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8 Years of This is Reportage: 2022 – Valter Antunes’ Story Award
Some Story Awards make you laugh, some move you — and a few do both at once. In 2022, Valter Antunes (Portugal) captured a story that did exactly that: a wonderfully observed sequence featuring the bride’s mother, who spent the entire day filming her daughter’s wedding with her trusty video camera.
8 Years of This is Reportage: 2021 – David Scholes’ Story Award
By 2021, This is Reportage had grown into a thriving global community — and one name that defined that year was David Scholes (UK – TiR Profile / website). Winning an astonishing 11 Story Awards across the year, David claimed the first of his three consecutive Storyteller of the Year titles — a feat unmatched to this day.
8 Years of This is Reportage: 2020 – Chelsea Cannar’s Reportage Award
Few years will ever be as instantly recognisable as 2020. The year weddings changed shape — smaller guest lists, postponed plans, face masks and hand sanitiser becoming part of the ritual. Yet, even through the strangeness and uncertainty, love found a way.
8 Years of This is Reportage: 2019 – Els Korsten’s Reportage Award
Every so often, an image arrives that makes you stop and look twice: Els Korsten’s (Netherlands) black-and-white Reportage Award from 2019 is exactly that.
8 Years of This is Reportage: 2018 – Pedro Vilela’s Story Award
When This is Reportage launched in late 2017, the goal was simple: to celebrate storytelling in its purest form. Not just one great moment, but the way a photographer sees and connects a whole day together. Few early Awards captured that spirit quite like Pedro Vilela’s (Portugal) — one of only three photographers to win a Story Award in our first Collection.










