Marta Benavides

Interview: Kate Radford

February 10, 2019 by Marta Benavides

Kate Radford is a multi-disciplinary artist, polymath and activist based in Hebden Bridge. On the lead up to her performance Drought at Vault Festival, we had a chat about her practice… Your work tackles themes around social change. What is your perspective on activism through art? I think art communicates to people through and beyond the walls of the world that are built around us. It connects us to our imagination, our spirit, our history, our future, in a […]

Categories: INTERVIEWS, Uncategorized • Tags: activism, drought, experimental, interview, kateradford, london, miniclick, performance, photography, prose, protest, social change, vaultfestival

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Interview: Martin Seeds

September 2, 2017 by Marta Benavides

Martin Seeds engages with the conflicting experiences of Northern Irish identity, politics, culture and nationality through his practice. We spoke to him following up Miniclick’s August talk On Catharsis… +++ After a career in IT, you focused your practice on photography. Would you say this background influenced the way in which you take pictures and enhanced your interest in technology? In my previous career, I treated technology as a tool to assist me to achieve something and that is how I […]

Categories: WRITING • Tags: assembly, brighton, culture, identity, interview, martin seeds, miniclick, miniclick photography talks, nationality, northern ireland, photography, politics, uk

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Interview: Dulcie Wagstaff

August 28, 2017 by Marta Benavides

Dulcie Wagstaff uses photography as part of a creative process in which she explores quotidian environments and emotions. After Miniclick’s August talk On Catharsis, we interviewed her about her work… +++ Where do you find inspiration for your dreamlike but uncanny imagery? In terms of artists, I would say Francesca Woodman is my biggest inspiration, and has been since I was about 15. Her images are strange and uncanny, but somehow have a ‘realness’ and depth that can’t be faked […]

Categories: WRITING • Tags: brighton, dulcie wagstaff, everyday, familiar, gardening, inspiration, interview, miniclick, miniclick talks, photography, project, uk, uncanny

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Interview: Liz Orton

June 10, 2017 by Marta Benavides

Liz Orton will be speaking at our June talk Photography & Landscape. Her work explores landscape as part of a practice that deals with notions of technology, ecologies and human activity. Leading up to the talk, we interviewed her about the work and her use of landscape… +++ Your views on landscape merge scientific approaches with questions about the photographic apparatus. How did you first become interested in geology and its forms of representation? I’ve always been fascinated by non-photographic […]

Categories: WRITING • Tags: brighton, ecology, england, geology, index, interview, landscape, liz orton, miniclick, natural sciences, photography, project, the miniclick photography talks, uk, work

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Interview: Katharine MacDaid

June 3, 2017 by Marta Benavides

Katharine MacDaid will be speaking at our June talk Photography & Landscape. Her photographs take us to a variety of outdoors scenarios in different countries and cultures. In the run-up to the talk, we interviewed her about the work and her use of landscape… +++ Your early projects are mainly portraiture based, what made you shift your interest to landscape photography? It was not a conscious choice to shift my interest to landscape photography, I made some great portraits […]

Categories: WRITING • Tags: brighton, childhood, identity, interview, katharine macdaid, landscape, miniclick, miniclick photography talks, outdoors, photography

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Interview: Daniel Castro Garcia & Thomas Saxby

February 6, 2017 by Marta Benavides

Our next talk will be on the subject of HOME on Mon Feb 20th in Brighton. To warm up for it, we spoke to Daniel Castro Garcia and Thomas Saxby from John Radcliffe Studio about their work Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015-2016, which has earned Daniel the BJP International Photography Award 2017… Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015-2016 is a response to the media coverage of the European migration phenomenon. How was the project born? Thomas Saxby: The story of migration to Italy […]

Categories: WRITING • Tags: brighton, daniel castro garcia, discussion, documentary, england, foreigner, immigration, interview, john radcliffe studio, migration, mini click, miniclick, photo, photobook, photograph, photographer, photography, portrait, portraiture, refugee, sussex, talk, the old market, thomas saxby, uk

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The Miniclick Photo Talks

Talks, discussions, events, exhibitions, parties and games, all around still and moving images.

Author Archives: Marta Benavides

Interview: Martin Seeds

Interview: Dulcie Wagstaff

Interview: Liz Orton

Interview: Katharine MacDaid

Interview: Daniel Castro Garcia & Thomas Saxby