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Photography and Walking

Philippe Guillaume. Produced by Productions 3655 Inc.

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

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11:42

Stop: Aoki’s FRUiTS

Photography and Walking ·

2026/09/23

EnglishShoichi Aoki’s photographs for FRUiTS magazine transformed the street fashion of Harajuku, Tokyo, into an extraordinary visual archive. Frontal, colorful, and usually full-length, the portraits record people who had already styled and assembled their own public image.In Stop, Philippe Guillaume considers the encounter the photographs do not show: Aoki noticing someone, approaching that person, and asking them to participate. The episode moves between FRUiTS, relational aesthetics, and

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12:55

Among Footsteps

Photography and Walking ·

2026/09/09

Every city carries layers of history beneath its surface. In Roaming (2006), Carrie Mae Weems photographs herself walking and standing within monumental public spaces, usually with her back to the camera. Rather than asking us to look at her, the photographs invite us to look with her. In this episode of Photography and Walking, we explore how Roaming transforms walking into a way of reading history. We consider cities as palimpsests, places where traces of earlier lives remain within the pre...

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11:18

In Another's Steps

Photography and Walking ·

2026/08/26

A stranger turns a corner. You follow.In 1969, Vito Acconci created Following Piece, a work in which he selected strangers at random on the streets of New York and followed them until they disappeared into a private space. The idea is simple. The questions it raises are anything but.In this episode of Photography and Walking, we explore how surrendering your own route changes the experience of walking, why Following Piece still feels unsettling today, and how photography became less a finished image

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12:17

Passing By

Photography and Walking ·

2026/08/12

At first glance, almost nothing seems to happen. Six people stand outside a photography studio in Newark, New Jersey, in 1962. No one looks toward the camera. Everyone is watching something beyond the edge of the frame. Yet the longer we stay with Lee Friedlander's photograph, the richer it becomes. Repeated gestures, shared gazes, architecture and small visual echoes quietly connect the scene, revealing relationships that are easy to miss at first glance. In this episode, we explore how Fri...

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12:54

Waiting on a Corner

Photography and Walking ·

2026/07/29

A woman moves through Eugène Atget's photograph and becomes a blur.Everything around her remains sharp: the building, the street lamp, the posters, the cobblestones. Yet the passerby seems to dissolve into the street itself.In this episode of Photography and Walking, we spend time with Cabaret, Rue Mouffetard, a photograph made in Paris around 1899–1900. Through Atget's patient observation of an ordinary street corner, we explore attention, memory, urban space, and the relationship between

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11:58

Leaving Traces

Photography and Walking ·

2026/07/15

A temporary circle appears on the snowy floor of a forest in Tierra del Fuego. Nearby, traces of footsteps, mud, ash, and weather quietly record the passage of a body moving through the landscape.In this episode, we explore the work of Richard Long through a series of photographs and texts produced during a six-day winter walk in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego in 1997. Moving beyond the idea of walking as journey or endurance, we consider how Long's work focuses on contact: the brief marks left

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10:44

Drawing Walking Space

Photography and Walking ·

2026/07/01

A young boy crouches on a New York sidewalk, drawing with chalk on the pavement. Around him, rough circles and fading lines spread across the concrete. At first glance, the scene appears simple. Yet the longer we remain with Helen Levitt’s photograph, the more the sidewalk itself begins to change.In this episode, we explore how a temporary act of drawing transforms an ordinary urban surface into a place of attention, memory, and presence. Along the way, we look at Levitt’s remarkable approach to

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11:48

Pushing Through the City

Photography and Walking ·

2026/06/17

In 1992, Gabriel Orozco rolled a sphere of plasticine through the streets of New York City.As it moved, the surface gathered dust, stones, fragments of metal, cracks, and countless traces left behind by contact with the city itself. The work, titled Yielding Stone, exists somewhere between sculpture, performance, walking, and process.This episode explores how the sphere functions as a record of movement. Rather than representing the city, it allows the city to leave physical impressions behind

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10:49

To Be Seen

Photography and Walking ·

2026/06/03

In 1967, Mariette Pathy Allen photographed a woman walking past a storefront mannequin somewhere between New Jersey and Philadelphia.At first, the image appears ordinary: a pedestrian, a display window, the rhythm of the street continuing around them. But slowly, something unstable begins to emerge between the moving figure and the constructed body behind glass.This episode explores how walking unfolds not only through urban space, but through systems of visibility already shaping how bodies are

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10:12

Walking in the Crowd

Photography and Walking ·

2026/05/20

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 the surface of the image, space compresses, and the photograph begins to feel less like observation and more like physical encounter.The episode explores how Klein’s background in painting — including his studies with Fernand Léger in postwar Paris — shaped his approach

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11:34

The Walk as Work

Photography and Walking ·

2026/05/06

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 we encounter comes after a movement that has already unfolded, step by step, across distance and time.Fulton’s practice emerges at a moment when art moves beyond the object, opening toward action, duration, and presence. Walking becomes a form in itself, shaped by

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13:56

The Shape of Walking

Photography and Walking ·

2026/04/22

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, plywood cut-outs, and photographic situations between 1961 and 1967, the figure appears in galleries, on walls, and even among real pedestrians in the streets of Toronto.In this episode of Photography and Walking, Philippe Guillaume explores how Michael Snow transformed

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10:56

A Line Walked

Photography and Walking ·

2026/04/08

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 simple: walk, and let the paint fall.The line appeared, thinned, broke, and disappeared. It depended entirely on duration. Unlike walls or engineered boundaries, it left no infrastructure behind — only a fleeting trace that invited attention rather than authority.In

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13:22

Along the Wall

Photography and Walking ·

2026/03/25

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, orchards, roads, and neighbourhoods. Rather than presenting the structure as a single dramatic event, Koudelka approaches it through repetition and movement. Working with panoramic photographs and returning to the region repeatedly over four years, he reveals the wal...

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13:33

What the Wall Remembers

Photography and Walking ·

2026/03/11

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 different body of work: Brassaï’s photographs of graffiti.The image discussed here, made around 1944–45, shows marks carved into a Paris wall. These gestures were left by anonymous hands long before the photographer arrived. Under grazing light, the surface begins

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12:16

The Street Between Us

Photography and Walking ·

2026/02/25

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.This episode examines From the Portfolio of Doggedness, a performance that survives through five black-and-white documentary photographs. EXPORT did not stage a spectacle. She stepped into public space and altered its internal hierarchy — revealing how streets

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10:21

Footsteps Weave Photos

Photography and Walking ·

2026/02/11

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 of Photography and Walking, we look at Sohei Nishino’s Diorama Maps — large photographic works assembled from thousands of images gathered while walking cities for extended periods of time. These maps don’t describe cities as they are planned. They assemble the...

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11:14

Walking on Water

Photography and Walking ·

2026/01/28

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, photographs are rarely neutral. Sekula reminds us that every photograph carries intention, position, and power. Focusing on Walking on Water, part of his larger Fish Story project, this episode traces how photography can act not as transparent documentation, but as critique...

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10:48

Blind in Venice

Photography and Walking ·

2026/01/14

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’s work with following and attention, Blind in Venice turns toward blindness as a way of rethinking perception. The episode moves through Calle’s Les Aveugles, Carmen Papalia’s Blind Field Shuttle, and earlier collective walking experiments, all of which challeng...

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5:52

A Line Across Water

Photography and Walking ·

2025/12/31

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 prepares the eye; photography gathers what the body has already sensed. Together, they form a way of noticing that builds slowly, step by step. “A Line Across Water” offers a moment to breathe and reorient before the series continues deeper into Venice. L’é...

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