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Podcast Episode 144: This is Doc Day 2026
It’s been a while, but the Podcast is back, and with the special Doc Day 2026 episode!
Doc Day is a special, special thing – and it’s amazing that This is Reportage is partnered with it. 2026 was the best year yet – a heady mix of incredible speakers, group hugs, photo walks, late-night-chats, dancing and Don’t Look Back in Anger singalong-ing. Just epic.
Tickets are on sale right now for Doc Day 2027 – presented by Loxley Colour – and is being held on February 9th 2027 in Dublin, Ireland. It will feature talks from some of the best documentary wedding photographers in the world, including Andrew Billington, Samm Blake, John Gillooley, Susan Stripling & Shaun Doherty.
Favourite Documentary Wedding Moments of 2025
At the end of the year, instead of asking for the best images, we asked something much simpler – and, in many ways, much harder:
What was your favourite documentary moment you photographed in 2025?
Not the most awarded.
Not the most “impressive”.
Just the one that stayed with you.
And 115 TiR members took part.
What came back was a brilliant reminder of why documentary wedding photography matters. Across these images, you’ll find joy, chaos, quietness, humour, grief, relief, tenderness, silliness, love – and everything in between. Moments that happened despite the camera being there. Moments that couldn’t be planned, repeated, or refined by direction.
Photographer & Storyteller of the Year 2025: David Scholes
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.
8 Years of This is Reportage
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.
Podcast Episode 142: This is Tom Beynon
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.
