Zackary Canepari is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow whose work moves between documentary film and photography. He began as a photojournalist in India and Pakistan before creating the Sundance-screened series California Is a place, a portrait of the golden state unraveling at the edges.

He later co-directed the feature documentary T-Rex (SXSW), following teenage Olympic boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields as she fought her way toward gold; the film was adapted by MGM into the narrative feature The Fire Inside. His Guggenheim-supported project Flint Is a place expanded documentary storytelling across film, photography, archival material, and immersive media, earning a World Press Photo Award and recognition as Multimedia Photographer of the Year at POYi.

His monograph REX won POYi Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Prize.

Zackary's documentary Fire in Paradise won an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. He received a second Emmy for directing The Gallagher Effect for The New York Times Presents (FX/Hulu).

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In episode 277, Zackary discusses, among other things:

• How he started in photography
• The experience of cutting his photographic teeth in India
• The complicated question of whether it's a good time to be a filmmaker
• His early project California Is a place, with his collaborator Drea Cooper
• Learning the ropes through experience
• His first feature documentary, T-Rex, and being smiled upon by the documentary gods
• Flint Town
• Thoughts & Prayers
• Fire in Paradise

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On episode 275, Philip discusses, among other things:

• His ‘cabinet of curiosities’ studio space
• A recent, powerful urge to photograph in Australia
• Why he left the newspaper world there in favour of Thailand
• His early project “The Cars That Ate Bangkok”
• His sense of anger at injustice
• His ‘near death experience’ on Sleeping Dog Mountain
• Process, shooting on film, and working close to the subject
• The influence of Koudelka’s book Exiles
• The ways in which his old home of Bangkok has changed since he was there
• Why he moved to France

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Joachim Ladefoged is a Danish photographer born in 1970. He has worked as a professional since 1991, and is a member of the international photo agency VII. Today he is a staff photographer at the Danish Daily Jyllands-Posten, but over the years he has worked regularly for magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, Mare, The New Yorker and TIME.

Joachim has received numerous awards for his work from institutions such as Visa D'Or, World Press Photo, POYi, Eissie, and Agfa, as well as Picture of the Year in Denmark. Over the years he has published 3 monographs, Albanians, Mirror and Time After My Time.

Joachim photographs everything with the same inventiveness and diligence, whether sports, war or commerce. His highly accomplished career has seen him master complex, violent news stories, commercial assignments, daily news, and rich, vibrant, and spectacular feature stories. Joachim is credited with being one of the driving forces behind the new wave of Danish photojournalism.

In episode 274, Joachim discusses, among other things:

• Having arthritis as a teenager and the impact it had on his life (good and bad)
• Starting his career as an intern at a local newspaper
• Moving on to ‘the best job in the world’ at national newspaper Politiken
• Winning the World Press Photo award
• Words of wisdom received from Magnum legend Constantine Manos
• Getting into Magnum… and being chucked out again
• Being part of ‘the new wave of Danish photojounalists’
• Why changing direction on becoming a father was “the right decision, but a hard decision”
• Why three photographers were just made redundant on his newspaper
• His approach to shooting and lighting portraits
• His book project Time After My Time
• Photographing his kids with the iPhone

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Lee Shulman is a visual artist, filmmaker, and founder of The Anonymous Project, one of the most significant archives of vernacular color photography in existence. Since 2017, the project has amassed nearly one million Kodachrome slides from the 1940s to the early 2000s — intimate, everyday images that might have otherwise been lost to time. Through curation and transformation, Lee reanimates these personal photographs, weaving them into compelling narratives that explore memory, family, love, and cultural shifts across generations.

Lee’s career also extends into film direction, notably with his debut feature documentary, "I Am Martin Parr," released in 2025. This film chronicles a road trip with renowned photographer Martin Parr, revisiting iconic locations from his oeuvre. Shulman's prior collaboration with Parr on the "Déjà View" project, which paired Parr's distinctive photographs with images from The Anonymous Project, laid the groundwork for their working relationship. The documentary provides an affectionate portrayal of Parr's artistic process and enduring work ethic, further cementing Lee’s engagement with the broader discourse of photography.

Born in London in 1973, Lee lives and works in Paris. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and Rencontres d’Arles, and is held in major collections such as the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Photo Elysée in Lausanne.

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Featuring:

• Ed Sykes
• Ian Howarth
• Dina Litovsky
• Joseph Michael Lopez
• Mike Abrahams
• Ian Macdonald
• Katrin Koenning
• Tomasz Tomaszewski
• Mackenzie Calle
• Marc Wilson
• Paul Seawright
• Mohamed Bourouissa
• Anna Arendt
• Marjolein Martinot
• Rankin
• Tony Docekal
• Eli Reed
• Merlin Daleman
• Mike Brodie
• Paul Sng
• Ed Kashi
• Rachel Elizabeth Seed

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Rachel Elizabeth Seed is a Brooklyn and Los Angeles-based nonfiction storyteller working in film, photography, and writing.

In 2025, she won the Truer Than Fiction Spirit Award for her debut feature film, A Photographic Memory, which is also a New York Times Critics Pick.

Rachel’s work has received support from the Sundance Institute, Chicken + Egg Films, the Jewish Film Institute, the California Film Institute, Jewish Story Partners, NYFA, Field of Vision, the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, the Maine Media Workshops, the Roy W. Dean grant, the National Arts Club, IFP, and many others.

Formerly a photo editor at New York Magazine, her photography has been exhibited worldwide, including at the International Center of Photography, and she was a cameraperson on several award-winning feature documentaries. Rachel’s writing has been published by No Film School, the Sundance Institute, and Talkhouse and she is Executive Director / Co-founder of the Brooklyn Documentary Club, a NYC-based filmmaker collective with 250+ members.

In episode 271, Rachel discusses, among other things:

• A summary of her mum’s character
• nature vs. nurture
• Her mum’s Images of Man interviews for ICP/Scholastic
• What inspired her to make a film
• How her own story became interwined with her mum’s
• Discovering a family archive of super 8 footage
• How she recreated the interviews using actors
• The importance of working with good editors
• The challenge of funding and financing
• Key advice for anyone wanting to make a personal documentary
• The fine balance between collaboration and having the courage of your convitions as director
• Writing for narration as opposed to for reading
• Sharing her personal stories as the film evolved over a ten year period - How to balance life and art
• ‘Selling the film’ and what that means in practice
• The Brooklyn Documentary Club
• Moving to L.A.
• Projects she has in development

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Featuring:

• Yasuhiro Ogawa
• Marshall To
• Lua Ribeira
• Gianluca Gamberini (L'artiere books)
• Eleonora Agostini
• Pia-Paulina Guilmoth
• Aletheia Casey

Books/Projects mentioned:

• Lost in Kyoto, Yasuhiro Ogawa
• Blank Notes, Marshall To
• 44 Irvine Street 1970-1971, Susan Meiselas
• Agony In The Garden, Lua Ribeira
• Calling The Bird Home, Cheryl St. Onge
• Another England, Phil Toledano
• A Study On Waitressing, Eleonora Agostini
• Flowers Drink The River, Pia Paulina Guilmoth
• Fishworm, Pia Paulina Guilmoth & Jesse B. Saffire
• A Lost Place, Aletheia Casey

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