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Episode 39. Exploring our creativity through photography with Jahan Saber

The Creativity for All Podcast

Release Date: 04/11/2022

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The Creativity for All Podcast

Season 3 of The Creativity for All Podcast has concluded with a fabulous conversation with inventor , and this feels like the right time for me to put an end to this fabulous - but - adventure, in order to focus on my . I've loved meeting such a wide range of guests and exploring creativity in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , to name but a few of the topics discussed in the course of three seasons. And I've loved wrestling with topics, such as, (a very popular episode, interestingly), , , , , and , as well as discovering in my solo episodes. Never say never! I might be back later on with a...

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Episode 48. Exploring product design with Solveiga Pakštaite show art Episode 48. Exploring product design with Solveiga Pakštaite

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The moment I came across an article about Solveiga Pakštaite, the inventor of a temperature-sensitive food label that shows when products really spoil to fight food waste and improve food safety, I knew I had to get in touch.   Solveiga is also an entrepreneur with an industrial design background. She is the founder & director of Mimica and was named MIT Technology Review's Inventor of the Year. She also holds an honorary lectureship at UCL and consults on innovation projects for leading consumer and technology companies.   In this episode, she shares her take on...

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Episode 47. Exploring the magic of weaving with Rosie-may Greenbank show art Episode 47. Exploring the magic of weaving with Rosie-may Greenbank

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In September 2022, a stall at the Ely market caught my attention, not just because every woven piece was beautiful, but because I saw at the far end of the table a small weaving loom, which made me think, quite rightly, that the creator of these lovely pieces was worth having a chat with. Rosie-may Greenbank is a traditional hand-weaver, cloth designer, maker, photographer, and web designer. Working with heritage skills to create artisan cloth, she uses traditional wooden looms, very much in the same way weavers have for hundreds of years. During the first lockdown she set up her business Mays...

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Sculpture, and especially willow sculpture, has always fascinated me, so when I came across Emma Stothard's website, I knew I had to get in touch. Emma is a Yorkshire-based willow and wire sculptor. Inspired by the creatures of the North York Moors, where she lives, she creates sculptures of wild/domestic animals and birds. After receiving a BA Honours in Fine Art from Southampton Solent University, she briefly moved to the Somerset Levels to learn the process of growing, coppicing, bundling, and weaving willow. In 2001, thanks to a loan from The Prince's Trust, Emma started her sculpting...

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Episode 45. Challenging our beliefs creatively with Voula Tsoflias show art Episode 45. Challenging our beliefs creatively with Voula Tsoflias

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ABOUT THE CREATIVITY FOR ALL PODCAST A can be creative. So can a , a , and a . Not to mention a , a , or an ! Creativity is everywhere and I love nothing more than to explore it in , either by focusing on a theme – such as perfectionism, feeding your creative brain, or the pressure to be creative – in my solo episodes, or through my conversations with all manner of creative people. I want to challenge the perception of creativity and, in the process, debunk many myths attached to it: it's painful, for artists and the chosen few, etc. My guests and I are keen to zoom in and dissect the...

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Episode 42. Another creative exercise show art Episode 42. Another creative exercise

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Grab a pen and paper and join me for another short creative exercise – a follow-up to the ever so popular episode 34 – designed to get you thinking about your own take on, and relationship with, creativity. Ready? ABOUT THE CREATIVITY FOR ALL PODCAST A can be creative. So can a , a , and a . Not to mention a , a , or an ! Creativity is everywhere and I love nothing more than to explore it in , either by focusing on a theme – such as perfectionism, feeding your creative brain, or the pressure to be creative – in my solo episodes, or through my conversations with all manner of creative...

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Episode 41. Exploring our humanity with Ronni Abergel show art Episode 41. Exploring our humanity with Ronni Abergel

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Ever since launching the podcast, I’ve wanted to invite a photographer and more specifically, someone who masters both digital and film/analogue photography. Two months ago, I came across Jahan Saber’s film photography course on Skillshare and, by the end of the first module, I knew I had to get in touch.

Jahan was born in Vienna. His photographic journey began at a young age and was rekindled in his mid-twenties. Leaving a career in commercial photography, he returned to the roots of the analogue process, working mainly from his home darkroom. Jahan is currently enrolled at the University of Applied Arts of Vienna and is the founder of the DEVELOP label, which focuses on analogue processes and how their practice is essential to living a more mindful life, one of the many topics raised in today’s conversation.

Jahan shares his multifaceted take on creativity, his approach to photography, focusing on the intent behind taking a picture, whether on film or with a digital camera. He explains the difference between the two mediums, but also how they complement each other.

To him, photography is about reacting to the world, not just capturing a moment in time. He describes the physical process of developing a negative and making prints, which he relishes, and working on the grain of the picture, which he loves. How developing a picture gives him a second chance, not only at capturing the light, but in reliving the moment when he took it, with the potential element of surprise when discovering the final image, but also what the whole process feels like.

We discuss the value of constraints, technical or otherwise, taking portraits, the intuitive feel that film photography allows, despite not being a natural process at all, and how photography is never just about the image alone. By the end of this conversation, you won’t be looking at a picture in quite the same way. And, who knows, you might start exploring your own creativity through photography? In any case, I hope you enjoy this episode.

Jahan's Instagram

The DEVELOP Label

Jahan's Skillshare classes (one-month free trial membership included)

Jahan's YouTube channel

The AllFormat Collective

The portrait of the migrant mother with the thumb mentioned by Jahan

The retouched version of that portrait

ABOUT THE CREATIVITY FOR ALL PODCAST

A maths teacher can be creative. So can a financial adviser, a community builder, and a yoga teacher. Not to mention a speed painter, a potter, or an actor!

Creativity is everywhere and I love nothing more than to explore it in The Creativity for All Podcast, either by focusing on a theme – such as perfectionism, feeding your creative brain, or the pressure to be creative – in my solo episodes, or through my conversations with all manner of creative people.

I want to challenge the perception of creativity and, in the process, debunk many myths attached to it: it's painful, for artists and the chosen few, etc.

My guests and I are keen to zoom in and dissect the origin of an idea, the impulse that makes us engage with our own creativity, with the hope that it will inspire listeners to get creative too.

My podcast is designed for anyone who’s already being creative, or is tempted to use their creativity, in particular those of you who think they are not creative or can never be. I would love to change your mind!