 18, began studying photography at Manchester Polytechnic the following year. In the summer of 1974 he lived in New York and worked at the Laurel Photography Bookstore at 32nd St and 6th Avenue which significantly expanded his sense of photography’s expressive p...

Born in Berkeley, California and raised in the suburbs of San Francisco, Mimi Plumb has served on the faculties of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Jose State University, Stanford University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Berkeley, California. Since the 1970s, Mimi has explored subjects ranging from her suburban roots to the United Farmworkers movement...

Robert Gumpert is a California-based photographer with extensive international experience, documenting social issues and institutions, including service and industrial work, jails and the criminal justice system, and emergency rooms and paramedics. His collaborative  Take A Picture/Tell a Story  project in the San Francisco County jails. exchanges inmates’ portraits for their stories. He has also...

Alison McCauley has a BA Hons in visual arts from the Winchester School of Art, a BA Hons in creative arts – photography, from the Open College of the Arts, UK and a postgraduate diploma in visual arts – painting, Haute école d'Art et de Design, Geneva. Her approach to the people and locations she photographs is instinctive, open-ended and subjective. She weaves her images together to create non-l...

FEATURING: Evgenia Arbugaeva Nanna Heitmann Jason Eskanazi David Yarrow Alejandro Gartagena Tania Franco Klein Christian Patterson Ron Jude Craig Easton Matthew Genitempo Bryan Schutmaat Lottie Davies Igor Posner Ben Brody KIrsty Mackay Hannah Reyes Morales Tom Wood Alys Tomlinson (Photo London Special) Naomi Harris Jonas Bendiksen Paul Reas Nick Hannes Anna Fox Adam Ferguson

167 - Adam Ferguson Adam Ferguson is an Australian freelance photographer. He was born and grew up in regional New South Wales, Australia, before studying photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University . After graduating he travelled from port to port through the Caribbean and Mediterranean as crew on a sailboat to fund the start of his photographic career until, in 2008, he fle...

Born in 1961 and completing her degree in Audio Visual studies at The Surrey Institute, Farnham in 1986, Anna Fox began her career as a documentary photographer. Influenced by the British documentary tradition and the USA’s ‘New Colourists’, she chronicled new town life in Basingstoke (locally known as ‘Doughnut City’) and went on to publish the monograph Work Stations (1988), a study of London Of...

Nick Hannes was born in Antwerp in 1974. Based in Ranst, Belgium, he graduated from the Royal Acadehis of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent in 1997 and for the next eight years worked as a photojournalist before quitting press assignments in 2006 to fully concentrate on his own documentary projects, most of which have a strong political and social component. His first trip was a year-long journey by bus a...

164 - Paul Reas Paul Reas is a British social documentary photographer and educator, born in Bradford in the north of England in 1955. Until he recent retirement, Paul was the Course Leader of the Documentary Photography course (established by Magnum photographer David Hurn) at the University of South Wales in Cardiff, UK. He has worked commercially and editorially for many years and publishes and...

163 - Jonas Bendiksen Jonas Bendiksen’s sharply evocative images explore themes of community, faith and identity with unsparing honesty. He has made major bodies of work all over the world, at the same time as he always also photographs the daily rhythms of life at home. As well as many critically acclaimed long-form projects he has also produced significant work for many commercial and editorial...

Naomi Harris  is a Canadian photographer and artist who seeks out interesting cultural trends to document through her subjects. Personal projects include Haddon Hall in which she photographed the last remaining elderly residents of a hotel in South Beach, Miami, Florida. For this work she received the 2001 International Prize for Young Photojournalism from Agfa/Das Bildforum, an honorable mention...

Featuring contributions from: Tom Booth Woodger  from  Setanta Books Amak Mahmoodian  ( Episode 121 ) Kalpesh Lathigra  ( Episode 005 ) Jenny Lewis  ( Episode 064 ) Alys Tomlinson  ( Episode 123 ) Robin Maddock  ( Episode 056 ) Bryony Carlin Matthew Finn  ( Episode 098 ) Elizabeth Waterman Michael Grecco  ( Days of Punk )

Tom Wood  was born in 1951 in County Mayo in the west of Ireland. He trained as a conceptual painter at Leicester Polytechnic from 1973 to 1976. Extensive viewing of experimental films led him to photography, in which he is self-taught. Between 1978 and 2003 Tom lived in New Brighton, Merseyside, where much of his most famous and celebrated work was produced. He left Merseyside in 2003 for North W...

Hannah Reyes Morales  is a Filipina photographer and  National Geographic Explorer  Based in Manila whose work documents tenderness amidst adversity. Her photography, both visceral and intimate, takes a look at how resilience is embodied in daily life. Hannah’s work explores the universal themes of diaspora, survival, and the bonds that tie us together. Publications include: The Washington Post, T...

Kirsty Mackay is an photographic artist, educator, activist and filmmaker whose research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination. She has an MA in Documentary photography from University of South Wales, Newport. Her current book project  The Fish That Never Swam , considers class and discrimination against working-class people. Combining first...