The MOOD Podcast

Matt Jacob

Booking Overview

Long-form interview series focused on photography, artistic practice, creativity, identity, and the inner lives of artists, featuring established photographers, artists, curators, and creative academics. PR agencies could credibly pitch accomplished visual artists, documentary photographers, museum professionals, photography educators, filmmakers, and authors with substantive practices, publications, exhibitions, or thoughtful perspectives on the ethics and purpose of creative work; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 161

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 76.5k subscribers

Instagram: 110.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Matt Jacob - Creator and host of a long-form conversation series about photography, artistic practice, creativity, and the inner life of artists.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Established photographers, visual artists, filmmakers, curators, educators, or creative thinkers with a significant body of work and a distinctive perspective on artistic practice, ethics, identity, or the role of images.

Required Achievements:

Published books or major bodies of work, Museum or gallery exhibitions and collections, University or institutional appointments, Awards or significant professional recognition

Recent Guest Discussions

Shana Lopes - Museum Photography Collections, Curatorial Decision-making, Exhibitions, Photobooks, Artist Statements, Portfolio Reviews, And Emerging Photographers.

David Chancellor - Documentary Photography Ethics, Wildlife Conservation, Trophy Hunting, Long-term Access And Trust, Photographic Responsibility, And The Economics Of Conservation.

Odette England - Photography, Family Memory, Damaged Photographs, Beauty, Writing, Artistic Doubt, Critique, And The Limits Of Photographic Representation.

Recent Topics

Photography, Art, Documentary, Mental Health

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The MOOD Podcast

Your Worst Thoughts Arrive Dressed as Your Best Ideas - Moments of Mood, 4.1

September 17, 2026

In this week’s Moments of Mood episode, you’ll learn why I believe meditation is the most direct route to a photographic voice that is unmistakably yours, and exactly what it does to your attention, your creativity and the way you see.I make the full case for meditation as a photography practice. I share my own history with depression, anxiety, loneliness and cancer, the years of therapies and frameworks that never stuck, and how Sam Harris's Waking Up finally gave me a tool I could use ...

Richard Sharum On 600 Deaths And His New Book 'American Homicide', E132

September 10, 2026

In this week’s podcast episode you'll learn why the photographs you're most proud of are probably the ones hiding you, and what a documentary photographer who has stood at 600 deaths says it actually costs to make work that changes something.I sat down with Richard Sharum, the American documentary photographer behind Campesino Cuba, Spina Americana and the forthcoming American Homicide, all published by GOST Books, to talk about photography as an act of empathy, why he believes the ...

Work Does Not Speak For Itself - Moments of Mood, 4.0

September 03, 2026

In this week’s Moments of Mood episode, you'll learn the 4 questions curators, juries, and publishers silently ask about every photography project, and how to answer them in 100 words so your work actually gets seen.I take apart the idea that photography speaks for itself, starting with the Vivian Maier story everyone gets backwards, and share what Shana Lopes, photography curator at SFMOMA, told me she actually needs to hear from an artist: why she has to defend every acquisition in fro...

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