A small voice podcast, Photo London and another new book on the way.
For a number of years I’ve secretly wanted to be invited to talk on Ben Smith’s hugely popular podcast, ‘A small voice, conversations with photographers.’
A few months ago I received an email from Ben and we got to talk in a slightly dark basement room in Somerset House during Photo London. With a background noise of applause from talks going on, a call to prayer and the sound of clinking tea cups on a wheeled metal trolley above, we spoke for close to 2 hours about the stories and the process behind my work and the balance of family, life and photography.
You can hear the conversation on Ben’s website or wherever you listen to your podcasts. If you do, I hope it makes interesting listening whilst you are on the road or at home and gives you the chance to check out the other 255 episodes that Ben has recored with an amazing array of photographers.
Photo London itself was a great opportunity for myself and 14 colleagues from The Photobook Club Collective to show and sell a small selection of our books and the chance meetings we had, the conversations and of course the sales proved very worthwhile. Photo London itself is a very mixed bag of work on the walls but the publishers and book market section are a great place to view a huge variety of photobooks in one place. Since the fair I now have less than 200 copies of the recently published book Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing. I really enjoyed the conversations I had with buyers and browsers there, talking about the work, the stories within and the reasons I made it.
I’m also very excited to say that we have now started the initial designs on another new book I am making this year, based around the 70 locations I walked to in grey and often wet and windy conditions over the last 2 winters here the UK. I am working with Wayne Ford again (we last worked together on A Wounded Landscape) and I am really pleased by what I am seeing. Wayne will start to make physical mock ups in the next few weeks based on our conversations about the work, his initial thoughts and my responses.
Thank you as ever for taking your time in reading this today, my son is calling me outside now to watch him playing with his toy cars, so I must go.
My best wishes,
Marc
