Museum of Contemporary Photography

Focal Point

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Focal Point is a podcast exploring the artists, themes, and processes that define—and sometimes disrupt—the world of contemporary photography. Each episode engages two people in conversation around a photograph of their choice from the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection. Join us as we explore contemporary photography in Chicago and beyond, through topics like the constructed image, portraiture and the human subject, the photographic archive, and more.

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Episode 2: Lisa Lindvay and Natalie Krick 02.07.2019 34:10

In this episode, photographers Natalie Krick and Lisa Lindvay join Karen Irvine, MoCP's chief curator and deputy director, to discuss works by Andy Warhol and Kathe Kowalski in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. In the process, the two artists also discuss their own work and themes of photographing family, intimacy, and vulnerability.

Episode 1: David Schalliol and Carlos Javier Ortiz 07.05.2019 35:00

In this episode, photographers and activists David Schalliol and Carlos Javier Ortiz join the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago’s Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor, to discuss activism in documentary photography.