• A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers

  • By: Ben Smith
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A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers

By: 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. TO ACCESS THE FULL ACHIVE SIGN UP AS A MEMBER AT POD.FAN!
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  • 235 - Debi Cornwall

    235 - Debi Cornwall
    Jul 17 2024
    Debi Cornwall is a multimedia documentary artist who returned to visual expression after a 12-year career as a civil-rights lawyer. Her work explores the performance of power, citizenship and identity through still and moving images, sound, testimony, and archival material.While completing a degree in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Debi studied photography at RISD. After working for photographers Mary Ellen Mark and Sylvia Plachy, as an AP stringer, and as an investigator for the federal public defender's office, she attended Harvard Law School and practiced as a wrongful conviction attorney for more than a decade, also training as a mediator. Exhaustive research and negotiation were critical to her advocacy and remain integral to her visual practice.Debi was awarded the 2023 Prix Elysée, a biennial juried contemporary photography prize created by the Photo Elysée Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland with the support of Parmigiani Fleurier. The award enabled her to complete Model Citizens, now a book in English and French editions (Radius/Textuel) and an exhibition at the 2024 Rencontres d'Arles festival. She is also a 2024 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artist Grantee in film, a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in photography, and inaugural Leica Women Foto Project Award winner. Debi’s work has been profiled in publications including Art in America, European Photography Magazine, British Journal of Photography, the New York Times Magazine, and Hyperallergic, and is held in public and private collections around the world.Debi has published two previous books, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay and Necessary Fictions. She is also an ICP faculty member, teaching students how to plumb deeper layers in their work, and consults independently with artists developing long-term projects. In episode 235, Debi discusses, among other things:Winning the Prix ElyséeHer path into a legal career in civil rightsThe ightbulb moment that took her to Guantanamo BayWorking around restrictions imposed“The performance of American power”Her secoond book Necessary FictionsHer films Pineland/Hollywood and Jade HelmHer latest book Model Citizens Website | Instagram“I don’t think it’s a thread in the work so much as something that I’m really sitting with personally and creatively, but I have this advocate self who is outraged and frustrated at what is happening in our societies. And I have a trained mediator in me, which is more consistent with my creative approach, who thinks none of this changes unless we can really talk to each other across these divides; unless we can accept each other’s humanity and hear each other. Because that isn’t happening.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month.For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • 234 - Photomeet 2024 Special

    234 - Photomeet 2024 Special
    Jul 3 2024

    Featuring:

    • Mimi Mollica website/Instagram
    • Keerthana Kunnath website/Instagram
    • Mikael Buck website/Instagram
    • Chris Dorley Brown website/Instagram
    • Shaw & Shaw website/Instagram
    • Mal Woolford website/Instagram
    • Imogen Forte website/Instagram
    • Quetzal Maucci website/Instagram
    • Richard Eyers website/Instagram

    Website | Instagram

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    52 mins
  • 233 - Chloé Jafé

    233 - Chloé Jafé
    Jun 19 2024

    Born in Lyon in 1984 represented by Ibasho and galerie écho 119, Chloé Jafé is an artist and a photographer trained at the École de Condé in Lyon and at the UAL Central Saint Martins School in London.

    She has been able to create a unique personal voice in the world of documentary photography. Those close to her say bluntly that she photographs with her gut, using the camera as a key to understanding the strange and the foreign. Her obsession and intuition has enabled her to access secret worlds. Her ability to connect to her subjects has meant her work really is exceptionally personal – the world through Chloe Jafes eyes.

    She worked and immersed herself in Japan and Japanese culture from 2013-2019 creating a trilogy of work. The images are raw, black and white, tender and ferocious. She reveals an unprecedented vision of hidden parts of Japanese society. Her trilogy, composed of the chapters “I give you my life", "Okinawa mon amour" and "How I met Jiro", highlights the little-known and subversive sides of a place where modesty is paramount.

    Critically acclaimed, her work on the women of the Yakuza was rewarded by the Bourse du Talent in 2017 and exhibited at the Bibliotèque nationale de France.

    Attracted by sensitive and difficult subjects, often marginal, Chloé Jafé does not hesitate in her practice to push the limits of the photographic medium by working directly on prints, in acrylic and brush. Each of her series has resulted in a limited edition book, bound and handcrafted by the artist.

    In episode 233, Chloé discusses, among other things:

    • Photography as ‘a tool’
    • Her first trip to Japan
    • Moving there
    • Hostess job
    • Meeting ‘the boss’
    • The women of The Yakuza
    • The significance of tattoos
    • Painting onto her prints
    • Her trilogy of books: I Give You My Life, Okinawa Mon Amour and How I Met Jiro
    • Finding abandoned negatives
    • Adventures in publishing

    Referenced:

    • Paolo Roversi
    • Sarah Moon
    • Yakuza Moon
    • Jake Adelstein
    • Reminders Project
    • Teun van der Heijden

    Website | Instagram

    “I was sure this project was mine. I had to do this. You know, I think I was frustrated that I was the right person to do this, and it was my mission. I was sure about that.”

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    1 hr and 8 mins
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