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 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…
Podcast Episode 76: This is Emma Collins
It was a real pleasure to chat to the very talented and lovely Emma Collins for episode 76 of the Podcast! Emma is an award-winning documentary family photographer (she was ranked 3rd in the UK on This is Reportage: Family for 2020) and also a co-founder of Made for Documentary, an educational platform for documentary family photographers. Emma has so many great stories to tell and advice to share in today’s episode, including:
her top tips for improving your documentary family photography skills, how she became a photographer, her experience of studying and living in France, the story behind one of her specific Reportage Family Awards, storytelling, best ever Friends episodes, and so much more…
Podcast Episode 75: This is Marnix de Stigter
So great to talk to the fab Marnix de Stigter for our 75th episode! Marnix was not only in our Top 50 Photographers in the World for 2020 on TiR, but he was also 4th in the Netherlands, and also made our Top 25 Storytellers in the World list too – really remarkable achievements. He was really fun to talk to on the episode, with so many fun and interesting stories to share, including:
something a bit embarrassing that happened to him at a wedding, the story behind one of his specific Reportage Awards, why walking in the park and sitting on benches holds such resonance, his experience of living in China for over a year, his thoughts and advice on Story Awards, being, in his own words, ‘quite a geek’, and much more…
