Considering Art Podcast – Dola Posh, photographer

Dola Posh is a young prize-winning photographer from Nigeria, now resident in England. In this episode, she talks about the difficulties adapting to life in the UK, how lockdown inspired her to document her pregnancy and ensuing motherhood through photography, how she experienced postpartum depression, how winning the Leica Women Foto Project Award in 2024 validated her photographic practice, how she has become involved in helping others suffering from post-natal depression, and what she most likes about being a photographer.

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November 18, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Matt Jacob, photographer

In this episode, Matt Jacob talks about his artistic mission to capture different peoples and cultures across the world, how an illness in his youth focused his mind on life’s fragility, his journey towards becoming a professional photographer, some of the stories behind his series taken in often remote parts of the world, the technical equipment he uses to photograph his subjects, and about his MOOD Podcast in which he invites fellow photographers to ruminate on their profession.

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July 15, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – David Stewart, photographer

In this episode, much sought-after British photographer David Stewart talks about how he started taking pictures on Morecambe beach, how he learned the tricks of the trade as an assistant in London, how he developed an off-beat humorous style, how his 2015 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize-winning photograph was about disconnection in the modern world and how some of his personal work pokes gentle fun at modern corporate working methods.

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May 27, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Gary Nicholls, steampunk ‘artist with a camera’.

In this episode, Gary Nicholls talks about steampunks, how he became one and the influence they have on his work, how he creates the images for his Imaginarium digital prints and book trilogy, the influence of Caravaggio, Dali and other Old Master painters on his images, the darker side of life for his themes, the stories behind his Fine Art pictures, and the advice he gives as to how artists should price their work.

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April 22, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Polly Braden, photographer

In this episode, British documentary photographer Polly Braden talks about some of her long-term projects. They include photographing a worker in a shoe factory in China, a group of people with autism and learning difficulties, single mothers facing challenges in an age of austerity, a flying eye hospital in Africa, the City of London both in and out of lockdown, about her current exhibition in which she follows a group of young women who have had to flee the war in Ukraine, and about her past experience of working in Gaza.

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April 15, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Elizabeth Okoh, photographer

In this episode, London-based Nigerian photographer Elizabeth Okoh talks about how she first began photographing in her childhood, why she left Nigeria to attend university in the UK, her initial difficulties in culturally acclimatising, how lots of her series and her commercial work focus on female empowerment, and how her current exhibition Women on the Frontlines celebrates the unsung heroes of the pandemic.

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March 11, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Connor Daly, photographer

In this episode, Jersey-based fine art photographer Connor Daly talks about how photography became his passion, his struggles at art school, the adventurous spirit he inherited from his mother, how his photographs responded to a serious illness, how a car park provided a career turning point, how his influences owe more to painters than photographers, and how church hall stages became a series theme.

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February 12, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Joanne Coates, documentary photographer

In this episode, Joanne talks about how being brought up as a working class girl in the rural north of England has given her a unique perspective for delving beneath the surface of the rural idyll to reveal hidden histories and issues of class, power, identity and poverty. She talks about her own experience of class prejudice and describes the ideas behind her photographic series North Sea Swells, Daughters of the Soil and Lie of the Land.

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December 11, 2023 0

Considering Art Podcast – Oli Kellett, photographer

In this episode, photographer Oli Kellett talks about how he discovered Paradise early in his career, how the idea emerged for his award-winning series Cross Road Blues, the concept behind it and how he photographed it, how ice-cream and eastern philosophy combined to inspire his Life Drawing Series, and how his current obsession is something of a soap opera.

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November 20, 2023 0

Considering Art Podcast – Suhasini Kejriwal, multi-media artist

In this episode, the internationally renowned Indian artist Suhasini Kejriwal talks about her work The Garden of Un-earthly Delights exhibited at Frieze Sculpture in London, why she studied art abroad, how surrealism became an early influence, how she builds imaginary scenes from real elements, how lockdown affected her view of nature, how she turned frenetic Indian city street scenes into art, and about working with communities in deprived areas of Kolkata.

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October 23, 2023 0