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A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers Ben Smith
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Fortnightly in-depth interviews featuring a diverse range of talented, innovative, world-class photographers from established, award-winning and internationally exhibited stars to young and emerging talents discussing their lives, work and process with fellow photographer, Ben Smith.
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230 - Julia Kochetova
Ukraininan photojournalist and recent World Press Photo winnerJulia Kochetova on not being a war photographer, why it’s about the pictures she hasn’t taken, consent, ethics, her film ‘See You Later’ and how war has erased her capacity for joy.
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229 - Michael Ackerman
Michael Ackerman on family history, photographing animals, and ‘life’, mood, longing, the impossible to-do list and transcending the facts while keeping a strong hold on a deeper truth.
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228 - Valerie Belin
French photographic artist Valerie Belin on on the dual influence of American minimal art and Italian baroque art, presence and absence, the theme of beauty, how women are ‘attacked’ by stereotypes, comic books and the importance of Photoshop to her practice.
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227 - Linda Troeller
American photogrpaher Linda Troeller on modelling for Ansel Adams, a lifetime of self-portraiture, nudity, prudishness, women’s lib, the erotic life of women, living in the Chelsea Hotel for 20 years and how Alexander MacQueen influenced her visual palette.
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226 - Nicole Tung
Photojournalist Nicole Tung on working in Ukraine, drone warfare, risk management, social media and the question of whether photojournalist is an ‘important’ job.
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225 - Mitch Epstein
Esteemed American photographer Mitch Epstein on New York, editing, India, Garry Winogrand, working on films and trial and error.
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Fascinating interviews of creative image makers
Ever since chancing upon the Harry Borden interview, I have become seriously hooked and can’t get by without my fortnightly fix. Well researched, Ben Smith’s natural empathy and gentle sense of humour, serve to extract the personal stories of a wide range of internationally successful photographers. Finding out what makes them tick, how they confront their doubts, what they do to stay visible and relevant today. Highly informative, the podcasts provide an insight to the challenges of combining a creative career with domestic needs. Ben is establishing a serious social document of a profession which has never been both more popular and more under threat. For anyone with an interest in photography, art history, world politics, travel, psychology…..the meaning of life, A Small Voice is a must listen, I strongly recommend.
Essential listening for all photographers
A friend of mine, London photographer Rob Pinney alerted me to Ben's excellent podcast. The amount of working photographers of all ages and different experiences that have aleady been interviewed gives this podcast a deserved status. For me, an amateur photographer selling a few photos and videos to magazines, I love hearing about the personal histories of his interviewees, how they get work, how they work on a photoshoot or story: it's inspirational and instructive. Just recently subscribed, I'm still working through the back catalogue and I sincerely hope Ben keeps up the momentum and keeps finding new subjects for his podcast.