A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers

275 - Philip Blenkinsop

Episode Summary

Australian photographer Philip Blenkinsop on his ‘cabinet of curiosities’ studio space, why he left Australia at 23, his recent powerful urge to return there to photograph, first impressions on arriving in Bangkok, anger at injustice, process, shooting film and working close up, a near death experience, and why he ultimately moved to rural France.

Episode Notes

On episode 275, Philip discusses, among other things:

• His ‘cabinet of curiosities’ studio space
• A recent, powerful urge to photograph in Australia
• Why he left the newspaper world there in favour of Thailand
• His early project “The Cars That Ate Bangkok”
• His sense of anger at injustice
• His ‘near death experience’ on Sleeping Dog Mountain
• Process, shooting on film, and working close to the subject
• The influence of Koudelka’s book Exiles
• The ways in which his old home of Bangkok has changed since he was there
• Why he moved to France

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