A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers (exclusive member content)

Ilvy’s Picks Significant Photobook(s): Olifantenpaadjes (Elephant Paths), Jan Dirk van der Burg Favourite photographer(s): Alex WebbEd Kashi Recent Discoveries: Ebrahim Alipoor

Jon’s Picks Significant Photobook(s): Ansel Adams, Taos PuebloErnst Haas, The Creation Favourite photographer(s): Anastasia Samoylova Recent Discoveries: Vincent Munier, ArcticHiroshi Sugimoto

Dragana’s Picks Significant Photobook(s): Ravens, Masahisa Fukase Favourite photographer(s): Walker Evans Recent Discoveries: None Link to Rena's documentary, Searching For Satyrus,, including trailer.

Zack’s Picks Significant films(s): Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore.The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris. Favourite documentary filmmakers(s): Errol MorrisJoshua Oppenheimer Recent Discoveries: Casting JonBenet, Kitty Green

Jessica’s Picks for... Significant documentary films: Brother’s Keeper, Joe BerlingerDina, Antonio Santini & Dan Sickles Notable or influential documentary filmmakers(s): Theo AnthonyJoshua Oppenheimer Recent Discoveries: Nuisance Bear, Gabriela Osio & Jack Weisman

Philip’s Picks Significant Photobook(s): Ed Van Der Elsken, BagaraPeter Beard, End Of The GameBill Burke, Autrefois Maison Privee Favourite photographer(s): John Wolsely - Watercolorist, not a photographer. Recent Discoveries: None

Joachim’s Picks Significant Photobook(s): Byan Bag Regnen, Krass ClementTelex Iran, Gilles PeressWintereisse, Luc Delahaye Favourite photographer(s): James NachtweyEugene Richards Recent Discoveries: Lars Tunbjörk 

Lee’s Picks Significant films(s): Finding Vivian Maier, John MaloofThe Up series (UK TV) Favourite documentary filmmakers(s): Too many to answer.  Recent Discoveries: Black Box Diaries, Shiori ItoThe Golden Spurtle, Constantine Costi Shout out to I am Martin Parr producer Emmanuelle Lepers

Rachel’s Picks Significant films(s): Sherman’s March, Ross McElweeTarnation, Jonathan Caouette Favourite documentary filmmakers(s): Werner HerzogKirsten Johnson Recent Discoveries: I Like It Here, Ralph Arlyk

Just a quickish update from me on all things A Small Voice related! Normal service will be resumed on the next member episode on Christmas Eve. Need a website or know someone who might? Visit Boat Drinks Studio.

Significant films(s): The Filth and the Fury, Julian TempleLondon, Patrick Keiller Favourite documentary filmmakers(s): Asif KapadiaAndrea Luka Zimmerman Recent Discoveries: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, Sepideh Farsi

Featuring: Katy BarronAlex SchneidermanPatriciaBaker-CassidySome musicians whose names I did not getJillian Edelstein

Mike’s Picks Significant Photobook(s): Fruit Tramps: A Family of Migrant Farmworkers by Herman Leroy EmmetAmerica Pictures by Jacob Holdt Favourite photographer(s): Larry TowellBoris Mikhailov Recent Discoveries: James Han

Merlin's Picks Significant Photobook(s): Satellites by Jonas Bendiksen Favourite photographer(s): Tony Ray-Jones Recent Discoveries: Saul LeiterAs It Was Give(n) To Me by Stacey Kranitz

Eli's Picks Significant Photobook(s): Leonard Freed photographs 1954 - 1990 Some favourite photographers: PHilip Jones GriffithsDon McCullin Recent Discoveries ( or, actually, former students): Meredith KohutTamir Kalifa

Guest Picks Rankin: Significant Photobook(s): Evidence - Richard AvedonThe Defenders: Heroes of the Global Fight for Human Rights - Platon Some favourite photographers: Too many to name. But, Annie Leibovitz “is not given enough love….” Recent Discoveries: Nadia Lee CohenPrince GyasiGabriel Moses Tony: Significant Photobook(s): Wim Wenders: Paris, TexasNext Stop: Fotografie Toon Michiels Some favourite photographers: Joel MeyervitzJosef KoudelkaMary Ellen Mark Recent Discoveries: Village People 1965—1990, Jindřich ŠtreitAnarene, Mikel Bastida

Significant Photobook(s): Jasper by Matthew GenitempoShe Dances on Jackson by Vanessa Winship Some favourite photographers: Vanessa WinshipSally MannEmmet GowinAndre KerteszSaul Leiter Recent Discoveries: Studio 54 by Todd PapageorgeI Imagined It Empty by Ruth Lauer ManentiEpitome by Vic BakinMalparaiso by JM Rameriz-suassi

Last week's guest, Anna Arendt, returns for the bonus questions. Anna’s picks: Significant photobook(s): Good Days Quiet - Robert Frank Recent discoveries: Helen Levitt A Favourite Photographer: Masao Yamamoto  (+ filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky) You can find the archive of Photobook Focus video recordings here.

Last week's guest, Mohamed Bourouissa, returns for the bonus questions. Mohamed's picks: Significant photobook(s): Richard Avedon, In The American West Recent discoveries: Marvin Bonheur, La Trilogie du Bonheur A Favourite Photographer: August Sander The archive of Photobook Focus video recordings can be found here.

Featuring a check-in with my guest from way back on episode 4 of A Small Voice, Antonio Olmos. We talked about his recet adventures in the movie business as unit photographer on the latest Mission Impossible film and the recent changes at the Guardian and Observer newspapers here in the UK, for whom Tony has worked regularly for many years. And last week's brilliant guest Paul Seawright returns to take on the bonus questions. Pauls picks for... Significant photobook(s): Troubled Land, Paul Graham The Map, Kikuji Kawada New West, Robert Adams The Pond, John Gossage Recent discoveries: Jose Pedro Cortez, Things Here And Things Still To Come Lucy Jackson & Joel Seawright, Fantasy Ireland Bryan Schutmaat, Sons of the Living Favourite Photographer: Paul Graham, among others

The concluding part of last week's main episode from Photo London and A Bigger Book Fair at Peckham24. Featuring: Ed ThompsonRobin TitchenerBriony Campbell

A check-in recorded at Photo London with Craig Easton (episode 154) on his forthcoming book project An Extremely Ungetatable Place, currently being funded via Kickstarter. Last week's guest Marc Wilson tackles the bonus questions. Marc's picks: Significant photobook: Robert Frank, The Lines Of My Hand Recent discovery: Chris Hoare, Seven HillsMichael Ormerod, American Photographs Favourite photographers: Robert FrankChristian Boltanski

A check-in with previous Guest Ken Grant (Episode 128) talking about his new book, CWM: THE FAIR COUNTRY (RRB Books). ...And last week's guest Mackenzie Calle tackles the bonus questions. Mackenzie's Picks: Photobooks: Afronauts, Cristina De MiddelJonas Bendiksen, The Book of Veles Fave Photographer: Lee Miller Recent Discoveries: Better Food For Our Fighting Men, Matthieu NicolRichard Misrach, Petrochemical AmericaRena Effendi, World Press Photo story

Last week's guest Tomasz Tomaszewski returns for the bonus questions. Password for members area at bensmithphoto.com: conwok-zavtyB-mufhe2

Last week's guest Katrin Koenning returns to take on the bonus questions. Katrin's Picks: Significant photobooks:  Robert Frank, Lines Of My HandValparaiso, Segio Larrain Influential photographer: Roy DeCarava Recent Discoveries: Her Ankor Wat Photo Festival alumni N.B. Password for member's page of the website: conwok-zavtyB-mufhe2

Last week's guest Ian Macdonald returns to take on the bonus questions. Ian's Picks: Significant photobooks: Bill Brandt, Shadow of LightBrassai, Paris de NuitPaul Strand, Tir A'Mhurain: The Outer Hebrides of Scotland Influential photographer: Frank Meadow Sutcliffe N.B. Password for member's page of the website: conwok-zavtyB-mufhe2

Last week's guest, Mike Abrahams, returns for the bonus questions. Mike's picks: Significant photobooks: Salgado, Other Americas, Cristina García Rodero, España OcultaNikos Economopoulos, In The BalkansMarc Riboud's ChinaW. Eugene Smith, MinimataPhilip Jones Griffiths, Vietnam Inc.Danny Lyon, Conversations With The DeadRobert Frank, The Americans Influential or favourite photographer: Marc Riboud Recent Discoveries: Fabio Ponzio, East of NowhereTomasz Tomaszewski, The World Is Where You StopPeter Van Agtmael, Look At The USA

Last week's guest returns to answer the bonus questions. Details on some of his selections below. Significant photobooks: Knave of Hearts, Danny LyonExiles, Joseph koudelkaRectangulo en la Mano, Sergio LarrainPoste Restante, Christer StromholmLeros, Alex MajoliA Dialogue With Solitude, Dave HeathCity Still, Ray MetzgerA Solitude of Ravens, Masuhisa FukaseFifty Hours, Eugene RichardsPhotographs, John DeakinDepartures and Arrivals, Charlie HarbuttSan Clemente, Raymond Depardon Influential or favourite photographer(s): Josef Koudelka Recent discoveries: Robert BergmanYasuhiro Ishimoto New member page password: conwok-zavtyB-mufhe2

A check-in with Adam Hinton (Episode 9 of A Small Voice) on the AI project he produced for his MFA, the extreme polarisation of views such work inspires, and the moral and ethical issues it throws up. Plus last week's guest, Ian Howorth, tackles the bonus questions. Ian's picks: Significant Photobook(s): Sleeping By The Mississippi, Alec Soth / Pictures From Home, Larry SultanInfluential or favourite photographer or photographers: Stephen Gill / Alec SothRecent discovery: Alejandro Chaskielberg, La Creciente

Last week's guest, Ed Sykes, tackles the bonus questions. Significant Photobook(s): American Night by Paul GrahamAn influential or favourite photographer or photographers: None chosen.Recent discovery: Jermaine Francis.

A check-in with my guest from episode 11, way back at the end of 2015, Magnum photos member Olivia Arthur. We talk about what she's been doing over the nine year period since our first chat, including a discussion about her new book Murmerings Of The Skin (Void). Password for members page of my website: sipMun-cofda7-wakjih Join me for Photobook Focus on December 17th at 19.00 UK time!

A check in with previous guest Nick Brandt on chapters three and four of his global, multi-stage project The Day May Break, and why a second Trump presidency is the reason he is leaving the USA after 30 years.  And last week’s guest, Stephan Vanfleteren, returns to answer the bonus questions in fine style.

A quick apology from Ben that there's no member episode this week and what's coming up...

Last week's guest Polly Braden returns to tackle the bonus questions. Fave photobook: Ernest Cole: The True America Influential photographers: Inge Morath Stephen Shore Eveyln Hofer Recent Discovery: Ernest Cole

Agnieszka Sosnowska returns to answer the bonus questions. Agnieszka's picks: Significant photobook: Shooting Back, by Jim Hubbard Favourite photographer: Nan Goldin Recent Discoveries: Mark Steinmetz Sadie Cook Ben Brink

Last week's guest, Robbie Lawrence, returns for the bonus questions. Robbie's Picks: SIGNIFICANT PHOTOBOOK: She Dances on Jackson INFLUENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHER: Boris Savelev RECENT DISCOVERY: Abdulhamid Kircher, Rotting From Within Vote for Aletheia Casey to have a solo show at Paris Photo here!

Last week's guest, Kiana Hayeri, returns for the bonus questions. Kiana's Picks: Influential photograper(s): Finbarr O'ReillyAndrea Bruce Significant Photobook: Black Passport by Stanley Greene

Last week's guest, Diana Matar, returns to tackle the bonus questions. Diana's picks: Influential photographers: Graciele Iturbide & Josef KoudelkaSpecial photobooks:Chizu (The Map) & The Last Cosmology both by Kikuji Kawada, Liquid Land by Rena EffendiRecent discovery: Aaron Schuman, Slant

Last week's guest, Abdul Kircher, returns to tackle the bonus questions. Abdul's picks: Influential photographer: Nobuyoshi Araki.Special photobook:Chiro Ai Shi, by Nobuyoshi ArakiRecent discovery:Bible, by Momo Okabe.

Last week's guest, Louis Quail, tackles the bonus questions. Inspirational photobook: The Epilogue - Laia Abril Some favourite photographers: Keith Arnatt Stephen Gill Rhiannon Adam Laia Abril

Last week's guest, Debi Cornwall, tackles the bonus questions. Important Photobook: The Heavens, Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti  Favourite Photographer: Taryn Simon

A check-in with previous guest, Michal Iwanowski (Ep. 124) on his new book self published book Go Home Polish.

A check-in with previous guest, the wonderful Anders Petersen (Ep.117), talking about his latest Book, Napoli, published by L'artiere

A quick update from Ben

Last week's guest Julia Kochetova @seameer returns for the bonus questions. Recommended photographers: Alena Grom @grom_alenaDina Oganova @dikarka__Nanna Heitmann @nannaheitmann Recommended photobook: Us and Them, by Helmut Newton and Alice Springs

A check-in with previous guest Joanne Coates (Episode 184) on her forthcoming exhibition Middle of Somewhere. And last week's guest Michael Ackerman tackles the bonus questions.

Last week's guest, Valerie Belin, tackles the bonus questions.

Last week's guest Linda Troeller returns for the bonus questions.

Last week's guest Nicole Tung returns for the bonus questions.

Last week's guest Mitch Epstein returns to tackle the bonus questions.