Jack Moyse: On understanding disability

In this episode we talk with Jack Moyse about understanding disability. Jack describes the therapeutic benefits that he has found through photographic self-portraiture and the ways that he has integrated performance art into his practice. He discusses ableism, both within the photography industry and in wider society, and articulates the impacts that he hopes to have through his work.

What does photography ethics mean to Jack? 

“For me it’s something that is gotten to the point now, where it’s like, it’s just mandatory, to consider the ethics behind the types of images that you’re making, to consider the ethical effect that might be had on your subject, to consider what might happen to these subjects after the camera is no longer pointed at them. … it’s so valuable and should be engrained at every level of the image making process.” (44:45)

Links:

Francis Alÿs

What it’s like (being me)

Dr Kim Charnley

Susan Sontag

Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

Looking for Alice by Sian Davies

The Other: On class in the industry (with Jo Coates)