26th March 2025
© Katrin Koenning
THIS WEEK ON A SMALL VOICE PODCAST...
Australia-based German photographer Katrin Koenning on how the sudden tragic death of her best friend put her on the path of photography, her work as a ‘relational encounter’ …and a daily practice, having a ‘web of projects’, and her new book Between The Skin and Sea.
Full bio and show notes for the episode here.
“This is always the way that I work, I look at what the thing is that is at stake, and what am I trying to talk about? And actually also very much like I’m listening to the thing that I’m trying to talk to. So what does it want from me? You know, what does the story want from me and what does the situation around it ask of me? And therefore how do I need to approach it?” – Katrin Koenning
ALSO...
A Kickstarter campaign of note to fund a photobok that reaches its deadline tomorrow, Thursday 27th March: Mutiny by Merlin Daleman is an exploration of the growing economic divide in the UK, focussing on the 'long neglected “economic North”'. Merlin is very close to reaching his target! Go take a look and see if you might want to pre-order a book, which, if the campaign is successful, will be published by GOST books in August.
© Merlin Daleman
EXHIBITIONS...
Two photographers with Magnum connections have simultaneous - but unconnected - exhibitions at FOAM in Amsterdam. Current Magnum nominee Sakir Khader is showingYawm al-Firak until 14th May, and former nominee, Diana Markosian, is showing her project Father until 28th May.
Yawm al-Firak, Arabic for Day of Separation, is the first solo museum exhibition by the Palestinian-Dutch photographer Sakir Khader. Since 2024, he has been the first Palestinian photographer selected to join the renowned photography collective Magnum Photos. His images explore the fragile boundary between life and death.
Father traces Diana's journey of reconnecting with her estranged father through images, family snapshots, and film. "At the age of seven, Diana Markosian and her brother were taken from their home in Moscow to California by their mother, without a chance to say goodbye to their father. Nearly 20 years later, Markosian travelled back in search of him. The exhibition is a personal exploration of family, loss, and reconnection."
It's interesting to see the latter project out in the world. Eight years ago, during the early days of A Small Voice podcast, I recorded a chat with Diana in the Magnum meeting room in London in which she spoke openly and with great vulnerability about the beginnings of this project. But so raw were her feelings about, she asked me to take the chat down, which I did. You can hear me explain what happened briefly here. It was a shame because it was a good interview! Anyway, I'm glad to see the fruits of her very personal labour here.
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