The Messy Truth - Conversations on Photography
Hosted by Gem Fletcher · Gem Fletcher
4.9from 179 ratings
- 113
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 179
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About The Messy Truth - Conversations on Photography
Photo Director Gem Fletcher hosts The Messy Truth, a podcast dedicated to the world of contemporary photography featuring exclusive interviews with emerging and leading artists, curators and critics. Listen in to these candid conversations that unpack photography and why it connects us all in such transformational ways. Follow Gem’s Instagram @gemfletcher for images of photographs discussed in each episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Gem Fletcher
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 8 Apr 2019
- Latest episode
- 14 Sept 2026
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Published 14 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] She's an incredible writer. But it was something that was sort of like, especially the part where it's happening to you. And I think like in, I guess I'm trying to be like as concise as possible because there's so much to kind of say about it. But I think that's what makes the photographs like so completely essential is that kind of possibility of both it being a good day and it being a bad day and it being a very bad day and it being a hurricane and that that kind of presence is preserved for like a continuity of understanding for counter position to what otherwise would be unchallenged history by not necessarily because it's what happened, but it's because everyone was either dead or exhausted to create a counterpoint. […]
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- Rene Matić
- Elle Pérez
- Bruno Ceschel
- Brian Paul Lamotte
- Lillian Wilkie
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