Julia Coddington: Street Photography, Instagram & Women in Photography

In this episode, we sit down with Australian street photographer Julia Coddington to talk about intimacy in street photography, color, crowded frames, Instagram, consent, and the place of women in contemporary photography. A sharp conversation on how photographs are made, shared, and understood today. Julia reflects on how she moves inside a scene rather than observing it from a distance, why light comes before subject and composition, why she is drawn to dense and layered frames, and why getting the image right in-camera still matters. The conversation also opens up bigger questions around street photography vs documentary photography, aesthetic trends shaped by social media, women in photography, confidence, collectives and the structural undervaluation of women’s work.