Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Kavi Pujara. Kavi Pujara is a self-taught photographer making personal, long-term documentary photo projects in his home town of Leicester. His work is included in this years Hayward Gallery touring group exhibition: After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024. His debut project 'This Golden Mile' was first exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation in 2022 and coincided with his first monograph of the same name, published by Setanta Books. www.kavipujara.com Episode music by Dom Mino ..read more

Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks Stephen Koch, Director of The Peter Hujar Archive. Stephen Koch is the author of two novels and five books of nonfiction, ranging from history to literary history and a handbook on creative writing called The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop. Koch has steadily written essays and reviews about literature, art, and the cultural scene. One of his books, Stargazer – The Life, World, and Films of Andy Warhol, is now regarded as a classic discussion of Warhol’s films, art and sensibility. Before Peter Hujar died as a vi ..read more

Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Chris Leslie. BAFTA Scotland (New Talent) Award Winning photographer and filmmaker Chris Leslie began taking photographs whilst volunteering in the Former Yugoslavia in 1996. He then went on to work as a photographer, filmmaker and communications manager for an International NGO documenting stories across Africa and Eastern Europe. In 2005 he went freelance as a documentary photographer and filmmaker and founded Journey Productions –  an independent video production studio producing films and photogra ..read more

Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Lorna Macintyre. Lorna Macintyre is an artist based in Glasgow. She studied for both a BA (1999) and MFA (2007) at The Glasgow School of Art. Her solo exhibitions include: Pieces of You Are Here, Dundee Contemporary Arts (2018); Spolia, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire (2017); Much Marcle, Chapter, Cardiff (2016); Material Language or All Truths Wait in All Things, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2015); Four Paper Fugues, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, part of GENERATION, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland (2014). Group exhibition ..read more

Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Paul Hill. Paul Hill is a photographer, journalist, author and teacher who is widely regarded as a major influence on contemporary British photography, Born in 1941 in Ludlow, Shropshire, Hill worked as a newspaper reporter from the late 1950s until he became a freelance photographer in 1965. As a photojournalist he worked for the Birmingham Post & Mail, The Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph Magazine, and the BBC, amongst others. He became a full-time lecturer in photography at Trent Polytechnic, N ..read more

Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Simon Murphy. Simon Murphy is a photographer based in Glasgow. His career has enabled him to travel extensively shooting human interest stories in countries such as Bangladesh, The Democratic republic of Congo, Rwanda and Cambodia. His portraiture subjects range from individuals such as the Dalai Lama to musicians and actors including Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie and John Hurt. Murphy's ongoing project, Govanhill, is a celebration of people and community but photographed with a raw reality. A portrait of circumst ..read more

Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Matthew Arthur Williams. Matthew Arthur Williams (b. 1989 London) is a visual & sound artist, freelance photographer and DJ. Living and working in Glasgow. Matthew's work, which takes a multi-disciplinary approach, sits to continuously encourage a different narrative and is primarily interested in the documentation of black existence and resistance, specifically here in the UK. As a DJ they have coordinated multiple nightspaces in the Glasgow nightscene and is a regular host on Glasgow-based radio ..read more

Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Arpita Shah. Arpita Shah is a visual artist and educator based between Edinburgh and Eastbourne, UK. She works between photography and film exploring the fields where culture and identity meet. As an India-born artist, Shah spent an earlier part of her life living between India, Ireland and the Middle East before settling in the UK. This migratory experience is reflected in her practice, which often focuses on the notion of home, belonging and shifting cultural identities. Her work has been exhibited across the ..read more

Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Craig Atkinson from Café Royal Books. This episode was recorded to coincide with the exhibition CAFÉ ROYAL BOOKS at Stills which ran from 10 November 2023 to 10 February 2024. Craig Atkinson is an artist and lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire. In 2005 he founded Café Royal Books and since 2012 he has been producing weekly publications on documentary photography, linked to Britain and Ireland, in an accessible and affordable zine format. Now spanning more than 600 issues, Café Royal Books has built-up ..read more

Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Alicia Bruce. Alicia Bruce is an award-winning, working-class photographer, community collaborator, educator, and activist based in Scotland. Her photography sits between documentary and staged imagery focusing on communities, environments, and human rights. Alicia Bruce is a member of the collective Women Photograph. Her first monograph 'I Burn But I Am Not Consumed' Daylight Books (USA), 2023 documents sixteen years of Donald Trump’s impact on a coastal Scottish community near where the artist grew up.  ..read more