The Messy Truth - Conversations on Photography

Gem Fletcher

Booking Overview

An interview podcast focused on contemporary photography, featuring candid conversations with emerging and established artists, curators, critics, and writers. PR agencies could credibly pitch photographers, visual artists, photography curators, critics, and authors with notable books, exhibitions, or curatorial projects; booking difficulty is medium because the show is highly specialized and editorially curated.

Metrics

Episodes: 109

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: United Kingdom

Instagram: 30.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Gem Fletcher - Gem Fletcher is a photo director who explores contemporary photography and its connections to culture, artistic practice, and society.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Contemporary photographers, visual artists, curators, critics, journalists, and authors with a substantial body of work or expertise in photography and visual culture.
Required Achievements:  
Published photography or art books, Solo or group exhibitions at recognized galleries, museums, or festivals, Curatorial projects or institutional affiliations, Bylines in established arts and culture publications

Recent Guest Discussions

Naima Green - Her Exhibition Instead, I Spin Fantasies; Pregnancy And Parenthood; Constructed Self-portraiture; Intimacy, Place, Archival Research, And Collaborative Photographic Practice.

Daniel Shea - His Book Distribution; Photographing Forests; The Artistic Process; Visual Complexity; And The Future Of Photobooks.

Amelia Abraham - Queer Nightlife; Photography And Film; Visual Documentation; Pleasure, Politics, Protest, And Lgbtq+ Culture.

Recent Topics

Photography, Contemporary Art, Photobooks, Visual Culture, Art Criticism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Messy Truth - Conversations on Photography
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Naima Green - On Practice

July 17, 2026

In this episode, Gem Fletcher talks to Naima Green about her exhibition, ‘Instead, I spin fantasies’ presented at ICP in New York in 2025/26. The show, which was curated by Elisabeth Sherman, grapples with the concept of pregnancy and parenthood through constructed self-portraits, landscapes and still-lifes—blurring the line between documentary, performance, construction and vernacular modes. Throughout the work. Green probes the conventional expectations and representational tropes of mother...

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...

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