Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the American photographic tradition that Walker Evans famously termed “documentary Style.” Concerned with the mythologies and oddities that proliferate America’s disconnected communities, Soth has an instinct for the relationship between narrative and metaphor. His clarity of voice has drawn many comparisons to literature, but he believes photography to be more fragmented; “It’s more like poetry than writing a novel.”

Website

https://alecsoth.com/photography/

Magnum Photos

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/alec-soth/

Somewhere to Disappear documentary

Book Tickets Now for Photo London 13 to 17 May 2026. Photo London 2026. Photo London is the UK’s leading international fair for photography and image-based art.

https://photolondon.org

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Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the American photographic tradition that Walker Evans famously termed “documentary Style.” Concerned with the mythologies and oddities that proliferate America’s disconnected communities, Soth has an instinct for the relationship between narrative and metaphor. His clarity of voice has drawn many comparisons to literature, but he believes photography to be more fragmented; “It’s more like poetry than writing a novel.”

Website

https://alecsoth.com/photography/

Magnum Photos

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/alec-soth/

Somewhere to Disappear documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2T6ANvKpoo

Book Tickets Now for Photo London 13 to 17 May 2026. Photo London 2026. Photo London is the UK’s leading international fair for photography and image-based art.

https://photolondon.org

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This podcast is sponsored by Demode Records - https://www.richardlipman.co/demoderecords

Podcast host information - Richard Lipman - linktr.ee/richardlipman

Should you wish to sponsor A Fish out of Water podcast please get in contact by responding to this email

or by visiting the website www.richardlipman.co/afishoutofwaterpodcast

‘UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East) is the largest UN Agency, with 30,000 employees nearly all of whom are Palestine Refugees. It serves 5.1 million Palestine refugees in five fields – Gaza, WB, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, a seven fold increase from the 750,000 refugees who fled in 1948/9. It has a budget this year of around $1.3 billion comprising the General Fund ($650 million which pays for the essential health, education, relief and social services which are the bedrock of UNRWA’s operations) and relief and emergency funding, notably in Gaza and Syria to mitigate the effects of the disastrous conflicts there.’

Source: 2018, Richard Wright, address this international meeting of Parliamentarians in support of Israel-Palestine peace

Author of “A Moscow Awakening” published 28 August 2022 and “The Triangle of Death” on 27 July 2025, both historical novels

https://richardfassamwright.co.uk

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‘UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East) is the largest UN Agency, with 30,000 employees nearly all of whom are Palestine Refugees. It serves 5.1 million Palestine refugees in five fields – Gaza, WB, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, a seven fold increase from the 750,000 refugees who fled in 1948/9. It has a budget this year of around $1.3 billion comprising the General Fund ($650 million which pays for the essential health, education, relief and social services which are the bedrock of UNRWA’s operations) and relief and emergency funding, notably in Gaza and Syria to mitigate the effects of the disastrous conflicts there.’

Source: 2018, Richard Wright, address this international meeting of Parliamentarians in support of Israel-Palestine peace

Peel Commission Full Report (1937) - English

https://unispal.un.org/pdfs/Cmd5479.pdf

Author of “A Moscow Awakening” published 28 August 2022 and “The Triangle of Death” on 27 July 2025, both historical novels

https://richardfassamwright.co.uk

This podcast is sponsored by Demode Records - https://www.richardlipman.co/demoderecords

Podcast host information - Richard Lipman - linktr.ee/richardlipman

Should you wish to sponsor A Fish out of Water podcast please get in contact by responding to this email or by visiting the website www.richardlipman.co/afishoutofwaterpodcast

‘UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East) is the largest UN Agency, with 30,000 employees nearly all of whom are Palestine Refugees. It serves 5.1 million Palestine refugees in five fields – Gaza, WB, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, a seven fold increase from the 750,000 refugees who fled in 1948/9. It has a budget this year of around $1.3 billion comprising the General Fund ($650 million which pays for the essential health, education, relief and social services which are the bedrock of UNRWA’s operations) and relief and emergency funding, notably in Gaza and Syria to mitigate the effects of the disastrous conflicts there.’

Source: 2018, Richard Wright, address this international meeting of Parliamentarians in support of Israel-Palestine peace

Author of “A Moscow Awakening” published 28 August 2022 and “The Triangle of Death” on 27 July 2025, both historical novels

https://richardfassamwright.co.uk

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This podcast is sponsored by Demode Records - https://www.richardlipman.co/demoderecords

Podcast host information - Richard Lipman - linktr.ee/richardlipman

Should you wish to sponsor A Fish out of Water podcast please get in contact by responding to this email or by visiting the website www.richardlipman.co/afishoutofwaterpodcast

Ella Raphael is blessed with an amazing voice; a woozy, bluesy, euphoric sound that’s filled with warmth and emotion; it’s engaging, like an old friend telling tales and spinning stories.

Brought up in London, surrounded by sound, listening to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Etta James, while encountering Queen, The Beatles and the Stones from her Dad’s collection.

Ella Raphael - Tangled Love (Acoustic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s2-n-YIk00

Fire Records

https://www.firerecords.com/artists/ella-raphael/

Follow Ella Rahpael on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/ella_raphael_o/

Ella Raphael will be supporting Hater (Fire Records) on 7 May 2026 in London at Signature Brew Haggerston - Tickets (£6.50): https://link.dice.fm/Zaf9e45d8ed7?dice_id=Zaf9e45d8ed7

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Ragnhild Ekner born 1982 is a documentary filmmaker based in Gothenburg, with her gaze directed to the world. She has a bachelors degree in documentary filmmaking from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts 2013, and made her debut with the feature length documentary The Traffic Lights Turn Blue Tomorrow 2017. With roots in graffiti and football culture, she is interested in the individuals and groups that seek power alongside the norm.

Her second feature ULTRAS premiered in 2025 and is currently being screened at various film festivals around the world.

Ultras - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmBs9ttVWfw

Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski

The Memory of Butterflies is a 2025 documentary film written, co-produced and directed by Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski in her directorial debut. The film documents the lost stories of Omarino and Aredomi emerging from the shadows of the rubber trade.

Translated by Producer Isabel Madueño Medina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh4tEPhPlec

Shahram Mokri is an Iranian filmmaker. Mokri started his filmmaking training in the Iranian Youth Cinema Society and entered the professional world of cinema with his short film “Dragonfly Storm” (2002). He has since made many award winning films and is known for Fish & Cat (2013), Careless Crime (2020) and Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories (2008).

Dragonfly Storm (2002, short film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cz8iR3bK-s

Careless Crime (2020, trailer)

https://vimeo.com/455875112?fl=pl&fe=vl

https://www.dreamlabfilms.com/careless-crime/

Forty years ago, during the uprising to overthrow the Shah’s

regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres as a way of showing opposition to Western culture. Many cinemas were burned down. In one tragic case, a theatre was set on fire with four hundred people inside, most of whom were burned alive.

Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (2025, trailer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2iyuWfKIw8

https://www.dreamlabfilms.com/black-rabbit-white-rabbit/

A film armorer’s concerns about a real gun, an aspiring actress demanding an audition, and Sara’s post-crash revelation of a conspiracy lead these strangers’ paths to cross.

Special Thanks:

Iante Roach (Translator)

Announcement: Special Wes Anderson Exhibition at The Design Museum London from Nov 2025 – July 2026. Not to be missed!!

https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/wes-anderson-the-archives

This podcast is kindly supported by Demode Records. Visit:

https://www.richardlipman.co/demoderecords

https://elasticstage.com/demoderecords

Podcast host information - Richard Lipman - linktr.ee/richardlipman

Should you wish to sponsor A Fish out of Water podcast please get in contact by responding to this email or by visiting www.richardlipman.co.

Today’s theme tune is played by Richard Lipman and inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s crime film ‘Drunken Angel’, released in 1948.

Shahram Mokri is an Iranian filmmaker. Mokri started his filmmaking training in the Iranian Youth Cinema Society and entered the professional world of cinema with his short film “Dragonfly Storm” (2002). He has since made many award winning films and is known for Fish & Cat (2013), Careless Crime (2020) and Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories (2008).

Dragonfly Storm (2002, short film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cz8iR3bK-s

Careless Crime (2020, trailer)

https://vimeo.com/455875112?fl=pl&fe=vl

https://www.dreamlabfilms.com/careless-crime/

Forty years ago, during the uprising to overthrow the Shah’s regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres as a way of showing opposition to Western culture. Many cinemas were burned down. In one tragic case, a theatre was set on fire with four hundred people inside, most of whom were burned alive.

Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (2025, trailer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2iyuWfKIw8

https://www.dreamlabfilms.com/black-rabbit-white-rabbit/

A film armorer’s concerns about a real gun, an aspiring actress demanding an audition, and Sara’s post-crash revelation of a conspiracy lead these strangers’ paths to cross.

Special thanks:

Iante Roach (Translator)

Announcement: Special Wes Anderson Exhibition at The Design Museum London from Nov 2025 – July 2026. Not to be missed!!

https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/wes-anderson-the-archives

This podcast is kindly supported by Demode Records. Visit:https://www.richardlipman.co/demoderecords https://elasticstage.com/demoderecords

Podcast host information - Richard Lipman - linktr.ee/richardlipman

Should you wish to sponsor A Fish out of Water podcast please get in contact by responding to this email or by visiting www.richardlipman.co.

Today’s theme tune is played by Richard Lipman and inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s crime film ‘Drunken Angel’, released in 1948.

We discover the legalities of Wicca in Britain and a ritual takes place in a sacred space in Primrise Hill, London.

This podcast is kindly supported by Camera Museum of London, pre-owned Hasselblad specialists, and Tang Cigars, connoisseurs of Cuban cigars, located at 44 Museum Street LONDON WC1A 1LY. Visit: www.cameramuseum.uk, www.tangcigars.com

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