Michael Ackerman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1967. When he was seven years old his family emigrated to New York City, where he grew up and began photographing at the age of eighteen. Michael has exhibited internationally and published five books, including End Time City , by Robert Delpire, which won the Prix Nadar in 1999. His other books are Epilogue (Void, 2019) Half Life (Delpire, 2010) Fiction (Delpire, 2001) and Smoke (l'axolotl, 2023). His work is in the permanent collection of The M...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 229
A student at the École Beaux-arts de Versailles (1983–1985), and then at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges (1985-1988), French artist Valerie Belin obtained the French higher national diploma in visual expression in 1988 and also holds a diploma in advanced studies (DEA) in the philosophy of art from the Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne (1989). Initially influenced by various minimalist and conceptual tendencies, Valérie became interested in the photographic medium in its own ...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 228
Linda Troeller ’s art projects focus on self-portraits, women's and social issues. For 20 year she lived in the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York City, curating an exhibition for the 125th Anniversary, “Chelsea Hotel Through the Eyes of Photographers”, and publishing a monograph of her own entitled Living in the Chelsea Hotel . Other publications include Healing Waters , The Erotic Lives of Women and her newest book of self-portraits taken over almost fifty years, Sex, Death, Transcendence , p...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 227
Nicole Tung is a freelance photojournalist. She graduated from New York University, double majoring in history and journalism, and freelances for international publications and NGOs, working primarily in the Middle East and Asia. After covering the conflicts in Libya and Syria extensively from 2011, focusing on the plight of civilians, she spent 2014 documenting the lives of Native American war veterans in the US, as well as former child soldiers in the DR Congo, the pro-democracy protests in Ho...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 226
Mitch Epstein helped pioneer fine-art color photography in the 1970s. His photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art; The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Tate Modern in London. In October 2024, Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, Italy will present a major multi-media exhibition of Mitch’s project, Old Growth ; and in September 2024, Ol...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 225
Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world's most accomplished contemporary photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent over 40 years of his dedication to bearing witness to the impact of human industry on the planet. Edward's photographs are included in the collections of over 80 major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; the Museum of Modern Art , the Metropolitan Museum of Art , and the Guggenhe...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 224
Italian photographer Lorenzo Castore ’s work is characterised by long term projects focusing on his personal experience, memory and the relationship between individual stories, history and the present time. In 1992 at the age of 19 Lorenzo moved from Rome to New York where he began to photograph in the streets. After a formative trip to India in 1997, he had a brief foray into photojournalism, covering the conflicts in Albania and Kosovo in 1999, afte which he decided to quit photojournalism and...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 223
Natalie Keyssar is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work focuses on the personal effects of political turmoil and conflict, youth culture, and migration. She has a BFA in Painting and Illustration from The Pratt Institute. Natalie has contributed to publications such as The New York Times Magazine , Time , Bloomberg Business Week , National Geographic and The New Yorker , and been awarded by organizations including the Philip Jones Griffith Award, the Aaron Siskind Fou...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 222
Ambiguity is at the forefront of Richard Kalvar ’s photography. Richard, who describes context as the “enemy”, seeks mystery and multiple meanings through surprising framing and meticulous timing. He describes his approach as “more like poetry than photojournalism – it attacks on the emotional level.” Richard has done extensive personal, assignment and commercial work in the United States, France, Italy, England, and Japan, among others, has published a number of solo books including Earthlings ...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 221
Featuring: Aaron Schumann Eugene Richards Martin Parr Gregory Crewdson Nick Brandt Emma Hardy Antoine D’Agata Igor Posner Stacy Kranitz Ivor Prickett Bertrand Meunier Curran Hatleberg Trish Morrissey Moises Saman Yelena Yemchuk Benjamin Rassmussen Ian Berry Luca Locatelli Corinne Dufka Max Pam Leonard Pongo 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 newsl...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 220
Leonard Pongo is a Belgian-Congolese photographer and visual artist. His long-term project The Uncanny , shot in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has earned him several international awards and world-wide recognition and was published as a book by GOST earlier this year (2023) as a result of Leonard receiving the ICP GOST First Photo Book Award in 2020. Leonard’s work has been published worldwide and featured in numerous exhibitions including the recent IncarNations at the Bozar Center for Fine...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 219
Featuring: Andrea Modica Jesse Lenz Melissa DeWitt Todd Hido Kristen Joy Emack Anastasia Samoylova Mimi Mollica Mimi Plumb Jane Evelyn Atwood Christopher Anderson Tim Carpenter Sofia Krysiak Nelson Chan Tom Booth Woodger Silvana Trevale Gianluca Gamberini Gregory Barker Dewi Lewis 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...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 218
Max Pam is an Australian photographer born in 1949 in suburban Melbourne, which as a teenager he found to be grim, oppressive and culturally isolated. He found refuge in the counter-culture of surfing and the imagery of National Geographic and Surfer Magazine and became determined to travel overseas. Max left Australia at 20, after accepting a job as a photographer assisting an astrophysicist. Together, the pair drove a VW Beetle from Calcutta to London. This adventure proved inspirational, and ...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 217
Corinne Dufka is an American photojournalist, human rights researcher, criminal investigator, and psychiatric social worker. Following completion of her master's degree in social work, Corinne worked as a humanitarian volunteer and social worker in Latin America. She volunteered with Nicaraguan refugees during the country's revolution, and with victims of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. She then moved to El Salvador as a social worker with the Lutheran church. While in El Salvador, Corinne beca...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 216
Italian photographer Luca Locatelli describes himself as an environmental visual storyteller. For more than a decade Luca has aimed to open a debate about the environment and our future with his work by synergizing art, science, and journalism to explore the world’s most promising solutions to the climate crisis. As an artist, Luca is concerned with trying to translate complex scientific data into visually engaging images and distribute them on social networks, in publications and at events. His...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 215
In episode 214: An audio clip from each of the top 10 most downloaded episodes of all time (as of September 2023). 10 - Tom Craig ( Episode 130 ) 09 - Martin Parr #2 ( Episode 197 ) 08 - Tom Wood ( Episode 160 ) 07 - Todd Hido ( Episode 103 ) 06 - Chris Killip ( Episode 094 )05 - Paul Graham ( Episode 149 ) 04 - Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb ( Episode 105 ) 03 - Stephen Shore ( Episode 192 ) 02 - Mark Steinmetz ( Episode 112 ) 01 - Martin Parr ( Episode 091 ) And a swift tour of the Bonus ...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 214
Ian Berry was born in 1934 in Lancashire, England. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960, and his photographs were used in the trial to prove the victims' innocence. Henri Cartier-Bresson invited Ian to join Magnum in 1962, when he was based in Paris. He moved to London in 1964 to become the first contract photographer for the Observer Magazine. Since the...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 213
Benjamin Rasmussen is a Faroese/American photographer living in Denver, Colorado. After growing up in the Philippines and studying photography at Ateneo de Manila University, he moved to the United States to explore contemporary American identity. His practice is research and photography based and centers on the intersection of law, history and sociology. Benjamin works for magazines including Time , The New Yorker and The Atlantic . He is also the founder of Pattern , an exhibition and educatio...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 212
Yelena Yemchuk 's output as a visual artist is immediately recognizable, regardless of medium. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Yelena immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was eleven. She became interested in photography when her father gave her a 35mm Minolta camera for her fourteenth birthday. Yelena went on to study art at Parsons in New York and photography at Art Center in Pasadena. Yelena has exhibited paintings, films and photography at galleries and museums worldwide. She has ...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 211
Moises Saman is widely considered to be one of the leading documentary and conflict photographers of his generation and has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 2014. His work has largely focused on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Moises was born in Lima, Peru, from a mixed Spanish and Peruvian family and grew up in Barcelona, Spain. He studied Communications and Sociology in the United States at California State University, graduating in 1998. It wa...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 210
As a teenager I wanted to be a professional journalist and an amateur photographer. This was a perfectly good and eminently attainable goal for a bright, lower-middle class fifteen year old boy to have. So, for reasons that are too complicated to explore here, I promptly set about dismantling any prospect of achieving it in a miasma of Marlboro reds and vast quantities of Pakistani Black. After hundreds of identical misspent nights in the White Hart, a relentless pursuit of any and all self-dest...
Mar 06, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 100
Photographer, Ben Smith introduces a new weekly photography podcast: 'A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers' and answers a few 'frequently anticipated questions.' 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 . Build Yourself a Squarespace Websit...
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