Lee Shulman is a visual artist, filmmaker, and founder of The Anonymous Project, one of the most significant archives of vernacular color photography in existence. Since 2017, the project has amassed nearly one million Kodachrome slides from the 1940s to the early 2000s — intimate, everyday images that might have otherwise been lost to time. Through curation and transformation, Lee reanimates these personal photographs, weaving them into compelling narratives that explore memory, family, love, and cultural shifts across generations.

Lee’s career also extends into film direction, notably with his debut feature documentary, "I Am Martin Parr," released in 2025. This film chronicles a road trip with renowned photographer Martin Parr, revisiting iconic locations from his oeuvre. Shulman's prior collaboration with Parr on the "Déjà View" project, which paired Parr's distinctive photographs with images from The Anonymous Project, laid the groundwork for their working relationship. The documentary provides an affectionate portrayal of Parr's artistic process and enduring work ethic, further cementing Lee’s engagement with the broader discourse of photography.

Born in London in 1973, Lee lives and works in Paris. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and Rencontres d’Arles, and is held in major collections such as the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Photo Elysée in Lausanne.

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• Ed Sykes
• Ian Howarth
• Dina Litovsky
• Joseph Michael Lopez
• Mike Abrahams
• Ian Macdonald
• Katrin Koenning
• Tomasz Tomaszewski
• Mackenzie Calle
• Marc Wilson
• Paul Seawright
• Mohamed Bourouissa
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• Rankin
• Tony Docekal
• Eli Reed
• Merlin Daleman
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• Ed Kashi
• Rachel Elizabeth Seed

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Rachel Elizabeth Seed is a Brooklyn and Los Angeles-based nonfiction storyteller working in film, photography, and writing.

In 2025, she won the Truer Than Fiction Spirit Award for her debut feature film, A Photographic Memory, which is also a New York Times Critics Pick.

Rachel’s work has received support from the Sundance Institute, Chicken + Egg Films, the Jewish Film Institute, the California Film Institute, Jewish Story Partners, NYFA, Field of Vision, the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, the Maine Media Workshops, the Roy W. Dean grant, the National Arts Club, IFP, and many others.

Formerly a photo editor at New York Magazine, her photography has been exhibited worldwide, including at the International Center of Photography, and she was a cameraperson on several award-winning feature documentaries. Rachel’s writing has been published by No Film School, the Sundance Institute, and Talkhouse and she is Executive Director / Co-founder of the Brooklyn Documentary Club, a NYC-based filmmaker collective with 250+ members.

In episode 271, Rachel discusses, among other things:

• A summary of her mum’s character
• nature vs. nurture
• Her mum’s Images of Man interviews for ICP/Scholastic
• What inspired her to make a film
• How her own story became interwined with her mum’s
• Discovering a family archive of super 8 footage
• How she recreated the interviews using actors
• The importance of working with good editors
• The challenge of funding and financing
• Key advice for anyone wanting to make a personal documentary
• The fine balance between collaboration and having the courage of your convitions as director
• Writing for narration as opposed to for reading
• Sharing her personal stories as the film evolved over a ten year period - How to balance life and art
• ‘Selling the film’ and what that means in practice
• The Brooklyn Documentary Club
• Moving to L.A.
• Projects she has in development

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