Stay ConnectedPhoto Director Gem Fletcher hosts The Messy Truth, a podcast dedicated to the world of contemporary photography featuring exclusive interviews with emerging and leading artists, curators and critics. Listen in to these candid conversations that unpack photography and why it connects us all in such transformational ways. Follow Gem’s Instagram @gemfletcher for images of photographs discussed in each episode.
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American Photographer Alexander Coggin has an extraordinary eye for the unusual, the unexpected and the unlikely. A trained actor, his theatrical education influences his image-making – championing character and blurring the space between perception and reality.
“We all have within us the capability to make work that is very specific to our value systems, our upbringing, our visual references, our interests and desires, and if you really pay attention to yourself, you will make work that looks like nobody else’s.”
Alexander Coggin talks to Gem Fletcher about his autodidactic pathway to photography and the importance of authorship.
@alexandercoggin
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1991, Alice Mann is a South African photographic artist based in London who’s intimate portraiture essays explore notions of picture making as an act of collaboration. She aims to create images that empower her subjects and creates projects over extended periods, which enables her to create images that allow for engaged and nuanced representations.
“I’m interested in working more to collaborate with my subjects than narrate their stories.”
Alice Mann talks to Gem Fletcher about her powerful project 'Drummies' and how she navigates her responsibility as an image maker.
@alicemannn
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Recorded in London, UK
Edited by John Webb
Special thanks to Liv Siddall
Music by Judd Greenstein – Change from Awake
Design by Ruby Wight
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Catherine Hyland is a photographer living and working in London. Her photography centres around people and their connection to the land they inhabit. Primarily landscape based, her work is rooted in notions of fabricated memory, grids, enclosures and national identity. Her work highlights humanity’s attempts to tame and transform nature, both past and present.
“Even now I much prefer to be the student than the teacher. I have such a thirst to learn”
Cat talks to Gem Fletcher about her development as an artist and how she fed her constant desire to learn and develop through assisting.
Projects/References
Wait And See Pudding with Patience Sauce
Dean Maccannell – The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
Website: catherinehyland.co.uk
IG: @CATHYLAND
Recorded in London, UK
Edited by John Webb
Special thanks to Liv Siddall
Music by Judd Greenstein – Change from Awake
Design by Ruby Wight
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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