Podcasts about humanistic photography

Stephen Dupont is an Australian photographer based in New South Wales.Stephen is one of Australia's most acclaimed photojournalists, whose work focuses largely on the human condition, war and climate.In 2007, he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his work on Afghanistan.He has also won the Robert Capa Gold Medal and several World Press Photo Awards.Follow Stephen:WebsiteInstagram

In this special extended episode 251 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed speaking with photographer Matt Black. They discuss the tradition of the American road trip, the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone, politics and photography and the ethical responsibility of the visual storyteller amongst many other aspects of the American photographic tradition. Matt Black lives in California's Central Valley, a rural, agricultural area in the heart of the state. His work has focused on themes of geography, inequality, and the environment in his native region and in related places. Between 2015 and 2020, he travelled over 100,000 miles across 46 states for his project and subsequent book American Geography, named as one of TIME Magazine's top photography books in 2021. He is a member of Magnum and his work has appeared regularly in TIME magazine, The New Yorker, The California Sunday Magazine, and other publications. Back has been honoured three times by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Prize, including their top honour for journalism, he has received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award for Humanistic Photography and was named a senior fellow at the Emerson Collective. www.mattblack.com Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was first screened in 2018 www.donotbendfilm.com. He is the presenter of the A Photographic Life and In Search of Bill Jay podcasts. © Grant Scott 2023

Host Helen Lee continues with the third and final part of her conversation with Maxim Dondyuk, Ukrainian photographer and visual artist, and his wife and Artistic Manager Irena Dondyuk about how the Ukrainians are responding emotionally to the war, the strengthening of Ukrainian culture and language in the face of Russian aggression, how Maxim and Irena cope personally with the experience, how the frontline war must be faced with humanity first, the importance of national and intellectual freedom, and Maxim and Irena's unwavering hope for the future of Ukraine.  As mass consciousness is raised globally, and we allow the highest aspects of who we are to lead us and our lives, we will operate from a much higher level of intelligence - spiritual intelligence or SQ which has to be and will be the foundation for IQ and EQ, and we would have eradicated all possibility of war, pandemics, poverty, hunger and all manner of injustice and inequality. Our task is to conscientiously and consciously move towards transforming and thriving en masse now, release all old programs, old ways of thinking, emoting and behaviour that are lower vibrational, that smacks of lack and limitation, fear and scarcity, aggression and domination, greed and need to control AND shift towards endless possibilities and abundance for all, love and peace, caring and collaboration, sharing and giving, justice and equality.   KEY TAKEAWAYS   Maxim and Irena keep themselves positive about their future and as is the case with most Ukrainians, they relentlessly push to end the war, driven to protect their country and people, their identity and freedom at the same time.  The Ukrainians feel much anger during this time which motivates them in their fight against Russia, but more importantly their love and pride for their country drives them forward.  Before the invasion, many in Ukraine used the Russian language but now using Russian is shameful. Russia's refusal to acknowledge Ukraine as a country and accept its own unique culture has resulted in widespread rejection of everything Russian.   Because of his time in the frontline, Maxim can feel hopelessness creeping up, especially when parted from Irena for months at a time. He can feel anger at both sides, especially those intent on continuing the war but never witness the destruction wrought on the frontlines of battle.  If you don't respond emotionally when working on the frontline, in Maxim's case as a photographer, then it is psychologically worse as suppression can be damaging. Firstly, Maxim helps all that need help, both humans and animals, and then, secondarily, takes pictures that can be used to document Ukraine's plight.  Maxim recently won the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his work Ukraine: 2014 to 2022. This funding is important in many countries as it is currently, mainly in richer countries that steady sponsorship and support can be secured, so grants are essential in those underfunded areas of the world.  It is not only important for nations to achieve their own freedom, but vital that we all have freedom within our own minds. Freedom of thought and freedom of ideas. In many countries, the population do not have this freedom and Russia is one example.  Competition between countries leading to eventual aggression comes from internal weakness. Diplomacy is strength, understanding is strength, communication is strength. Russia respects only power and that is their weakness. A quote from Helen that she has been advocating for decades is: "True power is NOT power over others but power over our own fear and ego-based minds". By raising our consciousness and connecting with our deeper spiritual selves, we can all make the need for war obsolete. When we align with soul and spirit, we think differently and lower vibrations like fear, hate and greed which motivate war are replaced with much higher vibrational energies.    BEST MOMENTS ‘They speak openly and honestly about the emotions of the Ukrainians and their own as well. They are also very clear about lots of things including what's necessary to keep themselves sane and balanced while they are dealing with the stresses and constraints of war.' – Helen ‘They gave me great hope for the quality of human beings we would like to see in our world. Kind, genuinely loving and caring people. Gentle, honest and open beings that emanate a higher intelligence and consideration for humanity and animals.' – Helen ‘It's not possible for Russia to invade our country because even women and children take pictures of Russian tanks and give their position to the Ukrainian army.' – Maxim  ‘Sometimes I feel so much anger in me. Sometimes I feel hopeless, sometimes I feel sorry for the Russian people because they are so miserable with everything they do. It's a great mix of feelings in myself but with each new missile from Russia, with each new death that comes from Russia, I feel more anger and pity for them.' – Irena  ‘A soldier knows what they do. They are ready to die. But when it's a civilian, it's hard. First of all I'm a man not a photographer and if I can help people, if somebody is dead or injured or they need food, or they're homeless, dogs and cats everywhere I share all my food and everything I have because I can do it. First, I will be human and second I will be a photographer.' – Maxim ‘And, as you (Helen) say, it's really important that freedom is not only for nations, but it's really important to have freedom inside of our own minds. Sometimes, we do stupid things because we have no freedom, because somebody controls our mind - in some countries.' – Maxim ‘I hold an unwavering intention and pray that Ukraine and all nations will have their freedom and sovereignty very soon. That there will be abundance and freedom, justice and equality for all living things, all humans as well as all fauna and flora, and all that live and breathe, including our planet, can flourish greatly. I know that this can be so, as the level of human consciousness is raised.' – Helen     ABOUT THE GUEST Maxim's professional career began in Ukrainian media as a photojournalist in 2007. He has been freelance since 2010, working on creating and promoting his own documentary projects, following the sociopolitical events in his country of Ukraine for years and expressing through the visual arts for well over a decade. He became world famous with his interviews on CNN and his publications in Time Magazine and is currently photo-documenting the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and recording atrocities that are difficult to imagine or behold. His accomplishments include being a recent winner of theW. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, a finalist in the Prix Pictet Photography Prize and Fotoevidence Book Award, and winner of the Prix Photo La Quatrieme Image, Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award at Visa pour l'Image, a Magnum Photos Competition ‘30 under 30' for emerging documentary photographers, and received Grand Prix ‘Best Global Health Story' of Becton Dickinson (BD)'s 'Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition.'   ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who's Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore's top coaches.   VALUABLE RESOURCES To become a member of the Transform and Thrive Club and benefit from monthly powerful live sessions on Zoom video calls and multimedia coaching, check out and sign up here: www.transformandthrive.club CONTACT METHOD www.leeheiss.com www.facebook.com/leeheiss https://www.facebook.com/helenleeheiss https://www.facebook.com/groups/transformandthriveclub www.instagram.com/helenleeheiss enquiries@leeheiss.com

Host Helen Lee continues with the second part of her conversation with Maxim Dondyuk, Ukrainian photographer and visual artist, and his wife Irena Dondyuk, his Artistic Manager about the war in the Ukraine, the inaction of Ukraine's so-called allies, the nature of Russian comprehensive population control and the horror of living in a war-torn country. Then, join Helen as she explains how we can all transform, increasing our vibration and connection to our spiritual selves and the universal consciousness, to help this and have a real effect on the unsettled situation in the world today. Look out for episode 48 which will contain part 3, the fascinating conclusion of this interview.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Maxim feels that Russia does not need to use nuclear weapons. Hence, to him, the intermittent threats are just posturing. Also, the EU will remain inert against these threats, and Ursula Von De Lyon's words of retaliation are just more of the same. They did nothing about Crimea and they will do nothing now, according to Maxim.  The EU has supported Ukraine with weapons, but have taken advantage of the situation to fully test as yet not fully developed technology. Ukraine is seen as a grey area between the EU and Russia and so the EU are currently unwilling to take any real action. This is as per Maxim during the interview with Helen. NOTE that according to Helen's Ukrainian source in Singapore, however: After Feb 2022, there has been more and more help and it is now clear for most of EU members that 1. Ukraine is not a grey zone but a real nation state that is going back to the European family, after centuries of occupation; 2. It's very beneficial to have Ukraine as a strategic partner, especially for geopolitical security reasons; 3. But both EU and even US are concerned re: what will happen if Ukraine wins. If Russia falls apart, it has a chance to turn into a Yugoslavia occupying 1/6th of the planet and having nuclear weapons. This why they are helping slowly and cautiously, so as to not cause uncontrolled escalation. Maxim's perspective: The official application for NATO has been refused (even if not officially), as the offer has been made half-heartedly since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but no official moves have ever been made to allow Ukraine to join.  Note the following quote from TGP - The Geopolitics: "At the moment, a Ukraine NATO accession is a no-go. It would embroil the whole continent of Europe in a full-fledged war against Russia. According to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, an attack on one is an attack on all, and the US and Europe are not ready for that risk. Maxim's perspective: The similarities to the inaction at the beginning of World War 2 is palpable. The lack of action over the invasion of Crimea proved that the EU is willing to repeat the same old mistake, hand over parts of domination, just as they did with Hitler, to Putin. Still, Putin went ahead and invaded Ukraine.  Maxim's perspective: Appealing to the people of Russia's better nature seems like an option but due to the orthodox nature of their education system, media and political system they are incapable of perceiving any point of view other than that presented to them by their government. They will blindly march to war accepting that who they are fighting are evil and their mortal enemy.  It is difficult for us, so physically and emotionally far removed from being in a state of war and entire generations not experiencing war, to truly know what it is like to live in a war torn environment. Maxim and Irena are still amazingly balanced and kind people who lean greatly towards inclusiveness, peace and kindness. We can help by energetically using the power of intention and visualisation, collectively using the powerful quantum physics principle of expanding what we focus on. The pollution of the planet is only a reflection of an inner psychic pollution. Helen explains the thoroughly researched and science-based work of the late Dr David Hawkins to substantiate what she proposes ordinary people all over the world can do to collectively make a difference to create peace and abundance for ourselves and our world, including Ukraine by taking responsibility for our own inner space as well. More and more, our awakening shows us our old ways of thinking, emoting, acting, behaving and operating must be dismantled completely throughout our world in every way.  One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of optimism and a willingness to be non-judgemental of others will, for instance, counterbalance the negativity of 90,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels. BEST MOMENTS ‘I, for one, believe in them, believe in the right of all human beings to be free and to flourish greatly, that we are long past colonialism of any kind, that we need to raise our consciousness high enough where we no longer feel the need or desire to dominate or control others...' – Helen ‘We just protect the European border. A lot of talk. Of course there's support. Of course there is support out there. We cannot understand this game because for us it is better to stop this war as soon as possible. We don't want this war for ten years. But it looks like a big country will torture us and somebody may give us medicine and say, ok? Please destroy us or help us.' – Maxim ‘I was dictated to in a Soviet Union school. I was just retaught with books from the Soviet Union. It was all propaganda and afterwards I had to be reeducated to change my mentality. I was re-educated about history, about everything because they tried to raise everyone within the Soviet Union with an angry mood against America, democracy. They're really just an orthodox religion against everybody.' - Maxim  ‘The hardest part must be not knowing when it's going to end and not having the extent of help they would truly love to have right now, and perplexed about the game being played out on the world stage with Ukrainians caught in the middle.' – Helen ‘High energy people counterbalance the negative effect of low energy people. This doesn't happen on a one-on-one basis, because as much as 87% of humanity is in the lower weakening frequencies. But one person connected to the universal Source of energy, the Creator of everything in existence, can have an enormous impact on many people in the lower energy patterns.' – Helen quoting the late Dr David Hawkins' science-based research done over 4 decades.  ABOUT THE GUEST Maxim's professional career began in Ukrainian media as a photojournalist in 2007. He has been freelance since 2010, working on creating and promoting his own documentary projects, following the sociopolitical events in his country of Ukraine for years and expressing through the visual arts for well over a decade. He became world famous with his interviews on CNN and his publications in Time Magazine and is currently photo-documenting the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and recording atrocities that are difficult to imagine or behold. His accomplishments include being the recent winner of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, a finalist in the Prix Pictet Photography Prize and Fotoevidence Book Award, and winner of the Prix Photo La Quatrieme Image, Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award at Visa pour l'Image, a Magnum Photoscompetition ‘30 under 30' for emerging documentary photographers, and received Grand Prix ‘Best Global Health Story' of Becton Dickinson (BD)'s 'Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition.' ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who's Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore's top coaches. VALUABLE RESOURCES To become a member of the Transform and Thrive Club and benefit from monthly powerful live sessions on Zoom video calls and multimedia coaching, check out and sign up here: www.transformandthrive.club CONTACT METHOD www.leeheiss.com www.facebook.com/leeheiss https://www.facebook.com/helenleeheiss https://www.facebook.com/groups/transformandthriveclub www.instagram.com/helenleeheiss enquiries@leeheiss.com

Host Helen Lee speaks with Maxim Dondyuk, photographer and visual artist, and his wife Irena Dondyuk, his Artistic Manager. Maxim's professional career began in Ukrainian media as a photojournalist in 2007. He has been freelance since 2010, working on creating and promoting his own documentary projects, following the sociopolitical events in his country of Ukraine for years and expressing through the visual arts for well over a decade. He became world famous with his interviews on CNN and his publications in Time Magazine and is currently photo-documenting the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and recording atrocities that are difficult to imagine or behold.  His accomplishments include having recently won the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, being a finalist in the Prix Pictet Photography Prize,and Fotoevidence Book Award, and winner of the Prix Photo La Quatrieme Image, Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award at Visa pour l'Image, a Magnum Photos Competition ‘30 under 30' for emerging documentary photographers, and received Grand Prix ‘Best Global Health Story' of Becton Dickinson (BD)'s 'Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition.' Helen, Irena and Maxim talk about the conflict, the history of Russia and Ukraine's relationship, the nature of Russia's people, Russian propaganda and control and Ukraine's spirited and crucial response to centuries of Russian aggression.   KEY TAKEAWAYS   We need to raise our level of consciousness to be much more mindful of how we treat each other including all human beings and all that lives and breathes. The conflict in Ukraine affects not only those directly involved, but everyone worldwide, as we are all connected and also in terms of the rising cost of food, oil and everything else, as inflation rises globally and some countries such as Sri Lanka are hit badly. Maxim has a spiritual teacher, a Buddhist monk in Thailand who teaches him Vipassana meditation, the technique of seeing things as they truly are. Irena uses yoga, and although not currently practising because of the war, both are considerably centred and calm in the midst of the war and the unimaginable stresses of their occupation. Their work is divided between Maxim, who creates the projects and provides the content and Irena who deals with distribution and communicating his work to the world. Maxim's work often leaves him with only two to three hours a day to even sleep, so the work of communicating is not only logistically difficult, but also impossible to complete with the time available.  The Ukrainian army's strength and technology have angered Russia and increased their aggression in the conflict. Maxim feels the people of Russia despise Ukraine and this is not a war to gather resources or land, but to destroy and suppress Ukraine's individual culture.  Years of Russian propaganda and the assumption that Ukrainian Crimean territory is theirs mean Maxim and Irena feel that most of the Russian people are in support of the war despite the looming threat of conscription. Only those that perceive Putin's lies are against the war and they are very small in number. To them, Russian history is manipulated and shaped only to support Russian ideology so the people of Russia are fully behind the war. Information is rigidly controlled. During their three-year stay in Asia, Irena and Maxim found cultures that are much more in harmony with nature and connection with everything that exists in the world.    When we know who we really are, beyond the mere human personality, including the soul and spirit or pure consciousness that we all are, we would not only gain for ourselves the freedom that we are meant to have but will share this freedom with all living things as well.  Unity seems to be the key to dealing with the effects of this war as well as the war itself, but are human beings spiritual mature enough and ready to think "unity consciousness" and pull together? By abandoning our scarcity consciousness which makes us compete and war for resources, and loving freely by loving ourselves unconditionally and loving all living things as well, we can move away from war and deal with and prevent problems like pandemics and economic downturns together, in unison and harmony.    BEST MOMENTS ‘What is happening in the Ukraine is relevant not only for Ukrainians but for all of humanity and the whole world. All living things are connected and what happens to some people affects everyone else in some way or other.' – Helen ‘From time to time we have some difficulties, of course, during the work but in general, we just try to support each other in every step, whether Maxim needs my help or whether I need his help.' – Irena ‘It's like some angry man who tried to do something and somebody beat him. They're angry, but they cannot do anything in the frontline. They try but it's not possible because now, the Ukrainian army is stronger and stronger.' – Maxim ‘If now we just make some peace, after a decade they again start this war. They do it all the time. So, Russia is a huge country but it is weak because of big corruption and with their army, maybe not so professional.' – Maxim ‘They (Russians) are really happy about this war and they think that Ukraine as a country never existed and we are part of their country and we need to give back. They believe the things that the Russian propaganda says on TV and so on.' – Irena ‘For me, I am on the side of humanity rather than a nation. But, if one nation is committing these things, then it is against humanity and it needs to be corrected, basically, because we are moving towards a time when there has to be freedom and justice and equality for all, not only all human beings but even all living things.' – Helen ‘This is what we can see with the story of Chernobyl. It's 25 years have passed since the explosion and when you come to Chernobyl now, you can see a lot of  animals, a lot of birds, and thriving plants. But people still can't live there....we need to find a way to change our behaviour.' – Irena 'I'm sure this situation (war in Ukraine) ends immediately in one day, something happens and the next day, the war is finished.' – Maxim 'For us, we cannot go to another country. We don't have a choice. Even if we stop this war, my hometown is occupied, my house has been destroyed, my parents are homeless, and we decide to resist how long we can resist.' – Maxim "For us, we need to liberate (ourselves). They (Russians) occupy 20% of our area (country) for the second time. If now we just sign some peace, we know after five or ten years, they will try to occupy more area.' – Maxim ‘Together, they (Maxim and Irina) are raising the awareness of what is actually taking place in their country through Maxim's photographs and visual art.  And as the late Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh put it, “Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed."'  – Helen ‘I often talk about how we are all interconnected. For many, the pandemic has certainly proved that and now this war as well. So we need to be aware of what's going on and how it's impacting all of us as well as the role we can play in co-creating a totally different world from a much higher level of consciousness.' – Helen ‘If we can transform a ‘what's in it for me?' attitude to a ‘how can I help?' mindset, and change an exploitative perspective to one that is kind and generous because we have an abundance mentality and know that we always have more than enough...' – Helen    ABOUT THE HOST HELEN LEE Founder & Principal Coach of Lee Heiss Coaching, Helen Lee coached thousands of clients worldwide and multinationals in Asia-Pacific in the last three decades. She created a powerful ontological coaching methodology that ignites the true greatness or invincibility in people. Thoroughly tested and honed over 20 years, this methodology consistently and rapidly produces desired results. Helen was also a journalist who later ran her own communications consultancies in Australia and Asia.The Business Times listed her in its “Who's Who of Women Shaping Singapore” while The Straits Times named her “The Leader Prodder” in a feature on Singapore's top coaches.   VALUABLE RESOURCES To become a member of the Transform and Thrive Club and benefit from monthly powerful live sessions on Zoom video calls and multimedia coaching, check out and sign up here: www.transformandthrive.club   CONTACT METHOD www.leeheiss.comwww.facebook.com/leeheisswww.facebook.com/transformingpeopleworldwidewww.instagram.com/helenleeheissenquiries@leeheiss.com

Sim Chi Yin walks us through her ongoing project "One Day We'll Remember": uncovering family secrets, visiting ancestral villages, collecting artefacts and archival materials, and making counter archives with family members and locals from her grandfather's neighborhood in Gaoshang after he was deported from British Malaya for his anti-colonial resistance against the British occupying forces. She raises major topics such as what are the things we choose to remember and things we choose to forget in relation to trauma and malu, and the different ways wars have been documented in Southeast Asia. She also talks to us about her artistic drive and artistic direction. *In our first in-person episode, Alexandra had a chance to visit and interview Chiyin at her studio in Brooklyn, New York. Sim Chi Yin is an artist from Singapore, currently based between Brooklyn and Berlin. For the first decade of her multi-faceted career, she was a print journalist, foreign correspondent, and photographer. She was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer in 2017 to make work about its winner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. After quitting her job as foreign correspondent, she became an independent visual practitioner. She combines rigorous research with intimate storytelling, she pursues self-directed projects in Asia. Her work explores history, memory, and migration and its consequences. In particular, she dove into a lesser-known part of her own family history in "One Day We'll Understand," a project that revolves around her grandfather, Shen Huansheng, who was a left-wing journalist involved in the anti-colonial resistance movement in British Malaya. Through her careful documentation, in both film and photography, Sim considers the processes of remembrance and forgetting as well as the fragility of the notion of truth. Her work has been exhibited in the Istanbul Biennale (2017), at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, the Annenberg Space For Photography in Los Angeles, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in South Korea, and other galleries and institutions in Europe, the United States and Asia. Her film and multimedia work have also been screened at Les rencontres d'Arles and Visa pour l'Image festivals in France, and the Singapore International Film Festival. She has worked on assignments for global publications, such as The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, National Geographic, The New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. Chi Yin won the Chris Hondros Fund award in 2018. A finalist for the 2013 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, she was an inaugural Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice fellow in 2010 in New York. She is now a tutor and mentor on the fellowship. In 2014, she was Her World Magazine's "Young Woman Achiever of the Year". Chi Yin read history at the London School of Economics and Political Science for her first two degrees, and was a staff journalist and foreign correspondent for a decade before quitting to become an independent visual practitioner in 2011. www.chiyinsim.com IG: @chiyin_sim --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sugar-nutmeg/support

Maxim Dondyuk (b. 1983) is a Ukrainian visual artist working in the field of documentary photography. His practice integrates multiple mediums including photography, video, text, and archival material. Maxim's works often explore issues relating to history, memory, conflict, and their consequences. He has been widely awarded numerous recognitions including Lucie Awards, the Prix Pictet Photography Prize, Magnum Photos ‘30 under 30', the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. His work has been exhibited internationally, at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, Somerset House in London, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, the Biennale of Photography in Bogota, Colombia, among others. Maxim's works are held in private and museum collections.

We're delighted to be joined by award-winning photojournalist Robin Hammond to discuss the power of photography to bring change, and the fantastic work of his non-profit organisation Witness Change. Their mission statement reads "Stigmatized people are often excluded from their own stories. We use visual storytelling to support these people as they reclaim the narratives of their lives to achieve necessary change such as influencing policies, attitudes and behaviours that affect them." Robin is a National Geographic Explorer and his career recognition includes the winning of two World Press Photo prizes, the RF Kennedy Journalism Award, six Pictures of the Year International Awards, the W.Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, the recipient of six Amnesty International awards for Human Rights journalism and being named by Foreign Policy as one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers. Check out more on Witness Change via their website: www.witnesschange.org and see more about Robin via www.robinhammond.co.uk --------------------------- We'll be back for the final ever Togcast episode in a couple of weeks featuring Jim Mortram - don't miss it! The Togcast is hosted by Sam Gregory (www.samgregory-photography.com)  

Naomi Harris is a Canadian photographer and artist who seeks out interesting cultural trends to document through her subjects. Personal projects include Haddon Hall in which she photographed the last remaining elderly residents of a hotel in South Beach, Miami, Florida. For this work she received the 2001 International Prize for Young Photojournalism from Agfa/Das Bildforum, an honorable mention for the Yann Geffroy Award, and was a W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography finalist. Twenty years later the work is about to be jointly published in a book, also entitled Haddon Hall, by MAS and Void.For her next project America Swings, Naomi documented the phenomenon of swinging over the course of 5 years (from 2003 to 2008) all over the United States, attending thirty eight swingers parties in the process. This project was realized in her first monograph released by Taschen in 2008 as a limited collectors edition. A trade edition was released in 2010. Artist Richard Prince interviewed Naomi for the book, which was edited by Dian Hanson.Naomi then completed EUSA, a reaction to the homogenization of European and American cultures through globalization for which she visited and photographed American-themed amusement parks in Europe and European themed towns in America. The project was shortlisted for the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award in 2016 and ultimately published as a book by Kehrer Books in 2018.Other accolades include being awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography in 2013, a Long-Term Career Advancement Grant from the Canada Council in 2012 and participating in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in 2004.For her most recent project, I Voyager, Naomi embarked on a 70-day canoe trip along the fur trader's route in Ontario, Canada, accompanied by a guide and dressed in 19th century period costume inspired by the British painter Frances Anne Hopkins (1838 – 1919). The project includes self-portraiture and landscape photography and forms part of a much wider investigation into feminism, exploring the concepts of power, identity and sexuality.Naomi currently divides her time between Toronto and the USA where she is studying for an MFA in Studio Art at the graduate school of the University of Buffalo in New York state.On episode 162, Naomi discusses, among other things:Thoughts on social mediaDoing an MFA in Studio Arts and taking her practice in a new directionFacing the double whammy of gender disparity and ageismHaving a cloud over her head like Charlie BrownHer latest project, I Voyager.New book Haddon HallAmerica SwingsEUSA and the thorny topic of cultural appropriationExploring the theme of deathWebsite | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook“My timing is always off. I'm always one day and a dollar short.”

In episode 129 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed stating that it's okay not to understand everything, reflecting on the excessive interpretation of images, and noting how Zoom is taking over our lives, but not in a negative way. Plus this week photographer Yael Martínez takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Yael Martínez's studied at the Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca. His work explores the connections between, poverty, narcotraffic, organised crime, and the effects they have on the communities in his native Guerrero in southern Mexico. In 2015 he was selected in the Joop Swart Master Class 'Latinoamerica' and received the Magnum Emergency Fund in 2016. In 2017 he was named one of PDN´s 30 new and emerging photographers. Martínez was a Finalist for a Eugene Smith Grant in 2015 and 2016 and in 2019 he was named as the winner of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. In 2019 he received second prize, in the World Press Photo Long-Term Projects, for his work The House That Bleeds. He has also been nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award, the Prix Pictet and the ICP Infinity Award. In 2020 Martínez was accepted as a member of the Magnum agency. He is based in Guerrero, Mexico. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Taylor Francis 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Taylor Francis 2019). His next book What Does Photography Mean to You? will be published in late 2020. www.yaelmartinez.com © Grant Scott 2020

Stephen Dupont is an Australian artist, photographer and documentary filmmaker working mostly on long-term personal projects. Born in Sydney in 1967, Stephen grew up in the western suburbs and Southern Highlands under tough social conditions and displacement, with social worker parents, who were full-time carers of state wards. Stephen is recognised around the world for his concerned photography on the human condition, war and climate. His images have received international acclaim for their artistic integrity and valuable insight into the people, culture and communities that are fast disappearing from our world.Stephen’s work has earned him some of photography’s most prestigious prizes, including a 2005 Robert Capa Gold Medal citation and the 2015 Olivier Rebbot Award from the Overseas Press Club of America; a Bayeux War Correspondent’s Prize; and first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys, and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007 he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan. In 2010 he received the Gardner Fellowship at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.In 2017 Stephen’s one-man theatrical show Don't Look Away world premiered at the Museum of Old & New Art (MONA) in Tasmania as part of  Mona Mofo (MONA's festival of Music and Art). Performances continued at Sydney's Eternity Playhouse Theatre, the Museum of Contemporary Art MCA and at the Melbourne Writers Festival.Stephen has twice been an official war artist for the Australian War Memorial for his photography, with commissions in The Solomon Islands (2013) and Afghanistan (2012). He holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and is regularly invited to give public talks in Australia and around the world about photography, film and his life. His work has been featured in more or less all of the world’s most prestigious magazines and he has held major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Canberra, Tokyo, and Shanghai, and at Perpignan’s Visa Pour L’Image, China’s Ping Yao and Holland’s Noorderlicht festivals. Stephen’s handmade photographic artist books and portfolios are in some of the world's leading collections, including, the National Gallery of Australia, The New York Public Library, Berlin and Munich National Art Libraries, Stanford University, Yale University, Boston Athenaeum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Joy of Giving Something Inc. On episode 137, Stephen discusses, among other things:Reassessing his archive during CovidHow and why he first began making artists booksThe question of how one labels and thinks about themselvesStill having the wanderlust for travelHis new environmental project, Are We Dead Yet?His unusual childhood and the impact of his dad’s death when he was 13His desire to escape the suburbs and to travelHis early travels and how India was an influence on him becoming a photographerWhy live music photography was a good training groundThe influence of Don McCullinWhy he came back from his first war in Sri Lanka feeling like he’d failedDealing with the emotional fall out of witnessing conflictHis love of Afghanistan and the close shave he had thereHIs first book, Steam Referenced:Colin JacobsonGerhard SteidlDanny LyonJim GoldbergPeter BeardDon McCullinThe Great GameNick DanzigerRudyard KiplingSusie PriceWebsite | Instagram | Facebook“The photographs are easy. Processing the emotion is the hard thing.”

In episode 84 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering the impact of technology on creativity, video art, moving image adoption and getting older! Plus this week photographer Stephen Dupont takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Stephen Dupont was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1967 and over the past two decades has produced a body of work documenting marginalised peoples. It is a body of work that has earned him a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation in 2005 and the Olivier Rebbot Award from the Overseas Press Club of America in 2015; a Bayeux War Correspondent's Prize; and first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys, and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007 he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan and in 2010 he received the Gardner Fellowship at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. Dupont has twice been an official war artist for the Australian War Memorial for his photography, with commissions in The Solomon Islands in 2013 and Afghanistan in 2012. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Aperture, Newsweek, Time, GQ, Esquire,  French and German GEO, Le Figaro, Liberation, The Smithsonian, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, Interview and Vanity Fair. Dupont has held major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Canberra, Tokyo, and Shanghai, and at Perpignan's Visa Pour L'Image, China's Ping Yao and Holland's Noorderlicht festivals. His handmade photographic artist books and portfolios are in some of the world's leading collections, including, National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, The New York Public Library, Stanford University and Yale University. He is a Canon Master and frequently lectures and performs keynotes, masterclasses and workshops in Australia and around the world. He currently resides in Sydney with his family where he works on assignments and long term projects as a photographer, artist and documentary filmmaker. www.stephendupont.com If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His next book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s. © Grant Scott 2019

Alixandra Fazzina, whose photography focuses on under-reported conflicts and the often overlooked humanitarian consequences of war, has an uncanny ability to gain access to and work in the most challenging circumstances imaginable and is recognised for her compassionate and empathetic approach. She was born in East London, where she is now based, but spent much of her childhood in the Netherlands because of her father's work. She studied fine art at the University of Bristol, and in 1995, the day after she finished her course, she went to Bosnia with the British armed forces as an official war artist and it was there that she developed her interest in photography. Since then, she has worked independently as a photojournalist throughout Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Her stories have been widely published in the British and international press and her photographs exhibited worldwide. In 2008, after working on assignment in Afghanistan, she moved to Pakistan, where she lived for six years. During that time, over a two year period, she worked to chronicle the exodus of migrants and refugees from Somalia, across the Gulf of Aden to the Arabian Peninsula. The resulting book A Million Shillings: Escape from Somalia was published by Trolley Books in 2010. A Million Shillings, the title of which comes from the fare paid by refugees to the traffickers (about 50 pounds sterling), was shortlisted for the Pictures of the Year International Best Photography Book of the Year Award. A selection of the works has been shortlisted for the Prix Pictet global award in photography and sustainability. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Vic Odden Award from the British Royal Photographic Society for her work in Somalia, and was a finalist in the CARE Award for Humanitarian Reportage and the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. In 2010 Alixandra won the highly prestigious UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award for her striking coverage of the devastating human consequences of war and her fearless and tireless dedication to humanitarian photography throughout her career. Having spent six years documenting the effects of conflict and displacement in Afghanistan and Pakistan, she produced the long-term project The Flowers of Afghanistan, documenting the stories of Afghan children seeking refuge in Europe. The photographic investigation looks into the causes and effects of the increasing number of Afghan minors making the hazardous overland journey to apply for asylum in EU member states. In addition to her photography and writing, Alixandra has worked as researcher and producer for broadcast media and is regular contributor for radio and she regularly teaches masterclasses and workshops around the world for organisations such as World Press Photo, Reporters Without Borders and The Royal Photographic Society. She lectures in art, photography and media at photography and literature festivals and at on under and post graduate programmes at universities and is a member of the NOOR collective. In episode 089, Alixandra discusses, among other things: How her fine art background is relevant to photography Growing up a tomboy with an interest in conflict Learning the ropes in Bosnia as an official war artist How as photographers we sometimes don’t really look properly Being held captive in Liberia Her knack for gaining access People trafficking across the Gulf of Aden and her book A Million Shillings Editing and the importance of the text Yemen, Djibouti and the follow up project Website (NOOR) “By documenting the resilience of others, it gives me resilience.”

Daniel Schwartz concentrates on book projects with exhibitions, based on extensive travels, photographic essays, and reportages covering the Eastern Hemisphere from Iran to East Timor and from Turkmenistan to Bangladesh. Daniel’s art, as he puts it, is in the history of places and his journalism rather than being a reaction to events, builds on memory. His method is perhaps best expressed in Travelling through the Eye of History (published, in 2009, like all his books, by Thames & Hudson), a pre- and post-9/11 observation covering Central Asia including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir. In 1987 to 1988, during a forbidden journey, Daniel became the first foreigner and photographer to travel along all sections of the Great Wall of China. His documentation of the habitats of South and Southeast Asia's deltas, endangered by the consequences of climate change, were an early photojournalistic investigation into that subject, celebrated by the Financial Times as a visual j’accuse and made him twice a finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. He continues to work on the subject of climate change for While the Fires Burn: A Glacier Odyssey, his exploration of the recession of the world’s glaciers. In episode 088, Daniel discusses, among other things: Early education Using assignments to pursue personal projects Going to Greece China and The Great Wall The Deltas and climate change His relationship with publisher Thames & Hudson His work on documenting glaciers in While The Fires Burn The documentary about his life and work, Beyond The Obvious His travels in central Asia, the history of that region and the five republics The importance to him of writing The current situation in Yemen His income pie chart Joining VII Photos Referenced: Guy Bourdin John Thompson Sophie Calle Francis Fukuyama Website “We need to listen. First of all we need to go, see for ourself, and then obviously we meet people and we have to listen to them. We should forget about our pre-concepts which we carry. We inform ourselves at home and then we forget what we have read, and we go there. And this will eventually change or modify the concepts we have, and we need to listen to what people have to say to us and to find a way of building their information into the way we see things.”

Donna Ferrato is an internationally-known documentary photographer. Her gifts for exploration, illumination, and documentation coupled with a commitment to revealing the darker sides of humanity, have made her a giant in the medium. She has four books including Living with the Enemy which sold over 40,000 copies, and Love & Lust, published by Aperture. She has participated in over 500 one-woman shows and has received awards such as the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Humanistic Photography (1987), the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism (2003), and the Gender Fairness Award from the New York State Supreme Court Judges (2009). She founded a non-profit called Domestic Abuse Awareness for over a decade and in 2014 launched a campaign called I Am Unbeatable, which features women who have left their abusers. In November 2016, TIME magazine announced her photograph of a woman being hit by her husband (1982) as one of the “100 Most Influential Photographs of All Time.” Currently, Ferrato is documenting her rapidly-changing New York neighborhood of Tribeca for a new book, and leads experimental photo workshops called The Erotic Eye. Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Click here to download for Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards, over a 30+ year career as a documentary photographer and social activist. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1959, studied Psychology and African History at the University of Cape Town and began photographing in the 1980s during the dark days of apartheid. It was his work as ‘struggle photographer’ at this time that first brought his work to global attention. In the early 1990s, he moved to London, from where he continued to respond to global social issues, notably his longitudinal project on the impact of HIV/AIDS. That photographic odyssey began in Africa, taking in eight countries and expanded to numerous other nations during the last twenty years. The concluding and ongoing chapter, Through Positive Eyes, is a collaborative project in which Mendel’s role shifted from photographer to enabler, handing over his camera to HIV-positive people. His first book, A Broken Landscape: HIV & AIDS in Africa was published in 2001. Since then he has produced a number of photographic advocacy projects, working with charities and campaigning organizations including The Global Fund, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Terrene Higgins Trust, UNICEF and Concern Worldwide. Since 2007, Gideon has been occupied with Drowning World, an art and advocacy project about flooding that is his personal response to climate change. This work has been applauded for its unusual approaches to portraiture and the development of a variety of visual strategies and elements, including video, to deepen the impact of the endeavor. Amongst many accolades, he has won the Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, six World Press Photo Awards, first prize in the Pictures of the Year competition, a POY Canon Photo Essayist Award, the Amnesty International Media Award for Photojournalism, he was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 for Drowning World, which more recently also won a Greenpeace Photo Award, a fact that I neglected to mention during the interview.

Piksa Niugini by Stephen Dupont, with forward by Robert Gardner and essay by Bob Connolly, is published by the Peabody Press and Radius Books, (2013). Volume 1: 144 pages, 80 duotone, 6 color images. Volume 2: 144 pages, 120 color images. Piksa Niugini records noted Australian photographer Stephen Dupont’s journey through some of Papua New Guinea’s most important cultural and historical zones – the Highlands, Sepik, Bougainville and the capital city Port Moresby. The project is contained in two volumes in a slipcase one of portraits of local people, and the second of personal diaries. This remarkable body of work captures one of the world’s last truly wild and unique frontiers. Stephen’s work for this book was conducted with the support of the Robert Gardner Fellowship of Photography from Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The first volume of portraits reproduced in luscious duotone and 4 color; the second is an eclectic collection of the diaries, drawings, contact sheets and documentary photographs that Dupont created as he produced the project, which add to a broader understanding of the images in volume one. Stephen Dupont has produced a remarkable body of visual work; hauntingly beautiful photographs of fragile cultures and marginalized peoples. He skillfully captures the human dignity of his subjects with great intimacy and often in some of the worlds most dangerous regions. His images have received international acclaim for their artistic integrity and valuable insight into the people, culture and communities that have existed for hundreds of years, yet are fast disappearing from our world. Dupont’s work has earned him photography’s most prestigious prizes, including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America; a Bayeux War Correspondents Prize; and first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys, and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007, he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan, and in 2010 he received the Gardner Fellowship at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Piksa Niugini by Stephen Dupont, with forward by Robert Gardner and essay by Bob Connolly, is published by the Peabody Press and Radius Books, (2013). Volume 1: 144 pages, 80 duotone, 6 color images. Volume 2: 144 pages, 120 color images. Piksa Niugini records noted Australian photographer Stephen Dupont’s journey through some of Papua New Guinea’s most important cultural and historical zones – the Highlands, Sepik, Bougainville and the capital city Port Moresby. The project is contained in two volumes in a slipcase one of portraits of local people, and the second of personal diaries. This remarkable body of work captures one of the world’s last truly wild and unique frontiers. Stephen’s work for this book was conducted with the support of the Robert Gardner Fellowship of Photography from Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The first volume of portraits reproduced in luscious duotone and 4 color; the second is an eclectic collection of the diaries, drawings, contact sheets and documentary photographs that Dupont created as he produced the project, which add to a broader understanding of the images in volume one. Stephen Dupont has produced a remarkable body of visual work; hauntingly beautiful photographs of fragile cultures and marginalized peoples. He skillfully captures the human dignity of his subjects with great intimacy and often in some of the worlds most dangerous regions. His images have received international acclaim for their artistic integrity and valuable insight into the people, culture and communities that have existed for hundreds of years, yet are fast disappearing from our world. Dupont’s work has earned him photography’s most prestigious prizes, including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America; a Bayeux War Correspondents Prize; and first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys, and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007, he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan, and in 2010 he received the Gardner Fellowship at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Piksa Niugini by Stephen Dupont, with forward by Robert Gardner and essay by Bob Connolly, is published by the Peabody Press and Radius Books, (2013). Volume 1: 144 pages, 80 duotone, 6 color images. Volume 2: 144 pages, 120 color images. Piksa Niugini records noted Australian photographer Stephen Dupont’s journey through some of Papua New Guinea’s most important cultural and historical zones – the Highlands, Sepik, Bougainville and the capital city Port Moresby. The project is contained in two volumes in a slipcase one of portraits of local people, and the second of personal diaries. This remarkable body of work captures one of the world’s last truly wild and unique frontiers. Stephen’s work for this book was conducted with the support of the Robert Gardner Fellowship of Photography from Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The first volume of portraits reproduced in luscious duotone and 4 color; the second is an eclectic collection of the diaries, drawings, contact sheets and documentary photographs that Dupont created as he produced the project, which add to a broader understanding of the images in volume one. Stephen Dupont has produced a remarkable body of visual work; hauntingly beautiful photographs of fragile cultures and marginalized peoples. He skillfully captures the human dignity of his subjects with great intimacy and often in some of the worlds most dangerous regions. His images have received international acclaim for their artistic integrity and valuable insight into the people, culture and communities that have existed for hundreds of years, yet are fast disappearing from our world. Dupont’s work has earned him photography’s most prestigious prizes, including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America; a Bayeux War Correspondents Prize; and first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys, and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007, he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan, and in 2010 he received the Gardner Fellowship at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Piksa Niugini by Stephen Dupont, with forward by Robert Gardner and essay by Bob Connolly, is published by the Peabody Press and Radius Books, (2013). Volume 1: 144 pages, 80 duotone, 6 color images. Volume 2: 144 pages, 120 color images. Piksa Niugini records noted Australian photographer Stephen Dupont’s journey through some of Papua New Guinea’s most important cultural and historical zones – the Highlands, Sepik, Bougainville and the capital city Port Moresby. The project is contained in two volumes in a slipcase one of portraits of local people, and the second of personal diaries. This remarkable body of work captures one of the world’s last truly wild and unique frontiers. Stephen’s work for this book was conducted with the support of the Robert Gardner Fellowship of Photography from Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The first volume of portraits reproduced in luscious duotone and 4 color; the second is an eclectic collection of the diaries, drawings, contact sheets and documentary photographs that Dupont created as he produced the project, which add to a broader understanding of the images in volume one. Stephen Dupont has produced a remarkable body of visual work; hauntingly beautiful photographs of fragile cultures and marginalized peoples. He skillfully captures the human dignity of his subjects with great intimacy and often in some of the worlds most dangerous regions. His images have received international acclaim for their artistic integrity and valuable insight into the people, culture and communities that have existed for hundreds of years, yet are fast disappearing from our world. Dupont’s work has earned him photography’s most prestigious prizes, including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America; a Bayeux War Correspondents Prize; and first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys, and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007, he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan, and in 2010 he received the Gardner Fellowship at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Piksa Niugini by Stephen Dupont, with forward by Robert Gardner and essay by Bob Connolly, is published by the Peabody Press and Radius Books, (2013). Volume 1: 144 pages, 80 duotone, 6 color images. Volume 2: 144 pages, 120 color images. Piksa Niugini records noted Australian photographer Stephen Dupont’s journey through some of Papua New Guinea’s most important cultural and historical zones – the Highlands, Sepik, Bougainville and the capital city Port Moresby. The project is contained in two volumes in a slipcase one of portraits of local people, and the second of personal diaries. This remarkable body of work captures one of the world’s last truly wild and unique frontiers. Stephen’s work for this book was conducted with the support of the Robert Gardner Fellowship of Photography from Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The first volume of portraits reproduced in luscious duotone and 4 color; the second is an eclectic collection of the diaries, drawings, contact sheets and documentary photographs that Dupont created as he produced the project, which add to a broader understanding of the images in volume one. Stephen Dupont has produced a remarkable body of visual work; hauntingly beautiful photographs of fragile cultures and marginalized peoples. He skillfully captures the human dignity of his subjects with great intimacy and often in some of the worlds most dangerous regions. His images have received international acclaim for their artistic integrity and valuable insight into the people, culture and communities that have existed for hundreds of years, yet are fast disappearing from our world. Dupont’s work has earned him photography’s most prestigious prizes, including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America; a Bayeux War Correspondents Prize; and first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys, and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007, he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan, and in 2010 he received the Gardner Fellowship at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Emilio Banuelos has worked as an editorial photographer and consultant for newspapers in Mexico, Panama and the United States. His documentary work earned him fellowships from the Poynter Institute, The Marty Forscher Fellowship for Humanistic Photography and an award from EnFoco Inc. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Emilio teaches documentary photography for the Academy of Art University, and has conducted workshops for the University of California Santa Cruz-Extension, the University of Coahuila and Black Boots Inc.  www.blackbootsink.com www.embaphoto.com Emilio recommends the work of Donna Ferrato (www.donnaferrato.com) www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandidframe.com

Emilio Banuelos is a freelance documentary photographer based in San Francisco. After graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism. Emilio’s documentary work about religious rituals in Mexico earned him a fellowship from the Poynter Institute, an award from the College Photographer of the Year competition, and the Marty Forscher Fellowship for Humanistic Photography. He is also the editor of the online photography magazine, . You can discover more of his work by visiting . Emilio Banuelos recommends the work of . For streaming audio or subscribe to the podcast for free viaBook Recommendation: .