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Photography Down The Line

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Photography Down The Line is a series of conversations initiated by Director of Stills, Ben Harman, about and around photography. Started during the challenging time of the Coronavirus lockdown, this series aims to discuss, celebrate and share the ideas of artists, photographers and others from the sector. Stills is a registered charity and centre for photography based in Edinburgh, UK.
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kuva picture tableau When it comes to photography, the topic of absence is often discussed, as the things depicted in the image have already changed by the time. But what happens when the photograph itself is absent? Tatu Gustafsson’s exhibition at Hippolyte Studios explores the interface between photography and text, the translation of the visual into the verbal, which the photograph seems to stubbornly resist. Within the artistic context, the exhibition’s title kuva picture tableau functio ...
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Craig Easton and Lottie Davies. Craig Easton is a Scottish photographer whose work is deeply rooted in the documentary tradition. He makes long-term projects exploring issues around social policy, identity and a sense of place, in a research-based practice that weaves a …
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kavi Pujara. Kavi Pujara is a self-taught photographer making personal, long-term documentary photo projects in his home town of Leicester. His work is included in this years Hayward Gallery touring group exhibition: After the End of History: British Working Class Photog…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Craig Atkinson from Café Royal Books. This episode was recorded to coincide with the exhibition CAFÉ ROYAL BOOKS at Stills which ran from 10 November 2023 to 10 February 2024. Craig Atkinson is an artist and lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire. In 2005 he fo…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Alicia Bruce.Alicia Bruce is an award-winning, working-class photographer, community collaborator, educator, and activist based in Scotland. Her photography sits between documentary and staged imagery focusing on communities, environments, and human rights. Alicia Bruce …
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Markéta Luskačová. This special episode of Photography Down The Line is a recording of a conversation between Ben Harman and the photographer Markéta Luskačová at a public event held at Stills, Edinburgh on 12th August 2023. The event marked the launch of Luskačová's sol…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kelly O'Brien. Kelly O'Brien is a creative worker, documentary photographic artist, educator and PhD researcher. Within her working practice, Kelly explores visual transformation and storytelling in connection to personal and political narratives through making and theor…
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When it comes to photography, the topic of absence is often discussed, as the things depicted in the image have already changed by the time. But what happens when the photograph itself is absent? Tatu Gustafsson's exhibition at Hippolyte Studios explores the interface between photography and text, the translation of the visual into the verbal, whic…
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Valokuvassa olevat asiat ovat aina jo kadonneet sellaisina, kuin kuva ne esittää. Siksi sen kohdalla puhutaan monesti poissaolosta. Mutta mitä tapahtuu, jos itse valokuva on poissaoleva? Tatu Gustafssonin näyttely Hippolyte Studiossa käsittelee valokuvan ja tekstin välistä rajapintaa, visuaalisen kääntämistä sanalliseksi, jota valokuva tuntuu itsep…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Marilena Vlachopoulou. Marilena Vlachopoulou is a documentary and portrait photographer from Athens based in Glasgow. Since graduating from Kelvin College in 2018, she has been documenting Glasgow’s music scene and gig landscape in a variety of analogue formats. Her work…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Sophie Gerrard. Sophie Gerrard (Scottish, b.1978) is an award-winning international artist working within the field of photography. Her practice is characterised by sensitive and evocative visual exploration of the natural environment and our relationship to it. Sophie’s…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Jonjo Borrill. Jonjo Borrill was born on the North-East coast of England. After a childhood of struggling to express himself, photography became a cathartic outlet for his thoughts and feelings about the world. As his photographic practice matured, Borrill's interest bec…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Ishiuchi Miyako. This special episode of Photography Down The Line is a recording of a conversation between Ben Harman and the photographer Ishiuchi Miyako at a public event held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh on 2nd August 2022. The event marked the launc…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Oliver Raymond Barker. Oliver Raymond Barker works with the mechanics and alchemy of photography to make images, objects and structures that expand upon what photography is and can be. Working predominantly with alternative analogue techniques he uses photography as a to…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kirsty Mackay. Kirsty Mackay is a documentary photographer, activist and filmmaker. Her research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination. She has an MA in Documentary photography from University of South Wales, Newpo…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Ada Trillo. Ada Trillo is a Philadelphia-based photographer. Born and raised in the U.S/ Mexican border region of Juarez and El Paso, her work focuses on sex trafficking, climate and violence-related international migration, and long-standing barriers of race and class. …
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Oana Stanciu. Oana Stanciu is a visual artist from Romania, living and working in Edinburgh. Her work combines performance, photography and moving image to create unnatural and subtly distorted self-portraits. As a student, she began experimenting with alter-egos and thi…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Caroline Douglas. Caroline Douglas is an artist working with photography and moving image. She is undertaking a PhD by practice at the Royal College of Art, researching the role of women in early Scottish photography, and is a recipient of the AHRC-techne Scholarship (20…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Marilyn Stafford. Marilyn Stafford was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1925. She planned to become an actress and singer following her training at the Cleveland Playhouse. In 1947, having moved to New York City where she was given small acting roles off Broadway and in e…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Alex Boyd. Alex Boyd is a photographer, writer and curator whose work largely focused on studies of landscape and trauma. He is author of the Saltire Award shortlisted St Kilda - The Silent Islands and The Isle of Rust, a collaboration with writer and critic Jonathan Mea…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks Stephen Koch, Director of The Peter Hujar Archive. Stephen Koch is the author of two novels and five books of nonfiction, ranging from history to literary history and a handbook on creative writing called The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop. Koch has steadily written essay…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Rosy Martin. Rosy Martin (born in London, 1946) is an artist-photographer, psychological-therapist, workshop leader, lecturer and writer. She explores the relationships between photography, memory, identities and unconscious processes using self-portraiture, still life p…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Chris Leslie. BAFTA Scotland (New Talent) Award Winning photographer and filmmaker Chris Leslie began taking photographs whilst volunteering in the Former Yugoslavia in 1996. He then went on to work as a photographer, filmmaker and communications manager for an Internati…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Lorna Macintyre. Lorna Macintyre is an artist based in Glasgow. She studied for both a BA (1999) and MFA (2007) at The Glasgow School of Art. Her solo exhibitions include: Pieces of You Are Here, Dundee Contemporary Arts (2018); Spolia, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire (2017);…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Sekai MachacheSekai Machache is a visual artist and curator based between Dundee and Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self. Having been born in Zimbabwe and raised in Scotland, she has a particular interest in W.E.B Dubois’ notion of D…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Paul Hill. Paul Hill is a photographer, journalist, author and teacher who is widely regarded as a major influence on contemporary British photography, Born in 1941 in Ludlow, Shropshire, Hill worked as a newspaper reporter from the late 1950s until he became a freelance…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Crystal Bennes. Crystal Bennes is an American-born artist and writer based in Scotland. Her mixed media practice is grounded in long-term projects that foreground archival research, durational fieldwork and material experimentation. Since 2015, much of her work has been …
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Simon Murphy. Simon Murphy is a photographer based in Glasgow. His career has enabled him to travel extensively shooting human interest stories in countries such as Bangladesh, The Democratic republic of Congo, Rwanda and Cambodia. His portraiture subjects range from ind…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to David Brittain. Since 1980 David Brittain has been engaged with photography as a writer, reviewer, editor of 'Creative Camera', documentary maker, curator and academic researcher. David wrote 'Inside Photography: Ten Interviews with Editors' (2012), 'The Jet Age Compendi…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Matthew Arthur Williams. Matthew Arthur Williams (b. 1989 London) is a visual & sound artist, freelance photographer and DJ. Living and working in Glasgow. Matthew's work, which takes a multi-disciplinary approach, sits to continuously encourage a different narrative and…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Nicky Bird. Nicky Bird is an artist and Reader in Contemporary Photographic Practice at the Glasgow School of Art. Her current solo show Legacy at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, (27 April-6 June 2021) looks back at over fifteen years of her work. Nicky’s work investig…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Arpita Shah. Arpita Shah is a visual artist and educator based between Edinburgh and Eastbourne, UK. She works between photography and film exploring the fields where culture and identity meet. As an India-born artist, Shah spent an earlier part of her life living betwee…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Tracy Marshall-Grant. Tracy is an Arts Director & Producer specialising in the production of photography exhibitions, festivals, education projects and workshops. She is currently Festival Director of Bristol Photo Festival and previously directed LOOK Photo Biennial 201…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Louise Fedotov-Clements, Artistic Director, QUAD & Director, FORMAT International Photography Festival. Louise has been the Artistic Director of QUAD since 2001, and is the Director of FORMAT, which she co-founded in 2004. An independent curator since 1998 directing comm…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Christina Riley from The Nature Library. Christina Riley is an artist based on Scotland's west coast. Using photography, found objects, writing and installations, her work draws acute attention to the details of the natural world with a particular focus on the sea's edge…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Francis McKee. Francis McKee is an Irish writer and curator based in Glasgow. His most recent books include How to Know What’s Really Happening (2017), Even the Dead Rise Up (2018) and Dark Tales (2019). McKee has been Director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgo…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Norman McBeath. Norman McBeath is a photographer and printmaker who lives in Edinburgh. The National Portrait Galleries in Edinburgh and London have over seventy of his portraits in their collections. His collaborations with poets include Plan B with Paul Muldoon, The Be…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Roberta McGrath. Roberta McGrath writes on the history, theory and politics of photographic representation. She has worked as a lecturer and researcher at universities in the UK since the early 1980s. From 2004-15 she was Reader in Photographic Theory, History and Critic…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Frances Scott. Frances Scott (b. 1991) is a photographer from Orkney, currently based in Glasgow. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2014, receiving first class honours alongside an award for her Critical Journal. Her work often focuses on journeys made through …
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Finnish born Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a founder member of the Amber Film & Photography Collective. Based since 1969 in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England the collective established Side Gallery in 1977, dedicating it to socially engaged do…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Alan Eglinton. British visual artist Alan Eglinton tells his own story through his cross-disciplinary projects. His emigration to France at an early age, his wedding proposal to his South Korean partner or his working process are a few examples. His photographs and texts…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Alan Dimmick. Alan Dimmick was born in Glasgow in 1961. He bought his first camera (a Russian Zenith) in 1977, the same year that he converted the toilets in his secondary school annex into a darkroom. He went on to study photography at Glasgow College of Building and Pr…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Brittonie Fletcher. Brittonie Fletcher (MFA) is a British-American artist, educator and curator currently based in Edinburgh. Her work of the past decade has focused on connection to place, belonging and community - often tying in politics and the personal. She is an act…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Louise Mclachlan. Based in Edinburgh, artist Louise Mclachlan works predominantly with digital photography. Finding it the most ideal tool to create, Mclachlan draws inspiration from many mediums including painting, performance, sculpture and cinema. In recent years Mcla…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kieran Dodds. Kieran Dodds is an award-winning photographer based in Edinburgh. After reading Zoology, he trained at the Herald newspaper group in Glasgow becoming an independent photographer after picking up a string of accolades including a 1st prize World Press Photo …
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kara Bell, Sarah Newall, Zoe Cook and Kyle Bruce, some of the current Stills Academy participants. Stills Academy runs twice a year as part of Stills School, an alternative photography school for 16—25 year olds who face barriers to accessing the arts. The Academy suppor…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Wendy McMurdo. Wendy McMurdo is an award-winning photographer who is interested in exploring the ways in which technology influences early learning. She exploits the artistic possibilities offered by scientific progress in her work and raises questions about the effect n…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Rebecca Marr. Rebecca Marr is a photographic artist born in the Highlands who lives in Orkney. She settled there after a residency over a decade ago with the Pier Arts Centre. Rebecca works across digital and analogue photography, often with the darkroom technique of pho…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Mhairi Law. Mhairi Law is an award winning photographer living and working on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Using medium-format analogue photography, her creative practice is focused primarily on landscapes, reflecting social and environmental them…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Chloe Dewe Mathews. Chloe Dewe Mathews is a photographic artist based in St Leonards on Sea, England. Her work is internationally recognized and has been exhibited at Tate Modern, Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Her work has been publi…
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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Thomas Whittle. Whittle’s practice encompasses photography, painting, drawing, publishing, organising and writing often bringing these mediums together. His work attempts to navigate the duality of definition, ambiguity of usefulness and diluted purpose of the quiet and …
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