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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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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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Excited to release the special Doc Day 2025 episode of the Podcast! I love how this has become a tradition, taking my travel mic to the unique documentary wedding photography conference that is Doc Day in Dublin. Every year is amazing, and 2025 was the best yet – tune in to hear me talk to speakers and attendees from all over the world, and hopefully you’ll get a great sense of the unique atmosphere; a real sense of togetherness, friendship, openness, learning and partying all in one. Doc Day truly is a special thing.

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The brilliant Cambridgeshire-based photographer Tom Beynon is my guest on the Podcast this week! Tom was 5th in the world overall on TiR for 2024, and was also 5th Storyteller – this man knows his documentary.

You can also watch the video edition of this episode over on YouTube, or it’s embedded below.

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New year, new Podcast episode! And not only is the brilliant Amy Sampson our first guest of 2025, she’s also our very first guest for the video edition of the Podcast – yes, that’s right, we’re going to start filming each episode as well this year, for those who like adding some visuals to their auditory pleasure 🙂

You can watch over on YouTube, where our channel is @thisisreportage, – if you’d like to subscribe to us over there, that’d be fab – or it’s also embedded below.

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