Podcast
Welcome to the This is Reportage Podcast! Each week we’ll be bringing you exclusive interviews with some of the world’s very best wedding photographers – sharing their backstories, tips, experience and advice.
Each episode has its own post, where you can listen to it directly, or read a transcript if reading is more your thing! If you enjoy, remember that you can download and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes to be notified of each weekly episode. You can also find us over on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and YouTube.
Podcast Episode 81: This is Marieke Zwartscholten
Thoroughly enjoyed chatting to the fab Marieke Zwartscholten for episode 81 of the Podcast! Based in the Netherlands, Marieke is a great wedding and family photographer, having won numerous awards from us on both our wedding site and family site, and we talk about both disciplines on the episode today. Tune in as Marieke talks about:
why attending workshops has been so vital for her, how she captured one of her specific Reportage Awards (the one of the bride arriving, shot through the groom’s legs), her top tips for documenting families, her experience judging for our wedding site (and top tips for people submitting), running her own training and workshops, our Netflix synopsis game, pressure, nerves, and so much more…
Podcast Episode 80: This is Erica Hawkins
I absolutely loved chatting to the fab Erica Hawkins for episode 80 of the Podcast this week! Erica is a fantastic UK-based wedding and family photographer – she has won 3 Reportage Awards from us for her wedding work, and was also ranked 14th in the World on our documentary family site, This is Reportage: Family, for 2020, and has won 11 Awards from us there – we talk about both arts in the episode today. I found it really inspiring to talk to Erica, as she talks so openly and honestly about so many subjects, including:
capturing her own family during lockdowns, anxiety and nerves, finding out she had cancer, how she won a gallery spot with the renowned Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London, imposter syndrome, branching out into teaching and branding photography, filming onstage at Glastonbury, shooting a ‘Don’t Tell The Bride’ wedding, and so much more…
Podcast Episode 79: This is Fille Roelants
It was an absolute pleasure to chat to the fab Fille Roelants for episode 79 of the Podcast! One of the best wedding photographers in Belgium, Fille was recently ranked 13th in the World on This is Reportage for 2020, with 10 Reportage Awards and 2 Story Awards won in the year. I briefly met him at Doc Day – the documentary wedding photography conference that TiR is partnered with – and it was great to be able to properly talk to him for the Podcast. Stick with us as Fille shares all about:
how he graduated as a pharmacist and his journey from that to photography, living abroad for a while, the story behind one of his incredibly emotional Story Awards, photographing whales, why Belgium has such a wealth of photography talent, his top tips for better documentary coverage, our Netflix synopsis game, canapes, and so much more…
Podcast Episode 78: This is Gretchen Yost
Honoured to chat to the fab Gretchen Yost for episode 78 of the Podcast this week! Based in the USA, Gretchen has won 6 Reportage Family Awards and a Family Story Award from our most recent two Award Collections on This is Reportage: Family – a truly remarkable achievement. But not only is she a great photographer, but she was also a real pleasure to talk to – I hope you enjoy listening today 🙂 Stick with us, as Gretchen shares all about:
how she became a documentary photographer, her personal projects, our Netflix synopsis game, how she captured one of her specific Reportage Family Awards, ‘Poohsticks’, why workshops have been so important for her, not having a TV in the house, her top tips for if you’re thinking of starting your documentary family photography journey, and much more…
Podcast Episode 77: This is Anna Pumer
A delight to chat to the fab Anna Pumer for episode 77 of the Podcast! As well as being an award-winning wedding photographer herself, she’s also the founder of Kick Ass Photographers, where she offers a course, mentoring, website reviews and now also membership – which is all about getting “enquiries from your dream clients” and running a “wedding photography business that feels like it’s totally you”. We talk about that on the episode today, along with many other things, including:
how she became a photographer after only about a month from buying her first DSLR, how she gets such fun images and attracts relaxed clients, working with her partner Todd (and how that came about), why she uses the line “You’re not into smushy romance’ on her website, offering videography as well, mini-weddings, our Netflix synopsis game and much more…
