The MOOD Podcast
The MOOD Podcast
Matt Jacob
The Inner Voice That Stops You Taking the Photo And Lies to Every Photographer, with Rory King - E122
1 hour 20 minutes Posted Jul 2, 2026 at 1:00 pm.
How Photography Found Rory
Loneliness, Community And The Camera
Rory's Language Of Photography
Mental Health And The Camera As A Lifeline
Gumsucker, As An Archive Of Life
Working With Publishers
Chico Review And The Real Value
Finding Your Tribe
Gatekeeping, Ego And Social Media Pull
Audience Questions On Purpose And Voice
Take The Photo And Let Time Work
The Importance Of Momentum
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If you have ever felt technically capable but creatively lost, this conversation shows you how one photographer turned a decade of pictures, and the hardest years of his life, into a body of work that is unmistakably his own. In this episode I sit down with Rory King, an Australian photographer who works in black and white, prints by hand in the darkroom, and turned 10 years of images into his photobook 'Gumsucker', published by Charcoal Press after he won the 2023 Charcoal Publishing Prize a...