A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers

Ben Smith

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. Music: © John Moody.

  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    229 - Michael Ackerman

    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 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Biliothèque National, France among others, as well as in many private collections.

    “In Michael Ackerman’s work, documentary and autobiography conspire with fiction, and all of the above dissolve into hallucination. His photography explores time and timelessness, personal history and the history of places, immediate family and love, with all it’s complexities and contradictions. “ Jem Cohen

    Michael currently lives in Berlin and is represented by Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, Spot Home Gallery, Naples and MC2 Gallery, Milan.

     

    In episode 229, Michael discusses, among other things:

    • A little family history
    • Why he put that info on his website
    • Collating family photos on becoming a father
    • Why he loves New York
    • How he started photography there
    • Being ‘very, very slow’
    • Why he uses cheap plastic cameras
    • What he likes about photographing animals
    • Mood
    • Anders Petersen
    • Longing being the human condition
    • Photographing ‘life’
    • Text and context
    • Transcending the facts while keeping a strong hold on a deeper truth
    • His life in Berlin with an impossible ‘to do’ list

     

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    “For me photography is always a negotiation between confrontation and avoidance. And I think my pictures show that. I think my pictures are very intimate and they do get close to something and they are an attempt at getting close, but there’s also a lot of fear in them I see, because I know it in myself, and a lot of solitude.”

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    24 April 2024, 7:43 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    228 - Valerie Belin

    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 right; this is at once the subject of her work and her way of reflecting and creating. Light, matter and the “body” of things and beings in general, as well as their transformations and representations, constitute the terrain of her experiments and the world of her artistic ideas. Her work is articulated in photographic series, each one produced within the framework of a specific project.

     Valérie’s work has been exhibited around the world and is held in numerous public and private collections. Winner of the Prix Pictet in 2015 (Disorder), she was made an officer of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2017. This same year, a touring exhibition was co-produced by the Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing, the SCôP in Shanghai and the Chengdu Museum. In 2019, Valérie unveiled a major new series at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and this year, 2024, she has been named as Master of Photography at Photo London where she will have a major career retrospective.

    Valerie lives and works in Paris.

     

    In episode 228, Valerie discusses, among other things:

    • Her father being an artist at heart
    • The influence of a particular teacher
    • The dual influence of American minimal art and Italian baroque art
    • How she discovered photography and was inspired by a misogynistic teacher
    • Not photographing people initially
    • Presence and absence
    • Why she chose bodybuilders as her first foray into shooting people
    • The theme of beauty
    • How women are ‘attacked’ by stereotypes
    • AI being paradoxical to what she wants to show
    • The importance of Photoshop to her practice
    • Where the ideas come from
    • Use of comic books
    • Making a living
    • Recent series’ ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lady Stardust’.

     

    Referenced:

     

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    “I think it’s still true to say I’m very close to my medium and to the hybridation, because if you think of it what is photography today when with the same camera you can make videos, you can make whatever you want? I think we are in a time when you always have a kind of superimposition in your mind, you have several channels on all the time in your mind and maybe my pictures are showing that way of thinking or way of living.”

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    10 April 2024, 7:52 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    227 - Linda Troeller

    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, published earlier this year (2024) by TBW books. Linda was also the subject of a 2023 feature-length documentary film, also entitled Healing Waters, directed by Derek Johnson and Ali Scattergood.

    She has lectured at the School of Visual Arts, NYU, Parsons, Yale, Salzburg Summer Art Academy, New Orleans Photo Alliance, and Ryerson University, Toronto and was a professor of photography at Stockton College of New Jersey, Indiana University, and Bournemouth College, England. She has a MFA, School of Art, and MS, Newhouse School, Syracuse University and BS from Reed School of Journalism, West Virginia University.

    Linda lives in New York City and New Jersey.    

     

    In episode 227, Linda discusses, among other things:

    • Modelling on an Ansel Adams book making workshop
    • The experience of being nude in front of strangers
    • The spirit of the 60s in the 70s + women’s lib
    • Healing waters
    • Societies expectations of women and ageing
    • Her book, The Erotic Lives of Women
    • Living in the Chelsea Hotel for 20 years
    • How Alexander MacQueen influenced her visual palette
    • How she has earned a living over the years
    • Her TB/Aids project

     

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    Website | Instagram

    “You have to do some work to build up your self confidence, to be your most youness. ‘You’. Youness, herness, hisness, theirness, whatever it is that you wanna to be your most of you can make some strides by looking at yourself and understanding yourself. And if you want to do some more in your presentation you can. And you should.”

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    27 March 2024, 9:04 am
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    226 - Nicole Tung

    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 Hong Kong, and the refugee crisis in Europe. She is also a grantee of the IWMF Grant for Women’s Stories, and a fellow of the IWMF Great Lakes Reporting Initiative (D.R. Congo, Central African Republic). 

    She has received multiple awards for her work from the International Photo Awards, Society of Professional Journalists, PX3, and was named PDN's 30 Under 30 Emerging Photographers (2013), among others. Nicole was given the honorable mention for the IWMF 2017 Anja Niedringhaus Awards, and awarded the 2018 James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting from the Online News Association. Her work has been exhibited + screened at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Tropenmuseum Amsterdam, Visa Pour l'Image, and most recently at the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy award for war correspondents in France (2019), with Save the Children in Hong Kong (2019), and at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong (2020). Nicole has also given keynote speeches and contributed to panels on photojournalism and journalist safety, at events including the International Journalism Festival (Perugia, 2019), TEDx in Sweden, the Adobe Make It Conference in Sydney, and Creative Mornings at the National Geographic Auditorium in Washington D.C., among others. She served on the board of the Frontline Freelance Register (2015) and is has undergone HEFAT training with Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC) and Global Journalist Security. She is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

     

    In episode 226, Nicole discusses, among other things:

    • Notable differences between the war in Ukraine and previous conflicts she has covered
    • The modern use of drones in warfare
    • Stories she has covered in Ukraine
    • The way she works with publications
    • Managing and thinking about risk
    • The question of whether journalists in conflict zones are more likely to be targeted now than in the past
    • Reactions to her from ordinary people in conflicts
    • The question of whether photojournalism is an ‘important’ job
    • The impacts of social media both negative and positive
    • Approaching photojournalistic stories in a different way
    • Potential ways to earn a living other than from commissions

     

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    “If you don’t become trapped in this idea that what you do is so precious and be real about the impact and the degree to which images and photojournalism can go, especially if your intentions are good, you’re based in reality at least. Your grounded in a certain reality where you go “I know my images aren’t going to stop a war tomorrow but at least I can be a part of that documentation process.” And to me that is important. Why shouldn’t we be showing a reflection of our collective humanity that is both ugly and beautiful at the same time? There are so many grey areas. The world is not black and white.”

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    13 March 2024, 7:41 am
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    225 - Mitch Epstein

    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, Old Growth will be shown in NYC at Yancey Richardson Gallery. Mitch’s Indian photographs and films (Salaam Bombay! and India Cabaret) were exhibited in 2022 at Les Rencontres d'Arles festival in France. Mitch has had numerous other major solo exhibitions in the USA and worldwide.

    Mitch’s seventeen books, all published by Steidl Verlag, include Recreation (2022); Property Rights (2021); In India (2021); Rocks and Clouds (2017); New York Arbor (2013); Berlin (Steidl/The American Academy in Berlin 2011); American Power (2009); and Family Business (2003), which was winner of the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award.

    In 2020, Mitch was inducted into the National Academy of Design. In 2011, he won the Prix Pictet for American Power. Among his other awards are the Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters from the American Academy in Berlin (2008), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003).

    Mitch has worked as a director, cinematographer, and production designer on several films, including Dad, Mississippi Masala, and Salaam Bombay!. He lives with his family in New York City.

     

    In episode 225, Mitch discusses, among other things:

    • New York
    • John Szarkowski at MOMA
    • Editing
    • India
    • Garry Winogrand and his influence
    • Going to LA in ‘74
    • Working on the films of his then wife Mira Nair
    • Trial and error
    • Family Business
    • American Power
    • Old Growth

     

    Referenced:

    • John Szarkowski
    • Eugene Atget
    • Diane Arbus
    • William Eggleston
    • Todd Papageorge
    • Raghubir Singh
    • Jonas Mekas
    • Hollis Frampton

    Website | Instagram

    “Through disorientation, through not knowing, through being uncomfortable, things happen. And I think some of the most important periods for me in my life as an artist have been those periods where I have ultimately not known what I was doing or where I was going next. Now I’m a little bit better at just listening to the signals that come along, even though they may not give me the full-fledged answer they’ll just point in a direction. And I’m a little bit more patient with the process.”

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    28 February 2024, 8:31 am
  • 1 hour 33 minutes
    224 - Edward Burtynsky

    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 Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid; the Tate Modern in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.

    Edward was born in 1955 of Ukrainian heritage in St. Catharines, Ontario. He received his BAA in Photography/Media Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in 1982, and has since received both an Alumni Achievement Award (2004) and an Honorary Doctorate (2007) from his alma mater. He is still actively involved in the university community, and sits on the board of directors for The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre).

    In 1985, Edward founded Toronto Image Works, a darkroom rental facility, custom photo laboratory, digital imaging, and new media computer-training centre catering to all levels of Toronto's art community.

    Early exposure to the General Motors plant and watching ships go by in the Welland Canal in Edward’s hometown helped capture his imagination for the scale of human creation, and to formulate the development of his photographic work. His imagery explores the collective impact we as a species are having on the surface of the planet — an inspection of the human systems we've imposed onto natural landscapes.

    Exhibitions include: Anthropocene (2018) at the Art Gallery of Ontario and National Gallery of Canada (international touring exhibition); Water (2013) at the New Orleans Museum of Art and Contemporary Art Center in Louisiana (international touring exhibition); Oil (2009) at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (five-year international touring show), China (toured internationally from 2005 - 2008); Manufactured Landscapes at the National Gallery of Canada (toured from 2003 - 2005); and Breaking Ground produced by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (toured from 1988 - 1992). Edward's visually compelling works are currently being exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the globe, including at London’s Saatchi Gallery where his largest solo exhibition to-date, entitled Extraction/Abstraction, is currently on show until 6th May 2024.

    Edward’s distinctions include the inaugural TED Prize (which he shared with Bono and Robert Fischell), the title of Officer of the Order of Canada, and the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Art. In 2018 Edward was named Photo London's Master of Photography and the Mosaic Institute's Peace Patron. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Arts & Letters Award at the Canadian Association of New York’s annual Maple Leaf Ball and the 2019 Lucie Award for Achievement in Documentary Photography. In 2020 he was awarded a Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship and in 2022 was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award by the World Photography Organization. Most recently he was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and was named the 2022 recipient for the annual Pollution Probe Award. Edward currently holds eight honorary doctorate degrees and is represented by numerous international galleries all over the world.

     

    In episode 224, Edward discusses, among other things:

    • His transition from film to digital
    • Staying positive by ‘moving through grief to land on meaning’
    • Making compelling images and how scale creates ambiguity
    • Defining the over-riding theme of his work early on
    • The environmental impact of farming
    • Whether he planned his career
    • Why he started a lab to finance his photography
    • And how being an entrepreneur feeds into his work as an artist
    • Vertical Integration
    • Examples of challenging situations he has faced
    • The necessity for his work to be commoditised
    • His relative hope and optimism for the future through positive technology
    • The importance of having a hopeful component to the work
    • How he offsets his own carbon footprint

     

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    Website | Instagram

    “The evocation of the sense of wonder and the sense of the surreal, or the improbable, or ‘what am I looking at?’, to me is interesting in a time where images are so consumed; that these are not for quick consumption they’re for… slow. And I think that when things reveal themselves slowly and in a more challenging way, they become more interesting as objects to leave in the world. That they don’t just reveal themselves immediately, you can’t just get it in one quick glance and you’re done, no, these things ask you to look at them and spend time with them. And I discover things in them sometimes that I never saw before. They’re loaded with information.”

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    14 February 2024, 7:53 am
  • 1 hour 32 minutes
    223 - Lorenzo Castore

    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 deepen his personal research.

    Since then has worked extensively in Poland, Cuba and Sardinia among other places and has produced several photobooks and a short film entitled No Peace Without War.

    In 2019 his lifelong work Time Maze began to be published by L’artiere in progressive chronological volumes. The first entitled A Beginning, 1994-2001 and the second Lack and Locking, 2001-2007. The next two volumes are already in the works or planned.

    Lorenzo’s is represented by Galerie S. in Paris, Galerie Anne Clergue in Arles, Alessia Paladini Gallery in Milan, Spot Home Gallery in Naples and Guido Costa Projects in Turin.

    In episode 223, Lorenzo discusses, among other things:

    • His formative years
    • His journey into photography
    • His time in New York…
    • …and the photograph that changed everything
    • The importance of finding stories and making life an adventure
    • His project Time Maze - first book A Beginning
    • His brief foray into photojournalism in Kosovo
    • Why he went to shoot in Poland
    • HIs interest in miners
    • The forthcoming sequels to A Beginning

    Referenced:

    • Michael Ackerman
    • Anders Petersen
    • Ramon Pez
    • Josef Koudelka
    • Saverio Costanzo
    • Henri Cartier Bresson
    • Georgio Mortari
    • Eloi Gimeno
    • Christain Cajoule

    Website | Instagram

    “I was postponing because of this embarrassment that I have when we say you talk about your personal life. It’s a really strange feeling, I really want to do it and at the same time I feel I have to do it very carefully.”

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    31 January 2024, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    061 - Brian Griffin

    Brian Griffin was born in Birmingham in 1948 and grew up in the neighbouring Black Country, in the English midlands. He started his working life at 16 working in a factory, where he remained for 5 years, before finally making his escape to Manchester Polytechnic where he took a degree in photography, shortly after which he left for London in pursuit of a photographic career as a fashion photographer. It was there that he met and was mentored by Roland Schenk, the charismatic art director on Management Today magazine, who offered him a job as a corporate photographer. The rest, as they say, is history. Brian was later considered 'the photographer of the decade' by the Guardian Newspaper in 1989; 'the most unpredictable and influential British portrait photographer of the last decades' by the British Journal of Photography in 2005 and 'one of Britain’s most influential photographers' by the World Photography Organisation in 2015. In 1991, his book Work was awarded the ‘Best Photography Book in the World’ prize at Barcelona Primavera Fotografica. Brian is patron of the Format Photography Festival in Derby; in September 2013, he received the ‘Centenary Medal’ from the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of a lifetime achievement in photography; and in 2014 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Birmingham City University. Brian Griffin’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of many major art institutions and he has published twenty or so books, including his latest, Pop which features some of the highlights of his album artwork and band photography from decades working in the music industry with such artists as Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello, Depeche Mode and Kate Bush. In other words, he’s a bit of a legend.

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    30 January 2024, 4:56 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    222 - Natalie Keyssar

    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 Foundation, PDN 30, Magenta Flash Forward, and American Photography. She has taught New Media at the International Center of Photography in New York, and  has instructed at various workshops across the US and Latin America with organizations such as Foundry, Women Photograph, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and the IWMF. Her work has been supported by The Pulitzer Center, The Magnum Foundation, The National Geographic Society, and the IWMF among many others, and she is the winner of the 2018 ICP Infinity Emerging Photographer Award, the 2019 PH Museum Women Photographer's Grant, and is a winner of the 2023 Aperture Creator Labs Photo Fund. She is a Canon Explorer of Light and Co-Founder of the NDA Workshops series with Daniella Zalcman. She speaks fluent Spanish and is available for assignments internationally, as well as teaching and speaking engagements. 

     

    In episode 222, Natalie discusses, among other things:

    • The conflict in Gaza
    • How the internet and social media is clumsily creating a hive mind
    • Her Jewish identity and how it shapes her perspective
    • Her Ukrainian roots and covering the war in Ukraine
    • Wanting her work to tell you what it feels like
    • Her first trip to Venezuela and how it was love at first sight

     

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    Website | Instagram

    “There’s this psychological cocktail of rage and grief and desire to act, and since I don’t have any actual useful skills, I’m not a doctor or psychologist or aid worker or fighter, or any of the things I sometimes wish I was, I felt the need to do something. And then there is also a totally selfish need to see it for myself. It feels compulsive. And not like in ‘this is my calling and I’m gonna save the world’, but like it’s compulsive enough to make you get on a plane to go to a country that’s quite dangerous and in horrific turmoil. ”

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    17 January 2024, 7:51 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    221 - Richard Kalvar

    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 (Terriens) in 2007 and his most recent title, Selected Writings, published in 2023 by Damiani, and he has had important exhibitions in the US, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

    His work has appeared in Geo, The Paris Review, Creative Camera, Aperture, Zoom, Newsweek, and Photo, among many others. Editorial assignments and even commercial work have given Richard an additional opportunity to do personal photography. He did many documentary stories that allowed him to disengage from documentary mode when the occasion arose.

    Richard joined Magnum Photos as an associate member in 1975, and became a full member two years later. He subsequently served several times as vice president, and once as president of the agency.

     

    In episode 221, Richard discusses, among other things:

    • How he ended up settling in Paris
    • His introduction to photography
    • How humour is an intrinsic element of his photographs
    • how he is playing with things he has trouble dealing with
    • Why he called up Robert Delpire
    • VU agency becoming Viva
    • How he ended up in Magnum
    • His favourite cities to shoot in
    • The legal restrictions on shooting in public in different places
    • Public attitudes towards taking photographs of strangers in public
    • His new book, Selected Writings
    • Why his interest is in single images that stand alone

     

    Referenced:

    • Jérôme Ducrot
    • André Kertesz
    • HCB
    • Robert Frank
    • Lee Friedlander
    • Elliott Erwitt
    • Robert Delpire
    • Viva Agency
    • Guy LeQuerec
    • Gilles Peress
    • Mary Ellen Mark
    • Alex Majoli
    • Jonas Bendiksen
    • Paolo Pellegrin
    • Olivia Arthur

    Website | Instagram

    “I’m most interested in having pictures stand alone, and each one is something you can get into and is a story in itself and is also an imaginary story. I’m working with reality, that’s what’s really interesting to me and it’s also what’s interesting about photography in general, that you’re doing something that looks like real life but obviously isn’t. that’s the edge I like to work on. Where you have the impression that things are going on and not necessarily going on. If I have to tell a story, I feel a certain moral obligation to respect the truth or respect the feelings of the people that are in it. I think that’s a noble thing but for my kind of work it’s a break.”

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    3 January 2024, 9:07 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    220 - Year in Review 2023

    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

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    20 December 2023, 8:17 am
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