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Immaterial Voices
by Brian O'Neill for Immaterial Books
Immaterial Voices is the podcast of Immaterial Books, an independent publisher of contemporary art and literature on photo media and its practice. Hosted by photographer, writer, and sociologist Brian O'Neill, the show consists of interviews with artists, scholars, and practitioners about contemporary image making, theory, and history.
Episodes
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Familiar and Strange: A Conversation with Lyndsey Groth
In this episode, Immaterial Voices host and Immaterial Books curator Brian O’Neill sites down with Central Illinois based photographer Lyndsey Groth. Lyndsey released her first book, titled August, through Immaterial Books in 2025. Lyndsey talks about constructing her August project out of...
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Learning It by Doing It: A Conversation with Bryan Formhals
How does our “eye” develop, or even change through time? Along what dimensions do changes, both proximate and seemingly distant, inform our vision of the world? In this conversation with photographer, walker, and artist Bryan Formhals, Immaterial Voices host Brian O’Neill discusses these and many...
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Whose Stories are Ours to Tell? A Conversation with Brooke C. White
What stories are, and are not, ours to tell? And, how do archives work through, and speak across, multiple generations, informing memories and identities? In this conversation with artist and photographer Brooke C. White, we tackle these and many other questions. With work exhibited...
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What is a Photobook?: A Conversation with Hans Hickerson
What exactly is a photobook? This episode is with longtime artist, bookmaker, photographer, writer, translator, and editor Hans Hickerson. For the past five years or so, Immaterial Voices host Brian O’Neill has been working as a critic, or at least, writing about photobooks, as Contributing…
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Bookmaking and the Art of Observation: A Conversation with Ryan Searl
In this conversation, Immaterial Voices host Brian O’Neill, sits down with photographer and artist Ryan Searl. Based in Illinois, Searl explores the places that seem off the beaten path, but that are not often too far from home. Across the seemingly endless horizon of industrial agriculture in…
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Photography En Plein Air: A Conversation with Ciel Baptiste
In this conversation, Immaterial Voices host Brian O’Neill, sits down with photographer and artist Ciel Baptiste. Based in Illinois, Ciel has been exploring and experimenting with film photography, especially black and white, as a means to connect with the landscape and region. In this...
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Photography and Traversing Borders: A Conversation with Jeff Smudde
How can we work at the boundaries of the landscape as well as our perceptions? How can we work across multi-media within the context of still image-based projects? How do our projects mobilize a certain poetics? In this conversation, Brian O'Neill and Jeff Smudde discuss paths through higher...
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Species of Mood: Urban Atmospheres, Mobilities, and Art with Brian O'Neill
How, and by what means, can we capture urban atmospheres and mobility? What can we learn about cities, ourselves, and our societies through these dimensions? Immaterial Voices host Brian O’Neill becomes the subject of this conversation for the podcast, guest hosted by Tim Hale. They discuss…
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The Rail Way: A Conversation with William Cope
How do we learn how to see? How is that images take us over time and space? What modes of practice, and of travel, introduce new ways of seeing? In November of 2024, Immaterial Voices host Brian O’Neill had the opportunity to sit down and have a coffee in Illinois with photographer, writer, and...
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Immaterial Books and Mid-Continent Modern: A Conversation with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope
What is (im)material in the world of photography? What does it mean to be modern? What is the role of the photobook today? How do artists and scholars work across disciplines to craft unique ideas and objects of reflection and how do those objects live on, beyond us? And, what is the meaning of...
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The Visual Politics of Elections: A Conversation with Matt Schneider and Gizem Melek
The Visual Politics of Elections: A Conversation with Matt Schneider and Gizem Melek Are visuals biased? Is the media biased? Is it possible to be politically neutral? What is the role of “fairness?” How do visuals make themselves felt in elections and who is giving them their meaning? In this...
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Election Eve: A Conversation with Brian O'Neill + Tim Hale
How do photographers deal with elections? What is the role of the visual in election politics? Photographer and sociologist Tim Hale revisits the podcast and discusses two books little talked about together. The first is Garry Winogrand’s Public Relations, and the second is William Eggleston’s...
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The Grift: A Conversation with Brian O’Neill & Andrew Kochanowski
Today, Brian O’Neill sits down to talk about “The Grift.” This was a 2023 release by Immaterial Books, and so with the upcoming election and events occupying life in the United States, we thought it an important opportunity to sit down again and speak about the project with the author, Andrew...
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Photography and Ethnography with Julie Patarin-Jossec
The panel discussion features photographers and scholars from various backgrounds and fields (Julie Patarin-Jossec, Greg Scott, Jessica Hayes, and Micah McCoy) who blended expertise in contemporary photography, sociology, and ethnography to speak about Julie Patarin-Jossec's new book, released by...
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Fields of Vision: Contemporary Photography in Central Illinois with Tim Hale
Brian O’Neill walks and talks with Tim Hale about the upcoming exhibition, "Fields of Vision: Contemporary Photography in Central Illinois." What influence our orientations to photographic representations of Central Illinois? Are we oriented by geographical boundaries, the rhythms of agricultural...
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Immaterial Voices is the podcast of Immaterial Books, an independent publisher of contemporary art and literature on photo media and its practice. Hosted by photographer, writer, and sociologist Brian O'Neill, the show consists of interviews with artists, scholars, and practitioners about contemporary image making, theory, and history.
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