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 100: This is the 100th Special
We’ve reached our 100th episode! Can you believe it? It feels very surreal to me; it honestly only feels like a couple of months ago that it all began. We launched on November 7th 2019, and in just over two years I’m so happy to say we’ve reached this pretty special milestone. We’ve had over 76,000 listens so far, which means that each episode gets listened to over 760 times on average… amazing!
I’m so thrilled that the photographers I talk to each week get to share their stories, tips and advice with so many people all over the world. Thank you so much for listening!
As this is a special milestone, I thought I’d do a bit of a different episode, and I thought it would be nice to do a kind of ‘montage’ episode, where I’m featuring clips from past episodes. Now, this is in no way a ‘best of’ episode, as there has been far too much great content shared over our all the episodes so far – it would need a 10-hour episode to do one of those – but it is just a selection of some clips that stood out to me, or made me smile, or clips that gave a good sense of what the Podcast is about.
It would have been impossible for me to feature every single photographer that I’ve interviewed so far (see above about needing a 10+ hour episode for that!) but you will hear from over 30 of my guests, including Valter Antunes, Sanne De Block, Rowena Meadows, Adam Johnson, Tyler Wirken, Rocio Vega, Yves Schepers, Gretchen Yost, Pedro Vilela, Lisa Hu Chen, David Scholes, Julia Rose-Greim, Franck Boutonnet, Dominique and Liam Shaw, Katrin Küllenberg, Ross Harvey, Menino Conhece Menina, Sam Docker, and many more…
If you’re a regular listener, hopefully you’ll enjoy re-visiting some things you’ve heard before, or perhaps it’ll point you to some episodes that you may have missed – and if you’re brand-new to the Podcast, I hope this episode gives a good taster of what you’ve got in store if you want to delve into our back catalogue of episodes.
We’re also celebrating this milestone with a contest, where you can win 1 of 10 This is Reportage or This is Reportage: Family memberships – worth £100 each. See below on how you can win.
Podcast Episode 99: This is Joosje Janssen
Happy New Year, everyone! I’m very happy to be back with the Podcast and chatting to the fab Joosje Janssen today. Joosje was recently ranked in our Top 10 Netherlands Photographers of 2021 on This is Reportage: Family, and we talk all things documentary family photography today, including:
behind the scenes on her childbirth Family Story Award
top tips for improving your documentary work
her journey to becoming a photographer
comparing your work to others’
our Netflix synopsis game
length of sessions and making your clients feel at ease
the story behind her rabbit-hutch Award
and much more…!
Podcast Episode 98: This is Alpár Lukácsi
It was such a pleasure to chat to the fab Alpár Lukácsi for episode 98 of the Podcast! Alpár has been in our Top 10 Romanian Photographers for the past two years in a row, and has won six Reportage Awards from us. He talks about one of those specific Awards on the episode today, as well as lots of other things, including:
how you should never be satisfied,
shooting his first weddings in his early twenties,
the importance of empathy,
having a positive mindset,
why his Grandfather is such a huge inspiration for him,
destination weddings,
and much more…
Podcast Episode 97: This is Sandra Stokmans
So fab to have the awesome family photographer Sandra Stokmans on the Podcast for episode 97! Sandra was just recently ranked 5th in the Netherlands on This is Reportage: Family for 2021, and joint-30th in the World, with 6 awards won from us in the year. Sandra talks about one of her specific, very emotional awards in the episode today, as well as many other things, including:
her personal project about children with congenital heart defects,
why and how she also photographs businesses in a documentary way,
day in the life and year in the life shoots,
why it’s important to not only capture the happy times,
our Netflix synopsis game,
how growing up in lots of different countries had an affect on her,
and much more…
Podcast Episode 95: This is Agata Szymanowicz
Excited to have the fab Agata Szymanowicz on the Podcast for episode 95! Based in London, Agata has won an incredibly impressive 10 Reportage Family Awards from us, and she goes behind the scenes of a couple of those today, as well as much more, including:
how she approaches a typical family shoot,
her ‘Waiting For The Miracle’ project,
top tips for better documentary family coverage,
why I think her website is so great,
our Netflix game,
her background as a child psychologist,
and much more…
