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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Nana SRT (@nana.S.R.T) Nana Sakura Rosalia Tinley Klimek, aka Nana SRT, is a visual artist working primarily in photography. She lives and works between London and Vienna. Introduced by her father to the NikonFM as an early teen, Nana picked up photography and darkroom as a voluntary side subject in high school. She shot her first personal series depicting caged zoo animals' eyes at around the age of 18. Around that time she moved to England and quickly became involved in the London dance scene. Her photography remained a private pastime. In 2009, NSRT shot her first dance series entitled Move!, which is included in her public portfolio today. Finding herself amidst heaps of photographs, in 2019 NSRT decided to share some of these publicly, and took the leap to participate in art fairs, making her debut at The Other Art Fair w Saatchi Art in Brooklyn, New York.Various art fairs have followed since, including Red Dot at Miami Art Week (2022 and 2023), Art Wynwood (Miami 2023), and Art Santa Fe (2023). NSRT has exhibited at some group shows including: at Bergdorff Goodman (NYC), Orchard Galerie (NYC), and some independently run local art events in East London. She launched her first book DAIDO LOVE at Offspring London and Peckham24, published by Photobook Café Editions, in May 2024. Daido Love is stocked in London at The Photographers Gallery, and Photobook Café, and in Vienna at Westlicht. NSRT continues to immerse herself in the world of dance and draws inspiration from it. To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.orgEmail: ministryofartsorg@gmail.comSocial Media: @ministryofartsorg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 280 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the need for photographic education, how having heroes does not have to be negative and a new event concerning photography and the commonwealth. Plus this week, photographer Ave Pildas 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?' Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ave Pildas worked as a photo stringer for Downbeat Magazine in the Ohio Valley and Pennsylvania in the 1960's. In 1971 he began working as the Art Director at Capitol Records in Hollywood and designed and photographed album covers for the label's recording artists. He then launched a career as a freelance photographer and designer soon after, specialising in architectural and corporate photography. His photographs have been exhibited in one man shows at the: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Photographers Gallery, London, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, Gallerie Diaframma, Milan, and in numerous group shows. Photographs by Pildas are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Bibliotheca National, Paris; the University of Arizona as well as numerous other public and private collections. He is a Professor Emeritus at Otis College of Design, Los Angeles and currently lives in Santa Monica, CA in a solar powered, zero-scaped home and studio he collaborated on with W3 Architects. He is digitally archiving his vintage work, and continues with new projects while mentoring young talent. www.avepildas.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. Scott's next book Condé Nast Have Left The Building: Six Decades of Vogue House will be published by Orphans Publishing in the Spring of 2024. © Grant Scott 2023

Everest Pipkin is a writer, game developer and software artist from Central Texas whose work follows themes of ecology, information theory, and system collapse. As an artist and as a theorist, they fundamentally believe in the liberatory capacity of care; care not as an abstract emotion but rather as a powerful force that motivates collective work towards a better world. They hold a BFA from University of Texas at Austin, an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and live and work in southern New Mexico. They have shown and spoken at The Design Museum of London, The Texas Biennial, The XXI Triennale of Milan, The Photographers Gallery of London, Center for Land Use Interpretation, and other spaces. When not at the computer in the heat of the day, you can find them in the hills spending time with their neighbors— both human and non-human.   Please consider supporting Critical Distance at https://www.patreon.com/critdistance Production Team: Darshana Jayemanne, Zoyander Street, Emilie Reed. Audio Direction and Engineering: Damian Stewart Double Bass: Aaron Stewart Transcription: Charly Harbord

In episode 206 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the truth within images of conflict, whether smartphones have become too smart and he suggests a Photo Life Hack to save you money. Plus this week photographer Tricia Porter takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Born in 1946 Tricia Porter's interest in photography began as a teenager, when she wanted to bring back a visual record of her first trip outside Britain, to Moscow in an old bus loaded with college students and camping gear. She met the photographer, Sylvester Jacobs who encouraged her to buy a camera and she began attending lectures and seminars at The Photographers Gallery, London, and the ICA Photo Study Centre learning from photographers work, such as Tony Ray Jones, Bill Jay, Steiglitz, Ansel Adams, Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Kertesz, Bill Brandt and many more. Her first photography exhibition was in Liverpool in 1972, the outcome of documenting her surroundings while living in Liverpool's inner city. In 1974, she moved to Liverpool 8, an area of the city that was notorious for its poverty, planning blight and vandalism. The resulting Bedford Street exhibition was shown at the Liverpool Academy of Arts, and later the Half Moon Gallery in London. It gained Arts Council support, and Porter went on to create a follow-up exhibition, Some Liverpool Kids, which was also shown at the Academy in 1976. She left Liverpool in 1976 to live in rural Hampshire and has remained living there until today. Throughout her career Porter has running community based photography workshops, and continued to exhibit her work with the most recent ‘Liverpool Photographs 1972-74' being staged at the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool in 2015. Cafe Royal Books have published five books of Porter's work, Portraits of People in a Dying Community Liverpool 1972, Some Kids in Liverpool 8 1974, Industry Year 1986, Liverpool Docks 1975, and Selborne 1980-82 www.porterfolio.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). © Grant Scott 2022

Born in Bristol in 1950, Jem Southam is one of the UK's most renowned landscape photographers, working predominately in the South West of England where he lives. Jem's richly detailed works document subtle changes and transitions within the landscape, allowing him to explore cycles of life and death, decay and renewal, through spring and winter, and also to reveal the subtlest of human interventions in the natural landscape. His work is characterised by its balance of poetry and lyricism within a documentary practice and combines topographical observation with other references: personal, cultural, political, scientific, literary and psychological. Jem's working method combines the predetermined and the intuitive. Seen together, his series suggest the forging of pathways towards visual and intellectual resolution.Jem has had solo exhibitions at The Photographers Gallery, London, Tate St Ives, Cornwall and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London and his work is held in many important collections, both in the UK and internationally.Until his retirement from teaching three years ago, Jem was Professor of Photography at the University of Plymouth and he is represented by the Huxley Parlour Gallery in London. On episode 174, Jem discusses, among other things:His student experience.Changes to the photographic culture.The importance of negative film.The gallery he ran in Bristol with friend Adrian Lovelace.Myths and stories.Bodies of water and Winter.What is a river?The influence of land art.The Pond at Upton Pyne.His switch to digital and how a broken elbow contributed to it. Referenced:Martin ParrPaul StrandBill BrandtPaul GrahamTony Ray JonesThe BechersRobert AdamsSusan ButlerAdrian LovelaceBruegelRichard HamlynBarbara BosworthJosef SudekSigma DP2 Instagram“I made a still life picture of an apple when I was a student, with a plate camera. I still remember now that I stood back took the cloth off the top of my head and I said ‘this is what I want to be doing for the rest of my life'... This apple stood in for the colour of the English landscape. It was a sort of metaphorical kind of emblem.”— Jem Southam

Born in 1961 and completing her degree in Audio Visual studies at The Surrey Institute, Farnham in 1986, Anna Fox began her career as a documentary photographer. Influenced by the British documentary tradition and the USA's ‘New Colourists', she chronicled new town life in Basingstoke (locally known as ‘Doughnut City') and went on to publish the monograph Work Stations (1988), a study of London Office life in Thatcher's Britain. These works were exhibited extensively as far a field as Brazil and Estonia and in Through the Looking Glass, at the Barbican Art Gallery in 1989 curated by David Mellor and Ian Jeffrey, establishing Anna as a significant figure within the field of new colour documentary.In later projects, made in the 1990's, In Pursuit (1990), The Village (1991-1992 Cross Channel Photographic Mission commission), Friendly Fire (1992) and Zwarte Piet (the Netherlands 1994-1999) Anna created a new direction inventing innovative approaches and raising questions regarding the problems of documentary practice. These projects were exhibited in a number of solo exhibitions including The Photographers Gallery, London and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.By early 2000 Anna produced two autobiographical works: Cockroach Diary and My Mothers Cupboards and my Father's Words which completely turned on its head the notion of the documentary photographer as outsider. These new works investigated the personal and difficult world of domestic households and relationships bringing together a mix of image and text in two miniature book works. Later in 2003 the series Made in Europe questioned further the power relation between subject and photographer by handing over power to the subject in whork that portrayed a vision of contemporary Europe through the eyes and voices of teenagers. The projects Country Girls (1996-2001) and Pictures of Linda (1983-ongoing) introduced a collaborative element to Anna's practice: by working in partnership with the singer/songwriters Alison Goldfrapp and Linda Lunus the relationship between subject and photographer was being explored from a new perspective.Anna was shortlisted for the 2010 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize and the 2012 Pilar Citoler Prize. Her later projects, Resort 1 and Resort 2 are published by Shilt, Amsterdam, Loisirs is published by Diaphane and an new book, BLINK, will be published by Central St Martins.Anna is Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham and leads the Fast Forward Women in Photography research project.On episode 166, Anna discusses, among other things:Reflections on the past 18 monthsWhat she's been working on during that periodHaving a lot of ideasMoving away from a ‘project based mentaility'The influences of people who taught her: Graham, Parr and KnorrThe exploration of the every day41 Hewitt Road and the transition to focusing on domestic photographyHer use of text in conjunction with imagesMoving to and working in an English country villageHer project Zwarte PietMy Mothers Cupboards and my Father's WordsFast Forward Women in Photography Referenced:John DillwynMary DillwynPaul ReasPaul SearightAnthony HaugheyTessa BunneyDavid MoorePaul GrahamMartin ParrKaren KnorVal WilliamsJane AustenGilbert WhiteWilliam CobbettRaymond WilliamsMieke BalMark Sealy - AutographNaomi Rosenblaum Website | Instagram | Facebook“It's the discovery of the personal voice, I suppose, and the personal stories that you want to tell, that you can't articulate. That's why someone becomes a photographer or a filmmaker… you use photography because you can't speak it.”

Self portrait Nikolas Ventourakis is a visual artist living and working between Athens and London. His practice situates in the threshold between art and document, in the attempt to interrogate the status of the photographic image. A quest that unfolds in the decisive years of the digital revolution, when a crucial overlap between producers and viewers seems to have reset all previous critical discourses. Central to Ventourakis's visual work is a denial for a one-way resolution and an invitation to embrace an ambiguous imagery, where the photographic is not yet real, and the familiar is a projection of a mix of memory - stemming from both private and media experiences - with abstract thinking. Ventourakis' fascination lies in our need for stories to be conclusive, which cannot but clash with the impossibility for apparent pictures to provide any evidence nor "objective truth". This is why his work allows for bias and misinterpretation. Ventourakis completed an MA in Fine Art (Photography) with Merit at Central Saint Martins School of Arts (2013) and is the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Award in Photography (2013). He was selected for Future Map (2013), Catlin Guide (2014) and Fresh Faced Wild Eyed (2014) in the Photographers Gallery as one of the top graduating artists in the UK. In 2015 he was a visiting artist at CalArts with a FULBRIGHT Artist Fellowship and is a fellow in New Museum's IDEAS CITY. He was shortlisted for the MAC International and the Bar-Tur Award. Recently he has exhibited in FORMAT Festival, Derby; the NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, the Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists 18, the parallel program of the Istanbul Biennale , Hors Pistes 14 at Centre Pompidou, and The Same River Twice, at the Benaki Museum. Since 2017 he is the artistic director of the Lucy Art Residency in Kavala, and is co-curator of the project “A Hollow Place” in Athens. He is a 2020 Stavros Niarchos Artworks Fellow.  The book mentioned in the interview at the end is Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Current Exhibitions mentioned: Tell Me I Belong group show and Betwixt and Between. https://www.miscathens.com/exhibitions To earn more about the Band that we discussed at the end of the interview, click here and see the video below; RAMDAT. Unlikely Outcomes: An Improvision from NIKOLAS VENTOURAKIS on Vimeo. Nikolas Ventourakis, XX. “It was a Good Sunday as far as I remember it”, 2021, mounted on Dibond, in artist's frame, 80 cm x 100 cm. Installation shot from Tell Me I Belong Exhibition Nikolas Ventourakis, IX. interior false memory composition - left 2019, inkjet print on baryta archival paper, mounted on Dibond, artist's frame, 125x85cm (120x80cm print) Installation shot from Unlikely Outcomes.Exhibtion*

Tamiko Thiel, Multimedia artist and Jon Uriarte, Digital Curator at The Photographers' Gallery for Lend Me Your Face – Go Fake Yourself! a participatory deep fake artificial intelligence project on view at TPG until 17 March 2021. This project uses deep fake artificial intelligence technology to animate single photos of faces with facial expressions and body language "borrowed" from driving videos of public figures. With deep fake AI technology, the face - the most intimate and yet public part of the self - and the emotions it expresses can more and more easily be manipulated and placed in contexts out of the control of the "lenders" of the faces themselves. What have we learned? How the project Lend Me Your Face – Go Deepfake Yourself! is a performative participatory project. We can reflect upon the limitation of the machine with its imperfection and glitch. The models were chosen because they were specific to a particular political moment. The Photographers Gallery has a wonderful gold mine of information about the evolution of imagery and Data sets. Check the links below. Today, artists and photographers have to learn both: lens work and software skills. And, Computational Photography is rapidly evolving. About @AgoraDigitalArt Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network. ►► Donate via Paypal #TamikoThiel #JonUriarte #DeepFake #AgoraDigitalArt #DigitalArtNetwork #Agoranetwork #DigitalArt #NewMediaArt

À l’occasion d’expositions interrogeant les liens étroits entre image et récit, la MEP a accueilli une conversation entre Federica Chiocchetti, créatrice de la plateforme photo-littéraire Photocaptionist et Laurence Vecten, co-fondatrice de The Gould Collection, maison d’édition mettant en regard photographes et écrivains. Cette rencontre était l’occasion pour les invitées de traiter de la photo-textualité et de présenter l’état de leurs recherches. Federica Chiocchetti est écrivaine et commissaire spécialisée en photographie et en littérature. À travers sa plateforme en ligne et hors ligne Photocaptionist, elle collabore avec des institutions telles que la Photographers’ Gallery, le Fotomuseum Winterthur et le Foam. Elle réalise une thèse en photo-textualité à l’Université de Westminster à Londres. Laurence Vecten est éditrice et rédactrice photo indépendante pour Le Monde, Papiers (France Culture) et L’Obs. Avec Russet Lederman et Yoko Sawada, elle a fondé la maison d’édition The Gould Collection qui a notamment publié Hypermarché – Novembre (photographies de Motoyuki Daifu avec des poèmes de Michel Houellebecq) et It Don’t Mean A Thing (photographies de Saul Leiter avec une nouvelle de Paul Auster). « Rencontre avec Federica Chiocchetti et Laurence Vecten”, organisée le 13 juin 2019 dans l’auditorium de la MEP

Barry Lewis is a British photographer and filmmaker who for several decades has worked internationally for numerous prestigious publications from Life magazine to National Geographic. Having originally studied theoretical chemistry, Barry won a scholarship from the Royal College of Art to do an MA in photography and subsequently began his career in style when he won the Vogue Award and worked as a staff photographer for the magazine on a salary of £10 per week.In 1981, Barry co-founded Network Photographers a London-based co-operative photo agency for photojournalists and documentary photographers, based loosely on the Magnum Photos model.As well as photojournalism and portraiture, Barry has directed over 20 documentaries, commercials and art films. His work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Museum of London and The Photographers Gallery, London. Notable exhibitions and awards include Positive Lives (1993), a book and international exhibition about living with AIDS and the World Press Award’s Oskar Barnack Medal for humanitarian photography (1990). In 2019 his images from Butlins in the 1980s were shown at Turner Contemporary as part of the “Resort” show. Since 2010 Barry has worked with musician David Toop and singer Elaine Mitchener to produce the mixed-media production “Of Leonardo” for the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice. A new version, choreographed by Dam Van Huynh, now tours internationally with a performance at the Purcell Room on the South Bank in September 2018.Barry has published numerous photobooks including Blackpool 1984-1989  (Café Royal books), Butlins Holiday Camp 1982  (Café Royal books), Soho in the 1990s (Café Royal books), Vaguely Lost in Shangri-la: 14 years of the Glastonbury Festival (Flood Publications) and Miami Beach 1985-2000 (Hoxton Mini Press, 2019). On episode 133, Barry discusses, among other things:Chemistry, teaching and the Royal CollegeComing of age in the 60sStarting Network PhotographersAdventures on assignment in Romania  Winning the Oksar Barnack Award for his Copsa Mica storyAlbaniaMiami Beach projectPhotographing strangersMaking filmsOrganising his archiveThe National Memorial for Peace and Justice, AlabamaBLM and London during lockdown Referenced:Bill BrandtTony Ray JonesHomer SykesW. Eugene SmithMike AbrahamsMike GoldwaterJohn SturrockMartin SlavinSue TrangmarColin JacobsonMary Ellen MarkDaniel Meadows Website (in progress) | Instagram | Facebook“I toured China with Elton John and Watford football club. You can’t make these things up. And there were no other photographers. So you had this kind of access and freedom. And just travelling… It was so exciting.”

All Change: June Sarpong, TV broadcaster and panellist and author of Diversify became the BBC's first ever Director of Creative Diversity last October. She talks to Ed and Charlotte about change at the BBC, gives a sneak preview of all the exciting programming coming up this summer and autumn and tells us how white people can be effective allies in the fight against racism We're breaking out to: Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at The Barbican from 13th July Jan Svoboda: Against the Light at The Photographers Gallery from 14th July Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium at Whitechapel Gallery from 14th July We're Reading: Diversify by June Sarpong The Power of Women by June Sarpong We're Watching: I May Destroy You: BBC iPlayer Noughts and Crosses: BBC iPlayer Produced & Edited by Alex Graham Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In episode 110 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering the photographic image as proof of history, creating an archive, and the potential repetition of portrait photography. Plus this week photographer Witold Krassowski 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?' Born in 1956 Witold Krassowski studied linguistics at the University of Warsaw and the Sorbonne, he received his doctorate in photography in 2009 at the Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia in Katowice and three years later he received his post-doctoral degree. After receiving his final diploma his photographic hobby became his career. The situation at the time in Poland at that time was in major transition as communism was crumbling, and the Solidarność movement was created. For several years Krassowski was busy running and learning, documenting a country in a state change and turmoil. Disgusted with the state of the Polish economy, he moved to London in 1988. There he became involved with the Independent Magazine, where the photo editor Colin Jacobson offered him some assignments and suggested he join the Network Photographers agency. Krassowski has worked as a photo-reporter in Afghanistan, the UK, Mongolia, and India, but most of his creative output comes from Poland. His work has been published in various titles including Liberation, Tempo, Stern, Der Spiegel, The Observer, The Independent, The New Yorker, Forbes and Fortune, among others. He was the recipient of the World Press Photo Award in 1991 and 2003. Since 2009, he has published four books including Powidoki Z Polski: After Images of Poland and exhibited at the Freightdoors Gallery, California, USA; The Photographers Gallery, London, UK; Noorderlicht Photofestival, Holland and Perpignan Photo Festival, France. He teaches, at the Faculty of Media Art at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. www.witoldkrassowski.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 book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was 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 2020

Pictured: Ronan O’Rahilly Matthew Bannister on Ronan O’Rahilly, the Irish businessman who ran the pirate radio station Radio Caroline on a ship off the coast of Essex. Sir John Houghton, the atmospheric physicist who was Director of the Met Office and co-chair of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change. Sue Davies, who founded and ran the Photographers' Gallery in London, supporting the careers of many leading photographers. Barbara Smoker, the outspoken atheist and anarchist who was President of the National Secular Society. Interviewed guest: Ray Clark Interviewed guest: Hannah Malcolm Interviewed guest: Dave Roberts Interviewed guest: Paul Hardaker Interviewed guest: Amanda Hopkinson Interviewed guest: Chris Steele-Perkins Interviewed guest: Professor Anthony Costello Interviewed guest: Denis Cobell Producer: Neil George Archive clips from: Arena: Caroline 199: A Pirate's Tale, BBC Two 01/03/1991; The Story of Pop, Radio 1 26/01/1974; Ray Clark on Radio Caroline 1987; Belief, Radio 3 10/06/2012; Interview with Sue Davies, courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery; Seeds of Faith, Radio 4 14/07/1996; Today, Radio 4 16/12/2002.

Hear cross-disciplinary artist Mohamed Bourouissa discuss his nominated exhibition Free Trade (2019) as he explores his wider research into the mechanics of power, looking at economic systems and ongoing tensions between different social and cultural conditions. This conversation was chaired by artist and editor Dámaso Randulfe (Migrant Journal), at The Photographers’ Gallery on February 21 2020.

Welcome back to the Outerfocus podcast!I did say that you could expect a new one early March but I thought it fitting to get this one out today. Especially as Iain has a book signing at the Photographers Gallery this Thursday, 27th, 6pm - 8pm.Full show notes and links at - www.outerfocuspodcast.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/outerfocuspodcast)

In this episode, Dom talks to Julian Rodriguez about Shot in Soho - the exhibition he co-curated at the Photographers Gallery. We then head up the road for a screening of  Piccadilly (1929) at the Regent Street Cinema and talk to members of the London Silent Film Group about the film. CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES

Ellie Davies (Born 1976) lives in Dorset and works in the woods and forests of Southern England.  She gained her MA in Photography from London College of Communication in 2008 and has been working in the UK’s forests for the past nine years, making work which explores the complex interrelationship between the landscape and the individual.Ellie is represented by Crane Kalman Brighton Gallery in the UK, Patricia Armocida Gallery in Milan, Susan Spiritus Gallery in California, A.Galerie in Paris and Brussels and Brucie Collections in Kiev.Her most recent series, Fires, was selected as a Finalist in the Klompching NY Fresh 2019 Summer Show and received a Gold and two Bronze awards in the Moscow International Photography Awards 2019 and Winner in the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards: Professional Landscapes and Seascapes category.  Fires was also selected Winner of the 12th Pollux Awards: Professional Fine Art Series, and Professional Conceptual Nominee: Fine Art Photography Awards 2019 and awarded Winner in the Nature, Environment and Perspectives category of the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2019.Stars 8 was awarded ‘Fine Art Single Image Winner’ in the Magnum Photography Awards 2017 and in The Celeste Prize 2017 and was exhibited at The Photographers Gallery in London and Bargehouse OXO London in October 2017. Ellie was also a Selected Winner in AI-AP’s American Photography 33 (2017) and Landscape Winner in PDN’s The Curator Awards 2016. The six winning artists were exhibited at Foley Gallery in New York in 2016. Her Stars series was also selected for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 and received The People Choice Award.Ellie’s has had many solo exhibitions internationally and her work is currently on display in a touring exhibition for The Imperial Hospital Trust, currently at St Mary’s Hospital in London, until late February 2020. On episode 122, Ellie discusses, among other things:Her recent ‘dry spell’.Her first landscape seriess, Silent, Dark and DeepThe ‘Twilights’ exhibition at the V&A museumHow the word ‘banal’ during a crit changed everythingGetting into the woodsAn insight into processThe gallery system and getting in to itBuilding nestsArtist StatementsHer series’ Stars and Come With MeReferenced:Tony BoxallFrancesca WoodmanSarah MoonCindy ShermanRichard KalmanTom HunterTrudie StephensonSimon Brown Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter“I wanted to find a way of having a relationship with the landscape. And the way I’ve done that is to try and spend time in a place and have a process of making something within it. Because for me there’s something that happens when I’m doing something with my hands or something creative where you’re looking differently, you’re thinking differently, you’re utilising material around and you’re spending time there. And there’s also a kind of slowing down. You’re occupying that space in a way. And creating something. But something temporary.”

In exploration and celebration of Black British culture, GUAP – a youth-led digital media platform, curated an event at TPG that explored the talent, narrative and significant voices that have shaped Black British culture. Listen here to the vibrant, honest and on point panel discussion had by: photographer Vanley Burke, art director Erin O’Garro, writer and diversity advisor, Bilal Harry Khan, and poet and artist, Abondance Matanda. This event was chaired by Jide Adetunji, co-founder of GUAP at The Photographers’ Gallery on October 24 2019.

In 2010, with a feeling that the traditional publishing industry was not going to last, Bruno Ceschel founded Self Publish Be Happy, an initiative to support and promote the work of emerging photographers. Originally, it functioned as a platform for artists making DIY Books and Zines, but eventually would become more expansive, getting involved in educational activities, the curation of exhibitions and events, and with their own publishing initiative. Through its imprint SPBH editions, Ceschel has published books by Carmen Winant, Lorenzo Vitturi, Nicholas Muelner, Peter Puklus and Chritina de Middel to name a few.In addition to his work with Self Publish Be Happy, Ceschel is also a lecturer and a curator and has organized events at numerous international institutions such as C/O Berlin, The Photographers Gallery in London, MiCamera Mian and Printerd Matter in New York. He also writes regularly for publications such as Aperture, the British Journal of Photography and FOAM.Ceschel began his career in photography working at Colors Magazine as a journalist, then edited by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In episode 62 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering photography workshops and the promises they make, memory and photography from a personal perspective and and portrait photography made but not promoted.  Plus this week photographer Sunil Gupta 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?' You can find out more about Niall McDiarmid's book Southwestern mentioned in this episode here www.niallmcdiarmid.com/books.php You can find out more about The Eye: How the World's Most Influential Creative Directors Develop Their Vision by Nathan Williams mentioned in this episode here www.workman.com/products/the-eye Sunil Gupta was born in 1953, in New Delhi and now lives in London as a Canadian citizen. During the late 1960s, his family moved to Montreal, where he received his BA in Communications in 1977, at Concordia University. His thirst for an artistic education led him to New York and then England. After receiving his diploma in Photography at West Surrey College of Art & Design, in Farnham, Gupta decided to continue his academic education at The Royal College of Art in 1981. He then enrolled at the University of Surrey, where he gained an Honorary MA. In 1989, Sunil co-founded Autograph – the Association of Black Photographers, and a few years later participated in the birth of the Organisation for Visual Arts (OVA), aimed to promote a better understanding of culturally diverse visual arts practices. In 1995, he was diagnosed as HIV positive and decided not to let it rule, and eventually ruin, his life and decided to fight back. As an artist, he has always gravitated towards self-referential art exploration and expression, retaining his belief in the universal nature of the human condition. Coming from an Eastern culture and living in the West, Gupta felt it was only right to connect these two sides of the world in his work, bringing them closer to one another. His work has been extensively exhibited both nationally and internationally at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, ICA, London, The Serpentine Gallery, London, The Photographers Gallery, London and the Tate, Liverpool amongst many other museums and galleries. His work is also held in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate, London, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography , National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa and George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. He has won multiple awards and his most recent books include Christopher Street 1976, Delhi: Communities of Belonging, Queer: Sunil Gupta, Wish You Were Here, and Pictures From Here. www.sunilgupta.net 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. He is currently work on his next documentary film project Woke Up This Morning: The Rock n' Roll Thunder of Ray Lowry. 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

We hear from curators María Wills and Alexis Fabry about a new Latin American showcase at The Photographers’ Gallery called ‘Urban Impulses’. Plus: surfing legend Laird Hamilton discusses his book ‘Liferider: Heart, Body, Soul, and Life Beyond the Ocean’, and we meet art pioneer Bruce McLean and Anda Winter, the artistic director of London’s Coronet Theatre, to discuss the artist’s new show.

"Londoners" es un proyecto de retratos realizado durante tres años en las calles de Londres por Alex Amorós, fotógrafo, artista audiovisual, DJ y vocalista de The Liquorice Experiment & Fast Forward con sede en Londres. El proyecto surge, en palabras del propio Alex: “Tras un tiempo observando a las personas, su diversidad y la falta de comunicación que muchas veces existe entre ellas, decidí que iba a parar a gente y retratarla sin ningún miedo o pudor quería romper esos limites y mostrar su humanidad, así que me decidí a entablar relación con desconocidos en las calles”. El resultado final un fotolibro autoeditado, que vio la luz gracias al crowdfunding y que se encuentra a la venta, entre otros lugares, en The Photographers Gallery. Este proyecto forma parte de la colección de la Fundación del prestigioso fotógrafo Martin Parr. El proyecto “Londoners” se materializa tanto en el fotolibro mencionado, como en una exposición de fotografías, la primera de ellas tuvo lugar en Londres en la Galería Radio de la capital británica a escasos metros de central St Martins en St Pancras.

The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize rewards innovation behind the lens. Anna Danneman, curator of its accompanying show at The Photographers’ Gallery, stops by to put this year’s nominees in focus. Plus: songwriter Mary Timony discusses her new record and we meet sarod-playing musician and composer Soumik Datta.

In episode 43 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering the excitement of discovering lost archives and lost images, recommends two recent documentaries and reflects upon how the past fifty years of American photography could have been so different.  Plus this week photographer Marc Wilson 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?' Born in London, 1968, Marc Wilson lives in Bath, England and his photography documents the memories and histories that are set in the landscapes that surround us. His current work in progress, A Wounded Landscape, begun in 2015, documents the geography of the Holocaust, based around a small number of stories, with locations in over 20 different countries throughout Europe and the former Soviet Republics. His previous work, The Last Stand, was researched and photographed over a four year period, and looks at some of the remaining Second World War military coastal defences around the coastlines of Northern Europe, from Norway to the Franco-Spanish border and The Northern Isles of the UK. The work was an award winner at The Terry O'Neill Awards in 2013 and was published as a book in late 2014. Marc's work has been exhibited at The Royal Armouries Museum, Focalpoint Gallery and The Anise Gallery, London and included in group shows at The Photographers Gallery and the Association of Photographers Gallery, London, the Athens PhotoFestival, 2015 and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2018. His work has been published in journals and magazines ranging from The British Journal of Photography and Raw to Wired and Dezeen. www.marcwilson.co.uk. 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 Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast and Spotify spotify:show:4oOnPplYSeCKIYqopCK3ra Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer in Professional Photography at the University of Gloucestershire, 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. He is currently work on his next documentary film project Woke Up This Morning: The Rock n' Roll Thunder of Ray Lowry www.wokeupthismorningfilm.com. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay has been screened across the UK and the US in 2018 and will be screened in the US and Canada in 2019. © Grant Scott 2019

I år är det 80 år sedan andra världskriget inleddes och det här året kommer Förintelsens offer att hedras världen över. Men hur ska man få unga att lyssna? Kanske har Steven Spielberg svaret. Det finns något motsägelsefullt. Ja, mer än så: det finns något oöverstigligt i att se utställningar om förintelsen. En lätt känsla av skam. En känsla av att inkräkta på de döda och plågades liv. Och samtidigt måste vi se. Jag går omkring på en liten men drabbande utställning på Historiska Museet i Stockholm och ser. Där en väska som någon haft med sig till koncentrationslägret, där en fångjacka en av de första politiska fångarna burit. På väggarna texter: en tidslinje. 30 porträtt av gamla människor som överlevde plågoandarna och nu ser oss besökare i ögonen. Och så ett par rader under där de får framföra sitt budskap. Tydligt. Pedagogiskt. Och ändå helt omöjligt att förstå. Men inte omöjligt att ta till sig. För de som var med berättar. De ger detaljerna: som att det inte gick att spara lite bröd för det stals om natten, som att det var så trångt natt om en person vände sig i sömnen måste alla runtom vända sig. Som Franciskas möte med den man som arbetade på krematoriet och visste att han själv skulle brinna där för att inte kunna vittna efter kriget. 1993 filmade Steven Spielberg Schindlers List i Polen, en film han nog fick göra för att hans andra filmer dragit in så mycket pengar. Nu gjorde han den i svart/vitt, filmbolaget suckade och hoppades kunna sälja filmen på kassett för att få tillbaka pengar en större publik skulle väl inte vilja se den. Skådespelarna som skulle gestalta offren hämtades till stor del från Israel, hela teamet var tyst det kändes som att filma på en kyrkogård har Spielberg sagt. Filmbolaget hade bjudit in verkliga överlevare, en av dem kom fram när en scen var klar. Hon ville berätta mer. Och Spielberg startade The Shoah Foundation som intervjuat mer än 51.000 människor och som med Spielbergs sedvanliga intresse för teknik nu senast gjort veckolånga intervjuer med ett antal överlevare som fått svara på 2000 frågor. Deras svar har bearbetats med sofistikerat dataprogram och artificiell intelligens så att man nu kan ställa en fråga till bilden och nästan börja ett samtal. Ja, det var en museiman som ställde frågan på pressvisningen. Men hur fungerar det? Jag gick dit någon dag efter att utställningen öppnats. Det var proppfullt framför Spielbergs skärm. Gamla och unga. Spielbergs hightech är ett sätt att skapa direkt kontakt mellan historien och nuet. Ett annat ser jag i London där Photographers Gallery, ett av Europas viktigaste fotogallerier, visar bilden av Roman Vishniac. Mest känd som en vetenskaplig fotograf i Lennart Nilssons anda, men på 30-talet utsänd att dokumentera judiska samhällen i Östeuropa. Idag finns inget kvar av dessa samhällen utom Vishniacs bilder. Inget. Han är en saklig fotograf, hans bilder av människor på gatan och i affärer har ingenting av charmen hos 50-talets så kallade humanistiska fotografer, men är inte heller katastrofbilder. De är diskreta och därför så gripande. Som när han som jude vill fotografera i Berlin på 30-talet vilket judar inte får. Då tar han med sig sin lilla dotter och ställer henne framför ett skyltfönster så han kan dokumentera vad butiken säljer redskap för att mäta skallar. Den utställningen borde tas till Sverige, både för sitt konstnärliga och sitt historiska värde. På väg ut från Historiska museet ser jag en monter från Lovön i Mälaren med några föremål. Till Lovön gick min första skolutflykt och jag minns att vi fick se vikingautgrävningarna. Nu ser jag något annat. Efter kriget fanns 185.000 krigsflyktingar i Sverige, i över 100 läger. Ett av dem alltså på Lovö med bland annat överlevande från Belsen-Belsen. Under de utgrävningarna inriktade på Vikingatiden har man funnit föremål från lägret på Lovön som fanns i två år. NU ligger de där, spröda och vittnar om ett läger alla glömt bort. Det viktigaste är att inte dela in världen i vi och andra, säger Pinkas Gutter, en av överlevarna som fått svara på tvåtusen frågor. Mikael Timm

Hello Dear Beloveds! In this episode I’m joined by Penny Slinger, co-author and illustrator of the classic tantra book Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy. We discuss her artistic career in it’s many multimedia forms. She offers wise words of guidance for this time of sexual, spiritual, and ecological crisis. Please visit her websites at: http://pennyslinger.com/ http://bluelotuspod.com/wp/ http://64dakinioracle.org/ About Penny: Penny Slinger, born in London in 1947, graduated with a first class honors degree from Chelsea College of Art in 1969. She had acclaimed solo exhibitions of her two and three dimensional Feminist Surrealist collage art and writings in London during the 1970s. She then co authored and illustrated ‘Sexual Secrets, The Alchemy of Ecstasy(1979), introducing Tantra to the modern western world and ‘The Secret Dakini Oracle’ divination system. Penny moved to the Caribbean where she resided for 15 years, creating art series dedicated to the indigenous Arawak Indians of the region. In 1994 she came to California to the estate of Dr Christopher Hills. She released the ’64 Dakini Oracle’ in 2010. Her work has been exhibited widely, including: ‘Young and Fantastic’ (Institute of Contemporary Art), ‘Angels of Anarchy’ (Manchester) and ‘The Dark Monarch’ (Tate, St Ives) in 2009, In ‘History is Now’ (Hayward Gallery) 2015 and ‘Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s’ (Photographers’ Gallery) 2016. She is represented by Riflemaker Gallery (London), Broadway 1602 (New York) and Blum and Poe (LA and Tokyo).

Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ave Pildas worked early in his career as a photo stringer for Downbeat Magazine in the Ohio Valley and Pennsylvania in the 1960's, and has been a successful photographer and educator for the past 40 years. In 1971 Pildas began working as the Art Director at Capitol Records in Hollywood and designed and photographed album covers for the label's recording artists. He launched a career as a freelance photographer and designer soon after, specializing in architectural and corporate photography. His photographs have been exhibited in one man shows at the: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Photographers Gallery, London, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, Gallerie Diaframma, Milan, Cannon Gallery, Amsterdam, Gallerie 38, Zurich and numerous group shows. They have been featured in: The New York Times Magazine, 'ZOOM', 'PHOTO', 'CAMERA', 'photographic' and many publications both in the United States and abroad . Photographs by Ave Pildas are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Bibliotheca National, Paris; the University of Arizona as well as numerous other public and private collections. He is a Professor Emeritus at Otis College of Design. Pildas created intimate portraits of Jazz greats in live performance, at small clubs and Jazz Festivals in the Midwest, many have never been seen before. Ave currently lives in Santa Monica, CA in the solar powered, zero scaped home and studio he collaborated on with W3 Architects. He is digitally archiving his vintage work, and continues with new projects while inspiring, polishing and guiding young talent.   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 .  

A casual chat between Wandering Bears and Trine Stephensen. Recorded in London, June 2016. Trine Stephensen – Norwegian born, London based artist, curator, publisher and the co-founder of project space The Plantation Journal; an art initiative showcasing explorations within the curatorial and photographic field of contemporary arts. As well as having worked for various galleries and organisations, Stephensen also curates exhibitions, publications, workshops and events. She recently curated an exhibition at Fotogalleriet in Oslo and participated at Offprint Book Fair at The Tate Modern. She regularly writes articles on the subject of curation for various online platforms and she has participated in talks related to photography at The Tate Modern, Photographers Gallery and Miniclick’s events. Peter Haynes – WB Co – Founder / www.instagram.com/fadeawayfast Luke Norman – WB Co – Founder / www.instagram.com/lukeandnik Nik Adam – WB Co – Founder / www.lukeandnik.co.uk Talking Points – MA Contemporary Art Theory – Goldsmiths University – BA Photography – LCC – UAL – MiniClick – Gary Gohen AKA Gary From Adobe – Rejected – Gary Cohen – Jake Kenny – Photographer – Off Print London – Photo Fair – Deadhouse Sessions – Photo London – Stephen Cuss – Photographer – Alec Soth – Photographer – Instagram –www.instagram.com/theplantationjournal – Twitter – www.twitter.com/ThePlantationJ – Website – www.theplantationstudio.com

Murray Ballard embarked on a degree in furniture and product design before realising that learning about the chemical properties of plastic held little interest for him. At this point he jumped ship and switched to an art foundation course where he duly discovered something much more exciting. He graduated from the University of Brighton in 2007 with a degree in Photography. The following year he was selected for Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed 08 – the annual showcase of work by the ‘most promising recent graduates’ at The Photographers’ Gallery, London. In 2011 the British Journal of Photography recognised him as an ‘emerging photographer of note’, following his debut solo show at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, The Prospect of Immortality, which took as its subject the strange, marginal world of cryonics: the process of storing a dead body by freezing it until science has advanced to such a degree that it is able to bring that person back to life. Immediately after leaving college, Murray got the job of assisting Magnum photographer Mark Power, a role which he stayed in until quite recently. During those past ten years he has taken on his own commissions, worked on his own personal projects and continued his cryonics story - which he had first began while he still studying after coming across a curious news story in The Guardian. Exactly a decade later the book of that project has just been published by GOST books. Murray's photographs have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers including: Esquire, FT Weekend, GEO, GQ, The Guardian, The Independent and Wired. In episode 23, Murray Discusses: Early times doing "bad Jeff Walls"; a turning point - Alec Soth, Sleeping By The Mississippi; early influence: sci-fi movies; learing about "picture making" with Mark Power; the unlikely origins of his cryonics project; the Prospect of Immortality; working with GOST on the book

Tom Sutcliffe and this weeks panel discuss the film Selma, which tells the story of Martin Luther King and struggle for black voting rights in 1960s America. It charts the freedom march between Selma and Montgomery in the segregated deep south, and the high price paid for democracy. Human Rights Human Wrongs is the latest exhibition in The Photographers Gallery in London. It charts, through photojournalism, how violent flash points through the world in 20th century have shaped our perception of conflict, race, empire and ourselves. The illuminations is the 5th novel by author Andrew O'Hagan, it tells the tale of Anne, a Scottish pensioner who is slipping in to the slow slide of dementia and her Grandson who is serving with the Army in Afghanistan. It explores how memory and the past are intertwined in this cross continental, generational tale. The panel also discuss comedian and artist Kim Noble's new show You're Not Alone. He uses live action, video, music and audience participation to paint a picture of darkly comic loneliness. Better Call Saul is the prequel to cult series Breaking Bad. Its from the same creator, so can it capture the magic of the original series? Presenter Tom Sutcliffe. Producer Ruth Sanderson.

Entrepreneur, angel investor and innovator Ian Lucey joins us in studio today to talk about the many sides of his business and interest in start-ups from • Funding – what’s available to concept stage start-ups (Country Enterprise Boards, Enterprise Ireland, priming grants, etc.) • Smart Accounting – the different relief schemes available to founders that allows them to free up old taxes they’re entitled to upon starting a business etc. • Lucey Fund – the model he usesto invest is different and innovative in that we build products for people who understand a marker, but not the tech side. • MindUnit – this is a London creative agency which Lucey acquired in 2012. They are one of the market leaders in the UK arts sector and have clients such as Borough Market and London Symphony Orchestra Ian Lucey is founder and CEO of Lucey, a cloud computing and web development company with offices in Dublin, London & Milan. Ian is also an angel investor through the Lucey Fund, and has made investments in 16 startups since the funds foundation 20 months ago. Ian is currently a board member with the Irish Internet Association and was DIT Hothouse Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 Previously Ian has been Sales Director with Relate Software, a Deloitte Fast50 company, managed the Accountants Division in Sage Ireland and was Ireland’s youngest National Student Union officer. Ian has experience building and selling SaaS, ERP, Accounting, Time & Billing, CRM and Payments systems around the world. Lucey is at the forefront of cloud technology for the SME sector, partnering with local and multinational companies to offer online portals, payments, collaboration tools, mobile platforms and much more. Our goal is to help businesses work smarter. By bringing more customer interaction online we can help business become more efficient, more responsive and more profitable. Lucey Investment Fund Lucey Technology invests in exceptional people who have ideas with the potential to change the way we do business. The fund is a new twist on angel and seed investment in that its investment is part cash and part development. MindUnit MindUnit is one of London’s longest established Digital Agencies with a long history in the Arts world and beyond with customers such as the London Symphony Orchestra, The British Postal Museum, Photographers Gallery and many more. Lucey Social Lucey Social is a division of Lucey Technology that donates development time to social causes. To date Lucey Social has donated over €200,000 in development time to a range of good causes

With John Wilson. Ryan Gosling and Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Pusher) team up again for the crime thriller Only God Forgives. Set in the Bangkok underworld, the film has divided critics with its use of violence and an unconventional narrative structure, and even Gosling has admitted the film could alienate audiences. Crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell gives her verdict. Violinist Nicola Benedetti nominates a favourite concerto for Cultural Exchange, in which leading creative minds share an artistic passion. Sculptor Antony Gormley pays tribute to fellow artist Walter De Maria, who has died at the age of 77. Walter De Maria's most renowned work is The Lightning Field, in which he placed 400 stainless steel poles in a vast grid in a remote area of New Mexico. Antony Gormley share his memories of De Maria, who became a reclusive figure, and was rarely photographed or interviewed - although he performed as a musician alongside Lou Reed and John Cale in New York in the 1960s. A new exhibition Mass Observation: This is Your Photo offers an examination of the role of photography in the Mass Observation Archive. Mass Observation was founded in 1937 as a radical experiment in social science, art and documentary to create a kaleidoscopic view of 'ordinary life'. Iain Sinclair responds to the exhibition at the Photographers Gallery in London.

Photojournalists bear witness at the front line of human experience. But when does photojournalism become exploitative? On the Granta Podcast this week we bring you a recording of an art salon at the Hospital Club London, which featured a presentation of ‘Julie’, a photo essay by Darcy Padilla featured in Granta 122: Betrayal and a dramatic reading of an extract of Padilla’s journal about her work. Granta artistic director Michael Salu, photographer Afshin Dehkordi (BBC, artistic consultant to the Brighton Photo Fringe and festival director of Bread & Roses Centennial) and Daniel Campbell Blight (writer, curator and talks assistant at the Photographers’ Gallery) then explored the relationship between subject and photographer, the cultural and social significance of controversial imagery and the responsibility the media should take when selecting images for publication.

In Episode 3 we chat with Kingsley Davis about the launch of his book Flip The Script and how he went about self publishing.   Show Notes: Flip The Script is available from Amazon and other stores priced at £9.99 for limited edition paperback and £29.99 for the hardback and ebook. You can also purchase prints of some of the wonderful photographs directly from the website. [list type="circle"] [li]Kingsley Davis[/li] [li]Follow Kingsley on Twitter - @thenowschool[/li] [li]Rough Trade records[/li] [li]The Photographers’ Gallery [/li] [li]Westminster Reference Library[/li] [li]Apple iBooks Author eBook creation software[/li] [li]Adobe Lightroom Digital Photography Tools[/li] [li]Adobe Photoshop[/li] [li]Adobe Illustrator[/li] [li]Adobe Indesign[/li] [/list] Over to you What's been your experience of trying to publish a book?