A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers
214 - The 1 Million Downloads Episode
Episode Summary
A special celebratory episode to mark the small milestone of A Small Voice podcast reaching one million total dowloads. 🎉🥳👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
Episode Notes
In episode 214:
An audio clip from each of the top 10 most downloaded episodes of all time (as of September 2023).
And a swift tour of the Bonus Questions which all guests now answer for the member-only podcast:
- What has photography taught you about yourself or life in general?
- What is your greatest strength and your main weakness as a photographer?
- If you could meet your 20 year-old self now, what advice would you give to her/him?
- What’s the one most essential lesson you would pass on to someone considering a photography ‘career’ today?
- How has a failure, or what seemed like a failure at the time, set you up for later success? Do you have a “favourite failure” of yours?
- Can you think of any ideas or beliefs - whether about photography or anything else in life - that you have now reversed or totally changed your position on?
- Is there a photobook that has a special place in your heart or a particular significance, or that has been especially influential or inspiring to you?
- Do you have a favourite photographer, if you absolutely had to pick someone? Why them?
- Are there any notable photobooks or photographers that you have only just discovered for the first time in recent years?
- If and when you feel creatively exhausted, uninspired or blocked what do you do to get yourself moving forward again?
- How do you deal with self doubt if and when it arises? Do you have any strategies or habits that you come back to?
- What other artforms or cultural output, either highbrow or popular, do you consume, enjoy or take inspiration from?
- What is the thing you like most about photography or about being a photographer? What is the thing you like the least?
- How do you deal with juggling the need to make a living with finding time to pursue personal projects that don’t necessarily earn you any money?
- How do you manage a work/life balance and deal with juggling career with relationship/home/family life?
- What do you think you might have ended up doing if you hadn’t become a photographer and would you have been good at it?
- What are you hopes for the future?