The MOOD Podcast
The MOOD Podcast
Matt Jacob
Why Your Photos Are Boring - Photographer David Chancellor Explains..., E128
1 hour 18 minutes Posted Aug 13, 2026 at 11:00 am.
David's Photography, Ethics and Responsibility
Social Media And The Loss Of Depth
Getting Fired And Choosing Photography
Ruthless Focus And Craft Intuition
Photography As Diary And Inquiry
Trophy Hunting And Conservation Reality
Impact, Backlash, And System Gaming
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On this episode, I sat down with David Chancellor, the award-winning documentary photographer behind ‘Hunters’, ‘Handle Like Eggs’, and the Taylor Wessing Prize-winning portrait ‘Huntress with Buck’, for a conversation about the moral grey areas of documentary photography, trophy hunting, wildlife conservation. David has spent decades photographing human-wildlife coexistence across Africa, sleeping beside trophy hunters for weeks at a time, documenting leopard hunting in Namibia that was late...