The Messy Truth - Conversations on Photography

Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1991, Alice Mann is a South African photographic artist based in London who’s intimate portraiture essays explore notions of picture making as an act of collaboration. She aims to create images that empower her subjects and creates projects over extended periods, which enables her to create images that allow for engaged and nuanced representations.

“I’m interested in working more to collaborate with my subjects than narrate their stories.”

Alice Mann talks to Gem Fletcher about her powerful project 'Drummies' and how she navigates her responsibility as an image maker.

www.alicemann.co.za

@alicemannn

References

Drummies

Southern Suburbs

Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize

Recorded in London, UK

Edited by John Webb

Special thanks to Liv Siddall

Music by Judd Greenstein – Change from Awake

Design by Ruby Wight

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Catherine Hyland is a photographer living and working in London. Her photography centres around people and their connection to the land they inhabit. Primarily landscape based, her work is rooted in notions of fabricated memory, grids, enclosures and national identity. Her work highlights humanity’s attempts to tame and transform nature, both past and present.

“Even now I much prefer to be the student than the teacher. I have such a thirst to learn”

Cat talks to Gem Fletcher about her development as an artist and how she fed her constant desire to learn and develop through assisting.

Projects/References

Universal Experience

Lithium Mining

Wait And See Pudding with Patience Sauce

Dean Maccannell – The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

Website: catherinehyland.co.uk

IG: @CATHYLAND

Recorded in London, UK

Edited by John Webb

Special thanks to Liv Siddall

Music by Judd Greenstein – Change from Awake

Design by Ruby Wight

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.