Updates
Collection Nineteen Judges
It’s a whole new Awards year here at This is Reportage, with the submission deadline for our very first Collection of 2021 just a few days away now: Submit by 23:59 GMT on 24th January 2021 (Not yet a member? Join us to submit). We’re thrilled to once again have a world-class lineup of judges, who will be poring over the thousands of entries (both for individual images (our Reportage Awards), and for a series of 15 – 20 images from a single wedding (our Story Awards)).
Thanks so much to (clockwise, from top-left) Donatella Barbera (Italy), Steven Rooney (UK), Sabina Mladin (Romania), Matt Tyler (UK) and Indra Simons (Netherlands).
Photographer of the Year 2020: Yves Schepers
So excited to reveal our Overall Photographer of the Year for 2020: The brilliant Yves Schepers! With an absolutely amazing haul of 27 Awards from us (20 Reportage Awards & 7 Story Awards) – the most Awards ever won by a single photographer in a year – Yves is deservedly at the top of our just-announced Top 100 Photographers of 2020 list.
Storyteller of the Year 2020: Sanne De Block
Honoured to reveal our Storyteller of the Year 2020: The brilliant Sanne De Block! Sanne won a quite unbelievable 13 Story Awards this year – nobody has ever won so many Stories in a single year; we reckon this record will stand for a long time…! Sanne thus totally deserves her accolade as Storyteller of the Year, and she sits on the summit of our Top 25 Storytellers Worldwide 2020 list.
Collection Eighteen Judges
Honoured to reveal our judges for Collection Eighteen; our final Awards of 2020! Who will make our Top 100? Who will be our overall Photographer of the Year…? It’s very exciting, and we’re thrilled to have our final Collection of the year in the very safe hands of the following five incredibly talented photographers (clockwise, from top-left: Sam Walzade (India), Ricardo Meira (Portugal), Rossi Mechanezidis (Germany), Paul Rogers (UK) and Toni Darcy (UK).
Remember, the deadline for submission is just a few days away now; don’t miss out. Submit by 23:59 GMT on 23rd November 2020.
Podcast Episode 49: This is Kristian Leven
An absolute pleasure to talk to the fab Kristian Leven for episode 49 of the This is Reportage Podcast! Kristian is one of the UK’s very best documentary wedding photographers (and one of the best wedding photographers in London), and has won 8 Reportage Awards and 5 Story Awards from us, as well as two Reportage Family Awards over on our new sister-site for family photography, This is Reportage: Family. He was also in our Top 100 Photographers in the World in 2019, and was a judge for us back in our very first Collection. He’s just also a lovely, lovely guy!
Tune in today to hear Kristian talk about his top tips for documentary-coverage, how thoughts about creativity led him into this photographic-life, how he’s been dealing with these covid times, the story behind one of his specific Reportage Awards, his street photography adventures, photographing my own sister’s wedding, and much, much more…
