As part of City Arts & Lectures, in 2025 Richard Misrach spoke with Steven Winn at the KQED studios in San Francisco. The focus of their conversation was Misrach’s ongoing series Cargo, which depicts the shipping industry in the San Francisco Bay, and his long career in photography. Among other topics, Misrach describes his first unsuccessful attempt at photographing the ships from the Bay Bridge in the early 1990s, and his renewed interest in the subject after the COVID-19 pandemic caused shipping traffic to stall, calling attention to a system that often seemed invisible.
Listen to the interview here.