FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHER AND JOURNALIST KAI BEHRMANN

Passion is perhaps an overused word in photography and sport, but this week it earns its place within the show. German photographer and journalist Kai Behrmann joins me to talk about his long-term project exploring Argentina’s extraordinary relationship with football and why the game runs so deep in the country’s culture and identity.

Valerie Jardin returns for this month’s Teach Me Street, while the mailbag takes us to Finland with Juha Wikström, who has been photographing people completing one of the world’s great pilgrimages. David Lloyd reports from Vapington-on-Sea, Giles Thurston writes with remarkable openness on Substack, and from Cornwall, there’s reading under the covers by torchlight.

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Join us in Venice for the Venice ‘26 retreat, photographing a city built on water, light, and ritual as winter settles across the lagoon. Together we’ll wander through early-morning markets, quiet canal edges, hidden monasteries, and the weathered backstreets of Castello and Cannaregio, with time to slow down, take photographs, and build creative confidence in a city that reveals itself gently when the crowds disappear. Places limited.

Saul Leiter was an American photographer and painter who began experimenting with colour photography on the streets of New York in the late 1940s, decades before colour was widely accepted as serious photographic work. His photographs often used reflections, windows, weather and partially obscured figures, and much of his personal work remained little known until the publication of Early Color in 2006.

See photographs from Juha Wikström’s visit to Santiago de Compostela, the sights and emotions of those completing pilgrimage walks.

The Palaces of Memory is photographer Stuart Freedman’s affectionate study of India’s old Coffee Houses, places that became meeting points for writers, intellectuals, politicians, students and anyone with time for an argument over a cup of coffee. Freedman photographed their ageing interiors and the people who still use them, recording a part of Indian social and political life that stretches back generations.

The Imperial Way brings together photographs by Steve McCurry and writing by Paul Theroux from a journey through India in 1985. Travelling largely by train, they followed the route of the old Imperial Indian Mail from the Arabian Sea towards the Bay of Bengal, recording a country seen from its railways, stations and the lives unfolding around them. The work first appeared in National Geographic and was later published as a book.

Giles Thurston’s excellent and very personal article, mentioned on the show today, published on Substack.

Hear Kai Behrmann on his podcast, Adventure Reportage Photography.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy began life as a BBC Radio 4 comedy written by Douglas Adams, first broadcast in March 1978. The story follows the thoroughly bewildered Arthur Dent after Earth is demolished to make way for an intergalactic bypass. Its success led to novels, television, records and eventually a film, but radio is where the whole thing started.

The Moth is a storytelling organisation and radio programme built around people telling true stories from their own lives, live and without notes. It began in New York in 1997 and has since produced thousands of stories on stages around the world, alongside The Moth Radio Hour and its hugely popular podcast.

MUSIC LINKS: Ziv Moran wrote today's playout song, Let the road begin. Music on the show is sourced primarily from Artlist and also features in Michael Brennan’s Spotify playlist GoFoto. For Apple Music users, follow this playlist.

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