A Small Voice: Conversations with photographers and filmmakers
284 - Harriet Logan
Episode Summary
British photojournalist Harriet Logan on falling in love with photography at art college in the USA, formative experiences in Sudan, Somalia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, the reality of being a female photographer in the 90s, motherhood and her subsequent move away from photojournalism, how she ended up as Executive Director of the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, which she herself won in 1992, and her extraordinary collection of photographic prints - The Incite Project.
Episode Notes
Harriet Logan is a multi-award winning photographer who spent the first half of her career working on international assignments in places such as Sudan, Angola, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and Somalia for a range of international newspapers and magazines.
She subsequently turned her attention to working commercially on advertising campaigns for various big brand clients, including The Pictet Group and Canon, alongside some of the worlds largest advertising agencies.
Today she curates the Incite Project, an issue driven collection of photographs broadly based around the subject of world events and conflict.
Harriet is also the executive director of The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant which has run for over 30 years and which she won in 1992. The grant has a mission to support young and emerging Photojournalists.
She co-parents 4 boys with her husband Mark, an owl, a peregrine falcon, three dogs, a dressage horse, and a bunch of sheep, cows, chickens and pigs.
On episode 284, Harriet discusses, among other things:
- Her journey into photojournalism from art college in the USA
- Her early project on an Aids patient, with whom she became close
- Beginners luck at the Poll tax riots in London in 1990
- Ending up in southern Sudan…and then Somalia
- Winning the The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant and how it changed everything
- The reality of being a female photojournalist in the 90’s
- An example of the danger of inadvertantly fucking over your subject
- He story about victims of rape in Kosovo during the Balkans conflict
- Being sent to Afghanistan for the first time by The Sunday Times…
- …And returning four years later to find the women and girls she had photographed there
- A close call on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad
- Motherhood, falling out of love with being a photographer, and the decision to quit photojournalism
- Becoming the Executive Director of the The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant
- The new Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence
- How The Incite Project came about and how she defines what it is
- The fundamental strangeness of having graphic and disturbing photojounalism framed on your walls
Referenced:
- Eugene Richards, Exploding Into Life
- Don McCullin
- Les Wilson
- Len Greener
- Josef Koudelka
- Cartier Bresson
- Robert Capa
- W. Eugene Smith
- Colorific
- Aidan Sullivan
- Tom Stoddart
- Michael Rand
- Jillian Edelstein
- Simon Norfolk
- Jenny Matthews
- Jeremy Clarkson
- AA Gill
- Mark Hix
- Tristran Lund
- Giles Duley, Legacy of War Foundation
- Laura Pannack
- Omar Ashtawey
- Trevor Paglen
- Richard Mosse
- Ed Burtynsky
- Luke Delahey
- Ed Clark
- Network Photographers
- Simon Roberts
- Matt Black
- Lorenzo Meloni
- Chris Donovan