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A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers

A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers

By: Ben Smith
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 Fortnightly in-depth interviews featuring a diverse range of talented, innovative, world-class photographers from established, award-winning and internationally exhibited stars to young and emerging talents discussing their lives, work and process with fellow photographer, Ben Smith. The most recent 50 episodes are on this free feed, 200+ more are in the archive! TO ACCESS THE FULL ACHIVE OF PAST EPISODES + SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE CONTENT, BECOME A MEMBER FOR £5 PER MONTH!© Ben Smith Art
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  • 276 - Jessica Dimmock

    276 - Jessica Dimmock
    Feb 25 2026
    Jessica Dimmock’s work focusses on humanistic and intimate storytelling. She is the recipient of numerous international awards for her photography and video work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three World Press Photo Awards for short films, The Inge Morath Award from Magnum, the F Award for Concerned Photography from Forma and Fabrica, The Infinity Award for Photojournalist of the Year from the International Center of Photography, and The Kodak Award for Best Cinematography at the Hamptons International Film Festival. She is a Sundance Edit and Story Lab Fellow, and her first feature film The Pearl was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival and was executive produced by Impact Partners. Her clients include HBO, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Microsoft, The UNFPA, Aperture, Showtime and PBS. She is the co-director of the Netflix series Flint Town as and directed on the reboot of Unsolved Mysteries and AppleTV’s Home. In 2007 Jessica produced a photobook entitled The Ninth Floor (Contrasto). Her most recent film, co-directed with her partner Zackery Canepari, is Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America, focussing on the USA's $3 billion active shooter preparadness industry and its effects on teachers and students, released in 2025. In episode 277, Jessica Discusses, among other things: Current projectsHer attraction to dark subject matterHer TV mini series Captive AudienceForming close relationships with her subjectThe random coffee shop interaction that changed her direction foreverThe chance encounter that led to her first big photography project and subsequent book, The Ninth FloorHow the musician Moby played a part in her journeySerendipity and her project The PearlThe challenge of landing lucrative commercial workThe Netflix series she co-directed, Flint TownHer most recent film Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America Website | Instagram Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £5 per month. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides. Follow me on Instagram here. Need a new website? I will build you one with Squarespace. Details here.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • 275 - Philip Blenkinsop

    275 - Philip Blenkinsop
    Feb 11 2026

    On episode 275, Philip discusses, among other things:

    • His ‘cabinet of curiosities’ studio space
    • A recent, powerful urge to photograph in Australia
    • Why he left the newspaper world there in favour of Thailand
    • His early project “The Cars That Ate Bangkok”
    • His sense of anger at injustice
    • His ‘near death experience’ on Sleeping Dog Mountain
    • Process, shooting on film, and working close to the subject
    • The influence of Koudelka’s book Exiles
    • The ways in which his old home of Bangkok has changed since he was there
    • Why he moved to France

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • 274 - Joachim Ladefoged

    274 - Joachim Ladefoged
    Jan 28 2026

    Joachim Ladefoged is a Danish photographer born in 1970. He has worked as a professional since 1991, and is a member of the international photo agency VII. Today he is a staff photographer at the Danish Daily Jyllands-Posten, but over the years he has worked regularly for magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, Mare, The New Yorker and TIME.

    Joachim has received numerous awards for his work from institutions such as Visa D'Or, World Press Photo, POYi, Eissie, and Agfa, as well as Picture of the Year in Denmark. Over the years he has published 3 monographs, Albanians, Mirror and Time After My Time.

    Joachim photographs everything with the same inventiveness and diligence, whether sports, war or commerce. His highly accomplished career has seen him master complex, violent news stories, commercial assignments, daily news, and rich, vibrant, and spectacular feature stories. Joachim is credited with being one of the driving forces behind the new wave of Danish photojournalism.

    In episode 274, Joachim discusses, among other things:

    • Having arthritis as a teenager and the impact it had on his life (good and bad)
    • Starting his career as an intern at a local newspaper
    • Moving on to ‘the best job in the world’ at national newspaper Politiken
    • Winning the World Press Photo award
    • Words of wisdom received from Magnum legend Constantine Manos
    • Getting into Magnum… and being chucked out again
    • Being part of ‘the new wave of Danish photojounalists’
    • Why changing direction on becoming a father was “the right decision, but a hard decision”
    • Why three photographers were just made redundant on his newspaper
    • His approach to shooting and lighting portraits
    • His book project Time After My Time
    • Photographing his kids with the iPhone

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    1 hr and 15 mins
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