Photography and Walking
by Philippe Guillaume. Produced by Productions 3655 Inc.
Photography and Walking is a podcast about how moving through the world changes the way we see it. Each episode explores photographers, artworks, and places where walking and seeing meet — from city streets to coastlines and blindfolded performances in Venice. Host Philippe Guillaume brings together the history of photography, storytelling, and observation to trace how images map experience step by step. Photography and Walking est un balado sur la manière dont le fait de se déplacer dans le monde transforme notre regard. Chaque épisode explore des photographes, des œuvres et des lieux où la marche et le regard se croisent — des rues de la ville aux rivages, jusqu’aux performances à l’aveugle à Venise. Philippe Guillaume y mêle histoire de la photographie, récit et observation pour montrer comment les images tracent, pas à pas, notre expérience du monde. — Opening and closing theme: Beat’em with Rhythm — Vict
Episodes
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Barefoot in Brixton: Mona Hatoum’s Roadworks
Mona Hatoum’s Roadworks began with a barefoot walk through Brixton, South London, in 1985. Behind her, a pair of Dr. Martens boots dragged across the pavement, tied to her ankles by their laces. Associated with British police and racist skinheads, the boots turned protection into a burden that...
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The Time Between: Marlene Creates's Trees
Marlene Creates’s Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland consists of 154 photographs made over almost twenty years. Between 2007 and 2015, Creates photographed 77 trees in the boreal forest surrounding her home in Newfoundland, placing her hand against each trunk....
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Stop: Aoki’s FRUiTS
English Shoichi Aoki’s photographs for FRUiTS magazine transformed the street fashion of Harajuku, Tokyo, into an extraordinary visual archive. Frontal, colorful, and usually full-length, the portraits record people who had already styled and assembled their own public image. In Stop, Philippe...
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Among Footsteps: Carrie Mae Weems’s Roaming
Every city carries layers of history beneath its surface. In Roaming (2006), Carrie Mae Weems photographs herself walking and standing within monumental public spaces, usually with her back to the camera. Rather than asking us to look at her, the photographs invite us to look with her. In this...
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In Another’s Steps: Vito Acconci’s Following Piece
A stranger turns a corner. You follow. In 1969, Vito Acconci created Following Piece, a work in which he selected strangers at random on the streets of New York and followed them until they disappeared into a private space. The idea is simple. The questions it raises are anything but. In this...
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Passing By: Lee Friedlander’s Newark, 1962
At first glance, almost nothing seems to happen. Six people stand outside a photography studio in Newark, New Jersey, in 1962. No one looks toward the camera. Everyone is watching something beyond the edge of the frame. Yet the longer we stay with Lee Friedlander's photograph, the richer it...
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Waiting on a Corner: Eugène Atget’s Rue Mouffetard
A woman moves through Eugène Atget's photograph and becomes a blur. Everything around her remains sharp: the building, the street lamp, the posters, the cobblestones. Yet the passerby seems to dissolve into the street itself. In this episode of Photography and Walking, we spend time with Cabaret,...
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Leaving Traces: Richard Long’s Tierra del Fuego Circle
A temporary circle appears on the snowy floor of a forest in Tierra del Fuego. Nearby, traces of footsteps, mud, ash, and weather quietly record the passage of a body moving through the landscape. In this episode, we explore the work of Richard Long through a series of photographs and texts...
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Drawing Walking Space: Helen Levitt’s New York
A young boy crouches on a New York sidewalk, drawing with chalk on the pavement. Around him, rough circles and fading lines spread across the concrete. At first glance, the scene appears simple. Yet the longer we remain with Helen Levitt’s photograph, the more the sidewalk itself begins to…
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Pushing Through the City: Gabriel Orozco’s Yielding Stone
In 1992, Gabriel Orozco rolled a sphere of plasticine through the streets of New York City. As it moved, the surface gathered dust, stones, fragments of metal, cracks, and countless traces left behind by contact with the city itself. The work, titled Yielding Stone, exists somewhere between...
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To Be Seen: Mariette Pathy Allen’s Street Photography
In 1967, Mariette Pathy Allen photographed a woman walking past a storefront mannequin somewhere between New Jersey and Philadelphia. At first, the image appears ordinary: a pedestrian, a display window, the rhythm of the street continuing around them. But slowly, something unstable begins to...
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Walking in the Crowd: William Klein’s New York
Episode 16 looks at a photograph made by William Klein during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City in 1955. Rather than photographing the crowd from a safe or distant position, Klein moves directly into it. Faces press toward the surface of the image, space compresses, and the photograph...
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The Walk as Work: Hamish Fulton at Ajawaan Lake
In 1985, Hamish Fulton walked for eight days in central Saskatchewan, near Ajawaan Lake. The work begins there. This episode stays with a simple shift that takes time to register. The photographs are not the work. They follow it. What we encounter comes after a movement that has already unfolded,...
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The Shape of Walking: Michael Snow’s Walking Woman
In 1961, Canadian artist Michael Snow created a simple silhouette of a woman mid-stride. He called it Walking Woman. What followed became one of the most quietly radical gestures in postwar Canadian art. Repeated across paintings, plywood cut-outs, and photographic situations between 1961 and…
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A Line Walked: Francis Alÿs’s The Green Line
In 2004, Francis Alÿs carried a leaking can of green paint through Jerusalem, tracing the path of the 1949 armistice line — a border once drawn in pencil on a map, later absorbed into the city’s streets and neighborhoods. The gesture was simple: walk, and let the paint fall. The line appeared,...
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Along the Wall: Josef Koudelka’s Wall
In this episode of Photography and Walking, Philippe Guillaume explores Josef Koudelka’s photographs of the barrier that separates Israel and Palestine. Photographed between 2008 and 2012, the series traces the wall across hills, orchards, roads, and neighbourhoods. Rather than presenting the...
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What the Wall Remembers: Brassaï’s Paris Graffiti
When we think about night photography, Brassaï’s images of Paris often come immediately to mind — cafés, wet streets, and figures moving through pools of light. But in this episode of Photography and Walking, Philippe Guillaume turns to a different body of work: Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti....
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The Street Between Us: VALIE EXPORT’s Feminist Performance
In 1968, VALIE EXPORT walked through Vienna with Peter Weibel crawling behind her on a leash. The city did not slow. It continued. This episode explores feminist performance art, public space, and the politics of walking in 1968 Vienna. This episode examines From the Portfolio of Doggedness, a...
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Footsteps Weave Photos: Sohei Nishino’s Diorama Maps
Photography is never neutral. Every image comes from a position, a distance, a moment chosen instead of another. Walking works the same way. Each step frames the world, shaping what comes into view and what falls away. In this episode of Photography and Walking, we look at Sohei Nishino’s Diorama...
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Walking on Water: Allan Sekula’s Documentary Photography
What happens when photography refuses neutrality? In this episode of Photography and Walking, we step into the uneasy space between documentary and art through the work of Allan Sekula. Often treated as evidence or record, photographs are rarely neutral. Sekula reminds us that every photograph...
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Blind in Venice: Photography Without Sight
Recorded on location in Venice, this episode asks a simple but unsettling question: what happens when we walk through one of the most visually saturated cities in the world without seeing? Following earlier reflections on Sophie Calle’s work with following and attention, Blind in Venice turns...
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A Line Across Water: Photography and Walking in Venice
Episode 6 is a quiet pause between two Venetian chapters — a short bridge in a city full of them. Here, Philippe reflects on what links photography and walking: attention, drift, surprise, and the rhythm of moving through space. Walking prepares the eye; photography gathers what the body has...
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The Art of Following: Sophie Calle’s Suite Vénitienne
In Suite Vénitienne, artist Sophie Calle followed a man she barely knew through the streets of Venice, photographing and writing as she traced his movements. What begins as curiosity turns into a study of looking itself — where attention, desire, and intrusion blur. This episode of Photography…
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On Falkland Road: Mary Ellen Mark’s Photograph of Lata
In this first episode of Photography and Walking, Philippe reflects on a photograph taken by Mary Ellen Mark in Bombay’s red-light district in 1978. Through the story of Lata — a young woman lying in a narrow, jade-green room — he considers how walking became Mark’s way of gaining access, trust,...
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Street by Street: Sami Baloji’s Vues de Likasi
In Vues de Likasi, Congolese artist Sammy Baloji walks and photographs the streets of his hometown, revealing the quiet traces of colonial architecture and the politics embedded in everyday space. This episode of Photography and Walking follows his slow, deliberate vision — where each step…
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Walk Between Two Museums: Françoise Sullivan
In 1970, Montreal artist Françoise Sullivan left one museum and walked to another — turning that simple gesture into a work of art. Her route, from the Musée d’art contemporain on Cité du Havre to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Sherbrooke Street, traced more than just distance: it crossed...
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Whale Over Paris: Daidō Moriyama
In June 1989, a whale floats above Paris. Cameras click, cranes lift, and Japanese photographer Daidō Moriyama keeps walking through Les Halles — a city in motion between past and future. This episode explores how one surreal sight became a meditation on walking, perception, and photographic…
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Introduction - Photography and Walking
Before we set off, a brief introduction. Philippe Guillaume presents Photography and Walking — a podcast about how walking and photography intertwine — and shares the spirit in which the project began: exploratory, open-ended, and attentive to the world as it unfolds. Une brève introduction à...
About this show
Photography and Walking is a podcast about how moving through the world changes the way we see it. Each episode explores photographers, artworks, and places where walking and seeing meet — from city streets to coastlines and blindfolded performances in Venice. Host Philippe Guillaume brings together the history of photography, storytelling, and observation to trace how images map experience step by step.
Photography and Walking est un balado sur la manière dont le fait de se déplacer dans le monde transforme notre regard. Chaque épisode explore des photographes, des œuvres et des lieux où la marche et le regard se croisent — des rues de la ville aux rivages, jusqu’aux performances à l’aveugle à Venise. Philippe Guillaume y mêle histoire de la photographie, récit et observation pour montrer comment les images tracent, pas à pas, notre expérience du monde.
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Opening and closing theme: Beat’em with Rhythm — Vict
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Philippe Guillaume. Produced by Productions 3655 Inc.
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