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Richard Sharum is an editorial and documentary photographer based in the Dallas, Texas area. Mainly focusing on socio-economic or social justice dilemmas concerning the human condition, his work has been regarded as in-depth, up-close and personal. We discuss Richard’s long-term projects and outstanding first book “Campesino Cuba” and the upcoming releases starting with “Spina Americana” (available for pre-order).

Selected exhibitions have occurred in Kyoto, Japan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Reggio Emilia, Italy, New York, Boston, Chicago and Dallas.

His work has been added to the permanent collection of the Witliff Center for Documentary Studies, as well as others.

His commissions include those by The Meadows Foundation, Centers for Community Cooperation, Harvard Law School, Student Conservation Association, Children’s Medical Center (Oncology), Children’s Cancer Fund.

His publications include those by LFI (Leica International), British Journal of Photography, LensCulture, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Publico (Portugal), El Pais (Spain), Observer (UK), The New York Times Lens Blog, B+W Photo Magazine, Huck Magazine, Glasstire, PATRON, Creative Review, among others.

Richard Sharum is represented by The Hulett Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Richard is on Instagram @Richard_Sharum

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Carrie Schreck  is a documentary producer and independent photographer whose work has been featured in Business Insider, Washington Post, Vice, CBC, StayWild Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, Impose Magazine, Strangeways, Dice Magazine, Reckless Magazine, LA Record, and has been profiled in Wall Street Journal Life & Arts.  She’s also been covering Qanon, the RNC and DNC conventions and we’ll talk about how that went and her impressions of the inside of each.

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Using photography, testimony and archive, Diana Matar‘s in-depth bodies of work investigate themes of history, memory and state sponsored violence.  Grounded in heavy research and often spending years on a project, Matar attempts to capture the invisible traces of human history and produces installations and books that query what role aesthetics might playin the depiction of power. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Matar has received the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Fine Art; the International Fund for Documentary Photography; a Ford Foundation Grant for artists making work on history and memory; and twice been awarded an Arts Council of England Individual Artist Grant. Her work is held in public and private collections and has been exhibited in numerous institutions including Tate Modern, London; The National Museum of Singapore; Museum Folkswang, Essen, Germany; The Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi. Her monograph Evidence was published in 2014 by Schilt Publishing Amsterdam to critical acclaim and chosen by New York Times Photography critic Teju Cole as one of two best photography books of the year. In 2019 Matar was appointed Distinguished Artist at Barnard College Columbia University, New York.

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Donna Ferrato is an internationally acclaimed photojournalist known for her groundbreaking documentation of the hidden world of domestic violence. Her seminal book Living With the Enemy  published by Aperture in 1991 went into four printings and sparked a national discussion on sexual violence. In 2014, Ferrato launched the I Am Unbeatable campaign to expose, document, and prevent domestic violence against women and children through real stories of real people. The W. Eugene Smith Fund is celebrating the 45th anniversary of the grant they made to Donna Ferrato so she could travel the US to complete that body of work for the book. Donna continues to shed light on the horrors of domestic violence and the shortcomings of the legal system to keep women and children safe, and we are thrilled to have her here with us today to talk about that body of work and how she sustains working on such a difficult topic. Her work has been published in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair Italy and many more.

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Ivan McClellan is a Kansas City native who grew up with violence and drugs as part of the landscape. He left for NYC just after high school to study the arts and ended up in advertising. He is a self taught photographer, but has tipped his hat to others in the field who have helped him buff up his skills. He recently published a beautiful book titled 8 Seconds, which documents black horse culture, including black rodeo, which has a long and storied history in America. His clients now include Wrangler and Stetson, among others.

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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Robert Cohen

On the 10 year anniversary of the Ferguson, MO protests, we revive this great interview with Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Cohen, who took the iconic photo of resistance in action.  He has been recognized eight times as Regional Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association and is a member of the Scripps-Howard Editorial Hall of Fame.

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Ken Light‘s work has appeared in books, magazines, exhibitions and numerous anthologies, exhibition catalogues and a variety of media, digital and motion picture. He got his start in 1969 photographing for alternative/underground newspapers and magazines. His work was widely published in posters, books and hundreds of periodicals.

His 12th and most recent book is Report to the Shareholders (2023 Steidl) supported with a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a documentary photography project that is focused on the swing states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and upstate New York, most often labeled as the Rust Belt, in the post 2020 presidential election period. The loss of manufacturing jobs and the decline of this region have wider implications for our national economy and the social fabric of the country as well as for our very own democracy. The book asks how did we let this happen?

Ken has exhibited internationally in over 225 one-person and group shows, and his work is part of numerous collections including the San Francisco MoMA, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the International Center of Photography and the American Museum of Art at the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, Helmut Gernsheim Collection and many others including private collections.

He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Photographers Fellowships, a NEA survey and publication grant, the Dorothea Lange Fellowship and a fellowship from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation as well as grants from the Soros Open Society Institute, the American Film Institute, the California Arts Commission, International Fund for Concerned Photography, the Rosenberg Foundation and the Max & Anna Levinson Foundation as well as the Johnathan Logan Family Foundation. Other awards include the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement award in photography, the Thomas More Storke International Journalism Award.

He is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism and curator of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley, and was the 2012 Laventhol Visiting Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has also taught workshops at many school and photo festivals including at the ICP in New York City, The Missouri Photo Workshop, S.F. Art Institute and in the School for Photographic Studies in Prague and Baltimore. He was a founder of the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography, which awarded grants to photographers worldwide, as well a founder of Fotovision a non-profit documentary photo organization which was based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Mel D Cole is a New York–based self-taught photographer, is one of hip hop’s most accomplished and celebrated photographers, with a career spanning almost 20 years. He released his first book, Great: Photographs of Hip Hop, in February 2020.

His career pivoted in  April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, when Cole started driving around New York City documenting the streets. When George Floyd was murdered, Cole dedicated the rest of 2020 and beyond to photographing the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country. In addition to New York City, Cole traveled to cover protests in Washington, DC, Houston, Minneapolis, Richmond, Virginia and more.

The body of work he produced from the summer of 2020 and beyond is a powerful outpouring of the hurt, outrage and courage of people compelled to take action following Floyd’s and others brutal murders. Cole seeks to create what he calls “a collective memory” that continues the legacy of the civil rights movement. This work was collected in a book called “American Protest 2020-2021”.

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Until very recently our guest, MaryAnne Golon, was the Director of Photography at The Washington Post where she managed 25 picture editors and 17 photojournalists and won a Pulitzer for Photography.  Before joining The Post in 2012, Golon was the director of photography at Time Magazine and a senior photography editor there for more than 20 years.

Among her other accomplishments, MaryAnne curated Look 3: The Festival of the Photograph, which we all sorely miss, and serves on the board of the Eddie Adams Workshop.

Recently MaryAnne joined Syracuse University as a professor of Practice, teaching courses in Visual Editing.

Golon has received many individual and team picture-editing awards from the POYi (Pictures of the Year International) and NPPA’s (National Press Photographers Association) and Best of Photojournalism competitions. Communication Arts, Society of Publication Designers, and American Photography have all recognized her work.  She has also served as an esteemed judge for World Press and other important photography competitions.

MaryAnne attended The University of Florida where she studied Journalism.

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Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and documentary film director Anthony Suau is also an Emmy Award winning journalist, not to mention two World Press Photo of the Year awards, the Robert Capa Gold Medal, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. For thirty-five years he has documented the effects of events on the lives of people around the world with a specific focus on revealing social, economic and political injustice. For more than twenty of those years he worked as a contract correspondent for TIME and the National Geographic Magazine. He is the author of four books and his images have appeared in thousands of publications, museums and films worldwide.  Suau was one of the co-founders of the non-profit collective Facing Change: Documenting America, which was founded in 2009 by a group of social minded photographers and writers to document the issues facing the United States during a time of economic crisis.

He has been based in Europe for 20 years and returned to live in New York in 2008.  We are chatting Latest film Organic Rising which is coming to a film festival near you and can be viewed now online.  The film explores the organic food industry, from farm to table, and the farmers and others involved in improving the US food supply.

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