30th April 2025

© Ken Grant

THIS WEEK ON A SMALL VOICE PODCAST MEMBER-ONLY EPISODE...

A check-in with previous A Small Voice guest Kent Grant (Episode 128) talking about his new book, CWM: THE FAIR COUNTRY (RRB Books).


And last week's guest Mackenzie Calle 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 her?

"To just keep learning and keep going. Granted I don’t think I’d really picked up the camera when I was 20 years old, so to know where I am now would’ve been something I’d have laughed at. But I knew I loved media and I loved the arts and to get to where I am now I had to go through everything that I did. And I wouldn’t be the same person if I’d said at 20 years old ‘I want to be a photographer.’ …I think you need to go through a lot of the wrong doors, because the wrong doors teach you what you want and where you need to go. And be open to everything. Photography is just a tool that we use to get to meet people and to show us new things and to be a part of other people’s worlds. And to say yes. Very simply to say yes to things. And don’t be too afraid to fail. Because I have failed so many times. I’m still failing. Like the number of rejections I get? Insane."

Mackenzie's picks for...

Significant photobooks: 

• Cristina De Middel, The Afronauts

• Jonas Bendiksen, The Book of Veles

Fave Photographer:

• Lee Miller

Recent Discoveries:

• Better Food For Our Fighting Men, Matthieu Nicol

• Richard Misrach, Petrochemical America

• Rena Effendi, World Press Photo story

ALSO...

Cyrus Mahboubian has curated an exhibition of Polaroids which runs 6th -18th May here in London at Maison Pan, near Trafalgar Square, slap bang in the middle of town. So you can drop in to the National Gallery or the NPG while you're there. There will also be artist talks at 4pm on both Saturdays (10 May and 17 May).

AND...

Friend, force of nature, and fairly frequent A Small Voice contributor, Mimi Mollica (Episode 14) has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his next book Moon City, "a photographic project exploring the silent dialogue and underlying tension between two forces at play — the ancient pull of the Moon and the restless ambition of London's financial skyline — a quiet meditation on nature, capitalism, and the spaces in between.” Find out more here.

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