Oli Kellett's guest appearances

Oli Kellett

Process Driven

Jeffery Saddoris: Everything

Jeffery Saddoris - Almost Everything

David DuChemin

Sean Tucker

John Keatley

Kevin Mullins

Karl Taylor

Jon Wilkening

Nick Brandt

Ben Horne

Gregory Crewdson

Marc Wilson

Brooke Shaden

Jack Lowe

Ben Thomas

Lisa Pressman

Maria Lax

OwlTail

One of the biggest struggles as a maker, regardless of what it is that you’re making, can be finding meaning in what you make. Whether you’re a painter, or a sculptor, or a writer, or a photographer, finding meaning in a particular project is often one of the obstacles that prevents us from starting, or can be one of the challenges to overcome in order to finish. As someone who spends a great deal of time talking to creative people, I often hear about projects at the poles, either early in the planning stages, or after the work has been completed, but rarely in the middle — which can be a challenge to talk about because there are often themes and ideas that haven’t quite come together yet. Oli Kellett is a street photographer from the UK who’s 18 months into a multi year project that brings him to America several times a year to photograph cities and the people who inhabit them. At its core, the project is about crossroads, but as you’ll hear in this conversation, Oli is still wrestling with the literal representation — those few moments before the light has changed that leave us alone with our thoughts — to the symbolism and myth of the crossroads that draws a line from the ancient Greeks to a young guitar player from Mississippi who made a deal with the devil just outside Memphis.  Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Overcast | RSS CONNECT URL: https://www.olikellett.com Instagram: @Oli_Kellett PDN Photo Annual Music in this episode: Please Listen Carefully (Jahzzar) / CC BY-SA 4.0

One of the biggest struggles as a maker, regardless of what it is that you’re making, can be finding meaning in what you make. Whether you’re a painter, or a sculptor, or a writer, or a photographer, finding meaning in a particular project is often one of the obstacles that prevents us from starting, or can be one of the challenges to overcome in order to finish. As someone who spends a great deal of time talking to creative people, I often hear about projects at the poles, either early in the planning stages, or after the work has been completed, but rarely in the middle — which can be a challenge to talk about because there are often themes and ideas that haven’t quite come together yet. Oli Kellett is a street photographer from the UK who’s 18 months into a multi year project that brings him to America several times a year to photograph cities and the people who inhabit them. At its core, the project is about crossroads, but as you’ll hear in this conversation, Oli is still wrestling with the literal representation — those few moments before the light has changed that leave us alone with our thoughts — to the symbolism and myth of the crossroads that draws a line from the ancient Greeks to a young guitar player from Mississippi who made a deal with the devil just outside Memphis. Subscribe: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/process-driven/id892598139?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a> | <a href="http://pca.st/pWZR" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Pocket Casts</a> | <a href="https://overcast.fm/itunes892598139/process-driven" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Overcast</a> | <a href="https://pcr.apple.com/id892598139" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a> <h4>CONNECT</h4> URL: <a href="https://www.olikellett.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.olikellett.com</a> Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/oli_kellett/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@Oli_Kellett</a> <a href="http://www.shutterloveonline.com/contest_galleries/photoannual/2018/Gallery.php?ShowCase=107#107-Oli_Kellett" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">PDN Photo Annual</a> Music in this episode: Please Listen Carefully (<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jahzzar</a>) / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>

Process Driven 17: Oli Kellett