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Episodes: 108
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Female
Location: United Kingdom
Instagram: 30.0k followers
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Host
Gem Fletcher - Described as a “Photo Director” and the host of The Messy Truth. The show features her interviews unpacking contemporary photography with emerging and leading artists, curators, and critics.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Amelia Abraham - Queer Nightlife Photography/film Documentation; Pleasure, Politics, And Protest; Relationships To Nightlife Spaces; Her Latest Book.
Ahndraya Parlato - Gendered Aging; Beauty Ideals; Caretaking And Domestic Duty; Censorship; Text-image Collaboration; What Happens To A Project After Release; Her Latest Book.
Chieska Fortune Smith - Journey Into Photography; Collective Learning; Influence Of Street Photography And Vintage Found Imagery; Her Work And Industry Navigation.
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Episodes
Daniel Shea - On Seeing and Knowing
June 15, 2026
In this episode, Gem Fletcher talks to Daniel Shea about his latest book, Distribution which began with a simple question: how do you photograph a forest? In this roving conversation they explore the genesis of Distribution while discussing everything from the personal and often painful journey of artmaking to the future of photobooks and much more in between. What is interesting about Daniel's work is his simultaneous desire for order and complexity - essentially offering more rigorous...
Amelia Abraham - On Sex, Clubs and Dissent
June 07, 2026
In this episode, Gem Fletcher talks to Amelia Abraham about her latest book, Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife, where she crafts an expansive visual exploration of queer nightlife in all its many iterations. The book is a love letter to those who went out and stayed out, felt the urge to document or reflect what was happening, or who have used their artmaking to dream new modes of being into existence. The book also asks what our decades-long quest to catalogue and understand n...
Ahndraya Parlato - On the Inbetween
May 11, 2026
In this episode, Gem Fletcher talks to Ahndraya Parlato about her latest book, TIME TO KILL an interrogation of gendered aging, unpacking the ideals of beauty, caretaking, and maternal and domestic duty imposed on women over the course of their lives. In our roving conversation, we talk about selfhood, motherhood, sacrifice, visibility, censorship, the potency when you get text and image to work as you imagined and what happens to a project after its release. Ahndraya Parlato has a BA fr...
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