Photopocene

I'm so pleased to share my conversation with the thoughtful, fun, and exceptionally creative visual artist, Sophie Sherwood. We spoke about Sophie's passion for community and connection and how they became enthralled with photography, from early college days to how their work now explores the self and nature through light-sensitive materials and sustainable darkroom techniques. Sophie spok...

It's been over a year since my last Photopocene podcast, but what a fantatsic way to start back up again. I had the pleasure of speaking with the very talented Marko Dutka. With an intriguing photography career and now conducting PhD research exploring, through photography, landscape as a dynamic space with a focus on part of the River Severn catchment that I am fascinated by. This one is a gr...

I love it when we get to meet (in an audio way) a photographic artist whose passion for plants melds with their passion for photography. In this episode with Sammie Masters-Hopkins, you will discover more about the Pictory Garden she is nurturing to help create a circular means of creating images. Plus there's chat about how we use and discard botanical tokens as part of our calendar-based cel...

After a six-month sabbatical from the Photopocene podcast, what a great way to start back! I'm joined on the first episode of 2024 (and episode 40!) by the delightful Rachel Wright, a photographer whose practice mixes other disciplines, processes and collaborations. She sums this up in her tagline, "photography, mainly". We not only chat about her interests in relation to challenging...

This episode with award-winning photographer Jamie House is truly fascinating. Jamie has an incredible practice which melds research, process and diverse disciplines to explore the intersections of art, science and nature through the lens of posthumanism (simply put, the decentralising of humans and accounting for nonhumans). Our conversation goes from an 11-year-old Jamie discovering the joy of e...

This podcast conversation has been one I'm so pleased to have had. Please, please do accept the tech glitches in this episode though - I don't know why the airwave Piskies were out and about but I'm sure they won't distract you too much for the wonderful conversation I had with photographer, Tess Zahn. We go from art school to motherhood, from England to Greece, from juggling jobs...

It is a delight to speak with photographer Jo Bradford for this episode of Photopocene, especially as we have known each other for many years but lost touch in the ebb and flow of life. She is super talented and her camera-less images sing with colour. But Jo is also an author, a university lecturer and workshop leader, and has a new collaborative photography book coming out later this year. And,...

This time, I'm fortunate to chat with the photographer, Maria Primo on the Photopocene podcast.  I have been blown away by her work for El Libro de Arena (The Book of Sand). A fascinating look at a story of a sand dune, intertwined with history and intrigue in a place I know little about other than its well-known name.  The long-term project acts as a "metaphor of the absurd will of huma...

Okay, so this feels a bit strange but to kick off 2023, I decided, as your podcast host, to interview myself. I’ve tried not to ramble and kept the blips in too… Head to josiepurcellphotography.com to find out more and follow me on Insta @josieshutterpod or visit http://www.exposurephotofestival.com/ and join the Tend Collective on 12 Feb.

What a wonderful conversation with photographer, Sarah Connell. It was a joy to discover more about this very creative "hopeful caterpillar" and how she uses analogue photography to explore the natural world and encourage contemplation. She has recently been awarded an Arts Council England grant for a new research project on the Yorkshire Moors, where she'll be employing camera-less techniques and...

Listen along to the latest Photopocene conversation sharing eco-conscious photography in an audio way. Experimental film photographer Oliveia Bartlett shares how she is starting out in her photographic career. She talks about the people who have sparked and influenced her passion for photography and her plans for the future. We touch on the environmental issues underpinning her series Uninhabitabl...

Welcome to the latest Photopocene conversation with me, your host, Josie Purcell. This time, I'm joined by an upcoming visual artist from North Devon, George Rayner.  Graduating in 2021, and receiving an award from Format Festival for his final degree show work, I love the fact that George came to photography on a "whim". We chat about his love for black and white photography, keeping cool in...

Join me, Josie Purcell, your host of the Photopocene podcast as I chat with the fabulous emerging freelance photographer, Alice Mason. Alice has a passion for photographing people which shines through in her work. She started out studying film at university and experimented with different mediums before falling in love with photography.  Her work has a strong documentary slant, with topics ra...

Episode 30 with Harry is another delight for the podcast library.  His career is fascinating, from his time as a photojournalist to his sustainable photography tourism business now. And his passion for photography is apparent. Harry not only loves the medium, but he also loves sharing it with others too. I am honoured our conversation prompted his recollection of family get-togethers around a...

This is a fab east of England meets west of England episode as I chat with Norwich-based photographic artist, Holly Sandiford. It's great to learn more about Holly's practice and her passion for experimental photography. She's keen to stay connected to her natural environment and her work relating to soil health helps her (literally) stay hands-on with the earth beneath our feet. And it's brillian...

Working in eco-conscious photographic ways is an important aspect of photography, but working to raise awareness of environmental issues that impact the fabric of our societies is vital too. In this episode, I'm joined by photographer Tim Beale, whose work reflects our psychogeographical journey through life. It considers the connections we have with natural and built environments and how these pl...

Listen along to the latest Photopocene podcast with me, your host Josie Purcell, as I chat with the photographic artist, Elizabeth Woodger. I love how art and science can collide, and photography is the perfect medium for it to do so.  Liz shares her enthralling background as a geologist, with a PhD in paleoclimatology, and how this led to her photographic career. We talk about fossils, curiosity,...

If you want to discover more about photography projects which consider light pollution, solography, how history is written into the lines of our land and so much more, then Giles W Bennett's practice is one to look out for. We chat about how Giles found his way to photography via experimental film, environmental activism and even circus performance, while Giles also touches on how his dyspraxia, d...

In this episode of Photopocene, I discuss artwork that makes my brain work. That's because it is the impactful and intriguing photo collage work of Adam King. We talk about how environment and ecology are referenced in his images, his creative beginnings in Norfolk, life in London at art school and beyond. I learn how Argos catalogues played a role in his early, otherworldly photo collages and how...

In this episode of Photopocene, I chat with photography student Claire-louise Pitman. She candidly spoke about how her health influences her relationship with her environment and her photography, and I certainly learned from her. With an upcoming end-of-year show in June, her final project brings a new take on the memory box, and this, and other photo series, respond to living with Anosmia. I hope...

I’m joined in this episode by the artist Sophia Moffa. Sophia works across multiple disciplines such as sculpture, performance, and photography. We talk about how photography plays its part in her varied art responses, many of which are created with natural materials and eventually only remain in photographic form. And we discuss her photographic series Western Waters which is turning the pollutio...

This episode is a fascinating conversation with Karel Doing. Karel is an independent artist, filmmaker and researcher whose practice investigates the relationship between culture and nature by means of analogue and organic process, experiment and co-creation. He’s the mind behind a wonderful photographic process, Phytography. We scratch the surface of how and why he creates work, how he shares his...

This podcast is a fantastic way to welcome 2022. Join me, your Photopocene host Josie Purcell, as I chat with Brittonie Fletcher, an educator and artist based in Edinburgh, as we take an exhilarating and fun rollercoaster ride through her photographic and personal story. It’s a joyous conversation about tenacity as Brittonie’s superpower, the colour purple, coping with distraction and life’s curve...

This podcast truly warmed my eco-conscious photography heart. Thank you to Nettie Edwards for sharing her photographic story from her early impression of the medium when a youngster as "boring" to her adoration of it and nature through her love of the anthotype and chlorophyll process. We touched on Nettie's personal mental health experience, discussing how it became a catalyst for her changed vie...

It is great to speak with Will Templeton about his work relating to people and the world in which we live. We met via my 'day job' with Westcountry Rivers Trust when we arranged for him to photograph some of the team for his upcoming exhibition, Ways and Means. Supported by The Rivers Trust too, this body of work will help showcase the importance of our rivers' health across England through the st...