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 106: This is Christophe De Mulder
Really happy to have the fab Christophe De Mulder on the Podcast for episode 106! Based in Belgium, Christophe was in our Top 50 Family Photographers in the World for 2020 on This is Reportage: Family, and has won 5 Reportage Family Awards and a Family Story Award from us. He was also a judge for us for Collection 8 of our Family Awards, and he shares his experience of judging and tips for people entering on the episode today, as well as many other things, including:
why participating with your families helps to build trust and rapport,
an editing tip that saves him a lot of time,
a certain phobia he has,
a walkthrough of a typical family shoot from enquiry to delivery,
what success means to him,
the story behind one of his specific Reportage Family Awards,
his love for The Mars Volta,
and much more…
Podcast Episode 103: This is Justine Boulin
Honoured to chat to the fab Justine Boulin for episode 103 of the Podcast! Based in Canada, Justine has won 9 Reportage Awards and 2 Story Awards from us, and was in our Top 50 Photographers Worldwide for 2020. She was also a judge for us right back in Collection 2; something which she talks about on the episode today, as well as many other things, including:
approaching each wedding without any preconceived ideas or judgements,
why her very first wedding was such a good one,
a 21km run as her first date with her husband,
why less gear can be a good thing,
how having a heart attack gave her a new perspective on life,
and much more…
Podcast Episode 102: This is Jess Lycoops
I really enjoyed talking to the fab Jess Lycoops for episode 102 of the Podcast this week! Originally from Belgium, and now based in Denmark, Jess has been in our Top 100 Family Photographers Worldwide on This is Reportage: Family for the past two years in a row, and she shares so many great bits of advice in the episode, including:
why it’s important to put yourself out there and challenge yourself,
her favourite lens for documenting families,
Instagram Stories,
the importance of a good mentor,
our Netflix synopsis game,
tips for if you’re just starting out as a documentary family photographer,
the story behind one of her specific Reportage Family Awards,
and much more…
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…!
