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

Phillip Toledano is a New York-based British artist born in 1968 in London, to a French Moroccan mother and an American father. He grew up in London and Casablanca, received a BA in English literature from Tufts University in Boston and embarked upon a career in advertising before abandoning that plan in favour of photography. Phillip considers himself a conceptual artist: Everything starts with a...

Born in New York in 1950, Roger Ballen is a unique and influential American artist whose strange and extreme photographic works confront the viewer and challenge them to come with him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own. For nearly 40 years, Roger has lived and worked in and around Johannesburg, South Africa. His five decade career to date began in the d...

British-born photographer Tom Craig began his photographic journey as a reportage and documentary photographer, working for clients such as Medecins Sans Frontieres and the Independent newspaper, before a commission from Vogue magazine to shoot a fashion story came “like a bolt from the blue” and altered the course of his career irrevocably. Since then Tom has travelled all over the world for both...

It’s all gone a bit pear-shaped this week, people. I don’t even wanna talk about it, to be honest. So here, in place of the usual one-to-one chat, is a special sampler of recent content from the member-only podcast, featuring Michal Iwanowski , Sian Davey and Ken Grant . Sign up for a 7 day free trial at pod.fan On episode 129: Michal Iwanowski ( Website  |  Instagram  |  Facebook  |  Twitter ) an...

Ken Grant was born in Liverpool in 1967 and at 12 years old bought his first camera - a polaroid - from money he had saved working in the school holidays for his joiner father.  He went on to study photography at technical college, where he discovered and devoured numerous classic photobooks in the library, and then at West Surrey College of Art and Design, in Farnham, where he was mentored or lec...

Jon Tonks is a British photographer based in Bath in the South West of England. His work focuses on telling stories about people’s lives shaped by history and geography. Jon has an MA in Documentary Photography & Photojournalism from London College of Communication and his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Sunday Times, Telegraph and FT Weekend Magazines, the British Jour...

On episode 126, me and Ibarionex discuss, among other things: Our shared experiences Learing to type Podcasting (obviously) Depression Self criticism His relatively recent ADHD diagnosis My ongoing photography project, Indicative Only The art of carrying on Website  |  Instagram | Facebook

Tom Oldham is primarily a portrait photographer, shooting famous and talented people such as well known musicians and sports stars, both for publications such as Mojo magazine and for big-brand commercial clients. In 2016, on the Summer solstice, Tom stayed up for 40 hours and shot a portrait per hour from midnight to midnight, for a project called The Longest Day . The whole process was captured...

Michal Iwanowski was born in Poland and has for some years lived in Cardiff, Wales where he graduated with an MFA in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport. His work combines elements of the documentary tradition with a conceptual approach. In his deeply personal projects, Michal often sets his protagonists against nature and explores the relationship between landscape and mem...

Alys Tomlinson is an award-winning editorial and fine art photographer based in London. Having grown up in Brighton on England’s south coast, Alys went on to study English Literature and Communications at the University of Leeds. After graduating she moved to New York City for a year where she was given her first commission for the Time Out guide books. She returned to London to study photography...

Ellie Davies (Born 1976) lives in Dorset and works in the woods and forests of Southern England.  She gained her MA in Photography from London College of Communication in 2008 and has been working in the UK’s forests for the past nine years, making work which explores the complex interrelationship between the landscape and the individual. Ellie is represented by  Crane Kalman Brighton Gallery  in...

Amak Mahmoodian , was born in Shiraz in Iran in 1980, the year of the establishment of the Iranian revolution. She currently lives in Bristol, England, where she teaches on the BA and MA courses in photography at the University of the West of England. She graduated from the University of South Wales with a practice-based PHD in photography in 2015 and prior to that received her degree and an MA fr...

Featuring: Lyndsey Addario Chris-Dorley Brown Matthew Finn Zed Nelson Me Poulomi Basu Hannah Starkey Todd Hido Rebecca Norris Webb and Alex Webb Andrea Modica Simon Norfolk Irina Rozovsky Ed Panar Sohrab Hura Mark Steinmetz Ian Weldon Lisa Barnard David Moore Daniel Meadows Anders Petersen Nick Waplington Lua Ribeira

Lua Ribeira was born in 1986 in the autonomous community of Galicia, in the north of Spain. She received a BA Hons in Media Studies at the University of Vigo in 2009 and in 2010 she moved to Barcelona where she studied graphic dsesign and as a result discovered an interest in photography. Adopting it as a vocation, Lua moved to the U.K. where in 2012 she enrolled on the Documentary Photography cou...

Nick Waplington is a photographer and a painter, who divides his time between New York, where he lives with his English professor wife and their young son, and London where his older son lives and where has a studio and live/work space. He has produced many photobooks over a thirty year career, collaborating with established publishers such as Aperture , Cornerhouse , Mack , Phaidon and Trolley ,...

Anders Petersen was born in 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1961, aged 17, he went to live in Hamburg to learn German and to try to write and paint. Five years later he met the man who would become a mentor, close friend and his biggest influence, Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm. Inspired by one of Christer’s photographs, which he saw in a magazine he picked up in a barber shop, Anders began...

Photographer, documentarian and digital storyteller Daniel Meadows (b. 1952) has spent a lifetime recording British society, challenging the status quo by working in a collaborative way to capture extraordinary aspects of ordinary life through pictures, audio recordings and short movies. He is best known for his 1973-74 journey around England in the Free Photographic Omnibus when he travelled 10,0...

David Moore is a London based photographic artist once described as belonging to "the second wave of new colour documentary in Britain". He has exhibited and published internationally and has work held in public and private collections. David has worked as a photographer and educator since graduating from West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, in 1988 and he is currently the Course Leader...

Lisa Barnard’s photographic practice is placed in the genre of documentar y. Her work discusses real events, embracing complex and innovative visual strategies that utilise both traditional documentary techniques and more contemporary and conceptually rigorous forms of representation. Barnard connects her interest in aesthetics, current photographic debates around materiality, and the existing pol...

Ian Weldon is not a wedding photographer. But he does shoot weddings. He recently became the first photographer ever (probably) to have an exhibition of wedding photography in a ‘proper’ gallery, with a show at the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol, England. He also produced a book to coincide with the show, publishhed by RRB PhotoBooks and entitiled, of course, “I Am Not a Wedding Photographer.”...

Mark Steinmetz is an American photographer who makes black and white photographs "of ordinary people in the ordinary landscapes they inhabit” and "in the midst of activity”. His work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New York Museum of Contemporary Photography, to name but a few. He is the recipien...

Featured (or mentioned) on episode 111: Jack Latham Tristan Bejawn Aletheia Casey Keith Cullen Gregory Barker Maja Daniels Hannah Watson George Georgiou Amanda Fordyce Ash K Halliburton Marina Paulenka Referenced: Libuse Jarcovjakova Helen Levitt Eve Arnold Abigail Heyman Susan Meiselas David Spero Andy Sewell David Moore Colin Thomas John Myers Daniel Meadows Martin Parr Ken Grant Tom Wood Christ...

Sohrab Hura is an Indian photographer based in New Delhi, India. He joined Magnum Photos as a nominee in 2014 and is currently an Associate member. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in London and in Kolkata, India. Sohrab was born in West Bengal and attended India’s most highly regarded boys boarding school, The Doon School , in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. He has a masters degree in economics...

American photographer Ed Panar has a BA from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He has published several photobooks including: In the Vicinity (Deadbeat Club, 2018), Animals That Saw Me Volume One and Volume Two (2011 and 2016, The Ice Plant), Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes (Spaces Corners & The Ice Plant, 2013), Salad Days (2012 Go...

Irina Rozovsky was born in Moscow, Russia, and grew up in the USA, having moved there with her parents at the age of seven. Irina makes photographs of people and places, transforming external landscapes into interior states. She has published two monographs, One to Nothing (2011) and Island in my Mind (2015). Her work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museu...