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This is my fortnightly podcast, featuring in-depth, long-form interviews with a diverse range of talented, innovative, world-class photographers from established, award-winning and internationally exhibited stars to young and emerging talents, discussing their lives, work and process.

“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness”
— W. Eugene Smith

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© Eanna De Freine

© Eanna De Freine

074 - Éanna de Fréine

March 7, 2018

Eanna de Freine is an Irish photographer now based in Berlin, Germany and formerly in London, UK (2011-2012), Taipei, Taiwan (2013-2014) and Osaka, Japan (2015-2017). His work focuses on our urban experiences.

Eanna attended Goldsmiths's College, London, and received an M.A. in Photography & Urban Cultures. In 2011, he founded The Velvet Cell, an independent photobook publisher with a specific focus on projects that explore urbanism, architecture and our modern way of living in cities.

To date The Velvet Cell has published over 60 books - including Eanna's Tales From Beneath The Arches and several of his others - by both up and coming photographers and seasoned experts such as Peter Bialobrzeski, Toshio Shibata, Greg Girard and Alexander Gronsky. Eanna works closely with each artist and usually designs the books himself.

In 2017, Eanna wrote and published for free the Indie Photobook Publishing Guide, aimed at teaching others all he has learnt in his years of book publishing.

In episode 074, Eanna discusses, among other things:

  • Discovering photography

  • Living in Asia

  • His book on the built environment Tales From Beneath The Arches

  • Starting The Velvet Cell

  • Some core principles on which he runs it

  • Lessons learned in photobook publishing

  • Why he's a fan of self-publishing

Mentioned: Peter Bialobrzeski

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“I’m super inspired by all the people I publish. All there work feeds into what I end up creating.”

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