Sep 12, 2024
In today’s podcast, we’ll be talking with Norwegian photographer
Naina Helén Jåma about her documentation of indigenous South Sami
culture in Norway and her career as a press photographer in
Scandinavia.
Jåma details her childhood growing up in the small rural village of
Snasa, where, at the age of 15, she began...
Aug 8, 2024
How would you feel if all the coverage you saw about your culture was a superficial view from the outside, rather than a narrative steeped in details of lived experience?
Above photograph © Tailyr Irvine
This is the motivating force that led today’s guest to pick up a camera, enter the newsroom, and cultivate an...
Apr 4, 2024
Professional tree planting is back breaking piecework—a combination of high intensity sport and industrial labor that requires both technical finesse and remarkable physical and mental endurance. Using techniques more often associated with high-performance athletes, experienced planters (commonly known...
Mar 7, 2024
There are many different ways to look at culture, and today we take a geographic approach, to distinguish people who live in rural mountain and hilly settings from those of the wider plains and urban areas.
Our focus is the country of Romania, where we’ll explore the rustic landscape of small farms, hand...
Feb 1, 2024
While Joshua Irwandi was born and raised in Indonesia, the early pictures he made during his first visit to the region of Asmat, in the province of West Papua, were less than satisfying to him. Yet his fascination with the people and the place stuck, inspiring him to embark on the long-term project Not a Blank...