The Trawl Meets Misan Harriman
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Jemma and Marina first 'met' Misan on Instagram having been struck by his incredibly powerful photographs of people protesting against what they were witnessing in Palestine.
Misan is a Nigerian-born British photographer, entrepreneur and social activist. As well as being one of the most widely-shared photographers of the Black Lives Matter movement, Harriman is also the first Black man to shoot a cover of British Vogue in the magazine's 104-year history.
Eloquent, passionate and kind, talking to Misan about his work and his thoughts on what is happening in the world was a wonderful experience for Marina and Jemma who are convinced you'll love hearing what he has to say too. An uplifting, hopeful listen. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience. |
| 0:04.0 | And I believe that may I live long, but if fate isn't so kind for me, |
| 0:11.0 | my two girls will know who their father was and the art will live on. |
| 0:15.0 | You know, I've got to do this work. Hello and welcome to The Trawle Meets. I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:31.3 | And I'm Gemma Forte and on the Trawle meets, Marina and I get to chat with someone we admire |
| 0:37.1 | and find interesting. |
| 0:38.9 | We discuss political topics they're passionate about and determine how much they may or may not be despairing given the political climate. |
| 0:46.1 | And today, the Trawl meets someone who's a photographer, a social activist and an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. |
| 0:53.0 | He is also the first black person in the 104-year history of British Vogue |
| 0:58.7 | to shoot the cover of its September issue. |
| 1:01.7 | Over the years, he's photographed huge stars, |
| 1:04.6 | people like Rihanna and Tom Cruise and Stormsy and Megan Markle, to name but a few. |
| 1:09.7 | And yet arguably, some of his most powerful |
| 1:12.8 | works are his pictures of completely ordinary folk protesting all over the world. And in June |
| 1:19.6 | 2020, after George Floyd was killed, our guest grabbed his camera and went to shoot some of the |
| 1:25.5 | protests taking place. This was, of course, the height of the Black Lives Matter protests. |
| 1:30.5 | And he took a photograph of an activist called Darcy Bourne who was holding a sign that read, |
| 1:35.8 | Why is ending racism a debate? |
| 1:39.0 | The picture went massively viral. |
| 1:42.4 | And the rest, as they say, is history. |
| 1:44.4 | Welcome to the troll, Miss Anne Harryman. |
| 1:47.5 | Hello, hello, hello. |
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