30th October 2024
© Polly Braden
THIS WEEK ON A SMALL VOICE PODCAST MEMBER-ONLY EPISODE...
Last week's guest Polly Braden did a great job on the bonus questions.
This week's sample question:
How do you deal with self-doubt if and when it arises?
I think it’s crippling. And it’s endless. It’s terrible. But now that I’m older I understand the pattern of the self doubt, and now that I know the pattern it makes it really easy to manage: I take a picture, I think it’s the best picture in the whole world, I wanna show it to everyone. But a month later I think I was such an idiot, it’s a rubbish picture, I can’t bear it. Or I make a book. I have some confidence in it, a little bit of confidence in it for a little while whilst I'm making it, then I think it's the most awful book ever in the whole history of the world and I'd rather no one saw it and I could hide under a rock. Then about five or six years later, maybe even ten, I’m like, ‘oh it was fine.’ Now that I know I have a pattern I can manage the flow of it, because I’m like ‘oh, I’m just in that stage'. And now I have a sense that things can be ‘good enough’, and that ‘good enough’ is what I’m striving for.
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ALSO THIS WEEK...
Announcement:
The shortlist has been announced for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025. The four international artists shortlisted are: Cristina De Middel, Rahim Fortune, Tarrah Krajnak and Lindokuhle Sobekwa.
The 2025 shortlisted projects feature documentary photography, constructed images, self-portraiture, performance and family archives. Themes of migration, community and belonging, intergenerational traditions and rituals, family memories and histories are brought together in a powerful shortlist which highlights some of the best work shown or published in Europe in the past year.
The annual exhibition of works from the shortlisted projects by the four artists will be on show at The Photographers’ Gallery, London from 7 March to 15 June 2025.
The winner of the £30,000 Prize will be announced at an award ceremony at The Photographers’ Gallery on 15 May 2025, with the other finalists each receiving £5,000. Full details of the Prize exhibition and award evening will be announced in early 2025.
Competition:
News of this competition dropped into my inbox from Onewater: Walk of Water – Water Towers Photostory Contest!
They are looking for your unique stories related to the glaciers and mountains that naturally reserve the world’s water, as well as how communities protect those systems. This can include glaciers, lakes, dams, water tanks, rain barrels, ancient structures, or the beauty of mountains, the world's natural water towers.
There are €20,000 in total prizes with global and regional categories. as an individual you can win up to €5,000! Winning stories will also be exhibited around the world at different events, you can view a digital gallery of previous winners of the contest.
Submissions are judged on writing, originality, theme, and photo quality. You can read this article for more information.
You can submit your photostory through Picter or through this Google Form. If you have any additional questions, please visit their website or contact them at contest@onewater.blue.
Deadline is December 8, 2024. Winners will be announced in January 2025.
Update on Prix Dahinden:
Thanks to those of you who responded to my call to vote for Aletheia Casey to win a solo show at Paris Photo as part of the Prix photo Dahinden. I really thought she'd do it (and that she deserved to win it) so I'm extremely disappointed to report that despite all best efforts to generate support she did not win. Congratulations to Maxime Riché (@maxriche), who did!
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