The MOOD Podcast
Matt Jacob
Attention has collapsed, and every photographer feels it.
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- 1. The One Skill That Actually Makes Photography Beautiful (It's Not Composition) - Moments of Mood, 3.6 · 9 Jul 2026
- 2. Trent Davis Bailey: Every Photographer Hits The Wrong Notes Before Finding Their Voice, E124 · 16 Jul 2026
- 3. How To Find Your Voice Without Building a Signature Style - Moments of Mood, 3.7 · 23 Jul 2026
Why Your Photos Are Boring - Photographer David Chancellor Explains...
13 Aug 2026 · 1h 18m
On this episode, I sat down with David Chancellor, the award-winning documentary photographer behind ‘Hunters’, ‘Handle Like Eggs’, and the Taylor Wessing Prize-winning portrait ‘Huntress with Buck’, for a conversation about the moral grey areas of documentary
One Photograph Is All You Get Now, and Why That's Good News for Photographers - Moments of Mood, 3.8
6 Aug 2026 · 10 min
Attention has collapsed, and every photographer feels it. In this Moments of Mood episode, I make the case that this might be the best thing to happen to serious photography in a generation. You'll learn why the photographers who matter from here on won't be t
Odette England Answers Every Photographer's Worst Fear, E126
30 Jul 2026 · 1h 38m
Odette England makes her photographs and then damages them, and this conversation is about why that is the most honest thing she has ever done with her voice.Odette is an Australian artist, writer and photography professor at Rhode Island School of Design and
How To Find Your Voice Without Building a Signature Style - Moments of Mood, 3.7
23 Jul 2026 · 16 min
In this Moments of Mood episode I sit with a single photograph from my own archive, one I made by accident in under ten seconds, and use it to unpack an idea Cristina Mittermeier gave me: that the photographer is not a messenger but a membrane, a semi-permeabl
Trent Davis Bailey: Every Photographer Hits The Wrong Notes Before Finding Their Voice, E124
16 Jul 2026 · 1h 47m
Trent Davis Bailey spent 7 years photographing a remote farming valley in Colorado, convinced he was making documentary work. He wasn't. The pictures knew before he did: he was searching for the family he'd lost to a twenty-year estrangement, and by the end of
The One Skill That Actually Makes Photography Beautiful (It's Not Composition) - Moments of Mood, 3.6
9 Jul 2026 · 22 min
In this episode you'll discover why beauty in photography is made by your attention, not found in your subjects, and how reading your own form reveals the photographic voice you've been searching for elsewhere.In this Moments of Mood, I sit with one idea from
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