#461 EVERYTHING IS A PHOTOGRAPH: ONE LOVE
FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHERS LYDIA ROBINSON AND VALÉRIE JARDIN
Today on the show, we recognise love as "Universal, regardless of identity and sexuality." Valérie Jardin's ONE LOVE is a new black-and-white photography project in America celebrating the LGBTQ+ community, aiming to inspire greater understanding and acceptance, sharing stories of love in its most authentic form.
Lydia Robinson's 'Queer Love' started as a passion project based around queer relationships and documenting couples in the UK. Through this series, Lydia aimed to show a more intimate and personal insight into LGBTQ+ relationships and how they are no different than cisgender heteronormative partnerships. She is recognised as an emerging talent by many publications, including Gay Times.
Also, from the mailbag J Reed Gidez is living my dream on Route 66, Shiraz Chanawala has started making 30,000 step walks finding the therapeutic process of photography both mentally and physically, our man in Finland, Pekka introduces us to Harry Potter-like wizardry to rescue lost digital files and a NEW assignment courtesy of the photojournalist Peter Dench lays in wait for you as we’re now in December.
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MORE ABOUT names, words, THE MUSIC and places FROM TODAY’S SHOW
Established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. Route 66 became one of the most famous roads in the United States.
Valerie Jardin’s Do Something for Nothing project in New York.
Lydia Robinson’s Instagram grid and Queer History project.
The Gay Times feature on Lydia’s work.
In 1812, the Russian tsar Alexander I moved the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Turku (Åbo) to Helsinki.
MUSIC LINKS: Emme sang and wrote today's playout song Never Know. Music on the show is sourced primarily from Artlist and also features in Michael Brennan’s Spotify playlist GoFoto.
VALÉRIE JARDIN
Photographs from the ONE LOVE project by Valérie Jardin. Photographs copyright. Not to be reproduced or used without express permission from the photographer.
LYDIA ROBINSON
PEKKA
A case of lost and found (above and below), as Pekka goes in search of ‘the lost files’. See his Sense of Nothing website.
J REED GIDEZ
Above, J Reed Gidez making photographs along Route 66. Below, photographs taken during Valérie Jardin street workshops in France and Spain. See more of his work on his website.
SHIRAZ CHANAWALA
See more of Shiraz’s street photography work on his Instagram.
VIDEO LIBRARY
The following videos or subjects are referenced within today’s show.
