American photographer Diana Matar on her brush with Manuel Noriega, photographing absence, her latest book My America, why she shot the work on an iPhone, whether photographs can bear the burden of history, how she has intermalised a European sense of America, and how an errand to buy a lightbulb...

Abdul Kircher on his early life “dragging bags of weed around the house”, paternal abuse, generational trauma, obsessiveness, self-flagellation and sometimes ‘truly hating photography’.