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

Igor Posner was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). After the fall of the Soviet Union, Igor 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. This initial infatuation with picture-taking led Igor to explore the silent and haunting experience of walking af...

Lottie Davies was born in Guildford, UK, in 1971. She grew up in Surrey and was educated in Alton and Godalming. After a degree in philosophy at St Andrews University in Scotland, she moved back to England to pursue a career in photography. She is currently based in Cornwall in the south west of England. Lotties’ unique style has been employed in a variety of contexts, including newspapers, glossy...

Matthew Genitempo is an American photographer and book publisher currently living and making work in Marfa, Texas. He received his MFA in photography from the University of Hartford. Matthew was selected as one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers and received the LensCulture Emerging Photographer Award. His first book, Jasper , was chosen for the Hariban Juror’s Choice Award and short-listed for th...

Craig Easton ’s work is deeply rooted in the documentary tradition. He shoots long-term documentary projects exploring issues around social policy, identity and a sense of place. Known for his intimate portraits and expansive landscapes, his work regularly combines these elements with reportage approaches to storytelling, often working collaboratively with others to incorporate words, pictures and...

Ron Jude is an American photographer and educator, born in Los Angeles in 1965 and raised in rural Idaho. He lives and works in Eugene, Oregon, where he teaches photography as a professor of art at the University of Oregon. His recent work explores the relationship between place, memory, and narrative through multiple approaches ranging from the use of appropriated images to photographs that echo...

American photographer Christian Patterson was born in Wisconsin and lives in New York City. His conceptually grounded, narratively driven, visually layered work has been described as novelistic, subjective documentary of the historical past, and often deals with themes of the archive, authorship, memory, place and time. It includes photographs, drawings, paintings, objects, video and sound. Christ...

Tania Franco Klein (b. 1990) started photography while gaining a BA in Architecture in her home town of Mexico City, which led her to pursue a Masters degree in Photography at the University of the Arts, London . Her work is highly influenced by a fascination with social behavior and contemporary concerns such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, emotional disconnection, the obsession w...

Alejandro Cartagena was born in the Dominican Republic in 1977 and lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues. Alejandro’s work has been exhibited internationally in more than 50 group and individual exhibitions in spaces including the Cartier foundation in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, and his...

Influential English photographer Paul Graham has published three survey monographs, along with 17 other publications.  In 1981, he completed his first body of work, A1 - The Great North Road , which he later self-published as a book, re-printed in 2020 by Mack. The series of colour photographs captured life along England’s ageing arterial road, the A1, from the city of London to Edinburgh’s main p...

David Yarrow was born in 1966 into the Scottish Yarrow shipbuilding dynasty - founded in 1865 by his grandfather, Sir Alfred Yarrow, who had come from humble origins in East London.   David took up photography at an early age and as a 20-year-old university undergraduate found himself working as a photographer for The Times on the pitch at the 1986 World Cup Final in Mexico City. On that day, Davi...

Jason Esekenazi is a photographer, curator and co-founder of the photobook publishing community Red Hook Editions . He lives in Queens, New York, where he grew up and went to university, taking a degree in psychology and American literature at Queens College.  The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 led Jason out of New York into the wider world and after trips to Germany and Romania he travelled to R...

Nanna Heitmann (b. 1994 in Ulm, Germany) is a German/ Russian documentary photographer, currently based in Moscow, Russia. Her work often deals with issues of isolation – physical, social and spiritual – as well as the very nature of how people react to and interact with their environs.  Nanna has received awards that include the Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award and the Ian Parry Award of Achiev...

Evgenia Arbugaeva was born and spent her early childhood in the secluded town of Tiksi, located on the shore the Laptev Sea in the Republic of Yakutia in Russia’s Arctic North. Though she is now based in London and recently lived for a number of years in New York City, she has spent much of the past decade returning to and exploring the region surrounding her birthplace, discovering and capturing...

Featuring: Amak Mahmoodian Ellie Davies Alys Tomlinson Michal Iwanowski Tom Oldham Jon Tonks Ken Grant Tom Craig Roger Ballen Phillip Toledano Barry Lewis Jodi Bieber Sabiha Çimen Tasneem Alsultan Stephen Dupont Tim Page Andy Sewell Aletheia Casey Jesse Lenz Michael Christopher Brown Tom Stoddart

Tom Stoddart is an award-winning British photojournalist whose work has appeared in many of the most pretigious international magazines and newspapers. He is widely regarded by editors and his peers as one of the world’s most experienced and respected photographers. His international frontline assignments have included almost every major conflict and natural disaster over four decades, from wars t...

American photographer Michael Christopher Brown was raised in the Skagit Valley, a farming community in Washington. After moving to New York City in 2005, he joined the Italian photo agency Grazia Neri in 2006. He then moved to Beijing, China, in 2009 and over the next two years put together a series of works from road and train trips across the country. In 2010 Michael began taking pictures with...

Jesse Lenz is a self-taught photographer and multidisciplinary artist. As an illustrator he has created images for the most well-respected publications around the world, including TIME, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many others. He is the founder and director of Charcoal Book Club , Charcoal Press ,and the Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review . From 2011-2018 he also co-f...

Aletheia Casey is an Australian photographic artist currently living in London, England. She has been published in and worked with The Guardian, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, BBC London and BBC World, Australian Associated Press and numerous other international publications. Aletheia has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (Australia), Museum Bélvédère (Heerenveen...

Andy Sewell ’s first book The Heath was a winner of the International Photobook Award 2012 and is included in Martin Parr’s The Photobook: A History Vol. III .  His work is found in private and public collections including The V&A Museum, The MAST Foundation, The Museum of London, Columbia University Art Collection, Eric Franck Collection, The Hyman Collection and the National Media Museum.   He w...

British photojournalist Tim Page was born in 1944 and left England at 17 to travel across Europe and the Middle East en route to India and Nepal. He found himself in Laos at the time of the civil war and ended up working as a stringer for wire service United Press International. From there he moved on to Saigon where he covered the Vietnam War for thenext five years working largely on assignment f...

Stephen Dupont is an Australian artist, photographer and documentary filmmaker working mostly on long-term personal projects. Born in Sydney in 1967, Stephen grew up in the western suburbs and Southern Highlands under tough social conditions and displacement, with social worker parents, who were full-time carers of state wards. Stephen is recognised around the world for his concerned photography o...

136 - Tasneem Alsultan Born in the US and raised between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia where she is currently based, Tasneem Alsultan is an investigative photographer, storyteller and global traveller. With an inquisitive eye and camera at hand, she offers intimate and unique perspectives into the everyday lives of her subjects, telling their stories from her heart while striving to humanize...

Sabiha Çimen was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1986. She is a self-taught photographer, focusing on Islamic culture, portraiture and still life.  Sabiha graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University with a Bachelor's Degree in International Trade and Finance, and went on to take a Masters Degree in Cultural Studies. Her Master's thesis on subaltern studies, which includes her photo story, is entitled ‘Tu...

South African photographer Jodi Bieber began her professional career covering the 1994 democratic elections in South Africa for The Star Newspaper under chief photographer Ken Oosterbroek , having attended three short courses at David Goldblatt ’s Market Photography Workshop in Johannesburg.  In 1996, she was selected to participate in the World Press Masterclass in the Netherlands and this opened...

Barry Lewis  is a British photographer and filmmaker who for several decades has worked internationally for numerous prestigious publications from Life magazine to National Geographic. Having originally studied theoretical chemistry, Barry won a scholarship from the Royal College of Art to do an MA in photography and subsequently began his career in style when he won the Vogue Award and worked as...