New to the PhotoWork Podcast?
Heres five episodes to get your started!
These five episodes offer a perfect introduction to the PhotoWork Podcast, showcasing conversations that balance the personal and the professional, the poetic and the practical. From Wendy Red Star’s insights on making meaningful work, Todd Hido, Paul Graham, and Alec Soth’s insight on process, ethics, and voice, to Shirin Neshat’s reflections on identity and finding renewed passion—together they reveal the range, depth, and humanity that make this podcast essential listening.
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Todd Hido discusses his dual roles as artist and educator, exploring cinematic influences and the power of hope as a motivator to keep creating.
Photographer Alec Soth discusses his book A Pound of Pictures, sharing insights on process, tradition, and finding one’s voice.
“When I first came to photography, I wanted to create a new language, and what happens when you create a new language is that no one else speaks it and you’re talking to yourself. I realized over time that, I need to just speak the language and maybe in speaking the language, in time, I will find a little bit of my own voice.”– Alec Soth
Wendy Red Star considers how to make work that is meaningful, informative, and healing while navigating audience expectations and the pressures of representation.
Paul Graham looks back on his self-taught beginnings, the passage of time turning work into history, the ethics of photographing outside one’s community, and the evolution of his more personal projects.
“I find that every time I embrace a new project, but more a new form, I feel excited like a beginner. Something like a new loving relationship, you need to dance around each other’s potentials. I need to first learn the language and then find my own signature within that language.”– Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat talks about her multimedia project Land of Dreams, her return to art after an eleven-year hiatus, and reflections on identity as an Iranian-born artist.
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