Repicture: A podcast of The Everyday Projects
A podcast featuring candid conversations with photographers, academics, reporters, and editors on the ethics and practice of visual storytelling. Co-hosts Nyasha Kadandara and Tasneem Alsultan take on the topics of representation, mental health, sexual harassment, accountability, making mistakes, and self reflection. We aim to bring what are often private conversations into the public arena.
Featuring Josué Rivas, Annie Tritt, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Tanvi Mishra, Asim Rafiqui, Khadija Farah, Fabiola Ferrero
Music by Hasan Hujairi and Tamarinda, Friction Model, The Envelope by Blue Dot Sessions
SEASON 1:
Episode 1: Back in 2020, amidst Black Lives Matter protests, Repicture host Nyasha Kadandara noticed the gatekeepers of storytelling proclaiming “hire black”. This caused her to reflect on photographers who document their own communities. In this episode Nyasha and co-host Tasneem Alsultan ask four photographers how they strive to accurately represent and document their own communities that are often misrepresented in the media. Do they see their work as a duty, burden, privilege, or something else entirely? Nyasha and Tasneem also share their own hesitancies and frustrations about working in their own communities and abroad.
Featuring Patience Zalanga, Fabiola Ferrero, Barry Christianson, Andrea Bruce
Music by Hasan Hujairi and Tamarinda, Friction Model, The Envelope by Blue Dot Sessions
Episode 2: Regrets, mistakes, reflections. These are heavy words in any profession, in any aspect of life. The brilliant and ever revered Maya Angelou said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." In this episode of Repicture, host Nyasha Kadandara asks photographers to reflect on their storytelling and what they have learned from it. What would they do differently knowing what they know now – and why?
Featuring Peter DiCampo, Josué Rivas, Annie Tritt, Santi Carneri, Etinosa Yvonne, Sergey Korovayny
Music by Hasan Hujairi and Tamarinda, KeoKeo, Friction Model, The Envelope, Ervira by Blue Dot Sessions
Episode 3: Co-hosts Tasneem Alsultan and Nyasha Kadandara ask seven photographers if there is a photo they wish they had taken but didn’t.
Featuring Fabiola Ferrero, John Edwin Mason, Patience Zalanga, Barry Christianson, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Tom Saater, Tanvi Mishra
Music by Hasan Hujairi and Falaal, Waypost, Jumbel, Vengeful, Taouddella by Blue Dot Sessions
Episode 4: Courage is infectious: Standing up to sexual harassment
When we ourselves become victims of sexual harassment and abuse, how do we navigate the process of speaking out? How can we support each other and build a safer industry? And just how inclusive has the #MeToo movement been? In this episode of Repicture, cohosts Tasneem Alsultan and Nyasha Kadandara discuss the sexual harassment of women within the visual journalism industry.
Featuring Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Kristen Chick, Tanvi Mishra
Music by Hasan Hujairi and Tamarinda, Friction Model, Ervira by Blue Dot Sessions
Episode 5: Co-hosts Tasneem Alsultan and Nyasha Kadandara ask 10 photographers whose portrait they would love to take and why.
Featuring Fabiola Ferrero, John Edwin Mason, Patience Zalanga, Barry Christianson, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Tom Saater, Tanvi Mishra, Annie Tritt, Peter DiCampo, Josué Rivas
Music by Hasan Hujairi and Tamarinda, Friction Model, Ervira by Blue Dot Sessions
Episode 6: The internet and its various social media platforms have given anyone with a username – and a little courage – the opportunity to publicly speak their mind. Calling out, cancelling, and flat-out cyber bullying, you see it all these days. Host Tasneem Alsultan wonders, when it comes to the visual journalism industry, what are the roots of this phenomenon, and will it actually lead to change? She speaks with three people who have found different ways to speak out, all with the same goal of making the industry a little more fair for us all.
Featuring Khadija Farah, Asim Rafiqui, John Edwin Mason
Music by Hasan Hujairi and Tamarinda, Friction Model, Ervira by Blue Dot Sessions
Episode 7: Visual journalists are no strangers to trauma – including those working far from the frontlines. Deadlines, PTSD, financial uncertainty, imposter syndrome, protest, pandemic, harassment, maintaining relationships, and even success can be traumatic. Today we discuss how we as visual storytellers navigate this challenging field and deal with the uncertainty and mental toll it takes.
Featuring Patrick Baz, Tom Saater
Music by Hasan Hujairi and Tamarinda, Friction Model, Ervira by Blue Dot Sessions
Episode 8: Co-hosts Tasneem Alsultan and Nyasha Kadandara ask 13 photographers what they carry in their camera bags.
Featuring Fabiola Ferrero, John Edwin Mason, Khadija Farah, Patience Zalanga, Barry Christianson, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Tom Saater, Tanvi Mishra, Annie Tritt, Peter DiCampo, Josué Rivas, Patrick Baz, Andrea Bruce
Music by Hasan Hujairi and Falaal, Waypost, Jumbel, Lovers Hollow, Vengeful, Taouddella by Blue Dot Sessions
*Repicture interviews are edited for clarity and brevity.
Meet Our Hosts
Tasneem Alsultan is an investigative photographer, storyteller and global traveler. With an inquisitive eye and camera at hand, she offers intimate and unique perspectives into the everyday lives of her subjects, telling their stories from her heart while striving to humanize and connect their realities to her audiences.
Her work largely focuses on documenting social issues and rights-based topics in Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf region through a gender lens, challenging stereotypical perceptions of the Middle East and portraying a region and people that do not conform to expectations. Covering stories primarily for The New York Times and National Geographic, Tasneem documents ground-breaking developments in Saudi and the region, including most recently, the lifting of the driving ban for Saudi women and the lifting of the ban on Saudi women entering sports arenas.
Having focused her research on anthropological studies of Saudi women, Tasneem holds a Master of Art in Sociolinguistics from Portland State University and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Linguistics from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi.
Nyasha Kadandara is an award-winning pan-African director and cinematographer who tells stories that traverse the continent and reflect alternative voices. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School. In 2015, her first film 'Through the Fire' about a recovering drug-user facing the demons of his past won the Audience Choice Award for a short documentary at Atlanta Docufest. Her short documentary 'Queens & Knights' about a gay and inclusive rugby team won first prize at the 2016 NBC Sports film contest Cptr’d and premiered at South by SouthWest.
In 2019, she wrote, filmed and produced 'Sex and the Sugar Daddy' an extensive multimedia piece on transactional sex relationships in Kenya which was a finalist for the One World Media Awards in the Popular Feature and Digital Media categories. Nyasha's latest work includes 'Le Lac' a virtual reality documentary which looks at the effects of climate change and the Boko Haram insurgency around Lake Chad; and won the Digital Narrative Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2019. And, her investigative documentary 'Imported for my Body' about cross-continental sex trafficking was shortlisted for the Amnesty Media Awards in 2020 and selected for the Human Rights Watch Festival in Kenya.
Mostly recently Nyasha served as a juror for World Press Photo's digital storytelling contest and participated in 2021's Berlinale Talents. Currently, she is in production with her first independent feature documentary 'Matabeleland' and is developing the fiction feature 'Come Sunrise, We Shall Rule'.
Meet Our Team:
Elie Gardner | Managing Producer & Editor
Austin Merrill | Executive Producer
Peter DiCampo | Executive Producer
Rebecca Gibian | Producer & Web Designer
Wacera Njagi | Lead Designer
Danielle Villasana | The Everyday Projects Community Team
John Edwin Mason | The Everyday Projects Advisor
Thoughts or suggestions? Please email us at repicture@everydayprojects.org.
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