12: This is Franck Boutonnet

Honoured to have the fantastic Franck Boutonnet on the Podcast for Episode 12! Hailing from France, Franck has been winning a huge number of awards from all the different associations for the past ten years (including placing 7th overall in our Top 100 Photographers of 2019), and has SO much to share with us, including: • what keeps him entering awards specifically, • dealing with disappointment and re-submitting the images you truly believe in, • three major tips for submitting to awards in general, • how he went from teaching French in America to photojournalism and weddings, • his favourite TV series, • what makes him happy, • his relationship with a fellow (also very talented!) wedding photographer (Rocio Vega), • how they work together sometimes, pushing each other and getting better, • looking at the first Fearless Awards at 2am in Amersterdam, • the subjectivity of 'success', • his own doubts and the difficulty of the market, • how the industry has changed and how we need to adapt, the 'ghosting' trend and how this affects him and photographers all over the world, • how he gains his clients' trust and why that's so vital, • the importance of honesty, • how he built his business around his philisophy of life, • how he deals with stressful situations, • a memorable mistake he made at a wedding and how he learned from it, • what makes a good wedding photographer, • and much more... For a full transcript, and to join us at This is Reportage, head to our website at https://thisisreportage.com/