A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers

248 - Ian Howorth


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Ian Howorth is a documentary photographer based in Brighton, UK. His work deals with themes of identity and culture. Through Setanta Books, Ian sold out his first book, Arcadia, in 2019 and published his second, A Country Kind of Silence, in 2023. Ian’s work has been featured in publications including The Guardian, The New York Times, It’s Nice That and Huck.


In episode 248, Ian discusses, among other things:

  • Striving to spend as much time as possible not compromising
  • The benefits of having a full-time job
  • His Instagram strategy
  • His previous life as a videographer
  • An early fascination for film stock
  • Influence of cinema
  • The contrast between his trips to Peru and Cuba
  • His first book Arcadia
  • His origin story in which he lived in 9 homes across 3 countries
  • His adventurous dad’s influence on him (and his brothers)
  • Having to adapt to a move from Peru to Miami at 12
  • His relationship with England and the things he is drawn to photograph there
  • Combining documentary with fiction and not wanting to feel constricted
  • His second book A A Country Kind of Silence

 

Referenced:

  • Zed Nelson
  • Phil Toledano
  • Robbie Lawrence
  • Max Miechoswski
  • Stephen Shore
  • William Eggleston
  • John Divola
  • Gregory Crewdson
  • Sean Tucker
  • Willam Verbeeck
  • National Film & Television School
  • Paris Texas
  • Tania Franco Klein
  • Bill Callaghan
     

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“Wim Wenders and Robby Müller [In Paris Texas] happened to hit on something that made sense artistically but also looks beautiful aesthetically, and that for me is the perfect marriage. Not everyone can achieve it, but that to me became very important. I wasn’t doing that. I wasn’t smart enough to do that. But at the same time I knew the power of colour - I knew what it did, I understood my emotional response to it. And that was enough for me to pursue it at the time, and I would figure it out later.”

 

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