Weegee
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Sep 17, 2026
Paul WiegeHOST
It's now 8.38. We are back.
Paul WiegeHOST
Paul, Weegee, and Sarah still in the
SaharaHOST
morning.
SaharaHOST
Mm-hmm.
Brian Lloyd DuckettHOST
Character building and all that.
Brian Lloyd DuckettHOST
Are you a flasher? And if not, should you be? Street photography has quite a long history of people using flash, from the early Ouija to the modern-day Doogie Wallace or Bruce Gilden.
Brian Lloyd DuckettHOST
And it's one of those street photography hot potatoes that polarises opinion.
Brian Lloyd DuckettHOST
And it works for some people, but others wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
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Brian Lloyd DuckettHOST
So don't give up.
Brian Lloyd DuckettHOST
Finally, if you need some inspiration, there are a few photographers we can have a look at who are pretty good at this.
Brian Lloyd DuckettHOST
Going back in time, there's Ouija, whose shots of crime scenes in New York were unbelievable.
Brian Lloyd DuckettHOST
There's Bruce Davidson, particularly his subway project.
Richard SharumGUEST
Um, but you know, I, I mention that in the i- in the introduction because I have to be very careful.
Richard SharumGUEST
Instead of me just becoming another Weegee and photographing a bunch of dead bodies on the street with detectives, um, I knew that it was very easy to s- kind of s- it's a slippery slope, and I could go very easily into that.
Richard SharumGUEST
And I, and if I was, if I was, uh, unethical, I feel I would've milked that.
Richard SharumGUEST
But if you look at the project and you look at the book, I'm actually looking at homicide as a societal phenomenon.
Ben SmithHOST
Um, talk about how you approached it then, because, I mean, it was, it was interesting the way that you combined different elements.
Ben SmithHOST
A lot of the photography is, uh, your time with the cops.
Ben SmithHOST
Um, and, uh, and, you know, is r- is reminiscent of Eugene Richards and, uh, maybe even a bit of Weegee and all those people, 'cause you are in that tradition, you know, and I, and I think you're proudly, you know, uh, i- carrying on that tradition in a sense.
Ben SmithHOST
But, um, w- first of all, of course, you've got to get the access.
Richard SandlerGUEST
And he was doing what, uh, you know, he, he learned from other people.
Richard SandlerGUEST
Sid was, was Weegee's assistant.
Richard SandlerGUEST
Sid was, Sid, w- what, Sid's, one of Sid's first jobs in life was, was Weegee, Arthur Fellig's ex- his, his, his assistant.
Richard SandlerGUEST
And when Weegee died, Sid was the first person that he had the key to Weegee's dark room.
Richard SandlerGUEST
And, and Sid saved Weegee's archive.
Tim BinghamHOST
Geez.
Richard SandlerGUEST
And, and, and, and, and made sure that it went to Cornell Capa, who started ICP.
Alex ChoiGUEST
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Brian ScottoHOST
So, um, when we were talking about this before, it's like, it's kind of like a modern day, like, Weegee or, like, you know who that is, the photographer from New York.
Alex ChoiGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Brian ScottoHOST
He would photog- he would photograph crime scenes.