Photography and Walking

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Stop: Aoki’s FRUiTS

2026-09-2311:42

English Shoichi Aoki’s photographs for FRUiTS magazine transformed the street fashion of Harajuku, Tokyo, into an extraordinary visual archive. Frontal, colorful, and usually full-length, the portraits record people who had already styled and assembled their own public image. In Stop, Philippe Guillaume considers the encounter the photographs do not show: Aoki noticing someone, approaching that person, and asking them to participate. The episode moves between FRUiTS, relational aesthetics, an...

Among Footsteps

2026-09-0912:55

Every city carries layers of history beneath its surface. In Roaming (2006), Carrie Mae Weems photographs herself walking and standing within monumental public spaces, usually with her back to the camera. Rather than asking us to look at her, the photographs invite us to look with her. In this episode of Photography and Walking, we explore how Roaming transforms walking into a way of reading history. We consider cities as palimpsests, places where traces of earlier lives remain within the pre...

In Another's Steps

2026-08-2611:18

A stranger turns a corner. You follow. In 1969, Vito Acconci created Following Piece, a work in which he selected strangers at random on the streets of New York and followed them until they disappeared into a private space. The idea is simple. The questions it raises are anything but. In this episode of Photography and Walking, we explore how surrendering your own route changes the experience of walking, why Following Piece still feels unsettling today, and how photography became less a finis...

Passing By

2026-08-1212:17

At first glance, almost nothing seems to happen. Six people stand outside a photography studio in Newark, New Jersey, in 1962. No one looks toward the camera. Everyone is watching something beyond the edge of the frame. Yet the longer we stay with Lee Friedlander's photograph, the richer it becomes. Repeated gestures, shared gazes, architecture and small visual echoes quietly connect the scene, revealing relationships that are easy to miss at first glance. In this episode, we explore how Fri...

Waiting on a Corner

2026-07-2912:54

A woman moves through Eugène Atget's photograph and becomes a blur. Everything around her remains sharp: the building, the street lamp, the posters, the cobblestones. Yet the passerby seems to dissolve into the street itself. In this episode of Photography and Walking, we spend time with Cabaret, Rue Mouffetard, a photograph made in Paris around 1899–1900. Through Atget's patient observation of an ordinary street corner, we explore attention, memory, urban space, and the relationship between...

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