About this episode

Richard Sharum discusses the emotional and ethical dimensions of documentary photography and his new book 'American Homicide'.

In this week’s podcast episode you'll learn why the photographs you're most proud of are probably the ones hiding you, and what a documentary photographer who has stood at 600 deaths says it actually costs to make work that changes something. I sat down with Richard Sharum, the American documentary photographer behind Campesino Cuba, Spina Americana and the forthcoming American Homicide, all published by GOST Books, to talk about photography as an act of empathy, why he believes the photo ind...

People in this episode

Host: Matt Jacob

Guest: Richard Sharum

Topics covered

• documentary photography
• empathy in art
• impact of photography
• American Homicide
• Richard Sharum

Keywords

• documentary photography
• empathy
• American Homicide
• Richard Sharum
• photographic impact

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GOST Books

Books & works: American Homicide, Campesino Cuba, Spina Americana

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