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The Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that shares raw, practical tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It’s for filmmakers, writers, and audio producers: anyone building stories from the ground up.

This week, Shadowgraph host Ross Domoney reflects on the rucksack as the centre of modern independent filmmaking. With lightweight cameras, compact audio gear, and a laptop, you can now travel anywhere, capture a story as it unfolds, and bring it home ready to cut.

It’s about the freedom to work without a crew, to move fast, and to stay...

Field Notes is a series from Shadowgraph: short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking.

In today’s episode, we reflect on the challenges of filming inside the Al Yarmouk camp for Palestinians in Damascus. Beyond the logistics, we discuss the ethical reminders we carried with us: how to remain sensitive while documenting people who have lived through immense instability.

We reflect on the difficulties we faced: from the practical realities of filming in the camp to the ethical care required when documenting people’s lives.

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What the Hell is a series from Shadowgraph: a space to reflect and make sense of the absurdity unfolding around us. We offer creative tools for those feeling the weight of a destabilised world.

In this episode — The Anti-Narrative Therapy — we talk about freeing yourself from the pressure of always having to find a story. We offer an exercise that is calming and restorative. 

As filmmakers, we're often taught to chase structure, characters and tension. But during lockdown, all of that fell away.

Stripped of production, deadlines, and outcomes, we re...

The Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that provides you with raw, real tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It’s for filmmakers, writers, audio producers: anyone trying to build stories from the ground up.

This week, Shadowgraph host Ross Domoney shares personal reflections on why we love video cameras.

More than just a tool, the camera becomes a companion: a black box that expands perception, sharpens attention, and opens doors into lives and places you might otherwise never enter.

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Conversations is a series from Shadowgraph where we speak with independent storytellers, artists, and thinkers exploring the creative process in a world on edge.

In this episode, we step away from the studio and onto the sea front. There, we speak to a passerby, imagining the ocean as Solaris, a living, thinking mirror reflecting the chaos of our times.

Through our conversation, we touch on the privileged nature of our lives in the West, and why independent media matters now more than ever.

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Field Notes is a series from Shadowgraph: short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking.

In today’s episode, we talk about the gap between expectation and reality on a filming trip. Specifically, what it’s like to plan for a story and then meet the reality of it, on the ground.

We reflect on our recent shoot in Damascus, Syria, where we filmed inside the Al Yarmouk camp for Palestinians: a geography shaped by conflict, memory, and resistance. This is the first of several episodes unpacking that trip, as we break down not...

What the Hell is a series from Shadowgraph: a space to reflect, and make sense of the absurdity unfolding around us. We offer creative tools for those of us feeling the weight of a destabilised world.

In this episode — The Crisis of the Inner World — we ask what happens to our inner lives when the outside world is on fire. How do we hold onto imagination, reflection, and meaning in the face of collapse?

We talk about how to turn helplessness into creative action. About how storytelling can connect us to the world and...

The Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that provides you with raw, real tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It’s for filmmakers, writers, audio producers: anyone trying to build stories from the ground up.

This week, we talk about the difference between objectivity and subjectivity in filmmaking and why embracing your point of view is a strength.

We delve into the philosophical tensions underlying "neutral" reporting and explore why subjectivity is deeply intertwined with empathy, ethics, and the heart of storytelling itself.

It’s not about bias, it’s about honest...

Conversations is a series from Shadowgraph: in-depth dialogues with independent storytellers.

In this episode, I’m joined by photographer and filmmaker Rod Morris. We talk about the intricacy of making slow, multi-layered analogue images and why the world needs this more than ever, in an age of image overload.

We explore photography as a form of memory, and how the process itself is a kind of time machine: a way of capturing and reworking the past in the present.

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Field Notes is a series from Shadowgraph: short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking.

In this episode, we talk about what it means to film with political groups you don’t ideologically agree with. We revisit a documentary shoot with the far right in the UK — a project that forced us to sit with discomfort, rather than escape it.

It’s one thing to fly across the world, film, and walk away. It’s another to stay home and look directly at what’s growing in your own backyard.

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What the Hell is a series from Shadowgraph: a space to reflect, and make sense of the absurdity unfolding around us. We offer creative tools for those of us feeling the weight of a destabilised world.

In this episode, we sink into the chaos: doomscrolling, disconnection, and digital overload. We speak openly about what it means to witness horror through a screen — and how to take action so we don’t feel helpless.

We explore the importance of an analogue existence and our relationship to nature.

Read deeply. Speak honestly. Talk face...

Storytelling Lab is a series from Shadowgraph that gives you raw, real tools for telling stories with minimal resources. It's for filmmakers, writers, audio producers—anyone trying to build stories from the ground up.

In chaotic moments, the instinct is to chase everything.
In this episode, we show you how to do the opposite.

The world’s on fire with noise, conflict, and disinformation. We need independent storytellers more than ever—people making sharp, empathetic, and intelligent work.

Start where you are. Use what you have.
Our aim is to hel...

We're bringing back the Shadowgraph podcast — a weekly audio dispatch from the world of documentary filmmaking, set against the chaos of a world on fire.

What to expect: 

Rotating formats (in no particular order).

1. Field Notes
Short audio diaries from the world of filmmaking. 
Real stories, failures in the field and personal reflections.

2. Headlines in Context
Breaking down, what the hell is going on in our World, told through the Shadowgraph lens. 

3. Audio Essays
N...

In this podcast, we give you some updates on what we have been working on and the direction Shadowgraph will take in the future. 

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In this episode, Ross Domoney from Shadowgraph talks about the funerals of the Palestinian fighters and civilians killed in an Israeli army raid on Nur Shams refugee camp. We also delve into decision-making while battling the fatigue that can hit hard at the end of a large filming project. This is the final episode of a six-part podcast series, 'Behind the Lens', which explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the politics of working in Palestine.  These honest insights into the creative challenges we faced are from our most recent trip, which took place in April 2024, when we were f...

In this episode, after getting put under siege in our West Bank hotel by the Israeli army, we finally enter Nur Shams refugee camp. In the aftermath of this raid, the occupation forces have left a vast trail of destruction. The residents of the camp search for signs of those missing. From a filmmaker's point of view, Ross Domoney from Shadowgraph talks critically about the dangers of getting addicted to adrenaline.  He also talks about the role of documentary as a tool for capturing memories and how you play those memories back to a community. This story is part o...

In this episode, we get caught up in the most destructive Israeli army raid in the West Bank in decades. We discuss the calculated risks filmmakers take in hostile environments, especially during dangerous events like army raids. After a week of unsuccessful attempts to access the Nur Shams refugee camp, we finally gained entry and captured some truly moving documentary material. However, while filming, the camp was abruptly invaded by the army, forever changing the lives of the people we met. This story is part of Shadowgraph’s new podcast series, which explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the...

This episode features practical filmmaking advice and highlights the necessity of patience and flexibility. After an extended delay, we are granted entry to a refugee camp in the West Bank, inhabited by numerous armed Palestinian factions. Shadowgraph’s new podcast series explores the nuances of filmmaking, blending in political context along the journey.

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In this episode, we discuss how tricky it is to gain access and film in a hostile environment in the West Bank of Palestine when you do not have any connections to the area you want to work in. This story is part of Shadowgraph’s new podcast series that explores the complexities of filmmaking interwoven with the politics along the way. 

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In this new podcast series, Shadowgraph explores the intricacies of the filmmaking process, with some politics fed in along the way. These episodes are from our recent trip to Palestine, where we filmed a documentary about memory as a form of resistance. In part one, we talk about the build-up to working in a new political landscape, the complications of filming, and the painful feeling of losing access to a story.  

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We talk with photographer Rod Morris about black-and-white analogue photography as a tool for capturing memory and reading life through light. 

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Catch up with the latest news about what we have been up to. Tomorrow, we will launch a crowdfund for our new film from Palestine, which offers a unique angle on the struggle to keep the memory alive. We are also launching an online shop that will offer political posters and street photography from around the world. 

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In this episode, we get a rare insight into the state of Israel through the eyes of an anti-Zionist activist living in Haifa. Tom, who is Jewish, admits that because he has Israeli citizenship, he holds the status of a settler. He rejects this identity, including calling himself Israeli. Amongst a sea of nationalism that has gone into overdrive since October 7th, Tom and his small group of politically minded friends feel increasingly isolated. 

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Residents of the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank of Palestine recently suffered the most destructive Israeli army raid since the second Intifada. In this episode, we speak to Waleed Samer, who is from the camp and was separated from his family. This podcast is an audio preview of a video report that was co-produced by Shadowgraph and the Real News Network. 
Click here to view the film. 

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We speak to Abed, a Palestinian English teacher living in the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank. This camp was established by Palestinians who were made refugees in their own land after the 1948 Nakba, which means 'catastrophe' in Arabic. On that year, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced from their homes and ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias to create the settler colonial state of Israel. Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, the Israeli army has intensified its raids on the West Bank, and the camp's residents, such as Abed, have stories to tell of mass arrests...

We speak to the national director of Veterans for Peace in the US about a crisis of conscience among veterans and serving soldiers. This crisis came to a climax when Aaron Bushnell, a serving American soldier, recently self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in DC in an extreme act of protest against the genocidal war in Gaza.  

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As storytellers, to gain access to complex social landscapes we must embrace the politics of patience.  In this episode, Shadowgraph gives some behind-the-scenes feelings to this process. 

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Rage hits the streets of an Athenian suburb after a woman is killed by her ex-partner just meters away from the entrance of a police station, where she sought help.  In this podcast, Shadowgraph speaks to demonstrators who have gathered to remember Kyriaki Griva as they vent their anger at the police who left this woman to die. This is the fifth femicide in Greece in 2024. 

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A massive scandal has rocked Greece involving the disturbing pimping, sexual assault and trafficking of a 12-year-old Athenian girl from a working-class neighbourhood called Kolonos. It is even alleged that members of the political high class, as well as cops, were involved in the injustices inflicted on this girl. In a cruel twist, the girl's mother was even sent to prison. We were on the ground outside the court, as it ruled the mother could walk free, in a rare moment of hope for the feminist movement in Greece. 

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As the climate crisis spirals out of control, we speak to Dr Patrick Hart about what has led him to take part in acts of sabotage and the medical tribunals he faces at work for his actions. This podcast is an existential conversation about the direction humanity is heading through the medical lens of a doctor. 

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Here is an update on what is coming next for Shadowgraph as our small independent media project gets ready to launch its video platform. 

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We speak to legendary photographer 'The Teacher Dude' about a harrowing attack by a mob of up to 300 teenage boys on an LGBTQ couple in Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki. 

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This is an audio preview of Shadowgraph's first video series, 'Dream Trains,' which will be released online soon. We filmed this episode in Ukraine at the outbreak of the war on the country's train systems as people were fleeing or returning home to fight. We asked commuters a straightforward question: "What do you dream about in your sleep?" Through the delicate and sometimes explicit language of dreams, we get an insight into the war that hasn't been seen before. 

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Outside a court in London, journalists stand in solidarity with their colleague Julian Assange, who is being threatened with extradition to the US for exposing the war crimes of an empire. Is this reality a dystopian Sci-fi? 

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We enter the soundscape of video journalist Jason Parkinson's camera as he tells us some stories along the way, touching on themes of trauma and world politics. 

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A future lockdown forces a coastal town's residents away from their beloved sea. 

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Delve into the thoughts of trauma and time with insights from poet and photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind, who has worked in Ukraine for ten years. 

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On a warming planet, a series of thoughts leads to a general strike in England in 2035. 

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As the seemingly never-ending horrors of the genocide happening in Gaza reach us daily via our smartphones... we take a walk and try to understand the shadows of others.  

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'Dreams of political utopias' is the first episode of season one of the Shadowgraph weekly podcast. 
 
A calming journey into collective dreamscapes where people seek refuge amidst the tumultuous waves of global political chaos. 

In this pilot episode, journalist and filmmaker Ross Domoney speaks to people in England as the news of the world becomes increasingly overwhelming. 

At the heart of this episode lies a pivotal question: What does a political utopia mean to you?

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