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Focal Point is a podcast exploring the artists, themes, and processes that define—and sometimes disrupt—the world of contemporary photography. Each episode engages two people in conversation around a photograph of their choice from the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection. Join us as we explore contemporary photography in Chicago and beyond, through topics like the constructed image, portraiture and the human subject, the photographic archive, and more.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFocal Point is a podcast exploring the artists, themes, and processes that define, and sometimes disrupt, the world of contemporary photography. Each episode engages two people in conversation around a photograph of their choice from the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection.
Recent episodes include "Episode 23: Jen Everett" (15 June 2026), "What Does It Mean to Look at These Photographs?" (29 October 2025, 53 minutes), and "The Living Archive" (22 September 2025, 53 minutes).
Focal Point publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 26 episodes.
Booking probability for Focal Point is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Focal Point requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Focal Point's contact route on record: verified email.
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Focal Point is an arts podcast with 26 episodes published.
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Episode #23
In this episode, MoCP Community Engagement Fellow Alayna N. Pernell is in conversation with artist and educator, Jen Everett. The two discuss Everett’s interdisciplinary practice spanning lens-based and time-based...
<p >On May 29, 2025, MoCP presented a series of conversations exploring authorship, representation, and the dissemination of information as they relate to the past, present, and future of photography. This special...
Episode #3
<p >On May 29, 2025, MoCP presented a series of conversations that explored topics of authorship, representation, and the dissemination of information as they relate to the past, present, and future of...
Episode #2
<p >On May 29, 2025, MoCP presented a series of conversations that explored topics of authorship, representation, and the dissemination of information as they relate to the past, present, and future of...
Episode #1
<p >On May 29, 2025, MoCP presented a series of conversations that explored topics of authorship, representation, and the dissemination of information as they relate to the past, present, and future of...
Episode #22
<p >In this episode, MoCP Executive Director, Natasha Egan, sits down with artist Christina Fernandez. The two discuss Christina’s decades-long career in pushing the boundaries of photography, blending her personal...
Episode #21
<p>In this episode, artists Meghann Riepenhoff and Penelope Umbrico chat with MoCP curator, Kristin Taylor. The two artists discuss their backgrounds and shared interests in experimenting and pushing the indexical...
Episode #20
<p>This episode features Jay Wolke and Eli Giclas in conversation with MoCP Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor. Jay and Eli discuss their photographic approaches to depict the built environment...
Episode #19
<p >In this episode, MoCP Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Kristin Taylor, chats with Susan Meiselas and Wendy Ewald about their new publication titled Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography...
Episode #18
<p >This episode of Focal Point features two exhibiting artists from LOVE: Still Not the Lesser (on view August 17 - December 23, 2023) in conversation with Asha Iman Veal, MoCP Associate Curator. Jorian Charlton (b...
Episode #17
<p >In this episode, MoCP Executive Director Natasha Egan leads a discussion with Chicago-based artists and educators Bob Thall and Cecil McDonald, Jr.</p><p >Thall was an educator at Columbia College Chicago from...
Episode #16
<p >This episode of Focal Point features two exhibiting artists from LOVE: Still Not the Lesser (on view August 17 - December 23, 2023) in conversation with Asha Iman Veal, MoCP Associate Curator. Tom Merilion (England...
Episode #15
<p >In this episode, Shannon Bool (Berlin) and Tarrah Krajnak (Eugene, OR and Los Angeles, CA) are in conversation with Kristin Taylor, MoCP’s Curator of Academic Programs and Collections. The artists discuss topics...
Episode #14
<p >In this episode, Abelardo Morell is in conversation with MoCP chief curator and deputy director, Karen Irvine. The two discuss Abe’s many decades experimenting with photography and the camera obscura, painting...
Episode #13
<p >This episode features a special live edition of Focal Point hosted by Asha Iman Veal, Associate Curator at the MoCP. She meets with author and photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani and photographer and artist Jason Reblando...
Episode #12
<p >In this episode, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist John H. White (Chicago) is in conversation with Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship winner and Afropean author Johny Pitts (London). The two discuss love of...
Episode #11
<p >Steph Foster and Steven Tourlentes discuss their projects in photography and film that shed light on some of the many stories and systems surrounding mass incarceration in the United States that are largely...
Episode #10
<p >In this episode, MoCP Curatorial Fellow, Asha Iman Veal, is in conversation with artist Işıl Eğrikavuk and artist duo Cognate Collective (Amy Sanchez-Arteaga and Misael Diaz). Together they discuss their thoughts on...
Episode #9
<p >MoCP Curator, Kristin Taylor, is in conversation with artists Laia Abril and Elinor Carucci. They discuss depictions of the female body and their works in the MoCP exhibition, Reproductive: Health, Fertility...
Episode #8
<p >In this episode, MoCP Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Karen Irvine, sits down with artists Jess T. Dugan and Rafael Soldi of the Strange Fire Collective to discuss the founding of Strange Fire and its mission to...
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