This is Reportage Podcast

It was really lovely to talk to the brilliant Laura Beth Davidson for the podcast this week! Based in the USA, Laura Beth was in our Top 100 Photographers Worldwide on This is Reportage: Family for 2020, and she shares so much on the episode today, including: *the importance of documenting a family's environment as well as the people, *Harry Potter voice impressions, *advice for if you're just starting out as a documentary family photographer, *talking us through a typical family shoot, *the story behind one of her very powerful and emotive Family Story Awards concerning her daughter, Alice *writing Instagram captions, *ordering at Starbucks, *and so much more... Head to https://thisisreportage.com/podcast-episode-93-this-is-laura-beth-davidson/ for a link to Laura Beth's website and to see the Family Story Award she speaks about too. If you're not yet a member of This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family, check out all the benefits of joining us, including an unlimited number of images on your profile, 60 individual Award & 18 Story Award entries per year, invites to our physical meetups and parties (including our upcoming Christmas Party in London in December 2021), exclusive discounts, hours of educational videos featuring tips and advice from some of the world's best photographers and much more. Submissions are closing soon for our final Award Collections of 2021; the deadline is the same for both our wedding site and our family site: Submit by 23:59 GMT on 23rd November 2021. See all the benefits of membership and join our wedding site at https://thisisreportage.com/register/, or join our family site at https://thisisreportagefamily.com/register/

Loved chatting to the fab Ronan Palliser for episode 92 of the Podcast! Ronan was 5th in Ireland on TiR for 2020, and I've had the pleasure of meeting him a few times now - he's a really lovely guy, and he did one of the best conference talks I've ever seen as well. We talk about that on the episode today, as well as many other things, including: *why he's 'not just a bride or groom photographer', *editing, *the stories behind a couple of his Reportage Awards, *our Netflix synopsis game, *how he typically works on a wedding day, *his involvement with the Irish Professional Photographers and Videographers Association *Instagram, *the definition of 'documentary', *and so much more... Head to https://thisisreportage.com/podcast-episode-92-this-is-ronan-palliser/ for a link to Ronan's website and to see the couple of Reportage Awards he spoke about too. If you're not yet a member of This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family, check out all the benefits of joining us, including an unlimited number of images on your profile, 60 individual Award & 18 Story Award entries per year, invites to our physical meetups and parties (including our upcoming Christmas Party in London in December 2021), exclusive discounts, hours of educational videos featuring tips and advice from some of the world's best photographers and much more. Submissions are closing soon for our final Award Collections of 2021; the deadline is the same for both our wedding site and our family site: Submit by 23:59 GMT on 23rd November 2021. See all the benefits of membership and join our wedding site at https://thisisreportage.com/register/, or join our family site at https://thisisreportagefamily.com/register/

So fab to have the very talented Marisa Martins on the Podcast this week! Based in Portugal, Marisa was in our Top 30 Photographers Worldwide on This is Reportage: Family for 2020, with 3 Reportage Family Awards and 2 Family Story Awards won in the year. Marisa shares so much in the episode today, including: her work and collaboration with Canon, the story behind one her latest Reportage Family Awards, thoughts and tips on enabling families to be themselves, the importance of not following the crowd, why she focused her marketing energy on documentary family photography, Day in the Life shoots, and so much more... Head to https://thisisreportage.com/podcast-episode-91-this-is-marisa-martins/ for a link to her website and to see the Reportage Family Award she spoke about on the episode too. If you're not yet a member of This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family, check out all the benefits of joining us, including an unlimited number of images on your profile, 60 individual Award & 18 Story Award entries per year, invites to our physical meetups and parties (including our upcoming Christmas Party in London in December 2021), exclusive discounts, hours of educational videos featuring tips and advice from some of the world's best photographers and much more. Submissions are open now for our final Award Collections of 2021; the deadline is the same for both our wedding site and our family site: Submit by 23:59 GMT on 23rd November 2021. See all the benefits of membership and join our wedding site at https://thisisreportage.com/register/, or join our family site at https://thisisreportagefamily.com/register/

Excited to be talking to the fab Mihai Zaharia for episode 90 of the Podcast! Mihai was ranked 7th in Romania on This is Reportage for 2020 with 2 Reportage Awards and a Story Award, and we talk about one of those Awards today (an image that, whenever I see Mihai's name, I always think of, actually), and many more things, including: *turning your passions into businesses, *an image that had a lasting impact on him, *experimenting and doing things differently, *our Netflix game, *shooting close, *what makes a good documentary wedding photographer, *and much more... Head to https://thisisreportage.com/podcast-episode-90-this-is-mihai-zaharia/ for a link to his website, to see the Reportage Award he spoke about on the episode too, and also the image that had a lasting impact on him. If you're not yet a member of This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family, check out all the benefits of joining us, including an unlimited number of images on your profile, 60 individual Award & 18 Story Award entries per year, invites to our physical meetups and parties (including our upcoming Christmas Party in London in December 2021), exclusive discounts, hours of educational videos featuring tips and advice from some of the world's best photographers and much more. Submissions are open now for our final Award Collections of 2021; the deadline is the same for both our wedding site and our family site: Submit by 23:59 GMT on 23rd November 2021. See all the benefits of membership and join our wedding site at https://thisisreportage.com/register/, or join our family site at https://thisisreportagefamily.com/register/

Honoured to have the fab Lisa Winner on the Podcast with me today for episode 89! Lisa was in our Top 10 USA Photographers of the Year on This is Reportage: Family for 2020, and she's won 9 Awards from us in total (6 individual, and 3 Story awards). Lisa shares so much in the episode today, including: *the Story behind one of her Family Story Awards *her personal projects regarding autism and family caregiving *why she's not interested in creating photos like everyone else's *the importance of personality and getting that across *our Netflix synopsis game *vacation photography *and much more... Head to https://thisisreportage.com/podcast-episode-89-this-is-lisa-winner/ for a link to her website, her family caregiving project, and to see the specific Family Story Award she talked about too. You can also see more from Lisa's project on autism that she spoke about on the episode, as it's just been featured on National Geographic at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/heres-how-parks-and-public-lands-are-becoming-more-autism-friendly If you're not yet a member of This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family, check out all the benefits of joining us, including an unlimited number of images on your profile, 60 individual Award & 18 Story Award entries per year, invites to our physical meetups and parties (including our upcoming Christmas Party in London in December 2021), exclusive discounts, hours of educational videos featuring tips and advice from some of the world's best photographers and much more. Submissions are open now for our final Award Collections of 2021; the deadline is the same for both our wedding site and our family site: Submit by 23:59 GMT on 23rd November 2021. See all the benefits of membership and join our wedding site at https://thisisreportage.com/register/, or join our family site at https://thisisreportagefamily.com/register/

So fab to be back with the Podcast again! After some time off over the summer, it feels great to be back in front of the microphone and talking to inspiring photographers from all over the world; I hope you'll enjoy listening again. It's a real pleasure today to be speaking to the fab Dave Thompson. Based in the UK, Dave has 20 years experience as a press and sports photographer, covering events all over the world, and we talk about that - as well as his wedding work - on the episode today, amongst many other things, including: photographing the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the story behind one of his specific Reportage Awards, our Netflix synopsis game, why people skills are so important, Jennifer Aniston and Tiffany Photographing Tyson Fury, Champions League football, and the Olympics, and much more... Head to https://thisisreportage.com/podcast-episode-88-this-is-dave-thompson/ for a link to his website and to see the specific Reportage Award he spoke about in the episode too. If you're not yet a member of This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family, check out all the benefits of joining us, including an unlimited number of images on your profile, 60 individual Award & 18 Story Award entries per year, invites to our physical meetups and parties (including our upcoming Christmas Party in London in December 2021), exclusive discounts, hours of educational videos featuring tips and advice from some of the world's best photographers and much more. Submissions are open now for our final Award Collections of 2021; the deadline is the same for both our wedding site and our family site: Submit by 23:59 GMT on 23rd November 2021. See all the benefits of membership and join our wedding site at https://thisisreportage.com/register/, or join our family site at https://thisisreportagefamily.com/register/

Loved chatting to the fab Barbara Puchta for episode 87 of the Podcast! Barbara is one of the world's best documentary family photographers, ranking 3rd in Germany for 2020 on This is Reportage: Family, and joint 17th in the world. She shares so much on the episode today, including: her top tips for improving your documentary family work, how she's a life coach as well as a photography mentor, her training and workshop partnership with Julia Rose-Greim (who I've also interviewed on the Podcast back in episode 60), addictions, her love of coffee, the story behind one of her specific Reportage Family Awards, why she prefers longer family sessions to shorter ones, and so much more... Head to https://thisisreportage.com/podcast-episode-87-this-is-barbara-puchta/ for a link to her website, a link to the training she offers with Julia Rose-Greim, and to see the specific Reportage Family Award she spoke about in the episode too. If you're not yet a member of This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family, check out all the benefits of joining us, including an unlimited number of images on your profile, 60 individual Award & 18 Story Award entries per year, invites to our physical meetups and parties, exclusive discounts, hours of educational videos featuring tips and advice from some of the world's best photographers and much more. See all the benefits of membership and join our wedding site at https://thisisreportage.com/register/, or join our family site at https://thisisreportagefamily.com/register/

Such a pleasure to chat to the fab Nikola Smernic for this week's Podcast! One of the best photographers in Croatia, Nikola was ranked in our Top 10 Photographers Worldwide here on This is Reportage in 2018, and he's amassed a haul of 11 Awards from us in total (7 Reportage Awards and 4 Story Awards). He talks about so many things today, including: how he captured one of his specific Reportage Awards (which just happens to be one of my personal all-time favourites, I have to say!), an amazing story about being published in National Geographic (and how that impacted even his own wedding), how quitting his job let him develop as a photographer, behind the scenes of one of his Story Awards that included lions (and not in a zoo!), and so much more... Head to https://thisisreportage.com/podcast-episode-86-this-is-nikola-smernic/ for a link to his website, and to see the specific Reportage Award and Story Award he spoke about, as well as the image that was published in National Geographic, too. If you're not yet a member of This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family, check out all the benefits of joining us, including an unlimited number of images on your profile, 60 individual Award & 18 Story Award entries per year, invites to our physical meetups and parties, exclusive discounts, hours of educational videos featuring tips and advice from some of the world's best photographers and much more. There's now just a few days left to submit to our next Award Collections; the deadline is the same for both our wedding site and our family site: Submit by 23:59 BST on 24th July 2021. See all the benefits of membership and join our wedding site at https://thisisreportage.com/register/, or join our family site at https://thisisreportagefamily.com/register/

The brilliant Sara Paolucci is my guest for episode 85 of the Podcast, and we talk all things documentary family photography! Based in Italy, Sara really knows her stuff: She was ranked in our Top 50 photographers in the world on This is Reportage: Family for 2020, and she was also a judge for us in Collection 5. We cover so many subjects today, including: how she became a documentary family photographer, why she never regards herself as being 'a fly on the wall', her love of public speaking, the power of Instagram Stories, our Netflix synopsis game, vacation photography in Rome, birth photography and the story behind one of her specific Reportage Family Awards, and so much more... Head to https://thisisreportage.com/podcast-episode-85-this-is-sara-paolucci/ for a link to her website, and to see the specific Reportage Family Award that she talks about on the episode. If you're not yet a member of This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family, check out all the benefits of joining us, including an unlimited number of images on your profile, 60 individual Award & 18 Story Award entries per year, invites to our physical meetups and parties, exclusive discounts, hours of educational videos featuring tips and advice from some of the world's best photographers and much more. There's just over one week left to submit to our next Award Collections; the deadline is the same for both our wedding site and our family site: Submit by 23:59 BST on 24th July 2021. See all the benefits of membership and join our wedding site at https://thisisreportage.com/register/, or join our family site at https://thisisreportagefamily.com/register/

Really loved chatting to the fab João Lourenço for episode 84 of the Podcast this week! João is one of the best documentary wedding photographers in Portugal, and was in our Top 10 Portuguese photographers of 2020. He's won 3 Story Awards from us, and 6 Reportage Awards too - an amazing haul, and he talks about some of those on the episode today, as well as many other things, including: how he's used Excel to really strengthen his business, his love of travel and how that helped kickstart his photography, a certain function that only Fujifilm cameras have that is great for documentary, storytelling, top tips for better coverage, our Netflix game, motorbikes, and much more... Head to https://thisisreportage.com/podcast-episode-84-this-is-joao-lourenco/ for a link to his website, and to see the specific Reportage Award that he talks about on the episode. If you're not yet a member of This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family, check out all the benefits of joining us, including an unlimited number of images on your profile, 60 individual Award & 18 Story Award entries per year, invites to our physical meetups and parties, exclusive discounts, hours of educational videos featuring tips and advice from some of the world's best photographers and much more. There's just two weeks left to submit to our next Award Collections; the deadline is the same for both our wedding site and our family site: Submit by 23:59 BST on 24th July 2021. See all the benefits of membership and join our wedding site at https://thisisreportage.com/register/, or join our family site at https://thisisreportagefamily.com/register/