Photography and Walking
Photography and Walking is a podcast about how moving through the world changes the way we see it. Each episode explores photographers, artworks, and places where walking and seeing meet — from city streets to coastlines and blindfolded performances in Venice. Host Philippe Guillaume brings together the history of photography, storytelling, and observation to trace how images map experience step by step.
Photography and Walking est un balado sur la manière dont le fait de se déplacer dans le monde transforme notre regard. Chaque épisode explore des photographes, des œuvres et des lieux où la marche et le regard se croisent — des rues de la ville aux rivages, jusqu’aux performances à l’aveugle à Venise. Philippe Guillaume y mêle histoire de la photographie, récit et observation pour montrer comment les images tracent, pas à pas, notre expérience du monde.
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Opening and closing theme: Beat’em with Rhythm — Victor Natas (CC BY 4.0 / freesound.org)
A production of Productions 3655 Inc.
Episodes
17 episodes
Walking in the Crowd
Episode 16 looks at a photograph made by William Klein during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City in 1955.Rather than photographing the crowd from a safe or distant position, Klein moves directly into it. Faces press toward th...
The Walk as Work
In 1985, Hamish Fulton walked for eight days in central Saskatchewan, near Ajawaan Lake. The work begins there.This episode stays with a simple shift that takes time to register. The photographs are not the work. They follow it. What...
The Shape of Walking
In 1961, Canadian artist Michael Snow created a simple silhouette of a woman mid-stride. He called it Walking Woman.What followed became one of the most quietly radical gestures in postwar Canadian art. Repeated across paintings...
A Line Walked
In 2004, Francis Alÿs carried a leaking can of green paint through Jerusalem, tracing the path of the 1949 armistice line — a border once drawn in pencil on a map, later absorbed into the city’s streets and neighborhoods.The gesture was ...
Along the Wall
In this episode of Photography and Walking, Philippe Guillaume explores Josef Koudelka’s photographs of the barrier that separates Israel and Palestine. Photographed between 2008 and 2012, the series traces the wall across hills, orcha...
What the Wall Remembers
When we think about night photography, Brassaï’s images of Paris often come immediately to mind — cafés, wet streets, and figures moving through pools of light.But in this episode of Photography and Walking, Philippe Guillaume turns to a di...
The Street Between Us
In 1968, VALIE EXPORT walked through Vienna with Peter Weibel crawling behind her on a leash. The city did not slow. It continued.This episode explores feminist performance art, public space, and the politics of walking in 1968 Vienna.
Footsteps Weave Photos
Photography is never neutral. Every image comes from a position, a distance, a moment chosen instead of another. Walking works the same way. Each step frames the world, shaping what comes into view and what falls away.In this episode...
Walking on Water
What happens when photography refuses neutrality?In this episode of Photography and Walking, we step into the uneasy space between documentary and art through the work of Allan Sekula. Often treated as evidence or record,...
Blind in Venice
Recorded on location in Venice, this episode asks a simple but unsettling question: what happens when we walk through one of the most visually saturated cities in the world without seeing? Following earlier reflections on Sophie Calle’...
A Line Across Water
Episode 6 is a quiet pause between two Venetian chapters — a short bridge in a city full of them. Here, Philippe reflects on what links photography and walking: attention, drift, surprise, and the rhythm of moving through space. Walking pre...
The Art of Following
In Suite Vénitienne, artist Sophie Calle followed a man she barely knew through the streets of Venice, photographing and writing as she traced his movements. What begins as curiosity turns into a study of looking itself — where ...
On Falkland Road
In this first episode of Photography and Walking, Philippe reflects on a photograph taken by Mary Ellen Mark in Bombay’s red-light district in 1978. Through the story of Lata — a young woman lying in a narrow, jade-green room — he considers how...
Street by Street
In Vues de Likasi, Congolese artist Sami Baloji walks and photographs the streets of his hometown, revealing the quiet traces of colonial architecture and the politics embedded in everyday space. This episode of Photography and ...
Walk Between Museums
In 1970, Montreal artist Françoise Sullivan left one museum and walked to another — turning that simple gesture into a work of art. Her route, from the Musée d’art contemporain on Cité du Havre to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Sher...
Whale Over Paris
In June 1989, a whale floats above Paris. Cameras click, cranes lift, and Japanese photographer Daidō Moriyama keeps walking through Les Halles — a city in motion between past and future. This episode explores how one surreal sight became a med...
Introduction - Photography and Walking
Before we set off, a brief introduction. Philippe Guillaume presents Photography and Walking — a podcast about how walking and photography intertwine — and shares the spirit in which the project began: exploratory, open-ended, and attentive to ...