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

Irish photographer Seamus Murphy was born in England in 1959, grew up in Dublin, made his escape to the USA after college, where he lived in New York and San Francisco and now lives in London. He has over 30 years experience working as a documentary photographer all over the world and is the author of four books, including A Darkness Visible the result of 14 years shooting in Afghanistan. As menti...

Max Pinckers was born in Belgium in 1988 and grew up in Indonesia, India, Australia and Singapore. Although his dad was a photographer, he didn’t start shooting himself until 2006 when he returned to his native country to study documentary photography at the KASK school of art in Ghent, where he is currently a doctoral researcher. In 2015 he became a nominee of Magnum Photos. Not believing in the...

Daniel Regan has a degree in photography from the University of Brighton, an MA in photography form the London College of Communication and runs the website fragmentary.org in which he curates and collates the work of other photographers dealing with the subject of mental health. He also organises events and exhibitions exploring and encouraging debate on the benefits of art for those with experie...

Tanya Habjouqa is an award-winning photographer, journalist and educator whose practice links social documentary, collaborative portraiture and participant observation and whose principal interests include gender, representations of otherness, dispossession and human rights, with a particular concern for the ever-shifting sociopolitical dynamics in the Middle East. Tanya trained in Journalism and...

A personal, disorganised and decidedly non-comprehensive flavour of the recent photographic shenanigans here in London over the past few days at the second annual Photo London trade fair and at Offprint London, one of a number of satellite events organised around it.

Ed Thompson is a British photographer, artist and lecturer. His own photographic work has focused on various subjects over the years from environmental issues, socio-political movements, subcultures and the consequences of war and his documentary photo-essays have been published in international magazines including National Geographic, Newsweek Japan and the Guardian Weekend Magazine. In 2007 he s...

Laura El-Tantawy was born in Worcestershire, England to Egyptian parents and spent her childhood and early years in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the USA. Her photography, perhaps inevitably, is inspired by questions on her identity - exploring social and environmental issues pertaining to her background. In 2002, she started her career as a newspaper photographer in the USA with the Milwaukee Journal S...

Edmund Clark is an award-winning artist interested in linking history, politics and representation. His work traces ideas of shared humanity, otherness and unseen experience through landscape, architecture and the documents, possessions and environments of subjects of political tension. The series Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, Letters to Omar and Control Order House, all of which have been pu...

Sophie Ebrard was pursuing a very successful career in advertising until 6 years ago when, creatively frustrated, she decided to leave it all behind, start calling herself a photographer and pursue her passion for taking pictures. She happily admits that she barely knew anything about photography at that stage but she set about learning the ropes and building a portfolio and in the relatively shor...

Murray Ballard embarked on a degree in furniture and product design before realising that learning about the chemical properties of plastic held little interest for him. At this point he jumped ship and switched to an art foundation course where he duly discovered something much more exciting. He graduated from the University of Brighton in 2007 with a degree in Photography. The following year he...

Jack Latham is a freelance photographer, born and raised in Wales, now living and working in Brighton on the south coast of England. He graduated from the Documentary Photography course at Newport University, South Wales in 2012. His work is presented in a mixture of large format photography and digital film making and has been realised in several self-published books. Jack has exhibited internati...

Inspired by a cool photography teacher and her cupboard full of photobooks, Kate Peters started taking pictures at school and has never really wanted to do anything else since. Whilst doing a photography degree at Falmouth College of Arts she responded to a notice offering work experience with Nadav Kander, which she got and that led to what I guess would be some people’s idea of a dream apprentic...

After taking a degree in Fine Art at Oxford University, Chloe Dewe Mathews worked in the film industry for four years before making the switch to photography. In a relatively short period of time she established herself as a one of those young talents to watch. Her subject matter has been diverse, from holidaying Hasidic Jews at the Welsh seaside to Uzbek gravediggers on the Caspian coast. In 2010...

Lydia Goldblatt trained at the London College of Communications, receiving a Masters Degree in Photography with Distinction in 2006. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally, with group and solo shows in the UK, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Greece, China and Malaysia. Her long term project, Still Here, which she worked on over a three year period, featured images of her pa...

Niall McDiarmid has been a jobbing commercial and editorial photographer for twenty five years but he is best known for his distinctive, perhaps unique, street portraits which feature in his two self-published books, Crossing Paths, which came out in 2013 and for which Niall travelled across Britain, visiting over 120 towns, covering 20,000 miles and shooting more than 800 portraits of some of the...

Matt Stuart shoots people. As one of the UK’s most prolific and highly respected street photographers, he has spent nearly two decades obsessively pounding the streets of London, where he lives, in pursuit of those elusive, magical moments when all the different elements of a good street photo - colour, composition, humour, happenstance - merge together for that split second, where Matt is poised...

So here's part two of the Harry Borden interview. If you haven't listened to part one you should probably go and do that first! I think I may have lost a few minutes of chat during this bit because at one point my recorder ran out of batteries and being incredibly professional I didn't have any replacements, so after several minutes of unsuccessfully raiding all of somebody elses remote controls f...

Over the course of a 30 year career as one of the UK’s most prominent and prolific portrait photographers, Harry Borden has photographed absolutely everybody. He started out shooting bands and musicians for the New Musical Express, where he quickly made a name for himself, before then establishing himself as a regular contributor to the Observer Newspaper and its magazine. It wasn’t long before he...

Mimi Mollica grew up in Sicily where he inherited his father’s passion for documentary photography at the tender age of 8. By the time he was 20 he’d made his escape to London, where he began his career assisting the esteemed architectural photographer Helene Binet.  He dropped out of a photography degree to pursue a freelance career and has since covered assignments all over the world, for a wide...

Maja Daniels, grew up in Sweden where she developed an early interest in journalism and then photography. in her late teens she upped sticks and moved to Paris, ostensibly to learn French, where she continued her photographic studies at the Paris Photographic Institute, before then taking a degree in Sociology. At the same time she assisted the fashion and portrait photographer Peter Lindbergh who...

Abbie Trayler Smith was born and raised in Wales. Her career in photography began in London where she found herself studying for a degree in law, before realising that a legal career in the UK would almost certainly look nothing like it did on Ally McBeal. At around the same time she discovered and fell in love with documentary photography and so that is what she decided to pursue. Her first profe...

Magnum photographer, Olivia Arthur was born in London and grew up in the UK. She studied mathematics at Oxford University, where she decided to become a photographer and she went on to study photojournalism at the London College of Printing before then moving to India with her family, where she was based for two and a half years and where she learnt to take pictures. In 2006 she left for Italy to...

Peter Dench has 20 years of experience as an editorial photographer, shooting documentary features, portraits, and advertising jobs, as well as turning his hand to video, writing, podcasting and being co-creative director of the White Cloth Gallery in Leeds, which he co-founded. Although he has worked in over 60 different countries, he is perhaps best known for documenting various aspects of Engli...

Adam Hinton is a photographer who for 25 years has managed to combine a successful career shooting advertising campaigns for a diverse range of clients including huge global brands such as Adidas, Nike, BMW and Sony, with his own personal documentary projects. Although he always had his eye on an advertising career, he began his photographic odyssey as a photojournalist when in the early 90’s his...

Guy Martin’s career began almost exactly ten years ago when in 2006 he graduated from the legendary University of Wales BA course in documentary photography with a first class degree. Since then, he has establishing himself as a successful editorial photographer and his work has appeared in a wide selection of some of the world’s most high profile magazines. As well as editorial commissions, he ha...