#13 David Hoffman - PHOTO TALK - WTF-STOP PODCAST

01/08/23 • 71 min

David Hoffman has worked as an independent photojournalist since the 1970s. It didn’t take long for him to discover that documenting the increasingly overt control of the state over our lives was what motivated him. He soon decided to run his own photo library, giving him the freedom to choose his own subject matter. His work sheds what some might see as an unforgiving light across racial and social conflict, policing, drug use, poverty, and social exclusion.
Protest, and the violence that sometimes accompanies it, is a thread that has run throughout his career, and at one point gained him a reputation as ‘the riot photographer’s riot photographer'. Determination and a willingness to look uncomfortable realities in the eye underpin all of his work, from the metamorphosis of London’s East End to the documenting of homelessness, protest, and oppressive policing. Some find the pictures raw and uncomfortable, but his intention is to document dispassionately and let the images stand as social challenge. By engaging with the image, we are forced to recognise the world as others live it and to consider our own position.
Documenting the reality of injustice, frequent state oppression and the all too often tragic consequences, his work has supported legal challenges, brought racist perpetrators to justice, and most importantly, reached wide audiences through mass media publication for more than 40 years.
David Hoffman
Website: https://www.hoffmanphotos.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DavidHoffmanUK/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidHoffmanUK Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@DavidHoffmanuk
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhoffman3/
Tearsheets: https://www.hoffmanphotos.com/-/galleries/publications
Publications:
Cafe Royal Box Set: https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/england/david-hoffman-adverse-circumstances-signed-box-set
Interviews:
Roman Road: https://romanroadlondon.com/david-hoffman-interview/
Exposure Works: https://exposureworks.co.uk/lightbites-david-hoffman/
The Kiss & Kieran: https://thelondoncolumn.com/2014/11/11/david-hoffman-polices-london/
Frontline Club: https://youtu.be/tcleOZ1VGGc
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#2 Barry Lewis - Frontline Reporting: 'Intersections' - WTF-STOP PODCAST

Barry Lewis is a London-based photographer and filmmaker, founder of Network Photographers, who has worked internationally for books and magazines from Life magazine to National Geographic.
As well as photojournalism and portraiture, he has directed over 20 documentaries, commercials, and art films. His work has been exhibited at the V&A, The Museum of London, The Photographers Gallery, and Modern Art Oxford.
Notable exhibitions and awards include Positive Lives( 1993), a book and international exhibition about living with AIDS; the World Press Award’s Oscar Barnack Medal for humanitarian photography (1990). In 2019 his images from Butlins in the 1980s will be shown at Turner Contemporary as part of the “Resort” show.
Since 2010 Barry has worked with musician David Toop and singer Elaine Mitchener to produce the mixed-media production “Of Leonardo” for the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice. A new version, choreographed by Dam Van Huynh, now tours internationally with a performance at the Purcell Room on the South Bank in September 2018. In July 2018 Barry’s film “Pond” was streamed by NTS as part of a performance by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Toop.
Selected Books:
Butlin’s – https://barrylewisphotography.com/butlins
Glastonbury – https://www.thefloodgallery.com/products/vaguely-lost-in-shangri-la-12-years-of-the-glastonbury-festival-by-barry-lewis
MIAMI BEACH 1988-1995 - https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/miami-beach-1988-1995?_pos=3&_sid=14a349bba&_ss=r
Cafe Royal Books - https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/search?q=barry%20lewis
Barry Lewis
Website: https://barrylewisphotography.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barrylewisphotography/
Network: https://www.networkphotographersonline.com/
In Pictures: https://www.in-pictures.co.uk/portfolio/C0000KkjgAy1kLUs/G0000ckgYH720dAk
Camera is on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Camerasnaps
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/Camerasnaps
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/camera_books/
Merch: http://camera.myspreadshop.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camera.proje...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0I5BX44...
Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ed3...
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#14 Janine Wiedel - PHOTO TALK - WTF-STOP PODCAST

Janine Wiedel is a New York-born documentary photographer and visual anthropologist based in London since 1970. She has been covering issues of social concern since the late 1960s.
Her career has mainly focused on groups struggling to survive on the edges of mainstream society. These projects have become significant studies, books, and exhibitions, and have fed into Wiedel’s extensive archive and photo library which contains a unique collection of stock images covering a wide range of social issues including education, protest, youth, alternative lifestyles, multicultural communities, drugs, and social exclusion.
Major Long-Term Projects:
Black Panthers and Berkeley Riots: photographs in California 1968-1969
Irish Tinkers: Five years project documenting the Irish Travellers
Eskimo Summer: Inuit Life on Baffin Island living with an Inuit Family
Looking at Iran: Educational book documenting Iran during the Shah's reign. Commission: A&C Black 1976 Funding from: Iranian Oil Company
Vulcan’s Forge: Two-year project documenting Britain's Industrial Heartland
Dover, A port in a Storm: Documenting Changes before construction of a tunnel
Faces With Voices: A year documenting the people of Sudbury, Suffolk
St Agnes Place: Four-year document of South London squatted street
Rastafarian way of life: Documenting a Rastafarian community in London
Food Awareness & Food Growing: Project with Rastafarian & BAME community
In Transit: a collaborative Documentary project with Jacky Chapman on the Calais Jungle and Grande-Synthe Refugee Camps 2016.
Ongoing Projects: Protest in its many forms & Multicultural Communities in Britain
Janine Wiedel
Website: https://archive.wiedel-photo-library.com/index
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wiedelphoto/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiedelphoto
Books:
https://archive.wiedel-photo-library.com/p/books
Vulcan Forge Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ms1/vulcans-forge-by-janine-wiedel
Bluecoat Press:
https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/vulcans-forge/
Interviews/Press:
The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/12/janine-wiedel-images-of-flaming-1970s-industrial-britain
Californian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/12/janine-wiedel-images-of-flaming-1970s-industrial-britain
Camera is on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Camerasnaps
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Camerasnaps/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/camera_books/
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camera.proje...
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