19th March 2025
© Ian Macdonald
THIS WEEK ON A SMALL VOICE PODCAST MEMBER-ONLY EPISODE...
Last week's guest Ian Macdonald returns to tackle the bonus questions.
This week's sample question:
If you could meet your 20 year old self now, what advice would you have for him?
I don't think I would want to change anything. A guy once said to me - he was an art teacher and had been to The Royal Academy and his dad had edited some fancy newspaper - "f you'd had my opportunities you'd have streaked ahead". I says "mate, if I'd have had your opportunities, I wouldn't be where I was, because I am where I am because of where I've been!"
Ian's picks for...
Significant photobooks:
Brassai, Paris de Nuit (yours for £6,500!)
Influential photographer:
ALSO...
There seems to have been a spate of really interesting photography-themed feature documentaries of late. I must have highlighted four or five since the beginning of the year alone. Now comes another one that looks, from the trailer at least, to be potentially both poignant and entertaining. Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each features legendary American photographer Joel Meyerwitz and his British artist wife, Maggie Barret... presumably trying not to kill each other. The film is directed by Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter.
Married artists Joel and Maggie share a loving bond, but Maggie feels overshadowed. This brave film explores their extraordinary confrontations as they navigate love, aging, and the creative process.
A broken femur leaves 75-year-old British author Maggie Barrett in the care of her husband - renowned NYC street photographer and octogenarian Joel Meyerowitz - in this loving, poignant, and often funny portrait of the ageing artist couple.
Directed by Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter, Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other follows Barrett and Meyerowitz as they confront their own impermanence and the imbalances in their long relationship. Together, they search for understanding and peace while there’s still time.
From the producers of The Act of Killing, Flee, The End and Nickel Boys, catch this thoughtful, revealing portrait on the big screen.
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