Photography and Walking
Photography and Walking is a podcast about how moving through the world changes the way we see it. Each episode explores photographers, artworks, and places where walking and seeing meet — from city streets to coastlines and blindfolded performances in Venice.
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Stop: Aoki’s FRUiTS (opens the original)
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English Shoichi Aoki’s photographs for FRUiTS magazine transformed the street fashion of Harajuku, Tokyo, into an extraordinary visual archive. Frontal, colorful, and usually full-length, the portraits record people who had already styled and assembled their own public image. In Stop, Philippe Guillaume considers the encounter the photographs do not show: Aoki noticing someone, approaching that person, and asking them to participate. The episode moves between FRUiTS, relational aesthetics, an...
In Another's Steps (opens the original)
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A stranger turns a corner. You follow. In 1969, Vito Acconci created Following Piece, a work in which he selected strangers at random on the streets of New York and followed them until they disappeared into a private space. The idea is simple. The questions it raises are anything but. In this episode of Photography and Walking, we explore how surrendering your own route changes the experience of walking, why Following Piece still feels unsettling today, and how photography became less a finis...
Waiting on a Corner (opens the original)
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A woman moves through Eugène Atget's photograph and becomes a blur. Everything around her remains sharp: the building, the street lamp, the posters, the cobblestones. Yet the passerby seems to dissolve into the street itself. In this episode of Photography and Walking, we spend time with Cabaret, Rue Mouffetard, a photograph made in Paris around 1899–1900. Through Atget's patient observation of an ordinary street corner, we explore attention, memory, urban space, and the relationship between...
Leaving Traces (opens the original)
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A temporary circle appears on the snowy floor of a forest in Tierra del Fuego. Nearby, traces of footsteps, mud, ash, and weather quietly record the passage of a body moving through the landscape. In this episode, we explore the work of Richard Long through a series of photographs and texts produced during a six-day winter walk in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego in 1997. Moving beyond the idea of walking as journey or endurance, we consider how Long's work focuses on contact: the brief marks l...
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