Talking Frames

In this episode  Tim Bingham speaks with documentary photographer Alan Gignoux, curator Jenny Christensson, and long-time collaborator Chloe Juno in a conversation about Homeland Lost — a twenty-year photographic project documenting the lives, memories, and histories of Palestinian refugees displaced from their villages in 1948.

Based in London, Alan began the project while living in Beirut, where everyday encounters with Palestinian refugees revealed a striking reality: despite the scale and significance of their displacement, many of these personal histories remained little understood beyond the region. What began as a photographic exploration evolved into a long-term commitment to preserving stories of loss, resilience, identity, and belonging.

Now, two decades later, Homeland Lost returns in a new form through an exhibition at P21 Gallery in London, running from 2–10 July. The exhibition combines updated testimonies, large-scale photographic works, and an immersive audiovisual installation, creating a deeper and more layered experience of the project's themes and its participants' stories.

Alongside the exhibition, the team are developing a self-published photobook that will bring together every participant photographed throughout the project's twenty-year history. Designed as a complete archive of the work, the publication aims to remain accessible, comprehensive, and faithful to the project's original ethos.

Together, we discuss the responsibilities of long-term documentary practice, the role of photography in preserving collective memory, the complexities of representation, and how images can help connect audiences with histories that might otherwise be overlooked or forgotten.

Homeland Lost Project

Alan Gignoux Website

Jenny Christensson

Chloe Juno Website

In this episode, Tim Bingham speaks with documentary and portrait photographer Danielle Fitzgerald, whose work offers an intimate, humanising look at strip clubs, people who work in the adult industry, and the private spaces where performance falls away.

Throughout the conversation, Danielle describes how her first major project emerged from a desire to photograph people not in the heightened atmosphere of performance, but in the quieter, more revealing spaces behind the scenes. A central thread in the episode is Danielle’s deeply collaborative and ethically grounded methodology. She incorporates first‑person captions to ensure that the work speaks with the people involved rather than about them. 

Danielle’s years in social work shape every aspect of her creative practice. She brings a non‑judgmental mindset, a people‑first philosophy, and a capacity to hold complex disclosures without absorbing emotional weight. These skills allow her to navigate sensitive stories with care and to build trust with individuals who are often misrepresented . She speaks about wanting her work to shift public narratives around sex work by showing the full texture of people’s lives — their routines, their humour, their contradictions, and their humanity.

 

Danielle Website

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In this episode, Tim Bingham is joined by photographer Amy Horowitz to discuss her remarkable journey into street photography and how creativity transformed her life after moving to New York City.

 

The conversation explores the pivotal moments that shaped Amy’s photographic practice, from the first time she approached a stranger for a portrait to overcoming fear, rejection and self-doubt. Amy reflects on creating more than 2,000 portraits over the last six years, explaining how repetition, discipline and consistency gradually built her confidence. 

What began as a creative challenge evolved into a powerful form of human connection.

 

 

 

Tim and Amy also discuss the unique energy of downtown New York and the young creatives who populate the streets around NYU, Parsons and the surrounding art schools. Amy explains what draws her to people with tattoos, unconventional fashion, colourful hair and distinctive personal styles, while revealing her deeper interest in vulnerability, authenticity and the person behind the appearance.

The episode also explores artistic influence and creative development. Amy talks about learning from cinema, studying contemporary photographers online and the importance of continually evolving creatively.

 

The discussion moves into social media, photography festivals and the global street photography community, examining both the opportunities and pressures created by platforms like Instagram. Amy shares how daily posting became both a discipline and a creative challenge, helping her connect with photographers around the world.

More personally, the conversation becomes a reflection on reinvention and rediscovering purpose later in life. Amy explains how photography helped her reconnect with the ambitious and creative side of herself that existed long before motherhood and family responsibilities took priority. She describes photography as bringing structure, excitement, community and a renewed sense of identity.

This episode is an honest and thoughtful discussion about street photography, fear, creativity, discipline, self-expression and the emotional connections that can emerge between strangers through photography.

Amy website

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This episode of Talking Frames Neil Kramer joins Tim Bingham for a deeply reflective conversation exploring photography, ethics, family, aging, and the evolving realities of street photography in a post-pandemic world.

Neil discusses his unconventional journey into photography, initially resisting the medium despite growing up around cameras through his father before eventually discovering photography through the accessibility of the iPhone and the streets of New York City. Drawing from his background in English literature and film school, he reflects on how narrative, framing, light, and emotional storytelling continue to shape his photographic approach.

A major focus of the conversation centres on how dramatically street photography has changed over the last decade. Neil reflects on how smartphones and social media transformed photography from a largely observational practice into something far more public, performative, and ethically complicated. Questions surrounding privacy, consent, representation, race, immigration, and audience perception now sit at the centre of photographing strangers in public spaces.

Neil speaks candidly about the emotional complexity of photographing family members and the difficult negotiations surrounding vulnerability, authorship, and consent when the people closest to you become artistic subjects.

The conversation also examines the growing influence of social media on photographic practice. Neil openly discusses the tension between making photographs instinctively and subconsciously anticipating audience reaction online. He reflects on the discomfort of strangers publicly commenting on his family life and explains why he declined interest from the Daily Mail, fearing the work would be reduced to sensationalism rather than understood as nuanced personal documentary storytelling.

They further explore broader questions surrounding authenticity, interpretation, and artistic control. They  discuss the balance between allowing photographs to speak independently versus guiding viewers through captions and narrative context, especially when deeply personal work becomes publicly consumed and frequently misunderstood.

Neil Kramer Website

Neil Kramer Instagram

Photoville Exhibition

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Song: Drip

Music by: CreatorMix.com

Photo London 2026 marks a new chapter for one of the world’s most important photography fairs. Running from 14 to 17 May, this year’s edition brings together leading galleries from across Europe, the US, Asia, and Latin America but what really defines Photo London is the way it balances the commercial energy of an art fair with a genuinely thoughtful curatorial vision.

After a decade at Somerset House, the fair has now moved to Olympia London. That shift isn’t just logistical; it changes the entire experience. The new venue offers a more open, unified layout, making the fair easier to navigate and expanding what’s possible in terms of programming, presentation, and scale.

In this episode, I’m joined by Sophie Parker, Director of Photo London 2026, to talk about why this feels like a turning point. We explore the shape of this year’s programme — from curated exhibitions and solo presentations to an expanded talks series focused on collecting, and a new screening room dedicated to artist films.

There are standout moments too: early work by Stephen Meisel, a strong mix of emerging and established artists, and a major presentation from Autograph. And we look at the broader trends shaping the fair right now — including a renewed interest in craft, process‑driven work, and documentary photography. 

Overall, this episode offers a clear insight into how Photo London is evolving in scale, in ambition, and in direction and what that evolution tells us about photography today.

 

More information can be found Photolondon.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Song: Drip

Music by: CreatorMix.com