A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers

Dragana Jurišić is a photographer, writer and filmmaker. She has exhibited extensively and won numerous awards.  Dragana’s work is in several significant collections, including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Arts Council Collection, the Irish State Art Collection (OPW), the Bank of Spain, and others.

Her first book, YU: The Lost Country, received accolades worldwide. Her second book, Museum, a collaboration with Paula Meehan, was published in July 2019 and is now in its 2nd edition. Her Own, published in December 2022, received outstanding reviews in El País, The Irish Times and RTE Culture. Dragana is currently working on her first feature-length documentary, The Last Balkan Cowboy (working title).

In episode 279, Dragana discusses, among other things:

Her forthcoming debut documentary.

How everything she’s done is an attempt at making sense of her experience during the Balkan war

Her book YU: The Lost Country

The influence of Rebecca West’s book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia

How she would measure the success of the new film

Wanting to reach as large an audience as possible

The imposter syndrome she felt as a first time film maker

Being ‘ergonomic’ about the way she approaches making

The story of her Aunt and her book Her Own

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Featuring:

Sjef van Duin, Librarian

Roderick van der Loos, Interim Director

Zippora Elders, incoming General & Artistic Director

Grace Wong-Si-Kwie, Head of Presentations and Public Outreach

Guinevere Ras, Curator of opening exhibition Awakening in Blue

Martijn van den Broek,  Head of Collections

Joop De Jong, Guest Curator of opening exhibition, Rotterdam In Focus

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Zackary Canepari is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow whose work moves between documentary film and photography.  He began as a photojournalist in India and Pakistan before creating the Sundance-screened series California Is a place, a portrait of the golden state unraveling at the edges.

He later co-directed the feature documentary T-Rex (SXSW), following teenage Olympic boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields as she fought her way toward gold; the film was adapted by MGM into the narrative feature The Fire Inside. His Guggenheim-supported project Flint Is a place expanded documentary storytelling across film, photography, archival material, and immersive media, earning a World Press Photo Award and recognition as Multimedia Photographer of the Year at POYi.

His monograph REX won POYi Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Prize.

Zackary's documentary Fire in Paradise won an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. He received a second Emmy for directing The Gallagher Effect for The New York Times Presents (FX/Hulu).

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In episode 277, Zackary discusses, among other things:

How he started in photography

The experience of cutting his photographic teeth in India

The complicated question of whether it's a good time to be a filmmaker

His early project California Is a place, with his collaborator Drea Cooper

Learning the ropes through experience

His first feature documentary, T-Rex, and being smiled upon by the documentary gods

Flint Town

Thoughts & Prayers

Fire in Paradise


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Jessica Dimmock’s work focusses on humanistic and intimate storytelling. She is the recipient of numerous international awards for her photography and video work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three World Press Photo Awards for short films, The Inge Morath Award from Magnum, the F Award for Concerned Photography from Forma and Fabrica, The Infinity Award for Photojournalist of the Year from the International Center of Photography, and The Kodak Award for Best Cinematography at the Hamptons International Film Festival. She is a Sundance Edit and Story Lab Fellow, and her first feature film The Pearl was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival and was executive produced by Impact Partners. Her clients include HBO, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Microsoft, The UNFPA, Aperture, Showtime and PBS. She is the co-director of the Netflix series Flint Town as and directed on the reboot of Unsolved Mysteries and AppleTV’s Home.

In 2007 Jessica produced a photobook entitled The Ninth Floor (Contrasto). 

Her most recent film, co-directed with her partner Zackery Canepari, is Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America, focussing on the USA's $3 billion active shooter preparadness industry and its effects on teachers and students, released in 2025.

In episode 276, Jessica Discusses, among other things:

Current projects

Her attraction to dark subject matter

Her TV mini series Captive Audience

Forming close relationships with her subject

The random coffee shop interaction that changed her direction forever

The chance encounter that led to her first big photography project and subsequent book, The Ninth Floor

How the musician Moby played a part in her journey

Serendipity and her project The Pearl

The challenge of landing lucrative commercial work

The Netflix series she co-directed, Flint Town

Her most recent film Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America

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On episode 275, Philip discusses, among other things:
His ‘cabinet of curiosities’ studio space
A recent, powerful urge to photograph in Australia
Why he left the newspaper world there in favour of Thailand
His early project “The Cars That Ate Bangkok”
His sense of anger at injustice
His ‘near death experience’ on Sleeping Dog Mountain
Process, shooting on film, and working close to the subject
The influence of Koudelka’s book Exiles
The ways in which his old home of Bangkok has changed since he was there
Why he moved to France
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