The MOOD Podcast
The MOOD Podcast
Matt Jacob
Odette England Answers Every Photographer's Worst Fear, E126
1 hour 38 minutes Posted Jul 30, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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Odette England makes her photographs and then damages them, and this conversation is about why that is the most honest thing she has ever done with her voice. Odette is an Australian artist, writer and photography professor at Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University, whose latest book Isn't X Beautiful is an autobiographical reckoning with family, memory and the limits of what a photograph can hold. We talk about growing up on a 200 acre dairy farm in rural South Australia wh...