In this episode I’m speaking to Smita Sharma - a Delhi-based photojournalist and visual storyteller reporting on critical human rights, gender, social justice and environmental issues – both in India and throughout the Global South.

Smita is actively engaged in public speaking, victim advocacy and international public education, and her work has been exhibited and published globally, including at the UN Headquarters in New York. She recently published her first photo book We Cry In Silence documenting cross-border trafficking of underage girls in South Asia, published by FotoEvidence. Smita’s been organising a campaign in the region aimed at educating and raising awareness amongst the communities most vulnerable to human trafficking.

We discuss all this and other steps Smita has done to maximise the impact her work, along with her motivation for doing what she does, her experiences with publications and organisations from the Global North, and much more.

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References

Shillong, India

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - The Danger of a single story

Donna Ferrato – I Am Unbeatable

International Center of Photography, New York

Women Photograph

Diversify Photo

FotoEvidence

Natalie is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in inequality, youth culture, and the personal effects of political turmoil and violence, primarily in the US and Latin America.

As always we cover a wide range of topics, including the impact her work as a photographer has had on Natalie’s view of the world, our capacity as documentary storytellers and the potential for photography to create meaningful change, and the need for us to support one another and the ways in which we can do that…and of course much more.

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Podcast hosted and produced by ⁠⁠Chris King⁠

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Notes

Daniella Zalcman

Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Stephanie Mei-Ling

Photoville

Steve Sweatpants

Street Dreams

Katie Orlinsky

This week I’m speaking to documentary filmmaker Gemma Atkinson, who is based between London and Barcelona, and co-founded the production company Fat Rat Films 15 years ago where she is the current creative director. Gemma has a vast amount of experience within the documentary filmmaking industry, and has produced countless films and other content for NGOs and international institutions across the globe, as well as her own personal projects.

Gemma and I discuss her motivations for creating a production company over freelancing, how her approach to documentary storytelling and filmmaking has changed over the years, and continues to change, how to be an effective storyteller, and much more.

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Podcast hosted and produced by ⁠Chris King

Notes

Touching the void

Catfish

Act of Terror (animation by Gemma)

Una Marzorati

Equidem

Comic Relief

The Elders

Girls Not Brides

Publish What You Pay

3 Identical Strangers

Tim Wardel

Maite Alberdi

Mole Agent

Dick Johnson is Dead

Simon Chin

The Imposter

Man on Wire