Left on Read: Rethinking the Art of the Interview
Finbarre Snarey
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Regular (more than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional speaker / journalist and researcher
- Fee:
- Paid: From £75, plus agreed travel expenses where applicable. Online talks by arrangement.
- Category:
- Media
- Updated:
- 12th August 2026
- Tagged:
- Journalism | Interview | Digital Media
Interviews are built around immediacy - a question is asked and the interviewee is expected to answer straight away.
What changes when that pressure disappears?
Arts and culture journalist Finbarre Snarey developed a form of live interview conducted entirely through ordinary messaging apps. Instead of cameras or a studio, interviewer and guest spend an hour communicating in writing.
Drawing on his experience of conducting messenger-based interviews with writers, musicians and other cultural figures, Finbarre explores what text can offer that audio and video cannot - silence, reflection, editing, digression and a different balance of control between interviewer and interviewee.
The talk examines interviewing as a creative form in its own right and asks whether the technologies we use every day might allow for slower and sometimes more revealing conversations.
Views: 16 | Enquiries: 0About Finbarre Snarey
Finbarre Snarey is an arts and culture journalist, producer and tarot researcher based in Nottinghamshire. He is the founder of the British Tarot Archive and creator of Tarot Interviews, an interview project that uses tarot cards and chance to create unusual conversations with writers, musicians, artists and other cultural figures.
His research explores tarot as cultural history and living heritage, including the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition, the work of artist Pamela Colman Smith, the preservation and circulation of tarot decks, and the changing place of tarot in British culture.
Finbarre has presented his tarot research at Goldsmiths, University of London, and works across journalism, podcasts, archives and festivals.
His talks explore unusual aspects of tarot, cultural history, interviewing and creative technology, combining original research with his experience of building independent arts and cultural projects.
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