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Iva Sidash is an independent documentary photographer and visual storyteller from Ukraine. Born in 1995, she focuses on deeply personal narratives shaped by the realities of war. Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, she has documented intimate stories of fragility, resistance, and memory that unfold behind the frontlines.
Her work merges artistic sensibility with documentary practice, revealing the human experience through a lens of emotion, nuance, and resilience.
A graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York, Iva is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers and Women Photograph. She is the recipient of the 2024 Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, a Women Photograph fellowship, and the Chris Hondros Award at the Eddie Adams Workshop.
Her photographs have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, INSIDER, Der Spiegel, and The Financial Times. Her exhibitions span both solo and group presentations across the United States and Europe, highlighting her growing international recognition as a compelling voice in documentary photography.
On episode 291, Iva discusses, among other things:
Daily normality in Kyiv
How a car accident led her to street photography
How she transitioned from street photography to documenting the war
The power of trying to portray life during wartime
Winning the Ian Parry Grant (and being in that ‘family’)...
…And the Chris Hondras award
Going to the ICP in New York
Her story there about injured Ukrainian soldiers undergoing rehabilitation on Staten Island
Future plans for other projects she’s interested in, including diaristic work
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Richard Sharum is an editorial and documentary photographer based in upstate New York. Mainly focusing on socio-economic or social justice dilemmas concerning the human condition, his work has been regarded as in-depth, up-close and personal.
Selected exhibitions have occurred in Kyoto, Japan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Reggio Emilia, Italy, New York City, Boston, Chicago and Dallas, and his work has been added to the permanent collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and The Wittliff Collection, as well as others.
Richard's commissions include those by The Meadows Foundation, Centers for Community Cooperation, Harvard Law School, Student Conservation Association, Children's Medical Center (Oncology), Children's Cancer Fund.
His publications include those by LFI (Leica International), British Journal of Photography, LensCulture, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Publico (Portugal), El Pais (Spain), Observer (UK), The Wall Street Journal, B+W Photo Magazine, Huck Magazine, Glasstire, PATRON, Creative Review, among others.
Richard has published two photobooks, Campesina Cuba and Spina Americana, both with GOST. His third, American Homicide, will be released early in 2027, also by GOST. The last two of these titles will be joined in 2028 by American Avenue, to form a trilogy of books entitled Of Thee I Sing.
Getting access to the detective squad he embedded with
289 - Clémentine Schneidermann
Épisode 289
mercredi 26 août 2026 • Durée 01:08:29
Clémentine Schneidermann is a French photographer living and working between Paris and South Wales. She recently completed a practice-based PhD at the University of South Wales, Cardiff entitled Photographing Children in a Social Context: Narratives and Strategies (2021). Clémentine works on long term projects & commissions and is interested in new creative practices in social documentary photography. Her approach is collaborative and playful, with an interest in communities and childhood, as well as our relationship to identity and culture. She is a co-founder of Bleak Fabulous with Charlotte James, a photography-based creative studio working across different disciplines with an emphasis on communities and collaboration.
On episode 289, Clémentine discusses, among other things:
How having a camera made it acceptable to stare at people
Aria Shahrokhshahi (b. 1996) is a British-Iranian multi-disciplinary artist, whose practice has been shaped by a deep fascination with the intricate dynamics of diverse communities and the complexities of the human condition. With a focus on social structures and the human experience, Shahrokhshahi's work serves as a critical exploration of the relationships and power dynamics that inform everyday life.
Aria’s debut photobook, Wet Ground, featuring images from Ukraine shot over a period of several years both before and after the Russian invasion in Feburary 2022, was published in April 2026 by Loose Joints.
He is currently putting the finishing touches to a feature documentary film entitled While We Heal, which also focusses on the war in Ukraine and explores the themes of healing, loss, and resilience.
On episode 288, Aria discusses, among other things:
Formative experiences (11 different schools!) growing up in Nottingham
How walking around the city with a camera was the start of his photography journey
Negative feedback Facebook group / YouTube channel
Early education at the Photo Parlour lab (later named Sequence) from Dan Wheelan
Using large format and why the decision to shoot B&W came out of the cost of film
Falling in love with Ukraine
It not being enough to just take pictures
Why ‘Ukraine, I guess?’ was an informal category of picture during editing
Having nothing to say about war but being interested in what happens around it
The way in which war rearranges the social hierarchy
Poem by Charlotte Shevchenko-Knight
How the title ‘Wet Ground’, and the book itself, came about
The importance of collaboration
The feature length doc he is making in Ukraine
The importance of having a commercial practice
Referenced:
Lee Friedlander
Laytoya Ruby Frazer
Don McCullin
287 - Lorenzo Meloni
Épisode 287
mercredi 29 juillet 2026 • Durée 01:07:10
Lorenzo Meloni is an Italian photographer.
He has documented some of the defining conflicts of the 21st century across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. For more than a decade, he has worked in territories marked by wars, revolutions and profound political and social transformations, developing a visual practice that views conflict not merely as an event, but as a historical, material and cultural process.
In recent years, his work has expanded beyond the battlefield. Revelation, an ongoing project, explores how science and technology are changing our relationship to the material world.
In 2022, he published the monograph We Don’t Say Goodbye, a fragmented narrative on the rise, dominance and fall of the Islamic State as a territorial entity. TIME named it one of the 20 Best Photobooks of 2022.
On episode 287, Lorenzo discusses, among other things:
How he has changed his way of working
'Starting as a revolutionary and becoming a deserter'
How his photography journey began in Yemen
How the power of photography is metaphorical not descriptive
His interest in borders and history
His book, We Don’t Say Goodbye. The theme of repetition. And why the cover is orange
The caliphate and Islamic State
His now project, Revelation
Focussing on one thing at a time
Dealing with the instability of a freelance life and keeping some freedom
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286 - Ximena Borrazás
Épisode 286
mercredi 15 juillet 2026 • Durée 01:08:40
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
285 - Sam Faulkner
Épisode 285
mercredi 1 juillet 2026 • Durée 01:16:21
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 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.
284 - Harriet Logan
Épisode 284
mercredi 17 juin 2026 • Durée 01:36:21
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 USA
Her early project on an Aids patient, with whom she became close
The reality of being a female photojournalist in the 90’s
An example of the danger of inadvertantly fucking over your subject
He story about victims of rape in Kosovo during the Balkans conflict
Being 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 there
A close call on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad
283 - Henri Kisielewski
Épisode 283
mercredi 3 juin 2026 • Durée 01:15:06
Henri Kisielewski is a self-taught photographer whose work is concerned with the porous boundary between fact and fiction in documentary media.
His practice has been recognised and supported by several grants and awards, and he has exhibited in group shows and festivals internationally. In 2025, he was shortlisted for both the Prix Élysée and Grand Prix Images Vevey.
In 2021, Henri was employed by Magnum Photos to conduct the first complete review of their historic archive - he remains the only person to have seen the nearly 1 million images within. Informed by this experience, and his studies in human geography, Henri’s work operates at the intersection of real-world issues and their modes of representation.
His first book Non Fiction was published by Le Bec en l’air in 2024. It was selected by Clément Chéroux as one of his ten books of that year and shortlisted for the Prix Nadar in 2025.
Henri is also the founder of Soft Eyes, a new photography lecture series which runs three times a year at Reference Point in London. It aims to open up space for community and dialogue outside of institutional frameworks, inviting artists.
On episode 283, Henri discusses, among other things:
How A Small Voice has been part of his photographic education.
How he came to assist Magnum photographer, Olivia Arthur.
And run a dilapidated hotel for three years.
How a year in Valencia changed his life.
His decision to spend money on a.) a trip to Ibiza or b.) a camera.
Returning to the hotel for his first proper photo project.
Learning to edit from Olivia Arthur.
How his book project Non Fiction came about.
Photography and documentary media’s relationship to truth.
The cast of characters who appear in Non Fiction.
The amazing story behind his new book project, Agloe N.Y.
282 - Richard Young
Épisode 282
mercredi 20 mai 2026 • Durée 01:02:41
Richard Young is a photographer who was once known as the “king of the paparazzi”.
His portfolio is a who’s who of some of the biggest stars in film, music, stage and popular culture from the past fifty years. From gatecrashing Elizabeth Taylor’s party for Richard Burton’s 50th at the Dorchester to later being invited to photograph her Damehood celebrations. He can count the first photographs of Paul Getty Jr. after his kidnapping as just one of his many scoops.
He was born in Hackney to a Jewish family and his father ran a hosiery stall in Berwick Street market for more than sixty years. Richard has dyslexia and after being expelled from school at fourteen, he went to Soho and landed a job in fashionable clothes shop frequented by Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, David Hockney and Francis Bacon.
A two-year stint in New York followed, working as a studio assistant at Electric Lady Studios, before he returned to London and found himself in a bookshop handed a camera and told to get on with photographing authors.
For the past fifty years, he has lived a nocturnal, high octane life of private jets, parties and exclusive events, eventually becoming as much a fixture in the world of celebrity as the people he photographed.
Richard lives in London with his wife Susan. His photography gallery is in London and has visitors from around the world.
On episode 282, Richard discusses, among other things:
Wanting to escape school
Learning that trust is currency
Crashing Richard Burton’s birthday party
And how the proceeds from the resulting picture bought him his first house
How his journey into photography began with a roll of blank film
Adventures in New York and Paris
Having a guardian angel
Still being sent on jobs at 79
Turning up to Freddie Mercury’s party in drag by mistake
How he navigated the switch to digital
Why he reccommends that young photographers experiment with film
Photographing flowers …and the east end of London
The portrayal of violence on screen
His obsession with time
The need to be empathetic and open
The impact of being exposed so many murder victims
The murder detectives he got to know and photograph
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The fundamental strangeness of having graphic and disturbing photojounalism framed on your walls
Referenced:
Eugene Richards, Exploding Into Life
Don McCullin
Les Wilson
Len Greener
Josef Koudelka
Cartier Bresson
Robert Capa
W. Eugene Smith
Colorific
Aidan Sullivan
Tom Stoddart
Michael Rand
Jillian Edelstein
Simon Norfolk
Jenny Matthews
Jeremy Clarkson
AA Gill
Mark Hix
Tristran Lund
Giles Duley, Legacy of War Foundation
Laura Pannack
Omar Ashtawey
Trevor Paglen
Richard Mosse
Ed Burtynsky
Luke Delahey
Ed Clark
Network Photographers
Simon Roberts
Matt Black
Lorenzo Meloni
Chris Donovan
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