A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers

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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. The most recent 50 episodes are on this free feed, 200+ more are in the archive! TO ACCESS THE FULL ARCHIVE OF PAST EPISODES + SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE CONTENT, BECOME A MEMBER FOR £5 PER MONTH!

  1. 279 - Dragana Jurišić

    1 DAY AGO

    279 - Dragana Jurišić

    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, a collaboration with Paula Meehan, was published in July 2019 and is now in its 2nd edition. Her Own, published in December 2022, received outstanding reviews in El País, The Irish Times and RTE Culture. Dragana is currently working on her first feature-length documentary, The Last Balkan Cowboy (working title). In episode 279, Dragana discusses, among other things: Her forthcoming debut documentary. How everything she’s done is an attempt at making sense of her experience during the Balkan war Her book YU: The Lost Country The influence of Rebecca West’s book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia How she would measure the success of the new film Wanting to reach as large an audience as possible The imposter syndrome she felt as a first time film maker Being ‘ergonomic’ about the way she approaches making The story of her Aunt and her book Her Own Website | Instagram   Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £5 per month.  Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides.  Follow me on Instagram here.  Need a new website? I will build you one with Squarespace. Details here.

    1hr 10min
  2. 278 - Nederlands Foto Museum Special

    25 MAR

    278 - Nederlands Foto Museum Special

    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   Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £5 per month.  Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides.  Follow me on Instagram here.  Need a new website? I will build you one with Squarespace. Details here.

    1hr 1min
  3. 277 - Zackary Canepari

    11 MAR

    277 - Zackary Canepari

    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 boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields as she fought her way toward gold; the film was adapted by MGM into the narrative feature The Fire Inside. His Guggenheim-supported project Flint Is a place expanded documentary storytelling across film, photography, archival material, and immersive media, earning a World Press Photo Award and recognition as Multimedia Photographer of the Year at POYi. His monograph REX won POYi Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Prize. Zackary's documentary Fire in Paradise won an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. He received a second Emmy for directing The Gallagher Effect for The New York Times Presents (FX/Hulu). Instagram In episode 277, Zackary discusses, among other things: How he started in photography The experience of cutting his photographic teeth in India The complicated question of whether it's a good time to be a filmmaker His early project California Is a place, with his collaborator Drea Cooper Learning the ropes through experience His first feature documentary, T-Rex, and being smiled upon by the documentary gods Flint Town Thoughts & Prayers Fire in Paradise   Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £5 per month.  Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides.  Follow me on Instagram here.  Need a new website? I will build you one with Squarespace. Details here.

    1hr 21min
  4. 276 - Jessica Dimmock

    25 FEB

    276 - Jessica Dimmock

    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 the International Center of Photography, and The Kodak Award for Best Cinematography at the Hamptons International Film Festival. She is a Sundance Edit and Story Lab Fellow, and her first feature film The Pearl was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival and was executive produced by Impact Partners. Her clients include HBO, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Microsoft, The UNFPA, Aperture, Showtime and PBS. She is the co-director of the Netflix series Flint Town as and directed on the reboot of Unsolved Mysteries and AppleTV’s Home. In 2007 Jessica produced a photobook entitled The Ninth Floor (Contrasto).  Her most recent film, co-directed with her partner Zackery Canepari, is Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America, focussing on the USA's $3 billion active shooter preparadness industry and its effects on teachers and students, released in 2025. In episode 276, Jessica Discusses, among other things: Current projects Her attraction to dark subject matter Her TV mini series Captive Audience Forming close relationships with her subject The random coffee shop interaction that changed her direction forever The chance encounter that led to her first big photography project and subsequent book, The Ninth Floor How the musician Moby played a part in her journey Serendipity and her project The Pearl The challenge of landing lucrative commercial work The Netflix series she co-directed, Flint Town Her most recent film Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America Website | Instagram   Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £5 per month.  Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides.  Follow me on Instagram here.  Need a new website? I will build you one with Squarespace. Details here.

    1hr 11min
  5. 275 - Philip Blenkinsop

    11 FEB

    275 - Philip Blenkinsop

    On episode 275, Philip discusses, among other things: His ‘cabinet of curiosities’ studio spaceA recent, powerful urge to photograph in AustraliaWhy he left the newspaper world there in favour of ThailandHis early project “The Cars That Ate Bangkok”His sense of anger at injusticeHis ‘near death experience’ on Sleeping Dog MountainProcess, shooting on film, and working close to the subjectThe influence of Koudelka’s book ExilesThe ways in which his old home of Bangkok has changed since he was thereWhy he moved to FranceWebsite | Instagram   Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £5 per month.  Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides.  Follow me on Instagram here.  Need a new website? I will build you one with Squarespace. Details here.

    1hr 15min
  6. 274 - Joachim Ladefoged

    28 JAN

    274 - Joachim Ladefoged

    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 from institutions such as Visa D'Or, World Press Photo, POYi, Eissie, and Agfa, as well as Picture of the Year in Denmark. Over the years he has published 3 monographs, Albanians, Mirror and Time After My Time. Joachim photographs everything with the same inventiveness and diligence, whether sports, war or commerce. His highly accomplished career has seen him master complex, violent news stories, commercial assignments, daily news, and rich, vibrant, and spectacular feature stories. Joachim is credited with being one of the driving forces behind the new wave of Danish photojournalism. In episode 274, Joachim discusses, among other things: Having arthritis as a teenager and the impact it had on his life (good and bad)Starting his career as an intern at a local newspaperMoving on to ‘the best job in the world’ at national newspaper PolitikenWinning the World Press Photo awardWords of wisdom received from Magnum legend Constantine ManosGetting into Magnum… and being chucked out againBeing part of ‘the new wave of Danish photojounalists’Why changing direction on becoming a father was “the right decision, but a hard decision”Why three photographers were just made redundant on his newspaperHis approach to shooting and lighting portraitsHis book project Time After My TimePhotographing his kids with the iPhoneInstagram   Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £5 per month.  Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides.  Follow me on Instagram here.  Need a new website? I will build you one with Squarespace. Details here.

    1hr 15min
  7. 273 - Lee Shulman

    14 JAN

    273 - Lee Shulman

    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 these personal photographs, weaving them into compelling narratives that explore memory, family, love, and cultural shifts across generations. Lee’s career also extends into film direction, notably with his debut feature documentary, "I Am Martin Parr," released in 2025. This film chronicles a road trip with renowned photographer Martin Parr, revisiting iconic locations from his oeuvre. Shulman's prior collaboration with Parr on the "Déjà View" project, which paired Parr's distinctive photographs with images from The Anonymous Project, laid the groundwork for their working relationship. The documentary provides an affectionate portrayal of Parr's artistic process and enduring work ethic, further cementing Lee’s engagement with the broader discourse of photography. Born in London in 1973, Lee lives and works in Paris. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and Rencontres d’Arles, and is held in major collections such as the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Photo Elysée in Lausanne. Website | Instagram   Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £5 per month.  Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides.  Follow me on Instagram here.  Need a new website? I will build you one with Squarespace. Details here.

    1hr 10min

  8. 31/12/2025

    272 - Year In Review 2025

    Featuring: Ed SykesIan HowarthDina LitovskyJoseph Michael LopezMike AbrahamsIan MacdonaldKatrin KoenningTomasz TomaszewskiMackenzie CalleMarc WilsonPaul SeawrightMohamed BourouissaAnna ArendtMarjolein MartinotRankinTony DocekalEli ReedMerlin DalemanMike BrodiePaul SngEd KashiRachel Elizabeth Seed   Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £5 per month.  Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides.  Follow me on Instagram here.  Need a new website? I will build you one with Squarespace. Details here.

    1hr 8min
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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. The most recent 50 episodes are on this free feed, 200+ more are in the archive! TO ACCESS THE FULL ARCHIVE OF PAST EPISODES + SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE CONTENT, BECOME A MEMBER FOR £5 PER MONTH!

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  • Creator
    Ben Smith
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2026
  • Episodes
    60
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    © Ben Smith
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