Conversations is a series from Shadowgraph where we speak with independent storytellers, artists, and thinkers exploring the creative process in a world on edge.

In this episode, we step away from the studio and onto the sea front. There, we speak to a passerby, imagining the ocean as Solaris, a living, thinking mirror reflecting the chaos of our times.

Through our conversation, we touch on the privileged nature of our lives in the West, and why independent media matters now more than ever.

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Field Notes is a series from Shadowgraph: short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking.

In today’s episode, we talk about the gap between expectation and reality on a filming trip. Specifically, what it’s like to plan for a story and then meet the reality of it, on the ground.

We reflect on our recent shoot in Damascus, Syria, where we filmed inside the Al Yarmouk camp for Palestinians: a geography shaped by conflict, memory, and resistance. This is the first of several episodes unpacking that trip, as we break down not just the logistics of filming in a place like this, but the ethical weight that comes with it.

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What the Hell is a series from Shadowgraph: a space to reflect, and make sense of the absurdity unfolding around us. We offer creative tools for those of us feeling the weight of a destabilised world.

In this episode — The Crisis of the Inner World — we ask what happens to our inner lives when the outside world is on fire. How do we hold onto imagination, reflection, and meaning in the face of collapse?

We talk about how to turn helplessness into creative action. About how storytelling can connect us to the world and help us find like-minded communities. 

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The Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that provides you with raw, real tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It’s for filmmakers, writers, audio producers: anyone trying to build stories from the ground up.

This week, we talk about the difference between objectivity and subjectivity in filmmaking and why embracing your point of view is a strength.

We delve into the philosophical tensions underlying "neutral" reporting and explore why subjectivity is deeply intertwined with empathy, ethics, and the heart of storytelling itself.

It’s not about bias, it’s about honesty. 

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Conversations is a series from Shadowgraph: in-depth dialogues with independent storytellers.

In this episode, I’m joined by photographer and filmmaker Rod Morris. We talk about the intricacy of making slow, multi-layered analogue images and why the world needs this more than ever, in an age of image overload.

We explore photography as a form of memory, and how the process itself is a kind of time machine: a way of capturing and reworking the past in the present.

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Field Notes is a series from Shadowgraph: short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking.

In this episode, we talk about what it means to film with political groups you don’t ideologically agree with. We revisit a documentary shoot with the far right in the UK — a project that forced us to sit with discomfort, rather than escape it.

It’s one thing to fly across the world, film, and walk away. It’s another to stay home and look directly at what’s growing in your own backyard.

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What the Hell is a series from Shadowgraph: a space to reflect, and make sense of the absurdity unfolding around us. We offer creative tools for those of us feeling the weight of a destabilised world.

In this episode, we sink into the chaos: doomscrolling, disconnection, and digital overload. We speak openly about what it means to witness horror through a screen — and how to take action so we don’t feel helpless.

We explore the importance of an analogue existence and our relationship to nature.

Read deeply. Speak honestly. Talk face to face.

Filter the rage into deeper knowledge through books, conversations, and small acts of attention.

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Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that gives you raw, real tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It's for filmmakers, writers, audio producers—anyone trying to build stories from the ground up.

In chaotic moments, the instinct is to chase everything.
In this episode, we show you how to do the opposite.

The world’s on fire with noise, conflict, and disinformation. We need independent storytellers more than ever—people making sharp, empathetic, and intelligent work.

Start where you are. Use what you have.
Our aim is to help you take action and tell stories that matter.

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We're bringing back the Shadowgraph podcast — a weekly audio dispatch from the world of documentary filmmaking, set against the chaos of a world on fire.

What to expect: 

Rotating formats (in no particular order).

1. Field Notes
Short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking. 
Real stories, failures in the field and personal reflections.

2. Headlines in Context
Breaking down, what the hell is going on in our World, told through the Shadowgraph lens. 

3. Audio Essays
Narrated essays and film excerpts on the stories we are working on. 
This is taking you behind the lens of the filmmaking process. 

4. Conversations
Behind-the-scenes chats with the team and fellow creatives in the crazy world of politics and filmmaking. 

Stay tuned!

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In this podcast, we give you some updates on what we have been working on and the direction Shadowgraph will take in the future. 

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In this episode, Ross Domoney from Shadowgraph talks about the funerals of the Palestinian fighters and civilians killed in an Israeli army raid on Nur Shams refugee camp. We also delve into decision-making while battling the fatigue that can hit hard at the end of a large filming project. This is the final episode of a six-part podcast series, 'Behind the Lens', which explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the politics of working in Palestine.  These honest insights into the creative challenges we faced are from our most recent trip, which took place in April 2024, when we were filming an independent documentary on memory as a form of Palestinian resistance.

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In this episode, after getting put under siege in our West Bank hotel by the Israeli army, we finally enter Nur Shams refugee camp. In the aftermath of this raid, the occupation forces have left a vast trail of destruction. The residents of the camp search for signs of those missing. From a filmmaker's point of view, Ross Domoney from Shadowgraph talks critically about the dangers of getting addicted to adrenaline.  He also talks about the role of documentary as a tool for capturing memories and how you play those memories back to a community. This story is part of Shadowgraph’s new podcast series that explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the politics of working in Palestine. 

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In this episode, we get caught up in the most destructive Israeli army raid in the West Bank in decades. We discuss the calculated risks filmmakers take in hostile environments, especially during dangerous events like army raids. After a week of unsuccessful attempts to access the Nur Shams refugee camp, we finally gained entry and captured some truly moving documentary material. However, while filming, the camp was abruptly invaded by the army, forever changing the lives of the people we met. This story is part of Shadowgraph’s new podcast series, which explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the politics of working in Palestine.

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This episode features practical filmmaking advice and highlights the necessity of patience and flexibility. After an extended delay, we are granted entry to a refugee camp in the West Bank, inhabited by numerous armed Palestinian factions. Shadowgraph’s new podcast series explores the nuances of filmmaking, blending in political context along the journey.

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In this episode, we discuss how tricky it is to gain access and film in a hostile environment in the West Bank of Palestine when you do not have any connections to the area you want to work in. This story is part of Shadowgraph’s new podcast series that explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the politics along the way. 

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In this new podcast series, Shadowgraph explores the intricacies of the filmmaking process, with some politics fed in along the way. These episodes are from our recent trip to Palestine, where we filmed a documentary about memory as a form of resistance. In part one, we talk about the build-up to working in a new political landscape, the complications of filming, and the painful feeling of losing access to a story.  

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We talk with photographer Rod Morris about black-and-white analogue photography as a tool for capturing memory and reading life through light. 

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Catch up with the latest news about what we have been up to. Tomorrow, we will launch a crowdfund for our new film from Palestine, which offers a unique angle on the struggle to keep the memory alive. We are also launching an online shop that will offer political posters and street photography from around the world. 

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In this episode, we get a rare insight into the state of Israel through the eyes of an anti-Zionist activist living in Haifa. Tom, who is Jewish, admits that because he has Israeli citizenship, he holds the status of a settler. He rejects this identity, including calling himself Israeli. Amongst a sea of nationalism that has gone into overdrive since October 7th, Tom and his small group of politically minded friends feel increasingly isolated. 

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Residents of the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank of Palestine recently suffered the most destructive Israeli army raid since the second Intifada. In this episode, we speak to Waleed Samer, who is from the camp and was separated from his family. This podcast is an audio preview of a video report that was co-produced by Shadowgraph and the Real News Network. 
Click here to view the film. 

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We speak to Abed, a Palestinian English teacher living in the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank. This camp was established by Palestinians who were made refugees in their own land after the 1948 Nakba, which means 'catastrophe' in Arabic. On that year, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced from their homes and ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias to create the settler colonial state of Israel. Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, the Israeli army has intensified its raids on the West Bank, and the camp's residents, such as Abed, have stories to tell of mass arrests, resistance and the memory of displacement and loss. For Abed, the Nakba never ended. 

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We speak to the national director of Veterans for Peace in the US about a crisis of conscience among veterans and serving soldiers. This crisis came to a climax when Aaron Bushnell, a serving American soldier, recently self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in DC in an extreme act of protest against the genocidal war in Gaza.  

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As storytellers, to gain access to complex social landscapes we must embrace the politics of patience.  In this episode, Shadowgraph gives some behind-the-scenes feelings to this process. 

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Rage hits the streets of an Athenian suburb after a woman is killed by her ex-partner just meters away from the entrance of a police station, where she sought help.  In this podcast, Shadowgraph speaks to demonstrators who have gathered to remember Kyriaki Griva as they vent their anger at the police who left this woman to die. This is the fifth femicide in Greece in 2024. 

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A massive scandal has rocked Greece involving the disturbing pimping, sexual assault and trafficking of a 12-year-old Athenian girl from a working-class neighbourhood called Kolonos. It is even alleged that members of the political high class, as well as cops, were involved in the injustices inflicted on this girl. In a cruel twist, the girl's mother was even sent to prison. We were on the ground outside the court, as it ruled the mother could walk free, in a rare moment of hope for the feminist movement in Greece. 

You can support the family involved in the Kolonos case via this crowdfund: 
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