00 Introduction

Why looking at color pictures of the past is so sobering.

Picture: 
Berlin in 1937, from the State Archives of Norway.

Music:
00:00 Paul Tyan – Indie - Optimistic
00:14 Marquice Turner – Sometimes Things Don't Go As Planned
01:58 Paul Tyan – Indie - Space
02:42 Paul Tyan – Acoustic - Dramatic
03:49 Paul Tyan – Acoustic - Reflective

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01 The Banality of Color

02 New Vision

Reinvestigating the famous Decisive Moment – with the wisdom of a Japanese musician.

03 The Fourth Dimension

This time, I'm bringing you a story that includes almost everything that has fascinated me over the past year and a half: Photography, struggle, modernism, Mexico, revolution, the Spanish civil war. It’s the story Tina Modotti's remarkable life, and it starts with a picture.

04 Anterior Future

Back with an episode about reality itself and how accurately cameras capture it. All inspired by an iconic photo.

Music this time is by Igor Khabarov. The songs are called Rise and Fall, both off his album "Be", which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

05 Hyperreality

Why Chilean photographer Segio Larraín quit fame in pursuit of yoga and solitude.

Music this time is by Igor Khabarov. The songs are called Stay, Ty, and Run, all off his album "Be", which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

06 Introspection

An attempt at trying to describe something that can't be seen.

Music: Starting with Monplaisir – Mexico DF 1996, followed by Tapes and Tubes – Solo Guitar 2, then Marisa Anderson – A Dream of Willie McTell, and finally Steve Gunn – Wildwood.

07 Photopoetry

Vitas Luckus was too revolutionary a photographer to be accepted. But his is no ordinary rebel’s story.

08 Historical Distance

Gerda Taro didn’t just help invent one of the world’s most famous photographers. Briefly, she was him.

09 Identity

How do  photographers manage to get so close to people, using nothing more than their sense of curiosity, their camera, and their presence? I traveled to Stockholm and asked Anders Petersen about it.

Music: Devil_Music - Bar 2

10 Presence (feat. Anders Petersen)

A podcast featuring conversations and observations about photography.

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