PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - Photography Podcast

PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf is a photography interview show that listens for the life inside the work. It is careful, warm, and openly interested in process. Episodes usually begin casually, with Sasha Wolf and Michael Chauvin-Dalton talking through where they are, what is happening around the foundation, a recent exhibition, a class, a cold, a squeaky chair, or the odd comedy of trying to record a serious conversation in real life. That looseness matters. It sets up a show where artistic practice is treated as something social, practical, emotional, and ongoing, rather than a tidy statement attached to finished images. The interviews tend to start with background and widen from there. A guest’s first encounters with books, libraries, labs, darkrooms, galleries, reviews, and communities become part of the way the work is understood. Ed Templeton talks through scanning systems, low-resolution proofs, self-designed books, and the practical mess of getting images into form. Curran Hatleberg’s conversation turns toward revisiting older work, sequencing, book design, emotional register, and the ethics of proximity. Jess T. Dugan and Charlotte Cotton bring collaboration, oral history, love, and relational interviewing into the center of the room. April Watson’s episode opens onto portfolio reviews, young artists, curatorial attention, and the long conversation that can develop around a body of work. Irina Rozovsky’s conversation follows the urgency of photography, influence, study, and the feeling of trying to communicate through the camera. The show has an art-world vocabulary, but it stays human-scaled. It is comfortable with terms like practice, community, process, and body of work because the conversations keep tying them back to specific books, rooms, relationships, and decisions. There is no rush to make every thought compact. The value is in hearing artists and the people around them think in real time, including the hesitations and detours. For listeners drawn to photobooks, fine art photography, teaching, curating, and the ethics of image-making, PhotoWork offers something slower and more sustaining than a promotional interview. It feels like being allowed to sit in on the conversation after the opening, when the work is still on the wall and the real questions can begin.