Collective Eye

Hanna-Katrina Jędrosz and Claudia Leisinger are two documentary photographers who within their photographic careers have greatly valued communities of practice. In this episode, Hanna-Katrina, founder of Photo Scratch and Claudia, co-founder of Collective Eye Podcast discuss the benefits and needs for these spaces. Both photographers shed light on the power and function of creative, grassroots communities, which challenge the established creative industry in hopes to make it more accessible for all. Bios Hanna-Katrina Jędrosz is an award winning documentary photographer and artist from London. Her work focuses on narratives about place, people, history and the environment. She completed her MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication in 2014. Since then her work has been recognised by The Royal Photographic Society Environmental Bursary and IdeasTap Innovators Award. She was recently nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award by Brett Rogers OBE and has previously been nominated for the Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award by James Brabazon. Major clients include The New Statesman, The Royal Shakespeare Company, musicians Johnny Flynn and Dry Cleaning, among many others. She is the founder of Photo Scratch, an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London, on the advisory committee of Women Photograph, and her print sales are represented by isle. As a freelance picture editor she has worked for The Sunday Times, Reuters Wider Image and most recently as commissioning visuals editor at Hyphen. Claudia Leisinger is an award-winning freelance photographer and videographer focusing on portraiture, documentary photography and audio-visual pieces. Since her MA in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at the LCC in 2007, she has consistently worked for periodicals (Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BuzzFeed, The Big Issue) charities, institutes and think tanks (Red Cross, BMW Foundation, Earth Security, Chatham House), commercial clients (Airbnb, Keds, Christies, Hunter) and various artists and galleries. She also works on self-initiated, long-term projects. Her audio-visual piece “The Last of the Billingsgate Fish Porters” was selected for Night Contact, London’s first-ever Multimedia Festival and published in the Guardian UK. The photos were shown in a solo exhibition at the MAZ Gallery, Switzerland.Her portraits have been exhibited internationally as part of Portrait of Britain, Portrait of Humanity, KL International awards, and Eyes on Main Street. “In Common” , her latest series, was published as a zine in 2022 by Another Place Press. She is a founding member of the Collective Eye podcast team, and part of Women Photograph and The Journal. Episode Credits Conversation between Hanna-Katrina Jędrosz and Claudia Leisinger Podcast Editor: Nicola Muirhead Introduction: Lina Collado Music: Ana Maria Arévalo Gosen (composition), Philipp Quante (piano), Bobby G (drums) Podcast Team: Nicola Muirhead, Lina Collado and Claudia Leisinger. Find additional resource links on our website www.collectiveeyepodcast.com, thank you.

Tahila and Dakota are two indigenous visual artists whose work amplifies and visualizes the narratives of indigenous communities across the Americas. In this episode, Tahila and Dakota discuss how they have challenged a predominantly and historically white point of view within the photographic industry by way of their artistic practices. Through their extensive work they have become important ambassadors for their communities by exploring themes of family lineage, community and identity, all within the context of their ancestral land. Their work is currently being exhibited at Photoville. Bios: Dakota Mace (Diné) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on translating the language of Diné history and beliefs. Mace received her MA and MFA degrees in Photography and Textile Design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BFA in Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts. As a Diné (Navajo) artist, her work draws from the history of her Diné heritage, exploring the themes of family lineage, community, and identity. In addition, her work pushes the viewer's understanding of Diné culture through alternative photography techniques, weaving, beadwork, and papermaking. Her work as an artist and scholar has been exhibited nationally and internationally at various conferences, collectives, museums, and galleries, including Textile Society of America, Weave a Real Peace, Indigenous Photograph, 400 Year Project, Wright Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, Kemper Museum of Art, and the Wallach Art Gallery. She is represented by Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City. www.dakotamace.com Tahila Mintz works across multiple platforms to amplify the voices of Indigenous people and the natural world. She is an Indigenous Yoeme and Jewish woman who focuses on ancestral relationships, gender equilibrium, contemporary Indigenous issues, and recuperating knowledge that has been unraveled by colonialism. She is a Water Protector and a Land Guardian whose home is in her Yoeme community in Sonora and in the Haudenosaunee territory of upstate, NY. She has been photographing for 20+ years, in over 40 countries, and received her MFA from the University of Texas. She is a Photographer, Film Maker, Cultural Technologist, Ancestral Scribe, and the Founding Executive Director of OJI: SDA’s Sustainable Indigenous Futures. Her organization creates an ancestral knowledge land-based curriculum for k-12, runs a media-intensive summer camp for Indigenous youth, and provides disaster relief and other models of community support. www.tahila.net Episode Credits Episode: Tahila Mintz and Dakota Mace Podcast Editor: Claudia Leisinger Introduction: Nicola Muirhead Music: Ana Maria Arévalo Gosen (composition), Philipp Quante (piano), Bobby G (drums) Podcast Team: Claudia Leisinger, Lina Collado, and Nicola Muirhead. Links and Resources: Indigenous Youth Media Camp: https://www.ojisda.org/mochik-ania-camp-turtle 400 Years Project: https://www.400yearsproject.org/ Our show at Photoville JUNE 4-26: https://photoville.nyc/exhibition/made-in-land/ (we are directly under the Brooklyn Bridge) Photoville in general: https://photoville.nyc/

Kit interviews Debbie about the psychology of portraiture, a storytelling element that both photographers greatly value. Debbie’s conceptual series uses her documentary photography background as a basis on which she investigates and carefully crafts highly personal stories. She employs various mediums within her photography like audio, video, image manipulation, and collage, in order to transform these stories into tangible experiences. In this episode, she talks about her journey into photography and the questions that led her to find her voice as an artist. How her background in psychology and psychoanalysis help her investigate the inner landscape of her own world, and that of her sitters. Debbie Castro is an Irish visual artist. She uses conceptual documentary photography to investigate highly personal subjects centered around portraiture and relationships. Her work always originates from the fracture between a personal interest or observation and the perception of other people. Inspired by Albert Camus' quote that "life is a hospice, never a hospital," Debbie believes in the necessity of confronting even the most uncomfortable subjects through her practice. As a graduate of the University of Westminster with an MA in Photography, Debbie has had solo and group exhibitions in Ireland, London, and New York. As an experienced facilitator, tutor, and Director of Training, Debbie has led numerous workshops and professional development programs to support early-career photographers. She is currently working as a coordinator at the London Institute of Photography (LloP) where she is developing an online educational platform app for photographers.  Kit Ryall is a documentary-inspired freelance photographer based in Sheffield, UK. She has worked in the picture industry for over 15 years - starting her career working in picture archives and agencies. In 2009 she completed her Masters's in Photojournalism and since then has worked as both a photography trainer and freelance photographer. After living in London, she spent two years in Berlin and now resides in Sheffield, in the north of England. She works making images and films of people - whether that be portraits, families, or small business branding.  She is inspired by the "everyday" and particularly our domestic surroundings. She strives to give her work an authentic, quiet, and sensitive quality, documenting her subjects as best she can. Episode Credits Episode:  Kit Ryall and Debbie Castro  Podcast Editor: Claudia Leisinger Podcast subeditor: Lina Collado Introduction: Lina Collado Music: Ana Maria Arévalo Gosen (composition), Philipp Quante (piano), Bobby G (drums) Podcast Team: Nicola Muirhead, Lina Collado, Claudia Leisinger. Links and Resources: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk Alzheimersresearchuk.org www.liop.co.uk www.domestika.org/en/courses/2094-introduction-to-digital-photography-in-manual-mode/debbiecastrow

Episode 6 is a conversation between fellow photographers Suzanne Plunkett and Tabatha Fireman, the founder of ‘ShotByWomen’. ‘ShotByWomen’ is a picture library whose mission is to raise the stats in published women-created content, ensuring that future generations are provided with a fairer, more truthful, gender balanced visual representation of the world. Bios Suzanne Plunkett is a veteran photojournalist who has worked as a staff photographer for the Associated Press in New York where she covered the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 and is known for her iconic photograph taken that day. That photo helped propel her on to assignments in Afghanistan, a three-year stint in Indonesia during which she covered the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, then on to London where she worked on staff for Reuters on one of the world's most competitive news beats before carving a career as a successful freelancer. Tabatha Fireman is a freelance photographer who has worked in entertainment news since 1997. She began her career as a darkroom technician at EMI Records. At different points throughout her journey, she worked within the offices of Redferns Music Picture Library and Getty Images. In 2019 Tabatha launched Female Perspective as a photo agency representing an all-female roster of talent. Throughout the pandemic she has planned and built the SHOTBYWOMEN platform, which launched on International Women’s Day 2022 as the world’s first international image library to house content created exclusively by women, spanning all areas of photography. Additional links to references Female Perspective is a photo agency providing a platform for established women photographers to showcase their work. SHOTBYWOMEN is a brand new image library filled with exceptional content created exclusively by women and feminine-of-centre photographers from around the globe. Episode Credits Episode: Suzanne Plunkett and Tabatha Fireman Podcast Editor: Suzanne Plunkett Podcast subeditor: Claudia Leisinger Introduction: Claudia Leisinger Music: Ana Maria Arévalo Gosen (composition), Philipp Quante (piano), Bobby G (drums) Podcast Team: Jayme Kaye Gershen, Lina Collado, Nicola Muirhead, Claudia Leisinger. Email us at [email protected]. Follow Collective Eye on Castbox, Google podcast, Spotify, Anchor and on our Collective Eye Instagram. Thank you for listening, Collective Eye podcast team.

Photographers Lina Collado and Kate Wool talk and share their experiences with mentorship, education, feedback, and how the pandemic changed the way in which they both connect with other photographers. They share their growth as two female freelancers in the industry, touching on the importance of networking, overcoming rejections, and the magical moments of personal development while imparting those lessons onto their students and mentees as educators. Kate Salisbury Wool is a photographer and artist who has lived in Alaska since 1993, where she moved from her hometown of Asheville, NC. She is a member of @womenphotograph, the @thejournal_collective,  and is a partner with @forfreedoms,@wideawakes, and @wideawakesalaska. Kate has had work recognized, published, and exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. Publications include  Americans for the Arts, The Washington Post, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Art Newspaper, Together We Rise, The Women's March Organizers and Condé Nast,  Politico, and more. See katewool.com for info and work. Lina Collado García is a freelance documentary photographer and educator, born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and living in Jackson, Wyoming since 2013. She is a member of @womenphotograph and @thejournal_collective. Lina's work has been published in Puerto Rico, as well as the U.S.A. Publications include @audubonsociety, @jacksonholemag, @elnuevodia, as well as exhibited in several national museums around the country. See linacollado.com for more info and work. Credits Episode: Lina Collado and Kate Wool Podcast Editor: Lina Collado Podcast subeditor: Nicola Muirhead Music: Ana Maria Arévalo Gosen (composition), Philipp Quante (piano), Bobby G (drums) Podcast Team: Claudia Leisinger, Ghadah Alrawi, Jayme Kaye Gershen, Lina Collado, Nicola Muirhead Links:  Follow Collective Eye on Castbox, Google podcast, Spotify, Anchor, and on our Collective Eye Instagram. Thank you for listening, Collective Eye podcast team.