You know the funny thing about photos, sometimes you just take them and you never see where the end up. However, I’m starting a mission - I’m going to try and track down everywhere my photos that I’ve taken for clients wind up.

The real question is why I would spend my time doing such a task? Well, let’s break it down:

I have conversations with my clients during our sessions, about how they feel and how they want to be represented. So why not explore and see where the finals from our sessions trying to capture their most authentic self end up?

In this weeks’ find, I have found my partner in crime and co-founder of Firegrove Studio Mailyne K. Briggs out in the wild! The photograph used for this podcast (which will we get to, just let me talk about myself for a second), was done when I did a short (but on - going, post - pandemic) series titled The Future is…. ,where I interviewed various folks about how they were involved in the Ottawa Arts community. We discussed at length barriers that they faced, and most importantly, wha they would need to see for the Ottawa Arts Community to thrive in the future. You can check out the full interview that I did with Mailyne (Kilam Media) right here, in this post!

But anyway, enough about me. Let’s get into where specifically I found these images. It looks like Mailyne used one of the images from this conversational session as a promotional photo for the podcast - “The Small Machine Talks”. This podcast is described as:

“The Small Machine Talks is a monthly conversation that explores the poetry scene of Central Canada and beyond. Its hosts are Ottawa poets, Amanda Earl and A.M. Kozak. The podcast features interviews with poets, publishers, and literary event organizers, discussions of recent and upcoming poetry events, calls for submission, talks on poetics, recent issues of online and print journals, books and chapbooks and sometime in the future, topics of interest to writers and readers of poetry. The podcast is part of AngelHousePress, a Canadian micro press that publishes raw talent, ragged edges and rebels in the form of chapbooks, two online magazines, a transgressive prose imprint, DevilHouse, and an essay series.”

In this particular episode, Mailyne and Shery Alexander Heinis, discuss their backgrounds and the launch of In Our Tounges Reading and Art Series - which is dedicated to showcasing Black, Indigenous and People of Colour poets, writers and musicians in Ottawa. (this podcast recorded way back in 2019!). Check out Mailyne and Shery on the The Small Machine Talks Podcast (below) ! If you want to learn more about In Our Tounges, or want to get involved with them - check them out here.