Immaterial Voices
Episodes
What is a Photobook?: A Conversation with Hans Hickerson
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly is a photobook? This episode is with longtime artist, bookmaker, photographer, writer, translator, and editor Hans Hickerson. For the pas...
Bookmaking and the Art of Observation: A Conversation with Ryan Searl
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Immaterial Voices host Brian O’Neill, sits down with photographer and artist Ryan Searl. Based in Illinois, Searl explores the...
Photography En Plein Air: A Conversation with Ciel Baptiste
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Immaterial Voices host Brian O’Neill, sits down with photographer and artist Ciel Baptiste. Based in Illinois, Ciel has been e...
Photography and Traversing Borders: A Conversation with Jeff Smudde
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can we work at the boundaries of the landscape as well as our perceptions? How can we work across multi-media within the context of still image-ba...
Species of Mood: Urban Atmospheres, Mobilities, and Art with Brian O'Neill
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How, and by what means, can we capture urban atmospheres and mobility? What can we learn about cities, ourselves, and our societies through these dime...
The Rail Way: A Conversation with William Cope
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we learn how to see? How is that images take us over time and space? What modes of practice, and of travel, introduce new ways of seeing?In Nov...
Immaterial Books and Mid-Continent Modern: A Conversation with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is (im)material in the world of photography? What does it mean to be modern? What is the role of the photobook today? How do artists and scholars...
The Visual Politics of Elections: A Conversation with Matt Schneider and Gizem Melek
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Visual Politics of Elections: A Conversation with Matt Schneider and Gizem MelekAre visuals biased? Is the media biased? Is it possible to be poli...
Election Eve: A Conversation with Brian O'Neill + Tim Hale
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do photographers deal with elections? What is the role of the visual in election politics?Photographer and sociologist Tim Hale revisits the podca...
The Grift: A Conversation with Brian O’Neill & Andrew Kochanowski
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Brian O’Neill sits down to talk about “The Grift.” This was a 2023 release by Immaterial Books, and so with the upcoming election and eve...
Photography and Ethnography with Julie Patarin-Jossec
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The panel discussion features photographers and scholars from various backgrounds and fields (Julie Patarin-Jossec, Greg Scott, Jessica Hayes, and Mic...
Fields of Vision: Contemporary Photography in Central Illinois with Tim Hale
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brian O’Neill walks and talks with Tim Hale about the upcoming exhibition, "Fields of Vision: Contemporary Photography in Central Illinois."What inf...