16th October 2024
© Agnieszka Sosnowska
THIS WEEK ON A SMALL VOICE PODCAST MEMBERS ONLY EPISODE...
Last week's guest Agnieszka Sosnowska returned to tackle the customary 'bonus questions'.
This week's sample question:
How do you manage a work/life balance and deal with juggling career with relationship/home/family life?
"I don’t. I am a middle aged woman in menopause. My energy is not the same as it was in my thirties. It’s harder to keep up with the housework. Staying organised is more difficult. I have to make lists. I am married to a really good friend. He champions my photographs or when I am feeling down. He’s my biggest fan. I am so lucky to have him in my life. He is a bit rough on the outside. Kind of like an Icelandic Ron Swanson but inside he is kindness."
Agnieszka's picks for...
An influential or favourite photographer or photographers:
Significant Photobook(s):
Recent Discoveries:
Sadie Cook
Ben Brink
ALSO THIS WEEK...
Upcoming Festival:
The Photoworks Weekender - 24 – 27 October, Brighton, UK - Exhibitions / Photobooks / Talks / Professional Practice / Photo Meet Superlab / Premieres / Tours / Photosocials. The Photoworks Weekender brings together a dynamic four day programme across Brighton of new commissions, exhibitions, book launches and an unmissable professional practice opportunities.
Exhibition:
Previous A Small Voice podcast guest, Stephen Shore has a travelling exhibition which is currently on show in Beijing. 14 September – 1 December 2024. The Enduring Present : A Stephen Shore Retrospective. Three Shadows Photography Art Center, 155A Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.
Photobook of interest:
I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. Carolyn Drake / Andres Gonzalez. Published by Mack. September 2024.
‘In the morning, we dash along the sidewalks – you on your side, me on mine, watching as people cross the busy street.’
In I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours, photographers and longtime partners Carolyn Drake and Andres Gonzalez embark on a collaborative journey along the US–Mexico border, creating an imaginative portrait of life in these borderlands. Traversing towns and waterways together they photographed the same subjects from different perspectives, capturing everyday scenes that appear both staged and ad hoc. The resulting series of uncanny image pairings illuminates the serendipity of human connection while confronting the challenges of relating to one another, finding balance, and defying conventional identities.
Through this striking sequence, Drake and Gonzalez reflect on their different family histories of migration and identity and the ways their backgrounds both intersect and diverge. Deliberately eschewing the temptation to follow a singular narrative or freeze a fleeting moment in time, their images instead suggest the multifarious nature of existence along the border.
Paul Lowe:
In case you have not seen my Instagram post or have not yet heard, renowned photojournalist, educator, academic and mentor to many, Paul Lowe, has died at the age of 61. In memory of Paul, I have moved the two-part podcast chat we had at the end of 2017 (published January 2018) out of the archive and into the free feed. Have a listen if you've not heard it or are not familiar with Paul and his work. He will be greatly missed by loved ones, friends and colleagues alike.
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