Hello, my name is Gabrielle Motola, welcome to Stranger Curiosity. I’m a photographer and writer based in London. I love meeting people and having compelling conversations with folks I know and ones I don’t. I especially enjoy approaching people I don’t know but am curious about. Before COVID19 changed our daily lives, I used to approach strangers on the street to photograph and talk with them. I would do this most every day.

But For the moment, because of the pandemic,  this is not something I feel I can do safely, and so this podcast is my way of dealing with the missing of that. I am continuing to connect with people through the airwaves, making technology serve us instead of the other way around perhaps for the first time ever- physical distance is not a barrier.

We are all told not to talk to strangers, aren't we? But I look at most anyone as a storybook with interesting tales to tell. So come listen in to our conversations and be inspired.

In this episode, I sat down with six members of the photographic professional community: Neale James, Nick Dunmar, Sean Tucker, Sheryl Garett, Skye Trayler, and David Hoffman, checked in with where we were and how we are affected by the covid19 situation at present and had a roundtable discussion about photography, its role in covid19, and explored how professional practice is changing, namely what we as photographic industry members can be doing to help ourselves now and each other moving into the future.

Show Notes for EP01: TRT 01:10:42

Gabrielle Motola (host, photographer, writer and producer)

gabriellemotola.com

Sean Tucker (photographer and filmmaker)

Sean’s video Skye refers to regarding blocking your day (that segment is about halfway through): youtube.com/watch?v=PqzdHbnvdAw

Sheryl Garrett (Creative coach, former editor of The Face and Observer Magazine)

David Hoffman (independent photojournalist)

Soundtrack from "Organ" by Áslaug Magnúsdóttir 🐳