FEATURING CURATORS HILARY ROBERTS AND TIM RICE

This week on The Photowalk podcast, I’m joined by photographer and collector Tim Rice, whose remarkable archive of cameras, lenses, film stocks and photographic memorabilia has become something of a museum dedicated to photography’s past. From rare equipment to historically important oddities, we talk about the stories attached to the machines that once documented the world. Also returning to the show is independent curator and photography historian Hilary Roberts, former Head Curator of Photography at the Imperial War Museums, as we explore the idea of curation through photographs, archives, memory and history.

In the mailbag, Phil Ferris writes from Oregon reflecting on place, stillness and impermanence before returning home to Cornwall, Don Ridgway follows the ancient stone circles of Britain and Tyler Cahoon shares thoughts from his Camino walk between Porto and Santiago, where photography became less about documenting others and more about understanding himself. There’s also the return of The Photo Assignment, plus news about the launch of the very first Photowalk zine, REFLECTIONS.

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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.

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Ruth Guest is a photographer and cyberpsychologist whose work explores the relationship between photography, identity, memory, and the way technology affects how we see ourselves and others. Also see Ruth’s Substack, as mentioned in the show today, and the recent episode in which she appears here.

Stone circles in the UK were built thousands of years ago during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, long before written history. Nobody knows exactly why they were constructed, although many archaeologists believe they were linked to ceremony, burial, astronomy, or to serving as gathering places for communities. Places like Stonehenge and Avebury still align with the movement of the sun at certain times of the year, suggesting that the people who built them understood the landscape and the skies in remarkable detail.

The Rollright Stones sit on the border of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire and have been part of the landscape for around 5,000 years. The site is made up of three separate monuments: the King’s Men stone circle, the Whispering Knights burial chamber, and the single King Stone.

The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney is one of the largest stone circles in Britain and was built around 4,000 to 5,000 years ago on a narrow strip of land between two lochs.

Mark Seymour is a Berkshire-based documentary and street photographer whose work has taken him from weddings in the UK to the streets of India, Cuba, Vietnam, and beyond.

Tom Stoddart was one of Britain’s most respected photojournalists, spending more than four decades documenting conflict, famine, political change, and ordinary human resilience around the world. He photographed events including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the siege of Sarajevo, and wars in the Middle East, often working in black and white because he believed it stripped photography back to emotion and humanity.

Mentioned within the last letter of the show today, episode 515.

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MUSIC LINKS: Christine Noel wrote today's playout song Garden. 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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