Subtext and Discourse | Art World Podcast

This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show.

AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from the earliest processes to cutting-edge contemporary work that pushes the boundaries of the medium, from April 23 – 27 at The Park Ave...

This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show.

AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from the earliest processes to cutting-edge contemporary work that pushes the boundaries of the medium, from April 23 – 27 at The Park Ave...

This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show.

AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from the earliest processes to cutting-edge contemporary work that pushes the boundaries of the medium, from April 23 – 27 at The Park Ave...

This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show.

AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from the earliest processes to cutting-edge contemporary work that pushes the boundaries of the medium, from April 23 – 27 at The Park Ave...

This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show.

AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from the earliest processes to cutting-edge contemporary work that pushes the boundaries of the medium, from April 23 – 27 at The Park Ave...

This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show.

AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from the earliest processes to cutting-edge contemporary work that pushes the boundaries of the medium, from April 23 – 27 at The Park Ave...

This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show.

AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from the earliest processes to cutting-edge contemporary work that pushes the boundaries of the medium, from April 23 – 27 at The Park Ave...

In 1925, 100 years ago, Anatol Josepho invented the first fully automated, coin-operated photobooth which he named the Photomaton.

Stationed on Broadway near Times Square in New York City, over 250,000 Americans used the photobooth in its first year, paying 25 cents and waiting patiently for eight minutes while their photo strips developed. A game-changer for the world of photography, the photobooth would become ubiquitous in citie...

Felix Hoffmann is an image and cultural scholar and the inaugural Artistic Director of the Center for Photography and Lens-Based Media FOTO ARSENAL WIEN and the Director of FOTO WIEN.

From 2005 to 2022, he served as the Chief Curator of the exhibition space C/O Berlin, where he was responsible for exhibitions, programs, and strategy. He curated numerous international exhibitions, including Nan Goldin (2009), Robert Mapplethorpe, Pe...

In this episode I am speaking with four members of the Berlin chapter of the Female Photoclub. A Germany wide professional association which aims to increase visibility of female photographers, advocates for equality in the industry, and raises awareness of issues such as pay inequality and lack of representation. 

In addition to the Female Photoclub, we’ll also be speaking about the group exhibition Invisible Lines: Reflexionen de...

Joanna Szproch is a Polish, Berlin-based visual artist and activist. Her practice blends photography as a performative and instrumental medium with archival materials, writing, and participatory projects. She explores female resilience through embodiment and conviviality. Committed to analogue processes, she creates art books, installations, and collaborative works that challenge societal norms and empower women. Her debut monograp...

Enrico Stefanelli (b.1962, Lucca, Italy) is the founder and artistic director of Photolux Festival, the biennial of photography in Lucca, Italy. From 2010 to 2017, he worked as curator for the European Photo Exhibition Award (epea), a project sponsoring young photo talent, which developed as a collaboration between four European foundations, including the Körber Foundation in Germany.

He has been appointed as an expert for portfoli...

Pilar Mata Dupont is a multi-award-winning Argentinean-Australian artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her practice spans video, installation, performance, and photography. Using highly theatrical and cinematic methods, she uses allegory and narrative to reimagine/rework histories and classical texts and aims to create alternative readings that question the conditions of the construction of dominant narratives that shape his...

Pablo Giori is the co-founder and director of the Experimental Photo Festival, the Ágora, School of Experimentation, and the  International Photography Festivals Association (IPFA) in Barcelona.

His interest in experimental analogue photography was born out of his work as a documentarian, historian, and archivist with the estate of Pere Català (Valls, Alt Camp, 1889 – Barcelona, 1971). The Catalan photographer, publicist, and write...

Jessa Fairbrother (b. London) is a British visual artist whose work spans stitch, photography, performance and drawing. The body is her main material.

She holds an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster (2010) and trained at drama school in London in the 1990s.  This laid the groundwork for her ongoing investigation of how art and audience collide.

The artist book of her work Conversations with my mother, is ...

Anthony Luvera is an Australian socially engaged artist, writer, and educator based in London.

The long-term collaborative work he creates with individuals and communities has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces, and festivals, including the UK House of Commons, Tate Liverpool, The Gallery at Foyles, the British Museum, London Underground’s Art on the Underground, National Portrait Gallery London, Four Corners, Belfas...

Dr. Wiktoria Michałkiewicz is an interdisciplinary expert with extensive international experience in storytelling, talent management, journalism, and photography. Alongside her academic achievements—holding five degrees, including a PhD in Sociology, an MA in Social Anthropology, and an MA in Cultural Studies from esteemed institutions such as Stockholm University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Lumière University Lyon 2, and J...

W.M. Hunt is a champion of photography: collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York City.  He is also a teacher and writer and speaker on photography.  He says that photography changed his life.  It gave him one.

Official website where you can read Bill's series of essays: “Great Photographs … or, at least some really good ones” https://www.wmhunt.com/

Bill's instagram for Collection Blind Pirate (American G...

Freo Majer is the founder and artistic director of Forecast, an international mentorship program that transcends disciplines and geographical locations to connect cultural practitioners with renowned mentors.

Trained as an opera director, Majer looks back at a career as a director and producer in European theaters, opera houses, and at festivals, including at Mainz State Theater, Lucerne Theater, Bremen Theater, and the internation...