23rd April 2025

© Mackenzie Calle

THIS WEEK ON A SMALL VOICE PODCAST...

Mackenzie Calle on winning a World Press Award, her project the Gay Space Agency, experimentation being the fun part, her love of TV, tall person sports, and letting the story tell her what it needs.

Full bio and show notes for the episode here.

“For me it’s letting the story tell me what it needs. So it’s not so much going in with a preconceived notion. You obviously go into most stories with some idea of what you’re going to do, but every idea I have, that work in itself almost reveals or tells me kind of what it should be. So sometimes that means fiction, sometimes that does mean straight photojournalism, sometimes that means entirely imagined and staged projects…”

ALSO...

coming soon on the members-only podcast episode, a check-in with previous guest Ken Grant (Ep.128 of the podcast), chatting about, among other things, his brand new book Cwm: The Fair Country (RRB Photobooks).

And...

May's member-only Photobook Focus session will feature Chris Donovan presenting his debut monograph The Cloud Factory (GOST).

In 2014, photographer Chris Donovan began documenting his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick on Canada's east coast. Saint John is a small, heavily industrialised city which is home to Canada's largest oil refinery, one of the country's wealthiest families, and one of its highest rates of child poverty. As Donovan began to photograph the city and its residents—driven to explore the proximity of extreme wealth and poverty— he became increasingly aware of the realities of environmental classism and ecological injustices in the city.

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