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Concept Aware®

J. Sybylla Smith

Arts

Frequency: 1 episode/20d. Total Eps: 88

Concept Aware® shares the creative practice of contemporary photographers and explores the bookmaking process. We discuss the power of photography to change individual lives and affect positive social change.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
06/04/2025
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International Women Photographers Series—I’m So Happy You Are Here

Episode 87

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 • Duration 57:35

A trailblazing book chronicling the fundamental and consequential contributions of Japanese women photographers.

Mariko Takeuchi and Pauline Vermare discuss their collaborative project creating a restorative history of Japanese photography. Offering a critical and celebratory counterpoint to the invisibility of Japanese women photographers this expansive and rigorously researched book features 25 portfolios, multiple essays and an illustrated bibliography of photobooks by Japanese women photographers. This bold book embraces emotion, experimentation and provocation in myriad forms of beauty, humor, and deeply spirited connections.

In this conversation, Mariko and Pauline discuss, among other things:

Pulling back layers of cultural understanding of being a women

Expanding vocabulary and objects of study

Womanhood, daughterhood and caregiving

Physical involvement with the medium

Utilizing self-portraiture to reclaim agency over one's body

Making tangible that which is invisible

An outward expression of internal experience

Including the voices of photographers in the essays and text

Making and remaking meaning

Referenced in the episode:

Aperture

Rencontres d’Arles Exhibition I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese women Photographers From the 1950’s to Now

A World History of Women Photographers by Luce Lebart and Marie Robert

The Third Gallery Aya

PGI Gallery

Behind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography / Created by Dr. Kelly McCormick and Carrie Cushman

What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999 by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich

Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics by Marsha Meskimmon

Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed

World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report 2023

Self-Portraits by Yurie Nagashima

Ume-me - Todays Happening by Ume Kayo

The Memories of Others - Akihiko Okamura / Photo Museum Ireland

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International Women Photographers Series—Linda Troeller: Sex Death Transcendence

Episode 86

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 • Duration 01:02:08

Linda Troeller’s self-portraits are compiled into a luscious tour de force of womanhood, identity and aging.

Troeller utilizes her relationship with the camera to understand herself and a woman’s place in the world across decades. Her history traverses that of a beauty contestant, potential lawyer, photojournalism student, model, muse, photo teacher, photographer, provocateur and activist. With conviction, insight and wisdom Troeller celebrates and generously shares her embodied strength and fragility.

In this conversation, Lindadiscusses, among other things:

Universalizing the personal

Provocation aka myth-busting

The circular relationship of punctum

Linda-ness

Self-portraiture, performance and installation

Exploring internal and external ageism

Sacred water explorations

Book decisions - ie: including titles

Sequencing, process and collaboration

Ghost Ranch, Leonora Carrington, Sophie Calle and Carolee Schneeman

Referenced in the episode:

Healing Waters Film

Museum of Sex Exhibition

Chelsea Hotel

Erotic Lives of Women

J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Mary Virginia Swanson and Darius D. Himes

Episode 68

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 • Duration 01:25:00

This recent Radius release offers an expansive framework of the principles of publishing including the layered roles and responsibilities inherent within the creation of a photobook. NOT a how-to guidebook, this beautiful object elegantly packages decades of research and provides contemporary resources to illustrate the endless possibilities of the photobbook. Swanson and Himes share the mission to create impactful photography books by encouraging all artists to: slow down idea formation, linger in the making mode, and do thy research.

In this conversation, Swanee and Darius discuss, among other things:

The biggest challenge - conceiving the idea

Fostering a dynamic engagement with one's ideas

Seeing the end in the beginning

Play, patience & persistence

Concept guiding context

Stepping outside the medium of photoogrpahy to clarify and deepen your idea

Critical thinking

Not rushing the monograph

The book as art form

Photogrpahs as raw material

Impact of digital publishing

Pivotal role of self publishing

University Presses

Balancing creative & business perspectives

The evolving life of marketing a book

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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Rehab Eldalil

Episode 66

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 • Duration 01:18:00

Photography is innovatively and collectively utilized to create a new narrative challenging the stigma and stereotypes of this indigenous community. This book is a multilingual textural object of beauty and wisdom — a non-linear collective celebration and document of home, belonging, hospitality, reciprocity and the longing to live in communion with the land.

In this conversation, Rehab discusses, among other things:

Personal exploration as motivation and inspiration

Connecting to the protagonists of your stories

Seeing with an empathic eye

Giving voice to the voiceless

Blending practice and process

Calling out visual references

Internalization of the ubiquitous colonial gaze

Being Modern vs Western

Progressive traditional gender roles

Symbols & Metaphor

Empowerment & Elevation

Incorporating soundscapes

Fashion history as a cultural, socio-political window

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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Barbara Peacock

Episode 65

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 • Duration 01:14:00

American Bedroom: Reflections on the Nature of Life is a messy, energetic, playful and heart-stoppingly poignant romp into the intimate spaces of ordinary Americans. Each portrait is accompanied by text by the subject. The result is an anthropological study of the physical, emotional, spiritual, political and psychological landscape of 21st century America. Peacock brings a wealth of experience and a very expansive heart to this tour de force of human cartography.

In this conversation, Barbara discusses, among other things:

Leading with the light - especially cascading amber light

Grabbing the details

Serendipity

Being bold and thinking big

Following instinct and intuition

Envisioning

Street photography skills

Building an archive of inspiration

Brutal editing

Choral (collaborative) Editing

Crowdsourcing

Grants and funding

Capturing the climate of the country

Social media as help and hindrance

Doing the “Barb thing”

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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Elizabeth Clark Libert

Episode 64

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 • Duration 01:07:00

Elizabeth Clark Libert's bold diaristic conversation with herself is a reckoning with a twenty years old sexual trauma and its impact on raising her school-age sons. Boy Crazy is a masterfully designed melange of self-portraits, environmental portraits, seasonal landscapes and family photos. Interspersed in a searingly honest staccato manner are intimate musings, email correspondence with her perpetrator and snippets of pointed conversation with her sons. In this conversation, Elizabeth discusses, among other things: Art as process Reclaiming agency following sexual trauma Shooting through ambivalence Lyricism and raw emotion Giving context Collaboration Being in conversation with your work Wasabi writing Finding the structure of the book Experimenting and refining Asymmetry Visualizing Generating change and opening hard conversations Being brave together Visit my website for a full list of resources.

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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Anastasia Samoylova

Episode 63

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 • Duration 01:16:24

Anastasia Samoylova furthers her exploration of place and the ability of photography to shape our perceptions of reality. Central to her investigation is the geography of human relationships to our natural and man-made environments. Utilizing her masterful ability to collage in-camera, her flattened imagery provides us with a kaleidoscope of ideas surrounding globalization, historical heritage, and cultural idealism.

In this conversation, Anastasia discusses, among other things:

Geometry of the frame

Alignment of elements

Figures in the landscape

Spatial interplay

Illusion of scale

Inviting interpretation

Dialoguing with a targeted audience

Exposing tools of the medium

Gendering of cities

Feminist geography

Stoic philosophy

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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Morgan Ashcom

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 • Duration 01:26:02

Open enacts metaphor to make visible the layers of oppression experienced by Palestinian apartheid. Exposed documentary images and HTML-coded emails are bookended with Arabic calligraphy and poetry. Delivered in a sealed cardboard film box, this soft-cover book utilizes photography as a tool to activate our imagination, reveal expansive truths and offer a revision of what hope and resilience look like.

In this conversation, Morgan discusses, among other things:

The poetic capacity of an image

What makes a successful photo

Pivoting

Enacting of metaphor

Chemistry & materiality

Experimenting & refining

Activating the medium

Shifting failure

Pointing towards possibility

Collaborative sequencing

Mythmaking

Challenging pretend knowledge

Sharing agency

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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Brea Souders

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 • Duration 01:10:53

Another Online Pervert creates a visual and text dialog between photos from Souders’ image archive and snippets of written copy from a two-year engagement with an AI personality chatbot. Utilizing prompts from her childhood journals, an emotional call and response is created between human sense and sensibility and machine capability and capacity. Photographs, including a few family snapshots, weave a parallel narrative blending the notions of perception that we all possess between time, memory and meaning.

In this conversation, Brea discusses, among other things:

Real-world vs virtual world

Dislodging gendered social constructs

Cathartic spaces for non-conformity

Enabling surprise

Being bot-ified

Originality aka going off script

Evolution of a project

Memory vs past vs time without borders

Engaging archives

Collaborative editing

Mixing formats

Mean playfulness

Women being erased from technology history

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Artist Talk — Todd R. Forsgren

Tuesday, June 13, 2023 • Duration

In this conversation, Todd discusses, among other things:

Working in archives

Thinking in books

Approaches to appropriation

Running amok

Parameters for sequencing

Perceived opposites

Light leaks

Colliding technologies

Data corruption

Observation & measurement

Falsehoods & mystery

Artist Resources/Inspiration

Discovering Peary Land by Todd Forsgren

Phase Faze 2001/2021

Driving Into the Sunset

A Constant Wind Between a Breeze and a Gale

Old Pictures from Paradise

Untitled Re:Iterations Photographs from 2000-2014

Ornithological Photographs

Daylight Books

Pavel Banka

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