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The Photo Ethics Podcast

The Photo Ethics Podcast

Photography Ethics Centre 74 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

This podcast explores the ethics of photography, featuring interviews with accomplished photographers about how they handle ethical challenges in their work. Topics include consent, dignity, power, responsibility, impact, and collaboration. Hosted by Savannah Dodd, founder of the Photography Ethics Centre.

Episodes

Siorna Ashby: More than Skin
Siorna Ashby: More than Skin Oct 14, 2026 00:35:16 In this episode, we talk with Siorna Ashby about ethics in boudoir and nude portrait photography. Siorna discusses her collaborative, consent-led approach to photographing the body, exploring how clients actively shape the images they create together through what she describes as “self-authoriship”. She reflects on navigating vulnerability, power dynamics, and body image, explaining how trust is b
Aindreas Scholz: Ethics of Sustainability
Aindreas Scholz: Ethics of Sustainability Oct 7, 2026 00:34:50 In this episode, we talk with Aindreas Scholtz about sustainability, materiality, and the future of photographic practice. Aindreas discusses how his camera-less photographic work, drawing on historical processes such as cyanotype and anthotype*, has shaped his research. He reflects on photography as a material practice, exploring the ethical implications of the resources and environments entangle
Oh Soon-Hwa: Weaving Boundaries
Oh Soon-Hwa: Weaving Boundaries Sep 30, 2026 00:34:30 In this episode we talk with Oh Soon-Hwa about long-term documentary practice, research, and ethical responsibility. Soon-Hwa reflects on her personal experience of migration and its influence on her photographic work, discussing the importance of curiosity, sustained engagement, and research when working with communities. She explores the ethical challenges of photographing private lives, balanci
Trailer: Season 7
Trailer: Season 7 Sep 23, 2026 00:02:26 For season 7, we are bringing you a mini edition of the podcast to focus on our biennial Photography Ethics Symposium. Back in June, the 2026 symposium was hosted at Queen’s University Belfast and produced in partnership with the academic journal, Photographies, with funding from the ESRC. This event brought together photographers, curators, archivists and researchers to critically consider the me
Tanya Habjouqa: On reevaluation and responsibility
Tanya Habjouqa: On reevaluation and responsibility Sep 17, 2025 00:47:00 In this episode, we talk with Tanya Habjouqa about reevaluation and responsibility. Tanya shares how her Circassian background motivates her work as she feels the diasporic community’s story was never told.  She reflects on how the process of printmaking has allowed her to forge a deeper physical connection with her art which can be healing. Tanya explains the countless ethical considerations
Tiffany Fairey: On visualising peace
Tiffany Fairey: On visualising peace Sep 10, 2025 00:43:42 In this episode, we talk with Tiffany Fairey about visualising peace. Tiffany warns of the dangers of binaries and hierarchies in terms of the different forms of photography as it negates the importance of different perspectives. She highlights the complexity of the politics of visibility and the ethical considerations required when marginalised groups become visible through photography. Tiffany a
Kimbra Audrey Lo: On healing
Kimbra Audrey Lo: On healing Sep 3, 2025 00:33:30 In this episode, we talk with Kimbra Audrey about healing. Kimbra shares how her self-portraiture practice is a way to reclaim power over her image and body after years of modelling. She discusses documenting her breast cancer journey through photography as well as the current issues with breast cancer representation in terms of race, gender and age. Kimbra challenges the phrase taking a photo as
Jesse Alexander: On creative sustainability
Jesse Alexander: On creative sustainability Aug 27, 2025 00:45:36 In this episode, we talk with Jesse Alexander about creative sustainability. Jesse discusses the nuances of rurality and place making as well as the urban bias present in landscape photography. He also explains how idealised images of agriculture are disconnected from their polluting impact. Jesse shares his ethical approach which focuses on the general messaging of his work and lowering his own c
Heather Agyepong: On embodiment and the self
Heather Agyepong: On embodiment and the self Aug 20, 2025 00:38:00 In this episode, we talk with Heather Agyepong about embodiment and the self. She explains what reimagination means in her practice when representing black women in history ethically. Heather also explores the gatekeeping present in art and how this drives her to make her work visceral in order to transcend linguistic accessibility. She reflects on her decision to focus on self-portraits after wit
Nana Kofi Acquah: On the complexity of consent
Nana Kofi Acquah: On the complexity of consent Aug 13, 2025 00:36:17 In this episode, we talk with Nana Kofi Acquah about the complexity of consent. Nana speaks of the importance of prioritising understanding in order to photograph complex stories authentically. He also discusses how the coronavirus pandemic illuminated the lack of empathy present in the photographing of illness in Africa.  Nana highlights how images of poverty and opulence are often juxtapose
Alice Cazenave: On the toxicity of photography
Alice Cazenave: On the toxicity of photography Aug 6, 2025 39:51:00 In this episode, we talk with Alice Cazenave about the toxicity of photography. She examines photography and colonialism on a material level in terms of land ownership, extraction and contamination. Alice discusses how the use of plants allowed her to explore the different narratives that emerged from the same place. She provides insight into the plant-based photo-chemistries* that develop her ana
Hernease Davis: On empathy in the darkroom
Hernease Davis: On empathy in the darkroom Jul 30, 2025 00:41:06 In this episode, we talk with Hernease Davis about empathy in the darkroom. Hearnease opens up about her use of photography to process, heal and take care of herself. The complexities of exhibiting work relating to vulnerable issues is explored as well as the topic of protection. Hernease discusses empathy in relation to trauma and the place of empathy in art history. The metaphor of walking in so

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