Perfect Bound with Jennifer Yoffy
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome to Perfect Bound – a podcast where we talk to artists about their journey – how they got where they are, what right and wrong turns they made along the way, and where they’re heading next.
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Alec Soth
January 27, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBAlec Soth is so beautifully human and also a brilliant photographer, and one so obviously begets the other. But if you don't take a listen for the insight into his art practice, new body of work, and upcoming photobook , come for the ping pong stories. Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over twenty-five books including Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006), Broken Manual (2010), Songbook (2015), I Know How Furiously...
Andres Gonzalez
January 06, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBThis is a really special episode. Andres Gonzalez talks about American Origami, which not only happens to be an extraordinarily impactful and important project, but also the most dynamically designed photobook. . . maybe ever. Andres is thoughtful, passionate, and extremely talented. Prepare to be inspired and more than a little in awe. Andres Gonzalez is an educator and visual artist whose current work engages with in-depth research to investigate relationships between ritual, memory, and...
David Chickey
December 14, 2021 09:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBTo continue our short streak of publisher/designers, I interviewed David Chickey for the podcast. I have often said that I want to be Dave Chickey when I grow up. While we are similar in age, I'd need decades to even come close to his talent and accomplishments. And of course, he couldn't be more lovely or more sincere. (Sidenote: How cool is it that I get to talk to all of these amazing and creative humans? What a life!) David Chickey is the publisher, designer, and editorial director of R...
Jason Koxvold
November 04, 2021 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBJason Koxvold is the kind of person you would hate if he wasn't so smart and talented and thoughtful and kind. Oh, and charming. Did I mention charming? Yeah, he's the worst. Jason Koxvold (b. 1977, Liege, Belgium) received his BSc in Social Science from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 2000. His fine art practice focuses on the shared spaces between neoliberal economic policy and military strategy; he has made work in diverse locations, from Afghanistan to Nigeria, Arctic Russia t...
Alan Rapp
October 14, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBThis is a super special podcast - mostly because Alan Rapp is an incredible fount of knowledge about the photobook publishing business, but also because we go deep talking shop, and he somehow pulled a switcheroo midway through and started asking me about my process for selecting projects. If you're interested in photobook publishing, and if you're listening to this podcast I think you may be, there's a lot to learn from this episode. Alan Rapp is editorial director at Monacelli, a divisio...
Gail Albert Halaban
September 02, 2021 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBI have been a fan of Gail Albert Halaban's Out My Window series for years, so it was a delight to get to speak with her about this long-term project that began in her city, New York, and has since gone global. Tune in to hear about building community through photography and the interesting connections to be made when you look into your neighbors' windows. Gail Albert Halaban is an American artist born in Washington, DC. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and r...
Louie Palu
August 19, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBLouie and I met in 2011. He was just back from Afghanistan with the most gorgeous silver portraits of soldiers he was embedded with. Six years later, we would publish those portraits as part of the deconstructed photobook, Front Towards Enemy. We had many adventures in between and even more since, including sitting 10 feet from Andrew McCarthy during a screening of Pretty in Pink. To know Louie is to adore him. He is one of the most sincere, loyal, stand-up people I know, and I'm thrilled ...
Matthew Brandt
July 29, 2021 08:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBMatthew Brandt is a mad scientist/brilliant image-maker/pure delight. Oddly, we talk about poo a lot on this episode, but it kind of works. We also talk a lot about the creative process and parsing out the good ideas from the not-good-yet ideas. It's human and inspiring. Take a listen. Calling his approach "a little bit messy and experimental," Matthew Brandt produces large-scale photographs through labor-intensive processes recalling the 19th-century origins of photography, often incorpor...
Carolyn Drake
July 13, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBI cannot get enough of Carolyn Drake - her talent, her intentionality, her grounded and inspiring words. But alas, I gush. We talk about collaboration and books (surprised?), and she has a lot of brilliance to share on both topics. Carolyn Drake works on long term photo-based projects seeking to interrogate dominant historical narratives and creatively reimagine them. Her practice embraces collaboration and has in recent years melded photography with sewing, collage, and sculpture. She is ...
Assembly (Ashlyn Davis Burns & Shane Lavalette)
July 01, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBThese two! A powerhouse duo of talent, passion and all-around art do-goodness. They are pooling their wide ranging skills to deliver a new model to help artists become creatively and financially successful. Learn all about Assembly in this episode! Ashlyn Davis Burns has worked to support lens-based artists for the past decade through curatorial, editorial, and fundraising initiatives, including most recently as the Executive Director & Curator of Houston Center for Photography (2015-2020)....
Diana Markosian
June 17, 2021 05:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBDiana Markosian is staggeringly talented, thoughtful, creative and articulate. We had some technical difficulties on our first recording, so I got to be overwhelmed by her amazingness TWICE. She is brave, both in an "I'm going to sneak across this contested border" way and an "I'm going to dig deeper than deep into this personally painful territory to create" way, which is awe-inspiring. You're going to really enjoy this one. Diana Markosian is an American and Russian artist of Armenian des...
Kelli Connell
June 03, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBDoing this podcast has really just been a way for me to geek out on photography and give me an excuse to talk with artists whose work I adore, and getting to talk with Kelli Connell was a highlight. The time and focus and introspection she devotes to her long-term projects is remarkable, and she also happens to be the loveliest of human beings. Kelli Connell is an artist whose work investigates sexuality, gender, identity and photographer/sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections...
Aaron Schuman
May 20, 2021 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBI had never met Aaron Schuman before this recording, and I'm pleased to report that we are now best friends. His deep love for all things photography and his thoughtful and inquisitive approach to both his own work and others' is infectious and inspiring, and I can't wait for our next conversation and all the ones after that. Aaron Schuman is American photographer, writer, editor, educator and curator based in the United Kingdom. He received a BFA in Photography and Art History from New Yor...
Hans Gremmen
May 06, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBWitness my biggest fan-girl moment so far in this interview with the immensely talented and innovative photobook designer, Hans Gremmen. He has the winning and enviable combination of being creatively brilliant and also incredibly down to earth. Speaking with him was so inspiring. Hans Gremmen is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam. He works in photography, architecture, and fine art and has designed over 300 books. He has won many awards for his experimental designs, among them a Golden ...
Daniel Milnor
April 18, 2021 09:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBIf you want to be inspired to break your addiction to social media, live the #vanlife, and still do all kinds of badass photography-related projects, listen to this episode with Daniel Milnor, creative evangelist for Blurb. If you've ever met him, you're still buzzing from the interaction, and he not only remembers you, but everything you talked about. Prepare to crush hard. Daniel Milnor once worked as both a fragrance model and a hot tub installer but is better known as a reformed-journal...
Abelardo Morrell
April 15, 2021 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBSharp, curious and hilarious, Abe Morrell's got the most enviable spark for life and creating, and he does it all with wit and charm. We talk about being Cuban, the role of play in art-making, and his favorite hip hop club in Atlanta. Prepare to be enchanted. Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962. Morell received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and his MFA from The Yale University School of Art. He has r...
Abelardo Morell
April 15, 2021 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBSharp, curious and hilarious, Abe Morell's got the most enviable spark for life and creating, and he does it all with wit and charm. We talk about being Cuban, the role of play in art-making, and his favorite hip hop club in Atlanta. Prepare to be enchanted. Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962. Morell received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and his MFA from The Yale University School of Art. He has re...
Alejandro Cartagena
April 01, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBIn this episode of Perfect Bound, we learn that Alejandro Cartagena still has the pen I lent him six years ago in the pocket of his winter coat. We also learn he has 35 book projects in mind to be developed and that he has been able to harness a personal, inner tension to inspire a life's work in photography. Dominican-born photographer Alejandro Cartagena moved to Mexico, his mother’s birthplace, in 1990, and since then, he has developed a dynamic body of work exploring social, urban, and ...
Cig Harvey
March 18, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBCig Harvey and I talk about all kinds of things from perfume to '90s female vocalists to being present in the moment (she's great at it - me, not so much). We also talk about photography and photobooks. A lot. Cig is charming and earnest and about as authentic as it gets. She's also working on an opera. Take a listen. Cig Harvey is an artist whose practice seeks to find the magical in everyday life. Rich in implied narrative, Harvey’s work is deeply rooted in the natural environment, and of...
Kris Graves
March 04, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBKris is a rockstar. Full stop. His own work is thoughtful and important, and he is deeply committed to developing platforms for other artists, especially BIPOC artists, to get their work seen and their stories told. He has the rare quality of being able to tell it to you straight - verbally, visually - with a large dose of grace and humanity. Kris Graves is an artist and publisher based in London and New York. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase College and has been publis...
Tabitha Soren
February 18, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBTabitha and I deep dive into a wide range of topics, from emotional resiliency to Tupac. We compare and contrast journalism and photography and talk about navigating the current art, political, and pandemic landscape. It's a ride. Tabitha Soren is an artist and Peabody Award-winning journalist, best known for her work as an MTV news correspondent and on-air producer. In 1999, Soren took a fellowship at Stanford University where she shifted her visual arts practice from film to the still ph...
David Hilliard
January 24, 2021 21:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBIn this episode of Perfect Bound, we talk to photographer David Hilliard about creating work that is personal and vulnerable, why his father was the great love of his life, and committing to being an artist. We also laugh a lot. David Hilliard’s vibrant, multipanel images find a delicate and unique balance between fact and fiction. Combining frames from his four-by-five view camera shot at different times, Hilliard creates composite panoramic images that are seemingly fluid, but instead fo...
Matt Eich
January 11, 2021 18:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBMatt Eich joins the Perfect Bound podcast to share his thoughts on classifying his work, the broken editorial model, finding a home for his images in photobooks, and using his wife's student loan money to produce his first limited-edition book. Listen to hear this artist's journey and where he's heading next. Matt Eich is a photographic essayist working on long-form projects related to memory, family, community, and the American condition. Matt teaches at Corcoran School of the Arts and Des...