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A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers

A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers

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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 ARCHIVE OF PAST EPISODES + SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE CONTENT, BECOME A MEMBER FOR £5 PER MONTH!© Ben Smith Art
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  • 285 - Sam Faulkner

    285 - Sam Faulkner
    Jul 1 2026

    Sam Faulkner is a London-based photographer and the founder of Print Swap, an iOS app. where photographers and visual artists exchange gallery-quality physical prints directly. No buying, no selling, no follower counts.

    Sam came to photography the hard way, travelling into Afghanistan in 1994 with a battered Canon, a few rolls of film and very little plan. His work has since moved between reportage, portraiture and long-form photographic projects, including Unseen Waterloo, his battlefield portrait series exhibited at Somerset House.

    Print Swap began with a gap Sam’s own wall and a long-held habit among photographers: trading prints of each other's work. In a world of endless images and thin attention, it is built on a simple belief: a print on the wall changes the relationship.

    In episode 285, Sam discusses, among other things:

    • How his new app., Print Swap, came to fruition.
    • How he got into reportage photography in search of adventure.
    • Kashmir and Afghanistan - talkng your way in and talking your way out.
    • Coming back with the six rolls of film that won him the Ian Parry Award.
    • The influence of Nick Danziger’s book Danziger’s Adventures.
    • Changes in the industry.
    • His global story about ‘the war on drugs’.
    • Lessons learned from shooting Mario Testino.
    • The threat of AI and the issue of trusted brands within the news media.
    • His decision to step back from photojournalism.
    • His new working life directing commercials.
    • His Unseen Waterloo project.

    Referenced:

    • David Hurn
    • Jonas Bendiksen
    • Ian Teh
    • Omar Ashtawy
    • Neil Burgess
    • Nick Danziger
    • Aidan Sullivan
    • Mario Testino
    • Stephen Dupont

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    1 h et 16 min
  • 286 - Ximena Borrazás

    286 - Ximena Borrazás
    Jul 15 2026

    Ximena Borrazás is a Uruguayan photographer and documentary filmmaker born in Montevideo in 1992. She focuses on armed conflicts, migration, and humanitarian crises. Her work combines visual sensitivity with a strong commitment to social justice, often addressing the experiences of women and displaced populations.

    She has published with major international outlets, including National Geographic, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, DW, France 24, Al Jazeera, and the Associated Press, and has worked with institutions such as UNHCR, UNESCO, and IOM.

    Ximena’s project in northern Ethiopia documents the devastating aftermath of the Tigray conflict, one of the deadliest wars of the 21st century. Her images portray survivors of sexual violence, displaced families, and the enduring effects of famine and trauma. This work earned her the 2024 Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence, the Gentex Corp Personal Safety Award from the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, and the Africa Mundi Award for best photographic publication in Planeta Futuro of El País.

    Her long-term documentary project The Scars of War, which began in Tigray, combines photography, testimony, and documentation to investigate conflict-related sexual violence through a forensic lens. Rather than treating sexual violence as an isolated act, the project traces it as a weapon of war, examining physical, psychological, and social evidence left behind, and the systems, or lack thereof, that respond to it.

    Ximena is currently based in Ukraine where, aside from continuing to photograph, she has a full-time job as a Liaison and Communications Officer with the United Nations.

    On episode 286, Ximena discusses, among other things:

    • Working for the UN in Ukraine
    • Her first experience of visiting the Polish border
    • The nature of working amidst drone warfare
    • Challenges of being a freelancer in a conflict zone
    • Why she doesn’t really want to be a photographer
    • The experience of being in Kyiv on a daily basis
    • Her life before photography
    • Early forays into documentary work
    • Her project in Tigray, Ethiopia and the context of the conflict there
    • How she began The Scars of War, her work on conflict related sexual violence
    • How serendipity on a HEFAT course led to publication in The Guardian
    • How some X-rays changed everything and why they were so powerful
    • How she has extended her project to other areas, and focussed on male victims
    • How her job at the UN combines with her advocacy work

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    1 h et 9 min
  • 284 - Harriet Logan

    284 - Harriet Logan
    Jun 17 2026
    Harriet Logan is a multi-award winning photographer who spent the first half of her career working on international assignments in places such as Sudan, Angola, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and Somalia for a range of international newspapers and magazines. She subsequently turned her attention to working commercially on advertising campaigns for various big brand clients, including The Pictet Group and Canon, alongside some of the worlds largest advertising agencies. Today she curates the Incite Project, an issue driven collection of photographs broadly based around the subject of world events and conflict. Harriet is also the executive director of The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant which has run for over 30 years and which she won in 1992. The grant has a mission to support young and emerging Photojournalists. She co-parents 4 boys with her husband Mark, an owl, a peregrine falcon, three dogs, a dressage horse, and a bunch of sheep, cows, chickens and pigs. On episode 284, Harriet discusses, among other things: Her journey into photojournalism from art college in the USAHer early project on an Aids patient, with whom she became closeBeginners luck at the Poll tax riots in London in 1990Ending up in southern Sudan…and then SomaliaWinning the The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant and how it changed everythingThe reality of being a female photojournalist in the 90’sAn example of the danger of inadvertantly fucking over your subjectHe story about victims of rape in Kosovo during the Balkans conflictBeing sent to Afghanistan for the first time by The Sunday Times……And returning four years later to find the women and girls she had photographed thereA close call on the road from Kabul to JalalabadMotherhood, falling out of love with being a photographer, and the decision to quit photojournalismBecoming the Executive Director of the The Ian Parry Photojournalism GrantThe new Tom Stoddart Award for ExcellenceHow The Incite Project came about and how she defines what it isThe fundamental strangeness of having graphic and disturbing photojounalism framed on your walls Referenced: Eugene Richards, Exploding Into LifeDon McCullinLes WilsonLen GreenerJosef KoudelkaCartier BressonRobert CapaW. Eugene SmithColorificAidan SullivanTom StoddartMichael RandJillian EdelsteinSimon NorfolkJenny MatthewsJeremy ClarksonAA GillMark HixTristran LundGiles Duley, Legacy of War FoundationLaura PannackOmar AshtaweyTrevor PaglenRichard MosseEd BurtynskyLuke DelaheyEd ClarkNetwork PhotographersSimon RobertsMatt BlackLorenzo MeloniChris Donovan Become a A Small Voice podcast member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of 200+ previous episodes for £4 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 h et 36 min
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