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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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8 Years of This is Reportage

Eight years! It’s hard to believe that This is Reportage has been celebrating documentary wedding photography for that long.

What started as a small idea — to showcase and champion the power of real, unstaged moments — has grown into a worldwide community of storytellers.

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