Photography Down The Line
55 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago -Photography Down The Line is a series of conversations initiated by Director of Stills, Ben Harman, about and around photography. Started during the challenging time of the Coronavirus lockdown, this series aims to discuss, celebrate and share the ideas of artists, photographers and others from the sector. Stills is a registered charity and centre for photography based in Edinburgh, UK.
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Photography Down The Line with Kavi Pujara (recorded 26 March 2024)
March 29, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kavi Pujara. Kavi Pujara is a self-taught photographer making personal, long-term documentary photo projects in his home town of Leicester. His work is included in this years Hayward Gallery touring group exhibition: After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024. His debut project 'This Golden Mile' was first exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation in 2022 and coincided with his first mono...
Photography Down The Line with Craig Atkinson from Café Royal Books (recorded 8 December 2023)
December 21, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes - 24.9 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Craig Atkinson from Café Royal Books. This episode was recorded to coincide with the exhibition CAFÉ ROYAL BOOKS at Stills which ran from 10 November 2023 to 10 February 2024. Craig Atkinson is an artist and lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire. In 2005 he founded Café Royal Books and since 2012 he has been producing weekly publications on documentary photography, linked to Britain and Ireland, in an...
Photography Down The Line with Alicia Bruce (recorded 19 September 2023)
October 20, 2023 13:04 - 43 minutes - 31.3 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Alicia Bruce. Alicia Bruce is an award-winning, working-class photographer, community collaborator, educator, and activist based in Scotland. Her photography sits between documentary and staged imagery focusing on communities, environments, and human rights. Alicia Bruce is a member of the collective Women Photograph. Her first monograph 'I Burn But I Am Not Consumed' Daylight Books (USA), 2023 documents sixteen y...
Photography Down The Line with Markéta Luskačová (recorded 12 August 2023)
September 29, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Markéta Luskačová. This special episode of Photography Down The Line is a recording of a conversation between Ben Harman and the photographer Markéta Luskačová at a public event held at Stills, Edinburgh on 12th August 2023. The event marked the launch of Luskačová's solo exhibition at Stills. Markéta Luskačová was born in 1944 and became a freelance photographer in 1968 whilst undertaking postgraduate studies ...
Photography Down The Line with Kelly O'Brien (recorded: 30 August 2023)
September 08, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutes - 34.3 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kelly O'Brien. Kelly O'Brien is a creative worker, documentary photographic artist, educator and PhD researcher. Within her working practice, Kelly explores visual transformation and storytelling in connection to personal and political narratives through making and theory. She is interested in the photographic relationship to absence, investigating how invisibility can be utilised as a tool of possibility and pe...
Photography Down The Line with Marilena Vlachopoulou (recorded: 15 May 2023)
May 31, 2023 11:02 - 37 minutes - 24.4 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Marilena Vlachopoulou. Marilena Vlachopoulou is a documentary and portrait photographer from Athens based in Glasgow. Since graduating from Kelvin College in 2018, she has been documenting Glasgow’s music scene and gig landscape in a variety of analogue formats. Her work has been featured widely, from the pages of The Herald newspaper to the walls of The Benaki Museum, as part of Athens Photo Festival 2020. She h...
Photography Down The Line with Sophie Gerrard (recorded: 19 April 2023)
May 03, 2023 10:56 - 45 minutes - 30.1 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Sophie Gerrard. Sophie Gerrard (Scottish, b.1978) is an award-winning international artist working within the field of photography. Her practice is characterised by sensitive and evocative visual exploration of the natural environment and our relationship to it. Sophie’s work has been included in publications including The New York Times and The Guardian. Her work is shown in national and international public...
Photography Down The Line with Jonjo Borrill (recorded: 13 December 2022)
January 20, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 23 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Jonjo Borrill. Jonjo Borrill was born on the North-East coast of England. After a childhood of struggling to express himself, photography became a cathartic outlet for his thoughts and feelings about the world. As his photographic practice matured, Borrill's interest became documenting others' stories and giving them a voice and platform to be heard. In 2022 Borrill completed his Master's degree in photography o...
Photography Down The Line with Ishiuchi Miyako (recorded: 2 August 2022)
September 16, 2022 09:30 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Ishiuchi Miyako. This special episode of Photography Down The Line is a recording of a conversation between Ben Harman and the photographer Ishiuchi Miyako at a public event held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh on 2nd August 2022. The event marked the launch of Miyako's solo exhibition at Stills, the first ever display of her work in Scotland. Miyako responded to questions with the assistance of an ...
Photography Down The Line with Oliver Raymond Barker (recorded: 20 July 2022)
August 26, 2022 10:12 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Oliver Raymond Barker. Oliver Raymond Barker works with the mechanics and alchemy of photography to make images, objects and structures that expand upon what photography is and can be. Working predominantly with alternative analogue techniques he uses photography as a tool to uncover imagined narratives & unseen processes, framed by his interest in culture, ecology and spirituality. His first book Trinity has rec...
Photography Down The Line with Kirsty Mackay (recorded: 8 June 2022)
June 17, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 31.9 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kirsty Mackay. Kirsty Mackay is a documentary photographer, activist and filmmaker. Her research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination. She has an MA in Documentary photography from University of South Wales, Newport. Her current book project The Fish That Never Swam, considers class and discrimination against working-class people. Combining first-person ...
Photography Down The Line with Ada Trillo (recorded: 8 April 2022)
April 11, 2022 16:00 - 26 minutes - 20.2 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Ada Trillo. Ada Trillo is a Philadelphia-based photographer. Born and raised in the U.S/ Mexican border region of Juarez and El Paso, her work focuses on sex trafficking, climate and violence-related international migration, and long-standing barriers of race and class. Her projects have been featured in international publications including The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones. Trillo’s wor...
Photography Down The Line with Oana Stanciu (recorded: 25 March 2022)
April 04, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 27.6 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Oana Stanciu. Oana Stanciu is a visual artist from Romania, living and working in Edinburgh. Her work combines performance, photography and moving image to create unnatural and subtly distorted self-portraits. As a student, she began experimenting with alter-egos and this has informed much of her work since. She merges her body with different objects and environments, improvising scenes and transforming herself i...
Photography Down The Line with Caroline Douglas (recorded: 10 February 2022)
February 18, 2022 08:02 - 43 minutes - 32.4 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Caroline Douglas. Caroline Douglas is an artist working with photography and moving image. She is undertaking a PhD by practice at the Royal College of Art, researching the role of women in early Scottish photography, and is a recipient of the AHRC-techne Scholarship (2017). Douglas is currently working as a Lecturer in Fine Art - Photography at The Glasgow School of Art (2021-2022). Recently, she undertook two ...
Photography Down The Line with Marilyn Stafford (recorded: 9 November 2021)
January 31, 2022 08:34 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Marilyn Stafford. Marilyn Stafford was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1925. She planned to become an actress and singer following her training at the Cleveland Playhouse. In 1947, having moved to New York City where she was given small acting roles off Broadway and in early television, Stafford was given a Rolleiflex camera by a friend. To support herself in between acting roles, she found work assisting US fash...
Photography Down The Line with Alex Boyd (recorded: 4 June 2020)
November 05, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Alex Boyd. Alex Boyd is a photographer, writer and curator whose work largely focused on studies of landscape and trauma. He is author of the Saltire Award shortlisted St Kilda - The Silent Islands and The Isle of Rust, a collaboration with writer and critic Jonathan Meades. He is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD in photography. His work is held in several national collections including the Scottish Nat...
Photography Down The Line with Stephen Koch, Director of The Peter Hujar Archive (recorded: 7 September 2021)
September 17, 2021 13:32 - 57 minutes - 53 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks Stephen Koch, Director of The Peter Hujar Archive. Stephen Koch is the author of two novels and five books of nonfiction, ranging from history to literary history and a handbook on creative writing called The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop. Koch has steadily written essays and reviews about literature, art, and the cultural scene. One of his books, Stargazer – The Life, World, and Films of Andy Warhol, is now rega...
Photography Down The Line with Rosy Martin (recorded: 24 August 2021)
August 27, 2021 08:49 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Rosy Martin. Rosy Martin (born in London, 1946) is an artist-photographer, psychological-therapist, workshop leader, lecturer and writer. She explores the relationships between photography, memory, identities and unconscious processes using self-portraiture, still life photography and video. Starting in 1983, working with the late Jo Spence, she evolved and developed a new photographic practice- phototherapy - in...
Photography Down The Line with Chris Leslie (recorded: 27 July 2021)
August 13, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Chris Leslie. BAFTA Scotland (New Talent) Award Winning photographer and filmmaker Chris Leslie began taking photographs whilst volunteering in the Former Yugoslavia in 1996. He then went on to work as a photographer, filmmaker and communications manager for an International NGO documenting stories across Africa and Eastern Europe. In 2005 he went freelance as a documentary photographer and filmmaker and founded ...
Photography Down The Line with Lorna Macintyre (recorded: 27 July 2021)
August 06, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutes - 36 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Lorna Macintyre. Lorna Macintyre is an artist based in Glasgow. She studied for both a BA (1999) and MFA (2007) at The Glasgow School of Art. Her solo exhibitions include: Pieces of You Are Here, Dundee Contemporary Arts (2018); Spolia, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire (2017); Much Marcle, Chapter, Cardiff (2016); Material Language or All Truths Wait in All Things, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2015); Four Paper Fugues, Mount St...
Photography Down The Line with Sekai Machache (recorded: 16 June 2020)
July 30, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Sekai Machache Sekai Machache is a visual artist and curator based between Dundee and Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self. Having been born in Zimbabwe and raised in Scotland, she has a particular interest in W.E.B Dubois’ notion of Double Consciousness, which expresses the psychological challenge of having African heritage whilst living in the West. She is interested in the re...
Photography Down The Line with Paul Hill (recorded: 26 June 2021)
July 02, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Paul Hill. Paul Hill is a photographer, journalist, author and teacher who is widely regarded as a major influence on contemporary British photography, Born in 1941 in Ludlow, Shropshire, Hill worked as a newspaper reporter from the late 1950s until he became a freelance photographer in 1965. As a photojournalist he worked for the Birmingham Post & Mail, The Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph Magazine, and the...
Photography Down The Line with Crystal Bennes (recorded: 16 June 2021)
June 18, 2021 07:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Crystal Bennes. Crystal Bennes is an American-born artist and writer based in Scotland. Her mixed media practice is grounded in long-term projects that foreground archival research, durational fieldwork and material experimentation. Since 2015, much of her work has been interested in the culture of international particle physics research, feminist critiques of physics and gendered representations of nature in the...
Photography Down The Line with Simon Murphy (recorded: 10 June 2021)
June 11, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Simon Murphy. Simon Murphy is a photographer based in Glasgow. His career has enabled him to travel extensively shooting human interest stories in countries such as Bangladesh, The Democratic republic of Congo, Rwanda and Cambodia. His portraiture subjects range from individuals such as the Dalai Lama to musicians and actors including Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie and John Hurt. Murphy's ongoing project, Govanh...
Photography Down The Line with David Brittain (recorded: 20 May 2021)
May 21, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to David Brittain. Since 1980 David Brittain has been engaged with photography as a writer, reviewer, editor of 'Creative Camera', documentary maker, curator and academic researcher. David wrote 'Inside Photography: Ten Interviews with Editors' (2012), 'The Jet Age Compendium: Paolozzi At Ambit' (2009), edited 'Creative Camera: 30 Years of Writing' (2000) and has contributed many essays to journals and books includi...
Photography Down The Line with Matthew Arthur Williams (recorded: 12 May 2021)
May 14, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Matthew Arthur Williams. Matthew Arthur Williams (b. 1989 London) is a visual & sound artist, freelance photographer and DJ. Living and working in Glasgow. Matthew's work, which takes a multi-disciplinary approach, sits to continuously encourage a different narrative and is primarily interested in the documentation of black existence and resistance, specifically here in the UK. As a DJ they have coordinated multi...
Photography Down The Line with Nicky Bird (recorded: 3 May 2021)
May 07, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Nicky Bird. Nicky Bird is an artist and Reader in Contemporary Photographic Practice at the Glasgow School of Art. Her current solo show Legacy at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, (27 April-6 June 2021) looks back at over fifteen years of her work. Nicky’s work investigates the contemporary relevance of ‘found’ artefacts, their archives and specific sites through collaborative art processes with people who have...
Photography Down The Line with Arpita Shah (recorded: 27 April 2021)
April 30, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Arpita Shah. Arpita Shah is a visual artist and educator based between Edinburgh and Eastbourne, UK. She works between photography and film exploring the fields where culture and identity meet. As an India-born artist, Shah spent an earlier part of her life living between India, Ireland and the Middle East before settling in the UK. This migratory experience is reflected in her practice, which often focuses on th...
Photography Down The Line with Tracy Marshall-Grant (recorded: 21 April 2021)
April 23, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Tracy Marshall-Grant. Tracy is an Arts Director & Producer specialising in the production of photography exhibitions, festivals, education projects and workshops. She is currently Festival Director of Bristol Photo Festival and previously directed LOOK Photo Biennial 2019 while Director of Development at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. She was Executive Director at Belfast Exposed Gallery from 2014-18. Tracy has a r...
Photography Down The Line with Louise Fedotov-Clements (recorded: 7 April 2021)
April 09, 2021 07:46 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Louise Fedotov-Clements, Artistic Director, QUAD & Director, FORMAT International Photography Festival. Louise has been the Artistic Director of QUAD since 2001, and is the Director of FORMAT, which she co-founded in 2004. An independent curator since 1998 directing commissions, publications, performances and exhibitions. Guest Curator for international exhibitions/festivals including Dong Gang (Yeongwol) South K...
Photography Down The Line with Christina Riley from The Nature Library (recorded: 31 March 2021)
April 02, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Christina Riley from The Nature Library. Christina Riley is an artist based on Scotland's west coast. Using photography, found objects, writing and installations, her work draws acute attention to the details of the natural world with a particular focus on the sea's edges. In 2019 she was longlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing and later that year started The Nature Library, a travelling library ...
Photography Down The Line with Francis McKee (recorded: 24 March 2021)
March 26, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Francis McKee. Francis McKee is an Irish writer and curator based in Glasgow. His most recent books include How to Know What’s Really Happening (2017), Even the Dead Rise Up (2018) and Dark Tales (2019). McKee has been Director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow since 2006. He is a Research Fellow at The Glasgow School of Art. https://overoverover.com/Francis-McKee https://www.gsa.ac.uk/research/fine...
Photography Down The Line with Norman McBeath (recorded: 12 November 2020)
November 13, 2020 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Norman McBeath. Norman McBeath is a photographer and printmaker who lives in Edinburgh. The National Portrait Galleries in Edinburgh and London have over seventy of his portraits in their collections. His collaborations with poets include Plan B with Paul Muldoon, The Beach with Kathleen Jamie and Simonides with Robert Crawford. Simonides was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and exhibited at Yale and the Poet...
Photography Down The Line with Roberta McGrath (recorded: 4 November 2020)
November 06, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Roberta McGrath. Roberta McGrath writes on the history, theory and politics of photographic representation. She has worked as a lecturer and researcher at universities in the UK since the early 1980s. From 2004-15 she was Reader in Photographic Theory, History and Criticism at Edinburgh Napier University. In 2014, McGrath was awarded a research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin....
Photography Down The Line with Frances Scott (recorded: 20 October 2020)
October 23, 2020 07:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Frances Scott. Frances Scott (b. 1991) is a photographer from Orkney, currently based in Glasgow. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2014, receiving first class honours alongside an award for her Critical Journal. Her work often focuses on journeys made through a landscape of personal significance, and since 2016 has been working on a long-term project to walk and document the coastlines of Orkney. Work ...
Photography Down The Line with Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (recorded: 13 October 2020)
October 14, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Finnish born Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a founder member of the Amber Film & Photography Collective. Based since 1969 in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England the collective established Side Gallery in 1977, dedicating it to socially engaged documentary photography. She works both as a photographer and a filmmaker, her long-term projects developed as exhibitions, books, and films includ...
Photography Down The Line with Alan Eglinton (recorded: 22 September 2020)
September 25, 2020 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Alan Eglinton. British visual artist Alan Eglinton tells his own story through his cross-disciplinary projects. His emigration to France at an early age, his wedding proposal to his South Korean partner or his working process are a few examples. His photographs and texts are very often of a poetic nature. However, he knows the risks of sentimental effusion and adds a pinch of sarcasm or self-mockery when he sees ...
Photography Down The Line with Alan Dimmick (recorded: 23 July 2020)
July 24, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Alan Dimmick. Alan Dimmick was born in Glasgow in 1961. He bought his first camera (a Russian Zenith) in 1977, the same year that he converted the toilets in his secondary school annex into a darkroom. He went on to study photography at Glasgow College of Building and Printing from 1979–82 and was a founding member of Glasgow Photography Group, exhibiting at their inaugural exhibition in Hillhead Library in 1988....
Photography Down The Line with Brittonie Fletcher (recorded: 15 July 2020)
July 17, 2020 07:15 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Brittonie Fletcher. Brittonie Fletcher (MFA) is a British-American artist, educator and curator currently based in Edinburgh. Her work of the past decade has focused on connection to place, belonging and community - often tying in politics and the personal. She is an active member of Edinburgh LoFi and the Calotype Society. She has received awards, nominations and fellowships for her work - including the 7th Jul...
Photography Down The Line with Louise Mclachlan (recorded: 8 July 2020)
July 10, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Louise Mclachlan. Based in Edinburgh, artist Louise Mclachlan works predominantly with digital photography. Finding it the most ideal tool to create, Mclachlan draws inspiration from many mediums including painting, performance, sculpture and cinema. In recent years Mclachlan has explored her own relationship within creating whilst living with long term health conditions. In September 2019, she launched Scope - a...
Photography Down The Line with Kieran Dodds (recorded 30 June 2020)
July 03, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes - 31.2 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kieran Dodds. Kieran Dodds is an award-winning photographer based in Edinburgh. After reading Zoology, he trained at the Herald newspaper group in Glasgow becoming an independent photographer after picking up a string of accolades including a 1st prize World Press Photo award for his self-assigned story: The Bats of Kasanka. A Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship allowed him to complete The Third Pole, documenting...
Photography Down The Line with Kara Bell, Sarah Newall, Zoe Cook and Kyle Bruce from Stills Academy (recorded 24 June 2020)
June 26, 2020 07:00 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kara Bell, Sarah Newall, Zoe Cook and Kyle Bruce, some of the current Stills Academy participants. Stills Academy runs twice a year as part of Stills School, an alternative photography school for 16—25 year olds who face barriers to accessing the arts. The Academy supports young people to develop photography skills at a pace and level that suits them. Over a 4-month period they have access to Stills' photographic...
Photography Down The Line with Wendy McMurdo (recorded: 11 June 2020)
June 12, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Wendy McMurdo. Wendy McMurdo is an award-winning photographer who is interested in exploring the ways in which technology influences early learning. She exploits the artistic possibilities offered by scientific progress in her work and raises questions about the effect new virtual technologies have on human beings. Recent exhibitions have included; Between Realities at Färgfabriken, Stockholm Sweden (2018), Indet...
Photography Down The Line with Rebecca Marr (recorded: 27 May 2020)
May 29, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 36.9 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Rebecca Marr. Rebecca Marr is a photographic artist born in the Highlands who lives in Orkney. She settled there after a residency over a decade ago with the Pier Arts Centre. Rebecca works across digital and analogue photography, often with the darkroom technique of photograms. Predominantly concerned with documenting the natural world, her work currently involves wild plants, sea, seaweed and clouds. Rebecca t...
Photography Down The Line with Mhairi Law (recorded: 27 May 2020)
May 29, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Mhairi Law. Mhairi Law is an award winning photographer living and working on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Using medium-format analogue photography, her creative practice is focused primarily on landscapes, reflecting social and environmental themes. Previous projects have looked at rural environments and explored how the past and present impact of humans have visually made their mark, dra...
Photography Down The Line with Chloe Dewe Mathews (recorded: 15 May 2020)
May 15, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Chloe Dewe Mathews. Chloe Dewe Mathews is a photographic artist based in St Leonards on Sea, England. Her work is internationally recognized and has been exhibited at Tate Modern, Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Her work has been published in newspapers and magazines such as the Guardian, the New Yorker and Le Monde. Her awards include the British Journal of Photography Internat...
Photography Down The Line with Thomas Whittle (recorded: 14 May 2020)
May 15, 2020 07:00 - 41 minutes - 38.7 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Thomas Whittle. Whittle’s practice encompasses photography, painting, drawing, publishing, organising and writing often bringing these mediums together. His work attempts to navigate the duality of definition, ambiguity of usefulness and diluted purpose of the quiet and unassuming two-dimensional image. The work investigates time within production as well as time suggested by materials and methods. Recently, Whit...
Photography Down The Line with Kat Gollock and EA Hanks (recorded 6 May 2020)
May 08, 2020 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBThis special episode is hosted by photographer, Kat Gollock, during the week in which she was due to exhibit a new body of work at Stills as part of the Projects 20 exhibition series. Gollock's guest is EA Hanks, a writer based in Los Angeles who graduated from Vassar College with a Bachelor of Arts. Hanks has written for The Awl, Jezebel, The New York Times, The Guardian, Vanity Fair and Time Magazine. She is currently at work on a book about a thing for a publisher.
Photography Down The Line with Robin Gillanders (recorded: 2 April 2020)
May 07, 2020 22:38 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Robin Gillanders. Gillanders is former Reader in Photography at Edinburgh Napier University. He has several works in the collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, the V&A, London and National Portrait Gallery, London. Publications include Little Sparta, Portrait of a Garden (1998), The Photographic Portrait (2004), The Philosopher’s Garden (2004), Highland Journey...
Photography Down The Line with David James Grinly (recorded: 2 April 2020)
May 07, 2020 22:37 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBBen Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to David James Grinly. Grinly is an artist from Alva, Scotland. His work regards the intersections of thought, image and belief, via the photographic. He lectures in critical studies, and works as a Research Associate & Tutor at Stills.