Focal Point
Episodes
What Does It Mean to Look at These Photographs?
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On May 29, 2025, MoCP presented a series of conversations exploring authorship, representation, and the dissemination of information as they relate to...
The Living Archive
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On May 29, 2025, MoCP presented a series of conversations that explored topics of authorship, representation, and the dissemination of information as ...
Reshaping the Authorial Position
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On May 29, 2025, MoCP presented a series of conversations that explored topics of authorship, representation, and the dissemination of information as ...
The Photographed Person was Always There
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On May 29, 2025, MoCP presented a series of conversations that explored topics of authorship, representation, and the dissemination of information as ...
Episode 22: Christina Fernandez
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, MoCP Executive Director, Natasha Egan, sits down with artist Christina Fernandez. The two discuss Christina’s decades-long career i...
Episode 21: Meghann Riepenhoff and Penelope Umbrico
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, artists Meghann Riepenhoff and Penelope Umbrico chat with MoCP curator, Kristin Taylor. The two artists discuss their backgrounds and...
Episode 20: Jay Wolke and Eli Giclas
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Jay Wolke and Eli Giclas in conversation with MoCP Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor. Jay and Eli dis...
Episode 19: Susan Meiselas and Wendy Ewald
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, MoCP Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor, chats with Susan Meiselas and Wendy Ewald about their new publicat...
Episode 18: Yuge Zhou and Jorian Charlton
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Focal Point features two exhibiting artists from LOVE: Still Not the Lesser (on view August 17 - December 23, 2023) in conversati...
Episode 17: Bob Thall and Cecil McDonald Jr.
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, MoCP Executive Director Natasha Egan leads a discussion with Chicago-based artists and educators Bob Thall and Cecil McDonald, Jr.Tha...
Episode 16: Alicia Bruce and Tom Merilion
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Focal Point features two exhibiting artists from LOVE: Still Not the Lesser (on view August 17 - December 23, 2023) in conversati...
Episode 15: Shannon Bool and Tarrah Krajnak
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Shannon Bool (Berlin) and Tarrah Krajnak (Eugene, OR and Los Angeles, CA) are in conversation with Kristin Taylor, MoCP’s Curator o...
Episode 14: Abelardo Morell
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Abelardo Morell is in conversation with MoCP chief curator and deputy director, Karen Irvine. The two discuss Abe’s many decades ex...
Episode 13: Xyza Cruz Bacani and Jason Reblando
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a special live edition of Focal Point hosted by Asha Iman Veal, Associate Curator at the MoCP. She meets with author and photogr...
Episode 12: John H. White and Johny Pitts
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist John H. White (Chicago) is in conversation with Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship winner and Af...
Episode 11: Stephen Tourlentes and Steph Foster
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steph Foster and Steven Tourlentes discuss their projects in photography and film that shed light on some of the many stories and systems surrounding ...
Episode 10: Cog•nate Collective and Işıl Eğrikavuk
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, MoCP Curatorial Fellow, Asha Iman Veal, is in conversation with artist Işıl Eğrikavuk and artist duo Cognate Collective (Amy Sanch...
Episode 9: Laia Abril and Elinor Carucci
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
MoCP Curator, Kristin Taylor, is in conversation with artists Laia Abril and Elinor Carucci. They discuss depictions of the female body and their work...
Episode 8: Jess T. Dugan and Rafael Soldi
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, MoCP Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Karen Irvine, sits down with artists Jess T. Dugan and Rafael Soldi of the Strange Fire Colle...
Episode 7: Kenneth Josephson and Marilyn Zimmerwoman
20 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, renowned photographers Kenneth Josephson and Marilyn Zimmerwoman are in conversation with Museum of Contemporary Photography’s cura...
Episode 6: Kelli Connell and Kiba Jacobson
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chicago-based photographer Kelli Connell is in conversation with her long-term model and muse, Kiba Jacobson, along with Museum of Co...
Episode 5: Joanne Leonard and Melissa Ann Pinney
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, mixed media artist Joanne Leonard and photographer Melissa Pinney are in conversation with MoCP’s curator of academic programs an...
Episode 4: Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa and Leslie Wilson
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa and Leslie Wilson, in conversation with MoCP’s Curatorial Assistant, Lindley Warren Mickunas, discuss their thoughts on ph...
Episode 3: Dawoud Bey and Teju Cole
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special extended episode, photographer Dawoud Bey and writer, critic, and photographer Teju Cole are in conversation with MoCP’s curator of ...
Episode 2: Lisa Lindvay and Natalie Krick
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, photographers Natalie Krick and Lisa Lindvay join Karen Irvine, MoCP's chief curator and deputy director, to discuss works by Andy Wa...
Episode 1: David Schalliol and Carlos Javier Ortiz
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, photographers and activists David Schalliol and Carlos Javier Ortiz join the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College C...