Updates

David Scholes has just achieved something truly extraordinary: winning both our This is Reportage Photographer of the Year and our Storyteller of the Year titles for 2025. To take either award is incredibly difficult. To take both in the same year is almost unheard of — a rare combination of vision, timing, consistency and sheer documentary instinct at the very highest level.

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Eight years! It’s hard to believe that This is Reportage has been celebrating documentary wedding photography for that long.

What started as a small idea — to showcase and champion the power of real, unstaged moments — has grown into a worldwide community of storytellers.

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The brilliant Cambridgeshire-based photographer Tom Beynon is my guest on the Podcast this week! Tom was 5th in the world overall on TiR for 2024, and was also 5th Storyteller – this man knows his documentary.

You can also watch the video edition of this episode over on YouTube, or it’s embedded below.

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We’re thrilled to have Wedprint Pro partnering with us a new sponsor for 2025 – especially as they help boost two things that are very dear to our photographer hearts: Referrals and print sales – and all for free!

How do they do that, I hear you ask? Watch the video in the post, where, in just one minute, Thomas Frost, the founder of Wedprint Pro, explains how it works.

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Hollie Rosa Mateer has just done what no photographer has done before: Win our Photographer of the Year title for the 2nd time (and the 2nd time in a row!). This is an absolutely incredible feat, and is testament to not only Hollie’s talent, but her consistency as well – a truly special achievement.

With an incredible 16 Awards won in the year – 9 Reportage Awards & 7 Story Awards – Hollie deservedly sits on top of our just-announced Top 100 Photographers in the World 2024 list. Congratulations, Hollie, our 2024 This is Reportage Photographer of the Year.

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