About this episode

Sipke Visser discusses his collaborative photography projects and experiences at the 2026 Chico Review.

Sipke Visser is a photographer and speaks about how he collaborates through photography at the 2026 Chico Review https://www.sipkevisser.nl https://www.instagram.com/sipkevisser/ https://www.chicoreview.com After being born I spent the first 19 years of my life in Leeuwarden, a small town in the North of the Netherlands. In 2005 I moved to London for love and to pursue a life in photography. While making a living as a retoucher I have consistently been working on making art with photography as the main medium. While by very proficient with photoshop I never alter any of my own work, apart from grading. My projects usually involve people. I love involving them with a project asking them to participate somehow, usually by adding text or drawings to a portrait or image. In 2005, for Return to Sender, I sent 500 hand written letters with an image to random people all across the UK, asking for a response. For the HAIR project I asked people to have all their hair cut off and to then reflect on that. In the pandemic I photographed the neighbours in black and white to then revisit them 2 years later inside their houses, shooting them in colour now. For Take a Look at Yourself I…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Chovan-Dalton

Guest: Sipke Visser

Topics covered

• photography
• collaboration
• art projects
• community engagement
• personal reflection

Keywords

• photography
• collaboration
• art
• community
• reflection
• projects
• Sipke Visser

Sponsors

Charcoal Book Club

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Return to Sender, HAIR project, Take a Look at Yourself

Places: Leeuwarden, London

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