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S2 Ep 6: Amelia Abraham reads from 'Sex, Clubs, Dissent'

In this episode, Amelia Abraham reads her essay 'Paradise Lost: The Life and Death of Sexual Subcultures' from her new book Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife.

S2 Ep 5: Kelly & Maxwell Sultan read from 'Water Over Thunder'

In this episode, listen to Kelly & Maxwell Sultan read their favourite passages from Water Over Thunder: Selected Writings by their beloved husband & father, the great photographer Larry Sultan. They read extracts from throughout the collection, illuminating Sultan’s approach to photography, teaching and popular culture.

S2 Ep 4: Tracy K. Smith reads from 'Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body'

Listen to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and educator Tracy K. Smith interpret the photography of RaMell Ross into a lyrical and uncanny text. Taking five images from Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body (2023), Smith’s poem complements photographs taken by Ross in Hale County, Alabama, the setting of his Academy Award-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018).

S2 Ep 3: Moyra Davey reads from 'The Shabbiness of Beauty'

In this episode, artist Moyra Davey describes encountering Peter Hujar’s photographs through the archive. Reading from The Shabbiness of Beauty (2021), Davey focuses on Hujar’s lesser-known work of farm animals and babies, culminating in a thoughtful reflection on the artist’s legacy and the inherent mystery of photography.

S2 Ep 2: Ishion Hutchinson reads from 'Fugitive Tilts'

Jamaican poet and essayist Ishion Hutchinson reads ‘Splash Crowns: On Donald Rodney’ from Fugitive Tilts (2025).

S2 Ep 1: Carmen Winant reads from 'Instructional Photography'

What can instructional photographs teach us about ways of seeing? This is the question asked by artist Carmen Winant in the introduction to her book Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now (2021).