Conversations with photographers on their work.
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Kaitlyn Jo Smith’s interdisciplinary studio practice investigates the socioeconomic impact of emerging technologies on America’s working class. Through her work, Smith pays homage to laborers by revealing the ways technology renders invisible the labor that produces it. Informed by her upbringing in rural Ohio, Smith’s practice explores the intersections of work and worship, as well as the ways individuals are conditioned into lives of monotony. By combining traditional photographic processes with emerging technologies, she interrogates the authority of algorithms while fostering dialogue around humanity’s evolving relationship to labor, automation, and technological progress.
Smith’s projects have been shown nationally and internationally. She is the 2023 recipient of the Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellowship in Studio Art, was longlisted for the 2021 Lumen Prize in Art and Technology (London), and received the College Art Association’s Services to Artists Committee Award for her video Lights Out. Smith has been featured in PDNedu, Art IDEAL, and Al-Tiba9 Magazine. She has presented her work at FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science & Technology, Technarte International Conference on Art and Technology, and Homecoming, Society for Photographic Education Annual National Conference.
Buy a copy of Kaitlyn's new book, Antithesis of a Revelation:
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12 Jun 2026
Rich Dachtera - Swell
Richard Dachtera is a fourth-generation New Yorker who grew up two blocks from the ocean in Rockaway, Queens. His photographs concern dislocation and the way perception shifts under pressure. The moment when a familiar place tips a few degrees and becomes something else. He believes some images exist before they are taken, that arriving at a specific time and place is less an act of creation than of retrieval.
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This series of interviews is entirely self-produced and self-funded, and would not be possible without the generosity of guests’ time and willingness to participate. If you’d like to support the show, I won’t take your money, instead I ask you to subscribe and follow on our various profiles and of course, share with your friends.
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29 May 2026
Kelly Burgess - Root Rot
Kelly Burgess is a project-based and editorial photographer based in rural Vermont. Emotional narratives and personal experiences form the thematic core of her photographic work. She specializes in portrait and road trip photography.
Kelly is a regular editorial contributor to several publications worldwide, including Architectural Digest, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wildsam Magazine, and more. Her project, Sing Me Back Home, has been exhibited internationally, more recently at the Arctic Arts Festival in Norway, MassArt Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
In addition to her personal and editorial work, Kelly is the Executive Director for the Too Tired Project, a photography initiative committed to helping those struggling with their mental health by offering a place for collective creative expression.
Follow Kelly's work:
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https://www.instagram.com/kelburgess/
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Introduction/outro song produced by yours truly.
This series of interviews is entirely self-produced and self-funded, and would not be possible without the generosity of guests’ time and willingness to participate. If you’d like to support the show, I won’t take your money, instead I ask you to subscribe and follow on our various profiles and of course, share with your friends.
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