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Lars Mensel

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SOCIETY & CULTURE

A podcast featuring conversations and observations about photography.

18/08/2018

10 Presence (feat. Anders Petersen)

How do photographers manage to get so close to people, using nothing more than their sense of curiosity, their camera, and their presence? I traveled to Stockholm and asked Anders Petersen about it. Music: Devil_Music - Bar 2

34 min
10/01/2018

09 Identity

Gerda Taro didn’t just help invent one of the world’s most famous photographers. Briefly, she was him.

10 min
20/11/2017

08 Historical Distance

Vitas Luckus was too revolutionary a photographer to be accepted. But his is no ordinary rebel’s story.

11 min
03/09/2017

07 Photopoetry

An attempt at trying to describe something that can't be seen. Music: Starting with Monplaisir – Mexico DF 1996, followed by Tapes and Tubes – Solo Guitar 2, then Marisa Anderson – A Dream of Willie McTell, and finally Steve Gunn – Wildwood.

7 min
20/08/2017

06 Introspection

Why Chilean photographer Segio Larraín quit fame in pursuit of yoga and solitude. Music this time is by Igor Khabarov. The songs are called Stay, Ty, and Run, all off his album "Be", which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

9 min
22/06/2017

05 Hyperreality

Back with an episode about reality itself and how accurately cameras capture it. All inspired by an iconic photo. Music this time is by Igor Khabarov. The songs are called Rise and Fall, both off his album "Be", which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

6 min
06/03/2017

04 Anterior Future

This time, I'm bringing you a story that includes almost everything that has fascinated me over the past year and a half: Photography, struggle, modernism, Mexico, revolution, the Spanish civil war. It’s the story Tina Modotti's remarkable life, and it starts with a picture.

7 min
08/10/2016

03 The Fourth Dimension

Reinvestigating the famous Decisive Moment – with the wisdom of a Japanese musician.

5 min
09/06/2016

02 New Vision

Photographic lessons from the 1920s.

7 min
27/04/2016

01 The Banality of Color

Why looking at color pictures of the past is so sobering. Picture: Berlin in 1937, from the State Archives of Norway. Music: 00:00 Paul Tyan – Indie - Optimistic 00:14 Marquice Turner – Sometimes Things Don't Go As Planned 01:58 Paul Tyan – Indie - Space 02:42 Paul Tyan – Acoustic - Dramatic 03:49 Paul Tyan – Acoustic - Reflective All licensed under CC-BY 3.0

5 min

10 Episodes

A podcast featuring conversations and observations about photography.

Creator

Lars Mensel
Years Active

2016 - 2018
Episodes

10
Rating

Clean
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