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 58: Thoughts on 2020
A bit of a different Podcast episode this week, as I usually speak to a brilliant photographer, but today I have an incredibly average one… myself! Yes, it’s Alan Law here, founder of This is Reportage and This is Reportage: Family. I just thought I’d try a solo episode – as I have various things I would like to say about the year; my personal experiences as a photographer myself, but also some behind-the-scenes thoughts and musings on running TiR and TiRF, and about the Podcast itself as well. I also have lots of thank yous to say!
So if you’re interested in my thoughts on all of that (and more), and think you can put up with only hearing my voice (in just one long take, amazingly!) then perhaps you’ll enjoy it – but I also expect (of course!) that you may much prefer to hear the interviews, so don’t worry, our usual interview format will be swiftly returning for all our future episodes!
Podcast Episode 57: This is Rowena Meadows
It was such a delight to chat to the fantastic Rowena Meadows for episode 57 of the This is Reportage Podcast! Based in Australia, at the time this episode was recorded Rowena was the no.1 photographer worldwide on our sister-site for documentary family photography, This is Reportage: Family, after our first two Collections, with 7 Reportage Family Awards and 4 Family Story Awards won already. As well as being a brilliant family photographer, Rowena is just pure joy to speak to; I enjoyed talking to her so much! Tune in today as Rowena talks all about:
her background in psychology and its effect on her photography, top tips for documenting families, table tennis (!), why it’s important to not only photograph the ‘happy’ moments, Day in the Life sessions and tips for getting families to feel at ease, her ‘covid rainbow’ photo series (and jigsaw puzzle!), the story behind one of her specific Reportage Family Awards, and much more…
Podcast Episode 56: This is Katrin Küllenberg
Delighted to have the fab Katrin Küllenberg on the Podcast today! One of the best family and wedding photographers in Germany, Katrin has won 2 Story Awards from us here at This is Reportage, as well as 6 Reportage Family Awards and a Family Story Award on our sister-site, This is Reportage: Family. She was also a judge for us on TiR, right back in Collection Two. Katrin shares all about:
the experience of judging for our wedding site, her top tips for better documentary family photography, her time in America, the story behind one of her specific Reportage Family Awards, how she’s been dealing with covid, why it’s so important to have context in your images, being on the other side of the camera for a family shoot, and much, much more…
Podcast Episode 55: This is Liam Shaw of York Place Studios
It’s an absolute honour to have our overall Photographer of the Year 2018 on the Podcast today: The brilliant Liam Shaw. One half of the fab duo that is York Place Studios, not only did Liam win our Photographer of the Year in 2018, but he’s also third-overall in terms of Lifetime Awards won from us – with a quite staggering 21 Reportage Awards and 11 Story Awards to his name. On top of all those accolades, though, he’s also a lovely, lovely guy. Tune in today, as Liam talks all about:
the story behind his ‘birth to grave’ Reportage Award, whether he feels any pressure when becoming more well-known in the documentary field, working with the equally talented Dominique Shaw (who you can hear interviewed on episode 26 of the Podcast), tips on submitting to Awards, layered-imagery and the influence of street photography, a rock-and-a-hard-place question, and so much more…
Podcast Episode 54: This is Tobias Löhr
It was an absolute pleasure to chat to the fab Tobias Löhr for this week’s Podcast! Tobias is one of the very best documentary wedding photographers in Germany, and has won 9 Reportage Awards and 3 Story Awards. I remember coming across his work on Instagram a couple of years ago and just been so impressed by his compositions – really great to have been able to talk to him now. Tune in today, as Tobias talks all about:
his love of travel and street photography (he has a separate website for that, too), photographing his own son’s birth, the story behind one of his specific Reportage Awards, his approach for choosing images for Story Award submissions, getting married in Las Vegas, his huge TV watch-list, why moment trumps everything, and much more…
