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Photography and Walking is a podcast about how moving through the world changes the way we see it. Each episode explores photographers, artworks, and places where walking and seeing meet — from city streets to coastlines and blindfolded performances in Venice. Host Philippe Guillaume brings together the history of photography, storytelling, and observation to trace how images map experience step by step.
Photography and Walking est un balado sur la manière dont le fait de se déplacer dans le monde transforme notre regard. Chaque épisode explore des photographes, des œuvres et des lieux où la marche et le regard se croisent — des rues de la ville aux rivages, jusqu’aux performances à l’aveugle à Venise. Philippe Guillaume y mêle histoire de la photographie, récit et observation pour montrer comment les images tracent, pas à pas, notre expérience du monde.
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Opening and closing theme: Beat’em with Rhythm — Victor Natas (CC BY 4.0 / freesound.org)
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When we think about night photography, Brassaï’s images of Paris often come immediately to mind — cafés, wet streets, and figures moving through pools of light. But in this episode of Photography and Walking, Philippe Guillaume turns to a different body of work: Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti. The image discussed here, made around 1944–45, shows marks carved into a Paris wall. These gestures were left by anonymous hands long before the photographer arrived. Under grazing light, the surface...
In 1968, VALIE EXPORT walked through Vienna with Peter Weibel crawling behind her on a leash. The city did not slow. It continued. This episode explores feminist performance art, public space, and the politics of walking in 1968 Vienna. This episode examines From the Portfolio of Doggedness, a performance that survives through five black-and-white documentary photographs. EXPORT did not stage a spectacle. She stepped into public space and altered its internal hierarchy — revealing how streets...
Photography is never neutral. Every image comes from a position, a distance, a moment chosen instead of another. Walking works the same way. Each step frames the world, shaping what comes into view and what falls away. In this episode of Photography and Walking, we look at Sohei Nishino’s Diorama Maps — large photographic works assembled from thousands of images gathered while walking cities for extended periods of time. These maps don’t describe cities as they are planned. They assemble the...
What happens when photography refuses neutrality? In this episode of Photography and Walking, we step into the uneasy space between documentary and art through the work of Allan Sekula. Often treated as evidence or record, photographs are rarely neutral. Sekula reminds us that every photograph carries intention, position, and power. Focusing on Walking on Water, part of his larger Fish Story project, this episode traces how photography can act not as transparent documentation, but as critique...
Recorded on location in Venice, this episode asks a simple but unsettling question: what happens when we walk through one of the most visually saturated cities in the world without seeing? Following earlier reflections on Sophie Calle’s work with following and attention, Blind in Venice turns toward blindness as a way of rethinking perception. The episode moves through Calle’s Les Aveugles, Carmen Papalia’s Blind Field Shuttle, and earlier collective walking experiments, all of which challeng...
Episode 6 is a quiet pause between two Venetian chapters — a short bridge in a city full of them. Here, Philippe reflects on what links photography and walking: attention, drift, surprise, and the rhythm of moving through space. Walking prepares the eye; photography gathers what the body has already sensed. Together, they form a way of noticing that builds slowly, step by step. “A Line Across Water” offers a moment to breathe and reorient before the series continues deeper into Venice. L’é...
In Suite Vénitienne, artist Sophie Calle followed a man she barely knew through the streets of Venice, photographing and writing as she traced his movements. What begins as curiosity turns into a study of looking itself — where attention, desire, and intrusion blur. This episode of Photography and Walking explores Calle’s project alongside earlier experiments in surveillance and performance, from Paul Strand’s hidden lenses to Vito Acconci’s Following Piece. We also touch on a walk of my own,...
In this first episode of Photography and Walking, Philippe reflects on a photograph taken by Mary Ellen Mark in Bombay’s red-light district in 1978. Through the story of Lata — a young woman lying in a narrow, jade-green room — he considers how walking became Mark’s way of gaining access, trust, and understanding. The episode explores how documentary photography moves between empathy and exposure, and how each step a photographer takes shapes what the image can reveal — and what it cannot. ...
In Vues de Likasi, Congolese artist Sami Baloji walks and photographs the streets of his hometown, revealing the quiet traces of colonial architecture and the politics embedded in everyday space. This episode of Photography and Walking follows his slow, deliberate vision — where each step becomes an act of witnessing, and each frame a way of confronting history street by street. Dans Vues de Likasi, l’artiste congolais Sami Baloji marche et photographie les rues de sa ville natale, révélant...
In 1970, Montreal artist Françoise Sullivan left one museum and walked to another — turning that simple gesture into a work of art. Her route, from the Musée d’art contemporain on Cité du Havre to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Sherbrooke Street, traced more than just distance: it crossed institutions, histories, and power structures. This episode of Photography and Walking explores how Sullivan’s quiet act of movement redefined both walking and photography — not as documentation, but as...
In June 1989, a whale floats above Paris. Cameras click, cranes lift, and Japanese photographer Daidō Moriyama keeps walking through Les Halles — a city in motion between past and future. This episode explores how one surreal sight became a meditation on walking, perception, and photographic truth — reminding us that sometimes what’s worth noticing isn’t on the ground, but drifting just above it. En juin 1989, un cachalot flotte au-dessus de Paris. Les appareils cliquent, les grues se lèven...
Before we set off, a brief introduction. Philippe Guillaume presents Photography and Walking — a podcast about how walking and photography intertwine — and shares the spirit in which the project began: exploratory, open-ended, and attentive to the world as it unfolds. Une brève introduction à Photography and Walking, où Philippe Guillaume présente l’esprit dans lequel le projet est né : exploratoire, ouvert et attentif au monde qui se déploie. — Music: Beat ’em with Rhythm - Victor Natas ...
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