A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers

Sam Faulkner is a London-based photographer and the founder of Print Swap , an iOS app. where photographers and visual artists exchange gallery-quality physical prints directly. No buying, no selling, no follower counts. Sam came to photography the hard way, travelling into Afghanistan in 1994 with a battered Canon, a few rolls of film and very little plan. His work has since moved between reporta...

Harriet Logan is a multi-award winning photographer who spent the first half of her career working on international assignments in places such as Sudan, Angola, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and Somalia for a range of international newspapers and magazines. She subsequently turned her attention to working commercially on advertising campaigns for various big brand clients, including The Pict...

Henri Kisielewski is a self-taught photographer whose work is concerned with the porous boundary between fact and fiction in documentary media. His practice has been recognised and supported by several grants and awards, and he has exhibited in group shows and festivals internationally. In 2025, he was shortlisted for both the Prix Élysée and Grand Prix Images Vevey. In 2021, Henri was employed by...

Richard Young is a photographer who was once known as the “king of the paparazzi”. His portfolio is a who’s who of some of the biggest stars in film, music, stage and popular culture from the past fifty years. From gatecrashing Elizabeth Taylor’s party for Richard Burton’s 50th at the Dorchester to later being invited to photograph her Damehood celebrations. He can count the first photographs of P...

Ilvy Njiokiktjien is a Dutch photojournalist, filmmaker, podcast host and educator who has been creating and sharing stories for almost two decades. She is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands and is a contributing photographer to VII Foundation . Ilvy is committed to documenting the social and political issues that shape our world. Her work is characterized by a sensitive eye and a compassionate and...

Jon McCormack is - as plainly stated on his Linked-In profile - a Photographer, Nerd, Educator and Conservationist His photographic work is deeply informed by his upbringing in the stark, untamed landscapes of the Australian Outback, where early life among sheep and cattle fostered a profound respect for nature’s rhythms of resilience and fragility. Beginning as a teenager photographing quiet, oft...

Dragana Jurišić is a photographer, writer and filmmaker. She has exhibited extensively and won numerous awards.  Dragana’s work is in several significant collections, including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Arts Council Collection, the Irish State Art Collection (OPW), the Bank of Spain, and others. Her first book, YU: The Lost Country , received accolades worldwide. Her second book, Museum...

Featuring: Sjef van Duin , Librarian Roderick van der Loos , Interim Director Zippora Elders, incoming General & Artistic Director Grace Wong-Si-Kwie , Head of Presentations and Public Outreach Guinevere Ras , Curator of opening exhibition Awakening in Blue Martijn van den Broek ,  Head of Collections Joop De Jong , Guest Curator of opening exhibition, Rotterdam In Focus Website | Instagram  ...

Zackary Canepari is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow whose work moves between documentary film and photography.  He began as a photojournalist in India and Pakistan before creating the Sundance-screened series California Is a place , a portrait of the golden state unraveling at the edges. He later co-directed the feature documentary T-Rex (SXSW), following teenage Olympic boxe...

Jessica Dimmock’s work focusses on humanistic and intimate storytelling. She is the recipient of numerous international awards for her photography and video work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three World Press Photo Awards for short films, The Inge Morath Award from Magnum, the F Award for Concerned Photography from Forma and Fabrica, The Infinity Award for Photojournalist of the Year from t...

On episode 275, Philip discusses, among other things: His ‘cabinet of curiosities’ studio space A recent, powerful urge to photograph in Australia Why he left the newspaper world there in favour of Thailand His early project “The Cars That Ate Bangkok” His sense of anger at injustice His ‘near death experience’ on Sleeping Dog Mountain Process, shooting on film, and working close to the subject Th...

Joachim Ladefoged is a Danish photographer born in 1970. He has worked as a professional since 1991, and is a member of the international photo agency VII. Today he is a staff photographer at the Danish Daily Jyllands-Posten, but over the years he has worked regularly for magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, Mare, The New Yorker and TIME. Joachim has received numerous awards for his work...

Lee Shulman is a visual artist, filmmaker, and founder of The Anonymous Project, one of the most significant archives of vernacular color photography in existence. Since 2017, the project has amassed nearly one million Kodachrome slides from the 1940s to the early 2000s — intimate, everyday images that might have otherwise been lost to time. Through curation and transformation, Lee reanimates thes...

Featuring: Ed Sykes Ian Howarth Dina Litovsky Joseph Michael Lopez Mike Abrahams Ian Macdonald Katrin Koenning Tomasz Tomaszewski Mackenzie Calle Marc Wilson Paul Seawright Mohamed Bourouissa Anna Arendt Marjolein Martinot Rankin Tony Docekal Eli Reed Merlin Daleman Mike Brodie Paul Sng Ed Kashi Rachel Elizabeth Seed   Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional...

Rachel Elizabeth Seed is a Brooklyn and Los Angeles-based nonfiction storyteller working in film, photography, and writing. In 2025, she won the Truer Than Fiction Spirit Award for her debut feature film, A Photographic Memory, which is also a New York Times Critics Pick . Rachel’s work has received support from the Sundance Institute, Chicken + Egg Films, the Jewish Film Institute, the California...

Featuring: Yasuhiro Ogawa Marshall To Lua Ribeira Gianluca Gamberini (L'artiere books) Eleonora Agostini Pia-Paulina Guilmoth Aletheia Casey Books/Projects mentioned: Lost in Kyoto , Yasuhiro Ogawa Blank Notes , Marshall To 44 Irvine Street 1970-1971 , Susan Meiselas Agony In The Garden , Lua Ribeira Calling The Bird Home , Cheryl St. Onge Another England , Phil Toledano A Study On Waitressing , E...

Ed Kashi is a renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker and educator who has been making images and telling stories for 40 years. His restless creativity has continually placed him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling. Dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times, a sensitive eye and an intimate and compassionate relationship to his subject...

Paul Sng  is a bi-racial British Chinese filmmaker based in Edinburgh, Scotland whose work focuses on people who challenge the status quo. He has directed six feature documentaries, including Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche (winner of BIFA 2021 Best Documentary, BIFA 2021 Raindance Discovery Award), Tish (Sheffield DocFest 2023 Opening Gala film) and Reality Is Not Enough (Edinburgh International Film...

Fearturing: Merlin Daleman David O’Mara Jem Southam Martin Parr Christoph Bangert from Photobus Ayesha Jones Mark Power Tom Shaw   Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £4 per month.   Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besi...

Mike Brodie’s first monograph, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity was published by Twin Palms more than a decade ago in 2013, depicting his fellow rail-riders and drifters in a rebellious and wildfire pursuit of adventure and freedom. “Brodie leapt into the life of picture-making as if he was the first to do it,” Danny Lyon wrote about the book in Aperture. Next came Tones of Dirt and Bone , a collec...

Merlin Daleman (b.1977) is a British photographer who has spent most of his adult life living in the Netherlands. He attended South Devon College, Torquay, the University of Central England (now Birmingham City University) in the UK, and graduated from The Royal College of Art in The Hague, the Netherlands. He works as a freelance documentary photographer for leading Dutch publications, including...

Eli Reed was born in the US in 1946 and studied pictorial illustration at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, graduating in 1969. In 1982, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. At Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, he studied political science, urban affairs, and the prospects for peace in Central America. Eli began photographing as a freelancer in 1970. His work from El Sa...

Tony Dočekal (Amsterdam, 1992) is a photographer and visual artist. Her work explores identity, belonging, and the friction between autonomy and societal expectations. Working intuitively, she combines personal encounters with quiet observations. Her images balance intimacy and distance, often showing how personal stories and landscapes reflect larger systems. Tony’s first book, The Color of Money...

John Rankin Waddell, or just Rankin, as he is more commonly known, is a British photographer, publisher, and film director. Best known for work that is on the cultural cusp and leading future trends, he has produced rule-breaking campaigns for brands such as Rolls Royce, Unilever, L’Oréal, Lego, and Samsonite; created wide-reaching projects for charities including Women’s Aid and Macmillan; and sh...

Marjolein Martinot is a Dutch photographer, based in France. She was always been drawn to photography from an early age, and has continued using and exploring the medium throughout her life, while raising a family of six children. Her photography touches on the poetic, while striving to remain authentic and true at the same time. She aims to evoke sentiments by using and mixing different photograp...